Events

• April 30 - Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  's opera
  Opera
  Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
  
   Pelléas et Mélisande
  Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
  Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande...
  
   is premiered at the Opéra-Comique
  Opéra-Comique
  The Opéra-Comique is a Parisian opera company, which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with, and for a time took the name of its chief rival the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and was also called the...
  
   in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
  , with André Messager
  André Messager
  André Charles Prosper Messager , was a French composer, organist, pianist, conductor and administrator. His stage compositions included ballets and 30 opéra comiques and operettas, among which Véronique, had lasting success, with Les p'tites Michu and Monsieur Beaucaire also enjoying international...
  
   conducting.
• June 9 - the first complete performance of Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's Symphony No. 3
  Symphony No. 3 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1893 and 1896. It is his longest piece and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire, with a typical performance lasting around ninety to one hundred minutes.- Structure :...
  
   is given in Krefeld
  Krefeld
  Krefeld , also known as Crefeld until 1929, is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, its centre lying just a few kilometres to the west of the River Rhine; the borough of Uerdingen is situated directly on the Rhine...
  
  
• December 1 - Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   conducts the premiėre of his Symphony No. 2
  Symphony No. 2 (Nielsen)
  Symphony No. 2 De fire Temperamenter, "The Four Temperaments", Op. 16, FS 29 is the second symphony by Danish composer Carl Nielsen, written in 1901–1902 and dedicated to Ferruccio Busoni. It was first performed in 1 December 1902 for the Danish Concert Association, with Nielsen himself conducting...
  
  , The Four Temperaments, in Copenhagen
  Copenhagen
  Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
  
  
• Leadbelly
  Leadbelly
  Huddie William Ledbetter was an iconic American folk and blues musician, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced....
  
   begins performing.

Published popular music

• "Any Rags?" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
  Thomas S. Allen
  Thomas S. Allen , an early figure in Tin Pan Alley, was an American vaudeville composer, manager, and violinist.-Popular songs:...
  
  
• "Because" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Guy d'Hardelot
  Guy d'Hardelot
  Guy d'Hardelot was the pen name of Helen Rhodes , a French composer, pianist, and teacher.- Biography :...
  
  
• "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home
  Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
  " Bill Bailey", originally titled "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home?" is a popular song published in 1902. It is commonly referred to as simply "Bill Bailey"....
  
  " w.m. Hughie Cannon
  Hughie Cannon
  Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 and died in 1912 in Toledo.-His Works and Bio:His best known composition was the popular song Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. He wrote the song at the age of sixteen and this ragtime song was published in 1902...
  
  
• "Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" w. Robert B. Smith
  Robert Bache Smith
  Robert Bache Smith , usually published as Robert B. Smith, was an American librettist and lyricist. His older brother, Harry B. Smith, was also a successful lyricist and a writer and composer....
  
   m. John Stromberg
• "Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown?" w.m. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   & Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
• "Down On The Farm" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Down The Line With Molly" w. George Totten Smith m. George L. Spaulding
• "Down Where The Wurzburger Flows" w. Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "The Entertainer
  The Entertainer (rag)
  "The Entertainer" is sub-titled "A rag time two step", which was a form of dance popular until about 1911, and a style which was common among rags written at the time.Its structure is: Intro AA BB A CC Intro2 DD....
  
  " m. Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
  
  
• "The Face In The Firelight" w.m. Charles Shackford

• "The Gambling Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "The Glow Worm" w. Lilla Cayley Robinson (Ger) Heinz Bolten-Backers m. Paul Lincke
  Paul Lincke
  Carl Emil Paul Lincke was a German composer and theater conductor. He is considered the "father" of the Berlin opera and holds the same significance for Berlin as does Johann Strauss for Vienna and Jacques Offenbach for Paris.He was the son of magistrate August Lincke and and wife Emilie...
  
  
• "Happy Hooligan
  Happy Hooligan
  Happy Hooligan was a popular and influential early American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper.Happy Hooligan, the first major comic strip by already celebrated cartoonist Opper, debuted with a Sunday strip on March 11, 1900 in the William Randolph Hearst newspapers, and was one of the first...
  
