Events

• February 11 - Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
  
  's 9th Symphony
  Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner)
  Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 in D minor is the last Symphony upon which he worked, leaving the last movement incomplete at the time of his death in 1896. The symphony was premiered under Ferdinand Löwe in Vienna in 1903, after Bruckner's death...
  
   is premiered in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  
• February 23 (Julian = March 8 Gregorian) – George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
   conducts the world premieres of three of his works, the Suite No. 1 for orchestra, op. 9, in C major, and the two Romanian Rhapsodies
  Romanian Rhapsodies (Enescu)
  The two Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11, for orchestra, are George Enescu's best-known compositions. They were both written in 1901, and first performed together in 1903. The two rhapsodies, and particularly the first, have long held a permanent place in the repertory of every major orchestra. They...
  
  , op. 11, in A major and D major, as part of a concert at the Romanian Athenaeum
  Romanian Athenaeum
  The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's main concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu annual international...
  
   in Bucharest.
• Enrico Caruso joins cast of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company and makes first records for the Victor Talking Machine Company
  Victor Talking Machine Company
  The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American corporation, the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. It was headquartered in Camden, New Jersey....
  
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• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
  
   marries Jelka Rosen
  Jelka Rosen
  Helena Sophie Emilie "Jelka" Delius was a painter, and wife of composer Frederick Delius.-Life and work:...
  
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• Mississippi John Hurt
  Mississippi John Hurt
  John Smith Hurt, better known as Mississippi John Hurt was an American country blues singer and guitarist.Raised in Avalon, Mississippi, Hurt taught himself how to play the guitar around age nine...
  
   begins performing.
• Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  's Babes in Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (operetta)
  Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough , which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravaganza. The creators wanted to cash in on the extraordinary success of The Wizard of Oz,...
  
   premieres.

Published popular music

• "Always In The Way" 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"...
  
  
• "Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye
  Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye
  Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye was a popular song, first published in 1903 and written by George M. Cohan. Today the best known recording of the song is by Billy Murray, which was recorded in 1907 on Victor Records and whose version has entered the public domain...
  
  " w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  
• "Are We To Part Like This?" w.m. Harry Castling & Charles Collins
• "Anona
  Anona (song)
  "Anona" is a popular song written by Vivian Grey in 1903, both as an intermezzo and a vocal number...
  
  " w.m. Vivian Grey
• "Bedelia" 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...
  
  
• "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" w.m. Dan McAvoy
• "The Burning of Rome" by E. T. Paull
  E. T. Paull
  Edward Taylor Paull was a minor American composer, arranger, and sheet music publisher.-Musical Style:He had some success with a few titles which enabled him to set up his own self-publishing company...
  
  
• "By The Sycamore Tree" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
• "Congo Love Song" 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"...
  
  
• "Daisy Donahue" w. James O'Dea m. Robert J. Adams
• "Dear Old Girl" w. Richard Henry Buck 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...
  
  
• "Dear Sing Sing
  Dear Sing Sing
  Dear Sing Sing is a popular song first published in 1903. A popular singer of the time named Billy Murray recorded at least two versions in 1904, one for Edison Records and another for Victor Records. Both of these recordings are now public domain, and can be downloaded at several...
  
  " Schwartz
• "Down At The Old Bull And Bush" w.m. Florrie Forde
  Florrie Forde
  Florrie Forde , born Flora May Augusta Flannagan, was an Australian popular singer and entertainer. She was one of the greatest stars of the early 20th century music hall....
  
  
• "Flowers Of Dixieland" w. Edgar Smith 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"...
  
  
• "General Hardtack On Guard" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
• "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" 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...
  
  
• "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" 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...
  
  
• "Hannah!" by Joseph Farrell
  Joseph Farrell
  Joseph Farrell was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was elected to Seanad Éireann in 1961 on the Labour Panel and was re-elected to the Seanad in 1965 and 1969. Farrell was elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála for the Louth constituency at the 1973 general election and was...
  
  
• "He Was A Sailor" 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...
  
  
• "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" w. Vincent Bryan 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...
  
  
• "I Can't Do The Sum" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
• "I Never Could Love Like That" Bowman, Johns
• "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" w. Eddie Leonard
  Eddie Leonard
  Eddie Leonard , born Lemuel Golden Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were still acceptable as entertainment. He performed in vaudeville for 45 years before that medium faded in the 1920s, and was known for such...
  
   m. Eddie Munson
• "I'm A Jonah Man" w.m. Alex Rogers
• "I'm On The Water Wagon Now" w. Paul West m. John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and theatrical producer who became popular during the era known as the Gay Nineties-Early life:...
  
  
• "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" Reed Jnr
• "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" 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"...
  