  " m. Theodore Morse
• "Have You Seen My Sweetheart In His Uniform Of Blue?" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Heidelberg Stein Song" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
• "I Just Can't Help From Lovin' That Man" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "I Sing A Little Tenor" w. Harry Linton m. John Gilroy
• "I Went To See Them March Away" w. S. E. Keisser m. R. J. Jose
• "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
  
• "If Money Talks It Ain't On Speaking Terms With Me" w.m. J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf was an American composer and sheet music publisher during the early 20th century.Helf was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He went to seek his fortune in New York City at the age of 31. There he composed over 100 songs, some in collaboration with Will A. Heelan.In October 1910 his music...
  
  
• "I'll Be There Mary Dear" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "I'll Be Waiting In The Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve" w.m. J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf was an American composer and sheet music publisher during the early 20th century.Helf was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He went to seek his fortune in New York City at the age of 31. There he composed over 100 songs, some in collaboration with Will A. Heelan.In October 1910 his music...
  
  
• "I'll Be Your Rain-beau" w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf
  J. Fred Helf was an American composer and sheet music publisher during the early 20th century.Helf was born in Maysville, Kentucky. He went to seek his fortune in New York City at the age of 31. There he composed over 100 songs, some in collaboration with Will A. Heelan.In October 1910 his music...
  
  
• "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford
• "I'm The Man Who Makes The Money In The Mint" w.m. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   & Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "I'm Unlucky" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "In Dear Old Illinois" by Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "In Silence" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills
  Kerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
  
  
• "In The Good Old Summer Time
  In the Good Old Summer Time
  "In the Good Old Summer Time" is an American Tin Pan Alley song first published in 1902 with music by George Evans and lyrics by Ren Shields.Shields and Evans were at first unsuccessfully trying to sell the song to one of New York's big sheet music publishers. The publishers thought the topic of...
  
  " w. Ren Shields
  Ren Shields
  Ren Shields was an American folk musician born in 1868 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York. He co-wrote the song "In the Good Old Summer Time"....
  
   m. George Evans. Introduced by Blanche Ring
  Blanche Ring
  Blanche Ring , was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and Hollywood motion pictures....
  
   in the musical The Defender.
• "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" w. Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "In The Valley Of Kentucky" w.m. Tony Stanford
• "It's Got To Be A Minstrel Show Tonight" w. Ren Shields
  Ren Shields
  Ren Shields was an American folk musician born in 1868 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York. He co-wrote the song "In the Good Old Summer Time"....
  
   m. George Evans
• "Jennie Lee" w. Arthur J. Lamb
  Arthur J. Lamb
  Arthur J. Lamb was a British lyricist best known for the 1897 song "Asleep in the Deep" and the 1900 song "A Bird in a Gilded Cage". He collaborated with many song-writers, including Albert Von Tilzer, Harry Von Tilzer, Henry W. Petrie and Kerry Mills.-Selected works:* "Asleep in the Deep" m....
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Just Can't Help From Lovin' That Man" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   & Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
   m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Just For Tonight" w.m. Frank O. French
• "Just Next Door" w.m. Charles K. Harris
  Charles K. Harris
  Charles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
  
  
• "Kashmiri Love Song" w. Laurence Hope m. Amy Woodforde-Finden
  Amy Woodforde-Finden
  Amy Woodforde-Finden was a composer who is best known for writing the music to "Kashmiri Song" from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope....
  
   Words 1901.
• "Katrina" w.m. Edward W. Corliss
• "Land Of Hope And Glory
  Land of Hope and Glory
  "Land of Hope and Glory" is a British patriotic song, with music by Edward Elgar and lyrics by A. C. Benson, written in 1902.- Composition :...
  
  " w. Arthur C. Benson m. Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
  
• "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" w. Robert H. Smith m. Melville Ellis
• "Less Than The Dust" w. Laurence Hope m. Amy Woodforde-Finden
  Amy Woodforde-Finden
  Amy Woodforde-Finden was a composer who is best known for writing the music to "Kashmiri Song" from Four Indian Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope....
  
  
• "Levee Rag" m. Charles Mullen
• "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "May Sweet May" w. R. J. Jose m. Robert S. Roberts
• "The Meaning Of USA" w.m. Raymond A. Browne
• "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" w. Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
   m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "The Message Of The Rose" w. Will A. Heelan m. Leo Edwards
  Leo Edwards (composer)
  Leo Edwards was a Broadway composer. He was the brother of Gus Edwards,, who was also a Broadway composer....
  
  
• "The Message Of The Violet" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
• "Mister Dooley" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "My Sulu Lulu Loo" w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann
• "Nobody's Looking But The Owl And The Moon" w. Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
   & James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Nursery Rhymes" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Oh! Didn't He Ramble" w.m. Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
   & J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "On A Sunday Afternoon" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "On The Day King Edward Gets His Crown On" w.m. Mark Lorne & Harry Pleon
• "Paint Me A Picture Of Mama" w. Addison Burkhardt m. Raymond Hubbell
• "The Passing Of Rag-Time" m. Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. In later life, he was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.Pryor was born on the second floor of...
  
  
• "Pinky Panky Poo" w. Aaron S. Hoffman m. Andy Lewis
• "Please Go 'Way And Let Me Sleep" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. J. Tim Brymn
• "Pomp and Circumstance" by Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
  
• "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" w.m. J. B. Mullen
• "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall
• "Rip Van Winkle Was A Lucky Man" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Sal" w.m. Paul Rubens
  Paul Rubens (composer)
  Paul Alfred Rubens was an English songwriter and librettist who wrote some of the most popular Edwardian musical comedies of the early twentieth century. He contributed to the success of dozens of musicals....
  
  
• "Sammy" w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson
• "Since Sister Nell Heard Paderewski Play" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Those Things Cannot Be Explained" w. Junie McCree m. Ben M. Jerome
• "The Troubles Of Reuben And The Maid" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Maurice Levi
• "Under The Bamboo Tree" w.m. Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
   & J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Under the Double Eagle" by Josef Franz Wagner
• "Wait At The Gate For Me" w. Ren Shields m. Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse was an American composer of popular songs.Born in Washington D.C., Morse was educated at the Maryland Military & Naval Academy. He went on to study both violin and piano. He and his wife, Theodora Morse, became a successful songwriting team for Tin Pan Alley...
  
  
• "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "When Kate And I Were Comin' Thro' The Rye" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt
• "When The Troupe Gets Back To Town" w. George Totten Smith m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Where The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold" w. Eva Fern Buckner m. Henry W. Petrie

Classical music

• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   - From the Middle Ages; Symphony No. 7, op. 77
  Symphony No. 7 (Glazunov)
  The Symphony No. 7 in F major the Pastoral, Op. 77, was completed by Alexander Glazunov on July 4, 1902. It is dedicated to Mitrofan Belyayev.It is in four movements:*Allegro moderato*Andante*Scherzo: Allegro giocoso*Finale: Allegro maestoso...
  
   (Pastoral)
• Johannes Hanssen
  Johannes Hanssen
  Johannes Hanssen was a Norwegian bandmaster, composer and teacher. He was bandmaster of the Oslo Military Band from 1926 to 1934 and again from 1945 to 1946. Hanssen received the King's Order of Merit in Gold and King Haakon VII's Jubilee Medal...
  
   - Valdres March
• Alfred Hill
  Alfred Hill
  Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE was an Australian/New Zealand composer, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Alfred Hill was born in Melbourne in 1869. His year of birth is shown in many sources as 1870, but this has now been disproven. He spent most of his early life in New Zealand...
  
   - Hinemoa
• Vítězslav Novák
  Vítezslav Novák
  Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
  
   - In the Tatra Mountains

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

• Francesco Cilea
  Francesco Cilea
  Francesco Cilea was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur.-Biography:...
  
   - Adriana Lecouvreur
  Adriana Lecouvreur
  Adriana Lecouvreur is an opera in four acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Arturo Colautti, based on the play by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé...
  
  
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   - Pelléas et Mélisande
  Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
  Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande...
  
  
• Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
  
   - Los amores de la Inés
• Alberto Franchetti
  Alberto Franchetti
  Alberto Franchetti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then in Dresden under Felix Draeseke, and finally at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger. His first major success...
  