  
• "In The Village By The Sea" 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. Stanley Crawford
• "Indolence" Jason Mathews
• "Is Your Mother In, Molly Malone?" w.m. Mills & Everard
• "It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch
  It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch
  It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch is a song written in 1903 by Edward Madden and Theodore Morse.The song has several verses, each of them filled with stereotypical Irish bragging about their supposed superiority to Germans . The chorus is in the form of a Limerick...
  
  " w. Edward Madden
  Edward Madden
  Edward Madden was an American lyricist.Madden was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. After graduation he wrote material for many singers including Fanny Brice and for vaudeville acts...
  
   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...
  
  
• "It Was The Dutch" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
• "It's The Man In The Sailor Suit" w. Fred C. Farrell 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...
  
  
• "Jack Tar March" by John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
  
  
• "Julie" 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...
  
  
• "Lazy 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...
  
   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"...
  
  
• "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" w. Arthur Lamb 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....
  
  
• "Little Yellow Bird" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Hargreaves
• "The Maid Of Timbucktoo" w. 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. 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...
  
  
• "The March Of The Toys" m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "Main Gazebo" Chris Praetorius
• "Mary Ellen" Bryan, Lemonier
• "Melody Of Love
  Melody of Love
  "Melody of Love" is a popular song. The music was originally written by Hans Engelmann in 1903. The lyrics were added by Tom Glazer in 1954.An instrumental version recorded by Billy Vaughn was the highest-charting version on the Billboard charts in 1955...
  
  " w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann
• "The Military Band" m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "Moriaty" w. Charles Horwitz m. Fred V. Bowers
• "Mother O' Mine" w. Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
  
   m. Frank E. Tours
• "My Cosy Corner Girl" w. Charles Noel Douglas m. John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and theatrical producer who became popular during the era known as the Gay Nineties-Early life:...
  
  
• "My Hula Lula Girl" by 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...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "My Little Coney Isle" 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...
  
  
• "My Little Creole Babe" w.m. Maude Nugent
  Maude Nugent
  Maude Nugent Nugent, [Jerome], Maude . American singer and composer. She began her career in vaudeville, achieving tremendous success in 1896 with her song Sweet Rosie O’Grady, which became the archetypal waltz ballad of the 1890’s...
  
  
• "My Little 'Rang Outang" Madden, Morse
• "Navajo" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
  Egbert Van Alstyne
  Egbert Anson Van Alstyne was a United States songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes from the early 20th century.He was born in Marengo, Illinois...
  
  
• "An Old Man's Darling" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
• "Only A Dream Of A Golden Past" w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford
• "Out Where The Breakers Roar" w. Harlow Hyde m. H. W. Petrie
• "Over The Pilsner Foam" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
• "Palm Leaf Rag" by 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...
  
  
• "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" 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:...
  
  
• "The Saftest Of The Family" w. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
   & Bobry Beaton m. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
  
• "Save It For Me" w. 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. 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...
  
  
• "Spring Beautiful Spring" 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...
  
  
• "Stop Your Ticklin', Jock" w. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
   & Frank Folley m. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
  
• "Summer Breeze March & Two-Step" by James Scott
  James Scott (musician)
  James Sylvester Scott was an African-American ragtime composer, regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb....
  
  
• "There's A Little Street In Heaven That They Call Broadway" w. Jack T. Waldron & A. Baldwin Sloane m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "Toyland" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "The Toymaker's Shop" m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "Two Eyes Of Blue" w. George H. Taylor m. Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
  
• "Two Eyes Of Brown" w. Edward Madden m. Stephen Howard
• "Under A Panama" Bryan, Mullen
• "Under The Anheuser Bush" w.m. 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...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "Up In A Coconut Tree" Madden, Morse
• "Upper Broadway After Dark" w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi
• "When I'm Away From You Dear" w.m. 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...
  
  
• "The Woodchuck Song" w. Robert Hobart Davis 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...
  
  
• "The Wreck Of The Old '97" w.m. Henry C. Work
• "Your Dad Gave His Life For His Country" w. Harry J. Breen m. T. Mayo Geary
• "You're The Flower Of My Heart, Sweet Adeline" w. Richard H. Gerard m. Henry W. Armstrong

Recorded popular music

• "Always In The Way" (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"...
  
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  - Byron G. Harlan
  Byron G. Harlan
  Byron G. Harlan was an American singer from Kansas, a comic minstrel singer and balladeer who often recorded with Arthur Collins. The two together were often billed as "Collins & Harlan".-Solo recordings:1899...
  
   on Edison Records
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
• "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:...
  