   - Germania
• Edward German
  Edward German
  Sir Edward German was an English musician and composer of Welsh descent, best remembered for his extensive output of incidental music for the stage and as a successor to Arthur Sullivan in the field of English comic opera.As a youth, German played the violin and led the town orchestra, also...
  
   - Merrie England
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
  
   - Le Jongleur de Notre Dame
• Carl Nielsen
  Carl Nielsen
  Carl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
  
   - Saul og David
  Saul og David
  Saul og David is the first of the two operas by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen. The four-act libretto, by Einar Christiansen, tells the Biblical story of Saul's jealousy of the young David, taken from the Book of Samuel. The first performance was at Det Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen on 28...
  
  
• Emile Pessard
  Emile Pessard
  Émile Louis Fortuné Pessard was a French composer.He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on February 21, 1867...
  
   - L'armée des vierges premiered on October 15 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
• George Stephanescu
  George Stephanescu
  George Stephănescu was a Romanian composer, one of the main figures in Romanian national opera.He graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Music...
  
   - Petra

Musical theater

• Bob Herceg
  Bob herceg
  Prince Bob is an operetta in three acts by Jenő Huszka. The libretto was written by Ferenc Martos and Károly Bakonyi.-Performance history:...
  
   (Prince Bob) - by Jenö Huszka
  Jeno Huszka
  Jenő Huszka was a Hungarian composer of operettas. He was born in Szeged and died in Budapest.- Life :...
  
  , with libretto by Ferenc Martos and Károly Bakonyi
• A Country Girl
  A Country Girl
  A Country Girl, or, Town and Country is a musical play in two acts by James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank, music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens....
  
   London production opened at Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.-Early years:...
  
   on January 18 and ran for 729 performances
• The Defender (Music: Charles Dennée
  Charles Dennée
  Charles Dennée was an American composer. He wrote many pedagogical pieces for piano, and also composed a number of songs.-External links:...
  
   Book & Lyrics: Allen Lowe) Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on July 3 and ran for 60 performances. Starring Blanche Ring
  Blanche Ring
  Blanche Ring , was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions, musicals, and Hollywood motion pictures....
  
  .
• The Emerald Isle
  The Emerald Isle
  The Emerald Isle; or, The Caves of Carrig-Cleena, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 27 April 1901, closing on 9 November 1901 after a run of 205 performances...
  
   Broadway production
• The Girl From Kays
  The Girl from Kays
  The Girl from Kays is an English musical comedy with music by Ivan Caryll, Paul Rubens, Wilhelm Meyer Lutz and Edward Jones, book by Cecil Cook and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Claude Aveling...
  
   London production opened at the Apollo Theatre
  Apollo Theatre
  The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
  
   on November 15 and ran for 432 performances.
• Madame Sherry Berlin and Paris productions
• The Rogers Brothers At Harvard Broadway production
• Three Little Maids
  Three Little Maids
  Three Little Maids is an English musical by Paul Rubens with additional songs by Percy Greenbank and Howard Talbot. The story concerns three simple curate's daughters who go to London to earn their livings serving tea in a Bond Street tea shop...
  
   London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at the Apollo Theatre
  Apollo Theatre
  The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
  
   on May 10 and transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre
  Prince of Wales Theatre
  The Prince of Wales Theatre is a West End theatre on Coventry Street, near Leicester Square in the City of Westminster. It was established in 1884 and rebuilt in 1937, and extensively refurbished in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh, its current owner...
  
   on September 8 for a total run of 348 performances.
• Tommy Rot Broadway production
• The Toreador
  The Toreador
  The Toreador is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner and Harry Nicholls, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. It opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London, managed by George Edwardes, on 17 June 1901 and ran for an...
  
   Broadway production
• Twirly-Whirly Broadway production
• The Wild Rose Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on May 5 and ran for 136 performances. Starring Eddie Foy
  Eddie Foy
  Eddie Foy, Sr. , was an actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.-Early years:...
  