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  - Arthur Collins on Edison
• "The Arrow And The Song" (w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
  
   m. Michael William Balfe
  Michael William Balfe
  Michael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works...
  
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  - Herbert Goddard on Victor Records
• "Badinage" (m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
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  - Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
• "Bedelia" (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...
  
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  - George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
  - Edward M. Favor
  Edward M. Favor
  Edward M. Favor was an American singer and vaudeville comedian. He was among the first recorded musicians.-References:...
  
   on Columbia
  - Billy Murray
  Billy Murray (singer)
  William Thomas "Billy" Murray was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century...
  
   on Edison
• "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" (w.m. Dan McAvoy)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
  - Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
   on Victor
• "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann
  Abe Holzmann
  Abe Holzmann was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian immigrant and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany...
  
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  - banjos Vess L. Ossman & Bill Farmer
  Bill Farmer
  William "Bill" Farmer is an American voice actor and comedian, best known for being the current voice of the Disney characters Goofy, Pluto and Horace Horsecollar.-Early life:...
  
   on Victor
• "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann)
  - Kendle's Band on Victor
• "By The Sycamore Tree" (w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
  Max Hoffmann
  Max Hoffmann was a German officer and military strategist during World War I. He is widely regarded as one of the finest staff officers of the imperial period....
  
  )
  - Harry Macdonough
  Harry Macdonough
  John Scantlebury Macdonald was a Canadian singer and recording executive. Under the pseudonym Harry Macdonough, he was one of the most prolific and popular tenors during the formative years of recorded music....
  
   on Edison
  - Bob Roberts on Columbia
  - Billy Murray on Victor
• "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)
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
• "Congo Love Song" (w.m. Bob Cole & 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"...
  
  )
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
• "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:...
  
  )
  - Harry Macdonough on Victor
• "The Country Girl" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards)
  - Vesta Victoria
  Vesta Victoria
  Vesta Victoria was an English music hall singer and comedian. Although born in Leeds, Yorkshire, Vesta adopted a Cockney persona on stage...
  
   on Gramophone Records
• "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
• "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...
  
  )
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
• "Flowers Of Dixieland" (w. Edgar Smith
  Edgar Smith
  Edgar Smith is an American convicted murderer, who was once on Death Row for the 1957 murder of fifteen-year-old honor student and cheer leader Victoria Ann Zielinski. Vigorously contesting his conviction through the courts and in the media, Smith became a celebrity, and his case was argued in...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
• "The Gambling Man(1)" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Silas Leachman on Victor
• "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (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)
  - Arthur Collins on Edison
• "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
• "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" (w. Arthur L. Robb m. John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and theatrical producer who became popular during the era known as the Gay Nineties-Early life:...
  
  )
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
• "He Was A Sailor" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Collins & Harlan
  Collins & Harlan
  Collins & Harlan, the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan formed a popular comic duet between 1903 and 1926. They sang ragtime standards as well as what were known as "Coon songs" - music sung by white performers in a black dialect. Their material also employed many other stereotypes of the...
  
   on Edison
• "Heidelberg Stein Song" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison & Victor
• "Hiawatha
  Hiawatha (A Summer Idyl)
  "Hiawatha " is a popular song written by Neil Moret in 1901. James O'Dea added lyrics in 1903 and the music was re-subtitled ""....
  
  " (w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret)
  - Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
  - Metropolitan Orchestra on Victor
  - Sousa's Band on Victor
• "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse)
  - Collins & Harlan
  Collins & Harlan
  Collins & Harlan, the team of Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan formed a popular comic duet between 1903 and 1926. They sang ragtime standards as well as what were known as "Coon songs" - music sung by white performers in a black dialect. Their material also employed many other stereotypes of the...
  
   on Edison
  - Dan W. Quinn on Victor
• "I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen)
  - Harry West
  Harry West
  Henry William West was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979.West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen...
  
   on Edison
• "I Like You, Lil, For Fair" (Ade, Loraine)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
• "I Never Could Love Like That" (Bowman, Johns)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
• "I Want To Be A Lidy" (w. George Dance m. George Dee)
  - Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
• "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" (w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome)
  - Arthur Collins on Victor & Edison
• "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" (w. Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan was a United States songwriter and pacifist.-Songs:His hits included*"Peg O' My Heart"*"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"*"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"...
  
   m. Stanley Crawford)
  - John H. Bieling & Harry Macdonough on Victor
• "I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Victor
  - Arthur Collins on Edison & Victor
• "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" (Reed Jnr)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
• "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
  - Harry Macdonough & John H. Bieling on Victor
• "In Silence" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
  - Arthur Clifford
  Arthur Clifford
  -Life:Clifford was the sixth of the eight sons of the Hon. Thomas Clifford of Tixall, Staffordshire, by the Hon. Barbara Aston, younger daughter and coheiress of James Aston, 5th Lord Aston of Forfar...
  