  , Albert Hart, Junie McCree, Irene Bentley, Marguerite Clark
  Marguerite Clark
  Marguerite Clark was an American stage and silent film actress.-Early life and theater:Born to a farming family in Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio, Clark was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Cincinnati...
  
   and Marie Cahill
  Marie Cahill
  Marie Cahill was a Broadway stage actress and vocalist. Her parents were Richard and Marie Cahill. She had a brother named Daniel. She began her career in the late 1880s first in her native Brooklyn and then on Broadway...
  
  .

Births

• January 11 - Maurice Duruflé
  Maurice Duruflé
  Maurice Duruflé was a French composer, organist, and pedagogue.Duruflé was born in Louviers, Eure. In 1912, he became chorister at the Rouen Cathedral Choir School, where he studied piano and organ with Jules Haelling...
  
  , composer
• February 26 - Rudolf Moralt
  Rudolf Moralt
  Rudolf Moralt was a German conductor, particularly associated with Mozart and the German repertory....
  
  , German conductor
• March 16 - Leon Roppolo
  Leon Roppolo
  Leon Roppolo was a prominent early jazz clarinetist, best known for his playing with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. Roppolo also played saxophone and guitar. Roppolo married Mabel Alice Branchard on 17 May 1920 in New Orleans...
  
  
• March 21 - Son House
  Son House
  Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music...
  
  , blues musician
• March 29 - William Walton
  William Walton
  Sir William Turner Walton OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera...
  
  , British composer
• April 8 - Maria Maksakova, Sr.
  Maria Maksakova, Sr.
  Maria Petrovna Maksakova, Senior was a renown Soviet opera singer , a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theater , who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s, in the times often referred to as the Golden Age of the Soviet opera...
  
  , Soviet opera singer
• April 24 - Rube Bloom
  Rube Bloom
  Reuben Bloom was a Jewish American multi-faceted entertainer, and in addition to being a songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and writer .During his career, he worked with many well-known performers, including Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Ruth Etting,...
  
  , US pianist and composer
• April 26 – Walter Dana
  Walter Dana
  Władysław Daniłowski was a Polish and American pianist, composer and singer. A pioneer of jazz and tango in Poland, in the United States he is best known as a promoter of polka music...
  
  , polka-music promoter (d. 2000)
• May 1 - Sonnie Hale
  Sonnie Hale
  Sonnie Hale was an English theatre and cinema actor and director.John Robert Hale-Monro was born in London, the son of Robert Hale and Belle Reynolds. His father and sister, Binnie Hale were actors. He worked chiefly in musical and revue theatre, but also acted in several films with occasional...
  
   - English actor and singer
• May 11 - Bidu Sayão
  Bidu Sayão
  Bidú Sayão was a Brazilian opera soprano. One of Brazil's most famous musicians, Sayão was a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1937 to 1952.-Life and career:...
  
  , Brazilian opera singer
• May 18 - Meredith Willson
  Meredith Willson
  Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer, songwriter, conductor and playwright, best known for writing the book, music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical The Music Man...
  
  , US composer (d. 1984)
• May 19 - Lubka Kolessa
  Lubka Kolessa
  Lubka Kolessa was a classical pianist and professor of piano.- Education :...
  
  , pianist and music teacher (d. 1997)
• May 31 - Billy Mayerl
  Billy Mayerl
  Billy Joseph Mayerl , was an English pianist and composer who built a career in music hall and musical theatre and became an acknowledged master of light music. Best known for his syncopated novelty piano solos, he wrote over 300 piano pieces, many of which were named after flowers and trees,...
  
  , English pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1959)
• June 6 - Jimmie Lunceford
  Jimmie Lunceford
  James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era.-Biography:...
  
  , bandleader
• June 17
  • Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music.-Biography:Sammy Fain was born in New York City. In 1923, Fain appeared with Artie Dunn in a short film directed by Lee De Forest filmed in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process. In 1925, Fain left the Fain-Dunn act to devote himself to...
    
    , US composer
  • Vivian Duncan, singer, songwriter and actress, member of the Duncan Sisters
    Duncan Sisters
    The Duncan Sisters were a vaudeville duo who became popular in the 1920s with their act Topsy and Eva.-Early career:Rosetta and Vivian Duncan were born in Los Angeles, California, the daughters of a violinist turned salesman...
    