   on Edison
• "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills)
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
• "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 "Honey Boy" Evans)
  - Haydn Quartette on Victor
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough with Sousa's Band on Victor
  - Harry Macdonough on Victor
• "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" (w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer)
  - J. Aldrich Libbey on Edison
• "In The Village By The Sea" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Stanley Crawford)
  - Byron G. Harlan on Edison
• "It Takes The Irish To Beat The Dutch" (w. Edward Madden
  Edward Madden
  Edward Madden was an American lyricist.Madden was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. After graduation he wrote material for many singers including Fanny Brice and for vaudeville acts...
  
   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...
  
  )
  - Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
• "It Was The Dutch" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen)
  - Collins & Harlan on Edison
• "Juanita" (w. Caroline Norton m. trad Sp.)
  - Haydn Quartette on Victor
• "Julie" (w. Wiliam Jerome m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
• "Just For Tonight(1)" (w.m. Frank O. French)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison
• "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" (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. Melville Ellis)
  - Clarke's Band of Providence on Victor
• "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" (w. Arthur Lamb
  Arthur Lamb
  Arthur Lamb was an English cricketer. Lamb's batting and bowling styles are unknown. He was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire....
  
   m. Kerry Mills)
  - Joe Natus on Victor
• "The Maid Of Timbucktoo" (w. 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. Bob Cole)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
• "Massa's In De Cold Ground" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster
  Stephen Foster
  Stephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
  
  )
  - Edison Male Quartette on Edison
• "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer)
  - William H. Thompson (singer) on Victor
• "Melody Of Love" (w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann)
  - Edison Symphony Orchestra on Edison
• "The Message Of The Rose" (w. Will A. Heelan
  Will A. Heelan
  Will A. Heelan was an American lyricist during the early 20th century. He collaborated with a number of composers and lyricists including E. P. Moran, Seymour Furth, J...
  
   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....
  
  )
  - George Seymour Lenox on Edison
• "The Message Of The Violet" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders)
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
• "Mighty Lak' A Rose
  Mighty Lak' a Rose
  Mighty Lak' a Rose is a 1901 song with lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton and music by Ethelbert Nevin.The lyrics are written in an approximation of an African American accent; such "dialect songs" were common in the era. The title thus means "Mighty like a rose"; this assessment is addressed by a...
  
  " (w. Frank Lebby Stanton
  Frank Lebby Stanton
  Frank Lebby Stanton—born February 22, 1857 in Charleston, South Carolina, died January 7, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia, and frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L...
  
   m. Ethelbert Nevin)
  - Arthur Clifford on Edison
• "Moriaty" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Fred V. Bowers)
  - Collins & Harlan on Edison
• "My Cosy Corner Girl" (w. Charles Noel Douglas m. John Walter Bratton)
  - Henry Burr
  Henry Burr
  Henry Burr was a Canadian singer of popular songs from the early 20th century, an early radio performer and producer...
  
   on Columbia
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
• "My Little Coney Isle" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer)
  - Harry Tally on Edison
• "My Little 'Rang Outang" (Madden, Morse)
  - Billy Murray on Victor
• "My Own United States" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards)
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
• "My Sulu Lulu Loo" (w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann)
  - Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
• "Only A Dream Of A Golden Past" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
• "Out Where The Breakers Roar" (w. Harlow Hyde m. H. W. Petrie)
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison
• "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (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:...
  
  )
  - Byron G. Harlan on Victor & Edison
• "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" (w.m. J. B. Mullen)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
• "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" (w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall)
  - Joe Natus on Victor
• "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....
  
  )
  - Madge Crichton with piano Landon Ronald
  Landon Ronald
  Sir Landon Ronald was an English conductor, composer, pianist, singing teacher and administrator...
  
   on Gramophone & Typewriter Records
• "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
• "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson)
  - Henry Burr on Columbia
• "Sly Musette" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
  - Harry Macdonough on Edison
• "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" (w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson)
  - S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Victor
• "Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life" (w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  )
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
• "There's One In A Million Like You" (w. Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke was an American songwriter.Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz)
  - Walter Van Brunt
  Walter Van Brunt
  Walter Van Brunt was an American tenor known initially for his recordings on Thomas Alva Edison's Blue Amberol Records and later for his rôle in a scandal involving a stage name and case of adultery....
  
   on Edison
• "Two Eyes Of Blue" (w. George H. Taylor m. Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
  )
  - Harry Macdonough on Victor
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
• "Under The Bamboo Tree" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson)
  - Mina Hickman on Victor
• "Up In A Coconut Tree" (Madden, Morse)
  - Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
• "Upper Broadway After Dark" (w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi)
  - Edward M. Favor on Edison
• "The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root
  George Frederick Root
  George Frederick Root was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
  
  )
  - Byron G. Harlan on Edison
• "Wait At The Gate For Me" (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. 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...
  
  )
  - J. W. Myers on Victor
• "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane)
  - Arthur Clifford on Edison
• "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" (w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt)
  - Franklyn Wallace on Edison
• "When We Were Two Little Boys" (w. Edward Madden
  Edward Madden
  Edward Madden was an American lyricist.Madden was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. After graduation he wrote material for many singers including Fanny Brice and for vaudeville acts...
  
   m. Theodore F. Morse)
  - Billy Murray on Victor

Classical music

• Hakon Borresen
  Hakon Borresen
  Axel Ejnar Hakon Børresen was one of the foremost Danish composers of the 20th century.-Life:Børresen was descended from a merchant family. As a child, he was given violin, cello and piano lessons...
  
   - Romance for Cello and Piano/Orchestra
• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
  
   - Sea Drift
• 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 Apostles (oratorio
  Oratorio
  An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
  
  )
• Joseph Holbrooke
  Joseph Holbrooke
  Joseph Charles Holbrooke was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was sometimes referred to as "the cockney Wagner".-Family:...
  
   - The Bells
• Joseph Jongen
  Joseph Jongen
  Marie-Alphonse-Nicolas-Joseph Jongen was a Belgian organist, composer, and music educator.-Biography:Jongen was born in Liège. On the strength of an amazing precocity for music, he was admitted to the Liège Conservatoire at the extraordinarily young age of seven, and spent the next sixteen years...
  
   - Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 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...
  
   - Helios Overture
  Helios Overture
  Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture, Opus 17, was first performed by the Royal Orchestra, conducted by Johan Svendsen, on 8 October 1903 in the large hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.-Overview:...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Slovak Suite

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...

• Eugen d'Albert
  Eugen d'Albert
  Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born German pianist and composer.Educated in Britain, d'Albert showed early musical talent and, at the age of seventeen, he won a scholarship to study in Austria...
  
   - Tiefland
• Juan Manen
  Juan Manén
  Juan Manén was a Spanish violinist and composer, born in Barcelona.His progress in music was so rapid that his father exhibited him as a piano prodigy. Having studied the violin under D. Alard, he suddenly appeared as a violinist, and met with such success that in Germany he was compared to his...
  
   - Giovanna di Napoli
• 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'épave premiered on February 17 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris

Musical theater

• Babes In Toyland
  Babes in Toyland (operetta)
  Babes in Toyland is an operetta composed by Victor Herbert with a libretto by Glen MacDonough , which wove together various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravaganza. The creators wanted to cash in on the extraordinary success of The Wizard of Oz,...
  
   Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 13 and ran for 192 performances
• The Cherry Girl London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre
  Vaudeville Theatre
  The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on The Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each new building retained elements of the previous...
  
   on December 29 and ran for 215 performances
• The Duchess of Dantzig London production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (London)
  The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from the Prince of Wales Theatre to open...
  
   on October 17 and ran for 236 performances
• The Earl and the Girl
  The Earl and the Girl
  The Earl and the Girl is a musical comedy in two acts by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll. It was produced by William Greet and opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 10 December 1903. It transferred to the Lyric Theatre on 12 September 1904, running for...
  
   London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre
  Adelphi Theatre
  The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site. The theatre has specialised in comedy and musical theatre, and today it is a receiving house for a variety of productions, including many musicals...
  
   on December 10 and transferred to the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (London)
  The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from the Prince of Wales Theatre to open...
  
   on September 12, 1904 for a total run of 371 performances
• The Fisher Maiden (Music: 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...
  
  ) Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater
  Victoria Theater (New York City)
  Located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, the Victoria Theater was designed in 1917 by Thomas W. Lamb, a notable and prolific theater architect of the era, for the Loew’s Corporation....
  
   on October 5 and ran for 32 performances. Starring Al Shean
  Al Shean
  Al Shean was the stage name for comedian Abraham Elieser Adolph Schönberg, although other sources give his birth name variously as Adolf Schönberg, Albert Schönberg, or Alfred Schönberg. He is most remembered for being half of the vaudeville team Gallagher and Shean, and as the uncle of the Marx...
  
  , George A. MacFarlane, Edna Bronson, Bessie Tannehill, Dorothy Jardon and Frances Cameron.
• In Dahomey
  In Dahomey
  In Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar...
  