    
• June 19 - Guy Lombardo
  Guy Lombardo
  Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo was a Canadian-American bandleader and violinist.Forming "The Royal Canadians" in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert, and Victor and other musicians from his hometown, Lombardo led the group to international success, billing themselves as creating "The Sweetest...
  
  
• June 21 - Skip James
  Skip James
  Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter, born in Bentonia, Mississippi, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
  
  , blues musician
• July 19 - Buster Bailey
  Buster Bailey
  William C. "Buster" Bailey was a jazz musician specializing in the clarinet, but also well versed on saxophone...
  
  , jazz clarinetist
• July 20 - Jimmy Kennedy
  Jimmy Kennedy
  Jimmy Kennedy OBE was an Irish songwriter, predominantly a lyricist, putting words to existing music such as "Teddy Bears' Picnic" and "My Prayer", or co-writing with the composers Michael Carr, Wilhelm Grosz and Nat Simon amongst others.-Biography:Kennedy was born near Omagh...
  
  , Irish-born British songwriter
• July 21 - Omer Simeon
  Omer Simeon
  Omer Victor Simeon was an American jazz clarinetist. He also played soprano, alto, and baritone saxophone and bass clarinet....
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1959)
• August 6 - Jim Davidson, Australian bandleader
• August 9 - Zino Francescatti
  Zino Francescatti
  René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti was a French virtuoso violinist.Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family. Both parents were violinists. His father, who also played the cello, had studied with Camillo Sivori. Zino studied violin from age three and was quickly recognized as a...
  
  , violinist
• October 25 - Eddie Lang
  Eddie Lang
  Eddie Lang was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as the Father of Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt.-Biography:...
  
  , US jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
• December 15 - Mary Skeaping, British choreographer
• December 27 - Sam Coslow
  Sam Coslow
  Sam Coslow was an American songwriter, singer, film producer, publisher, and market analyst. Coslow was born in New York City. He began writing songs as a teenager...
  
  , US songwriter and singer
• date unknown - Billy Pigg
  Billy Pigg
  Billy Pigg was an English player of Northumbrian smallpipes. He was a Vice-President and an influential member of the Northumbrian Pipers Society from 1930 until his death.-Life and music:...
  
  , Northumbrian piper

Deaths

• January 17 - Elias Blix
  Elias Blix
  Elias Blix was a Norwegian professor, theologian, hymn writer, and a politician for the Liberal Party. Blix wrote numerous hymns and was largely responsible for translating the New Testament into the Norwegian language.-Biography:Born in Gildeskål, Salten, in Nordland County, Norway. He attended...
  
  , politician, poet and musician (b. 1836)
• January 18 - Filippo Marchetti
  Filippo Marchetti
  Filippo Marchetti was an Italian opera composer. After studying in Naples, his first opera was "successfully premiered" in Turin in 1856...
  
  , opera composer
• February 1 - Salomon Jadassohn
  Salomon Jadassohn
  Salomon Jadassohn was a German composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.-Life:...
  
  , composer and music teacher
• February 9 - Ludwig von Brenner
  Ludwig von Brenner
  Ludwig von Brenner was a German conductor and composer.He was born in Leipzig, and studied at Leipzig conservatoire, later going to Saint Petersburg to play in the court orchestra of the Tsar...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1833)
• February 11 - Leonid Malashkin
  Leonid Malashkin
  Leonid Dimitrievitch Malashkin was a Russian composer and conductor. Though he wrote a few works in larger forms, he is today chiefly remembered for his romances, particularly "Oh, Could I But Express in Song"....
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1842)
• April 21 - Ethna Carbery
  Ethna Carbery
  Ethna Carbery was an Irish journalist, writer and poet. She is best-known for the ballad Roddy McCorley and the Song of Ciabhán; the latter was set to music by Ivor Gurney. Along with Alice Milligan she published two Irish nationalist magazines.-Life:Anna Johnston was born in Ballymena, County...
  