   Broadway production opened at the New York Theatre
  New York Theatre
  Several theatres in New York City have been called New York Theatre at various times during the building's life. They include the following:*Bowery Theatre*Olympia Theatre *Church of the Messiah...
  
   on February 18 and ran for 53 performances
• In Dahomey
  In Dahomey
  In Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar...
  
   London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre
  Shaftesbury Theatre
  The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The theatre was designed for the brothers Walter and Frederick Melville by Bertie Crewe and opened on 26 December 1911 with a production of The Three Musketeers, as the New...
  
   on May 16 and ran for 251 performances
• The Jersey Lily Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater
  Victoria Theater (New York City)
  Located on 125th Street in Harlem, New York City, the Victoria Theater was designed in 1917 by Thomas W. Lamb, a notable and prolific theater architect of the era, for the Loew’s Corporation....
  
   on September 14 and ran for 24 performances
• Madame Sherry Vienna production
• Madame Sherry 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 December 23
• The Medal and the Maid London production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (London)
  The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from the Prince of Wales Theatre to open...
  
   on April 25
• My Lady Molly
  My Lady Molly
  My Lady Molly is a comic opera in two acts with a libretto by George H. Jessop, with additional lyrics by Percy Greenbank and Charles H. Taylor, and music by Sidney Jones. It opened at the Theatre Royal in Brighton, England, on 11 August 1902 and then at Terry's Theatre in London on 14 March 1903,...
  
   London production opened at Terry's Theatre
  Terry's Theatre
  Terry's Theatre was a West End theatre on Strand, in the City of Westminster, London. Built in 1887, it became a cinema in 1910 before being demolished in 1923.-History:...
  
   on March 14
• The Orchid
  The Orchid
  The Orchid is a musical play in two acts by James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and additional numbers by Paul Rubens. It opened at Gaiety Theatre in London on 26 October 1903 and ran for 559 performances. It starred Gertie...
  
   London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on October 26 and ran for 559 performances
• A Princess of Kensington
  A Princess of Kensington
  A Princess of Kensington is an English comic opera in two acts by Edward German to a libretto by Basil Hood, produced by William Greet. The first performance was at the Savoy Theatre, London, on 22 January 1903 and ran for 115 performances....
  
   London production opened at the Savoy Theatre
  Savoy Theatre
  The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,...
  
   on January 22 and ran for 115 performances
• The Rogers Brothers In London 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 September 7 and ran for 64 performances
• The School Girl
  The School Girl
  The School Girl is a musical comedy, in two acts, composed by Leslie Stuart with a book by Henry Hamilton and Paul M. Potter, and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor and others...
  
   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 on May 9 at 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...
  
   and ran for 333 performances.
• 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...
  
   Broadway 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 September 1 and ran for 130 performances
• The Wizard of Oz
  The Wizard of Oz (1902 stage play)
  The Wizard of Oz was a 1902 musical extravaganza based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, which was originally published in 1900...
  
   http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/musical016.html Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on January 21 and ran for 293 performances

Births

• January 4 - Carroll Gibbons
  Carroll Gibbons
  Carroll Gibbons was an American-born musician, bandleader and composer who made his career primarily in Britain. He was born and raised in Clinton, Massachusetts. In his late teens he travelled to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music...
  
  , bandleader and composer (d. 1954)
• February 6 - Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau
  Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning from the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Brahms and Debussy...
  
  , pianist (d. 1991)
• February 12 - Todd Duncan
  Todd Duncan
  Robert Todd Duncan was an American baritone opera singer and actor.-Biography:Todd Duncan was born in Danville, Kentucky in 1903. He obtained his musical training at Butler University in Indianapolis with a B.A. in music followed by an M.A...
  
  , American baritone, first Porgy in Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess
  Porgy and Bess is an opera, first performed in 1935, with music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. It was based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and subsequent play of the same title, which he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward...
  
   (d. 1998)
• March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke
  Bix Beiderbecke
  Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, jazz pianist, and composer.With Louis Armstrong, Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1931)
• April 3 - Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (d. 1932)
• May 3 - Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , US singer and actor (d. 1977)
• May 12 - Lennox Berkeley
  Lennox Berkeley
  Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...
  
  , composer (d. 1989)
• May 26 - Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
  
  , English-born US actor, comedian and singer (d. 2003)
• June 6 - Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Khachaturian
  Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...
  
  , composer (d. 1978)
• June 18 - Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald
  Jeanette MacDonald was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy...
  
  , US singer and actress (d. 1965)
• June 26 - St. Louis Jimmy Oden
  St. Louis Jimmy Oden
  James Burke "St. Louis Jimmy" Oden was an American blues vocalist and songwriter.Born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, Oden sang and taught himself to play the piano in childhood. In his teens, he left home to go to St. Louis, Missouri where piano-based blues was prominent...
  
  , blues singer (d. 1977)
• July 3 - Dick Robertson
  Dick Robertson
  Preston James Robertson was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in two games for the Cincinnati Reds in 1913, thirteen games for the 1918 Brooklyn Robins and seven games for the 1919 Washington Senators.-External links:...
  
  , US singer (d. 1944)
• July 10 - Helen Pickens of the Pickens Sisters US singing group
• July 16 - Carmen Lombardo
  Carmen Lombardo
  Carmen Lombardo was the younger brother of bandleader Guy Lombardo. He was a vocalist and composer whose compositions included the 1928 classic "Sweethearts on Parade", which was number one for three weeks in 1929 on the U.S...
  
  , Canadian singer, composer and saxophonist (d. 1971)
• August 4 - Helen Kane
  Helen Kane
  Helen Kane was an American popular singer; her signature song was "I Wanna Be Loved By You". Kane's voice and appearance were a likely source for Fleischer Studios animator Grim Natwick when creating Betty Boop, although It-girl Clara Bow is another possible influence.-Early life:Born as Helen...
  
  , US singer (d. 1966)
• August 20 - António Fortunato de Figueiredo
  António Fortunato de Figueiredo
  Maestro António Fortunato de Figueiredo was a famous Goan conductor and violinist. He was India’s first maestro in Western classical music.-Early life:...
  
  , conductor (d. 1981)
• September 15 - Roy Acuff
  Roy Acuff
  Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...
  
  , Country and Western singer (d. 1992)
• September 16 - Joe Venuti, US jazz violinist (d. 1978)
• October 1 (probable) - Vladimir Horowitz
  Vladimir Horowitz
  Vladimir Samoylovich Horowitz    was a Russian-American classical virtuoso pianist and minor composer. His technique and use of tone color and the excitement of his playing were legendary. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Life and early...
  
  , pianist (d. 1989)
• October 10 - Vladimir Dukelsky aka Vernon Duke
  Vernon Duke
  Vernon Duke was a Russian-American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for "Taking a Chance on Love" with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, "I Can't Get Started" with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, "April in Paris" with lyrics by E. Y...
  
  , composer (d. 1969)
• October 16 - Big Joe Williams
  Big Joe Williams
  Joseph Lee Williams , billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar...
  
  , blues musician (d. 1982)
• October 29 - Yvonne Georgi
  Yvonne Georgi
  Yvonne Georgi was aGerman dancer, choreographer and balletmistress.Georgi was born in Leipzig...
  
  , ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1975)
• December 5 - Johannes Heesters
  Johannes Heesters
  Johan Marius Nicolaas "Johannes" Heesters is a Dutch actor, singer and entertainer with a -year career, almost exclusively in the German-speaking world. In Germany and Austria, Heesters is mainly known for his acting career...
  
  , all-round entertainer
• December 17 - Ray Noble
  Ray Noble (musician)
  Ray Noble was an English bandleader, composer, arranger and actor. Noble studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and became leader of the HMV Records studio band in 1929. The band, known as the New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, featured members of many of the top hotel orchestras of the day...
  
  , bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 1978)
• date unknown - Caterina Jarboro
  Caterina Jarboro
  Caterina Jarboro was a pioneering African American opera singer. In 1933 — twenty-two full years before Marian Anderson's début at the Metropolitan Opera — impresario Alfredo Salmaggi hired Jarboro to sing with his opera company at the Hippodrome. She was thus the first black opera singer ever to...
  
  , operatic soprano (d. 1986)

Deaths

• January 28
  • Robert Planquette
    Robert Planquette
    Jean Robert Planquette was a French composer of songs and operettas.Several of Planquette's operettas were extraordinarily successful in Britain, including Les cloches de Corneville , the length of whose initial London run broke all records for any piece of musical theatre up to that time, and Rip...
    
    , French composer (b. 1850)
  • Augusta Holmès
    Augusta Holmès
    Augusta Mary Anne Holmès was a French composer of Irish descent. At first she published under the pseudonym Hermann Zenta. In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name...
    
    , French composer
• January 31 - Meyer Lutz
  Meyer Lutz
  Wilhelm Meyer Lutz was a German-born English composer and conductor who is best known for light music, musical theatre and burlesques of well-known works....
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1829)
• February 11 - Henryk Szulc, composer (b. 1836)
• February 17 - Joseph Parry
  Joseph Parry
  Joseph Parry , was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of Myfanwy and Aberystwyth used in Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika the National anthem of South Africa.The cottage at 4 Chapel Row, Merthyr Tydfil, where Parry was born, is now open to the...
  