  , songwriter (b. 1866)
• June 17 - Karl Piutti
  Karl Piutti
  Karl Piutti was a German composer and organist.Piutti studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. He taught at his alma mater from 1875 onwards, and also became the organist at the Thomaskirche after 1880....
  
  , organist and composer (b. 1846)
• July 6 - Leopoldo Miguez
  Leopoldo Miguez
  Leopoldo Miguez was a Brazilian composer.Born in Niterói, Miguez studied at conservatories in Paris. He was known as a champion of the music of Richard Wagner. He also directed the "Instituto Nacional de Musica." He also wrote the music for Brazil's Hymn for the Proclamation of the Republic. He...
  
  , composer (b. 1850)
• August 3 - August Klughardt
  August Klughardt
  August Friedrich Martin Klughardt was a German composer and conductor.- Life :Klughardt, who was born in Köthen, took his first piano and music theory lessons at the age of 10. Soon, be began to compose his first pieces, which were performed by a music circle Klughardt had founded himself at...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1847)
• September 7
  • Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau
    Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau
    Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau was a Spanish diplomat and writer, who wrote plays, zarzuelas , and novels.-Biography:...
    
    , zarzuela writer (b. 1842)
  • Franz Wüllner
    Franz Wüllner
    Franz Wüllner was a German composer and conductor. He led the premieres of Richard Wagner's operas Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, but was much criticized by Wagner himself, who greatly preferred the more celebrated conductors Hans von Bülow and Hermann Levi.Wüllner was born in Münster and studied...
    
    , conductor and composer (b. 1832)
• September 11 - Émile Bernard
  Émile Bernard (composer)
  Jean Émile Auguste Bernard was a French Romantic composer and organist. Bernard studied at the Paris Conservatoire; his organ teacher was François Benoist and his piano teacher was Antoine François Marmontel...
  
  , French composer and organist
• September 26 - Camille D'elmar
  Camille D'elmar
  Camille D'elmar was a stage actress and opera performer from Rochester, New York. Her father was Dr. Long of Rochester. She appeared on stage as a youth. D'elmar was the name she was known by to theater audiences in American and England. Her married name was Mrs...
  
  , actress and opera singer (b. 1861)
• September 28 - Ion Ivanovici
  Ion Ivanovici
  Ion Ivanovici was a Romanian military band leader and composer, best remembered today for his waltz Waves of the Danube....
  
  , bandleader and composer (b. 1845)
• date unknown
  • Güllü Agop
    Güllü Agop
    Agop Vartovyan, better known as Güllü Agop, , was an Ottoman Armenian theatre director as well as an occasional actor. He is widely credited with having laid the bases for Turkey's modern and nationally renowned performing arts institution that became İstanbul City Theatres...
    
    , Turkish theatre director
  • Jones Hewson
    Jones Hewson
    John Jones Hewson , credited as Jones Hewson, was a Welsh singer and actor known for his creation and portrayal of baritone roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1896 to 1901....
    
    , operatic baritone (b. 1874)
  • James James
    James James
    James James was a harpist and musician from Pontypridd, Wales. He composed the tune of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau ....
    
    , composer of the Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad fy Nhadau
    Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
    Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau is the national anthem of Wales. The title – taken from the first words of the song – means "Old Land of My Fathers", usually rendered in English as simply "Land of My Fathers". The words were written by Evan James and the tune composed by his son, James James, both residents...
    
    "
  • Franz Nachbaur
    Franz Nachbaur
    Franz Nachbaur was a famous German opera tenor.Born in Giessen, he studied with Francesco Lamperti in Milan and with the celebrated baritone Jan Krtitel Pisek in Stuttgart. He made his debut on the tage in Passau in 1857 and was active until his retirement in 1890...
    
    , opera singer (b. 1835)
  • Ramon Delgado Palacios, Venezuelan pianist and composer
  • Camilla Urso
    Camilla Urso
    Camilla Urso , was a French violinist.Born at Nantes, France, Urso was the daughter of an Italian flutist and a French singer . When she was six years old, despite general skepticism about her ability to master a “masculine” instrument, she began taking violin lessons...
    
    , violinist (b. 1842)