  , composer (b. 1841)
• February 22 - Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
  
  , composer (b. 1860)
• February 23 - Friedrich Grützmacher
  Friedrich Grützmacher
  Friedrich Wilhelm Grützmacher was a noted German cellist in the second half of the 19th century.Grützmacher was born in Dessau, Anhalt, and was first taught by his father...
  
  , cellist (b. 1832)
• March - Eugène Cormon
  Eugène Cormon
  Pierre-Etienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon , was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother’s name, Cormon, during his career....
  
  , librettist (b. 1910)
• March 5 - Thomas Ryan
  Thomas Ryan (musician)
  Thomas Ryan was an Irish-American musician.Born in Ireland, Ryan moved to the United States as a teenager in 1844, and pursued his studies in Boston. In 1849, he formed the Mendelssohn Quintette Club along with August Fries , Francis Riha , Eduard Lehmann , and Wulf Fries ; Ryan played viola and...
  
  , viola and clarinet player (b. 1827)
• March 19 - Pista Dankó
  Pista Dankó
  Pista Dankó was a Hungarian-born bandleader and composer belonging to the Romani people. He primarily worked in the folk music styles popular in Hungary in the 19th century...
  
  , "gypsy" bandleader and composer
• April 10 - Heinrich Bellermann
  Heinrich Bellermann
  Johann Gottfried Heinrich Bellermann was a German music theorist. He was the author of Der Contrapunkt , 1862, , and Die Grösse der musikalischen Intervalle als Grundlage der Harmonie ,...
  
  , music theorist (b. 1832)
• May 1 - Luigi Arditi
  Luigi Arditi
  Luigi Arditi was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor.Arditi was born in Crescentino, Piemonte . He began his musical career as a violinist, and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan. He made his debut in 1843 as a director at Vercelli, and it was there that he was made an honorary...
  
  , violinist, conductor and composer
• May 9 - Giuseppe Cremonini
  Giuseppe Cremonini
  Giuseppe Cremonini was an Italian operatic tenor who had a prominent opera career in Europe and the United States during the last decade of the nineteenth century.Cremonini was born and died in Cremona, Italy...
  
  , operatic tenor (b. 1866)
• May 15 - Sybil Sanderson, operatic soprano (b. 1865)
• June - Constance Bache
  Constance Bache
  Constance Bache was an English composer, pianist and teacher.Bache was born in Edgbaston, the daughter of Samuel Bache , a Unitarian minister at the Church of the Messiah, Birmingham; an uncle on her mother's side was James Martineau...
  
  , pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1846)
• June 29 - Taki Rentaro
  Taki Rentaro
  was a pianist and one of the best-known composers of Japan.Taki was born in Tokyo, but moved to many places during his childhood owing to his father's job. He graduated from the Tokyo Music School in 1901. One of his famous pieces is Kōjō no Tsuki, which was included in the songbook for junior high...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1879)
• July 27 - Lina Sandell
  Lina Sandell
  Lina Sandell was a Swedish writer of Gospel hymns.Born Karolina Wilhelmina Sandell in a rectory at Fröderyd, Småland, Sweden...
  
  , singer
• September 4 - Hermann Zumpe
  Hermann Zumpe
  Hermann Zumpe was a German conductor and composer.Zumpe was educated at the teachers' Seminary at Bautzen, was a schoolmaster at Weigsdorf in 1870-71, from thence going to Leipzig, and playing the triangle in the Stadttheater there; he was one of those who helped Wagner in the preparation of the...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1850)
• September 28 - Samuel A. Ward
  Samuel A. Ward
  Samuel Augustus Ward was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ward studied music in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880. He is remembered for his hymn "Materna" which was used for the anthem "America the Beautiful", with words by...
  
  , organist and composer (b.1847)
• December 12 - Christian Johansson
  Christian Johansson
  Christian Johansson was a teacher, choreographer and coaching balletmaster for the Russian Imperial Ballet. Born Pehr Christian Johansson in Stockholm, Sweden, he moved to Russia as a dancer and stayed on as one of the most important teachers in Russian history...
  
  , ballet dancer and teacher (b. 1817)
• December 20 - Kornél Ábrányi
  Kornél Ábrányi
  Kornél Ábrányi, or Ábrányi Kornél in Hungarian iteration was a Hungarian pianist, music writer and theorist, and composer...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1822)
• date unknown
  • Edmond Dédé
    Edmond Dédé
    Edmond Dédé was a free-born Creole musician and composer. He moved to Europe to study in Paris in 1857 and settled in France. His compositions include Quasimodo Symphony, Le Palmier Overture, Le Sermente de L'Arabe and Patriotisme...
    
    , Creole composer (b. 1827)