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• March 19 - Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
  's String Quartet No. 1
  String Quartet No. 1 (Bartók)
  The String Quartet No. 1 in A minor by Béla Bartók was completed in 1909. The score is dated January 27 of that year.The work is in three movements, played without breaks between each:#Lento...
  
  is premiered in Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
  
• June 25 - Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  's ballet, The Firebird
  The Firebird
  The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
  
  , is premiered 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...
  
  
• September 12 - 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. 8
  Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major by Gustav Mahler is one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire. Because it requires huge instrumental and vocal forces it is frequently called the "Symphony of a Thousand", although the work is often performed with fewer than a...
  
  , the Symphony of a Thousand, is premiered in Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
  
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• October - Pietro Mascagni
  Pietro Mascagni
  Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music...
  
   and Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
   make up after their 1905 quarrel.
• November 7 - the musical comedy, Naughty Marietta
  Naughty Marietta (operetta)
  Naughty Marietta is an operetta in two acts, with libretto by Rida Johnson Young and music by Victor Herbert. Set in New Orleans in 1780, it tells how Captain Richard Warrington is commissioned to unmask and capture a notorious French pirate calling himself "Bras Priqué" – and how he is helped and...
  
  , with music by 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...
  
  , is first performed on Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
  
• November 10 - 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...
  
   conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto
  Violin Concerto (Elgar)
  Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61, is one of his longest orchestral compositions, and the last of his works to gain immediate popular success....
  
  , with Fritz Kreisler
  Fritz Kreisler
  Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
  
   playing the solo part
• Mary Garden
  Mary Garden
  Mary Garden , was a Scottish operatic soprano with a substantial career in France and America in the first third of the 20th century...
  
   begins her 20 year reign as soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera

Published popular music

• "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" w. Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   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...
  
  . From the operetta Naughty Marietta
  Naughty Marietta (operetta)
  Naughty Marietta is an operetta in two acts, with libretto by Rida Johnson Young and music by Victor Herbert. Set in New Orleans in 1780, it tells how Captain Richard Warrington is commissioned to unmask and capture a notorious French pirate calling himself "Bras Priqué" – and how he is helped and...
  
  
• "Alexander and His Clarinet" w. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "All Aboard For Blanket Bay" 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...
  
  
• "All That I Ask Of You Is Love" w. Edgar Selden m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Alma, Where Do You Live?" w. George V. Hobart m. Adolph Philipp
• "Angel Eyes" 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. James Kendis & Herman Paley
• "Angels" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me
  Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me
  "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me" is a popular song, first published in 1910, and written by Thomas J. Gray and Fred Fisher...
  
  " w. Thomas J. Gray m. Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher. Fisher founded Fred Fisher Music Publishing Company in 1907. He was born as Albert von Breitenbach in Cologne...
  
  
• "Back To My Old Home Town" w.m. Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes was a popular American singer, comedienne and actress of the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...
  
   & Jack Norworth
  Jack Norworth
  Jack Norworth was a U.S. songwriter, singer and vaudeville performer.Norworth is credited as co-writer of a number of Tin Pan Alley hits. He wrote the lyrics of the song "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" in 1908, his most long lasting hit. But it wasn't until 1940 that he actually witnessed a Major...
  
  
• "A Banjo Song" by Howard Weeden
• "The Big Bass Viol" w.m. M. T. Bohannon
• "The Birth of Passion" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. Karl Hoschna
  Karl Hoschna
  Karl Hoschna was a Tin Pan Alley-era composer most noted for his songs "Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine", "Every Little Movement" and "Yama Yama Man", and for a string of successful Broadway musicals....
  
  . From the musical Madame Sherry.
• "Bring Back My Lena To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & David Andrew Noll
• "By The Saskatchewan" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
• "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Caprice Viennois" m. Fritz Kreisler
  Fritz Kreisler
  Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
  
  
• "The Chanticleer Rag" 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. Albert Gumble
• "The Chicken Reel
  Chicken Reel
  "Chicken Reel" is a dance tune. It was composed by Joseph M. Daly in 1910. Joseph Mittenthal added lyrics in 1911.Along with "Turkey in the Straw," "Chicken Reel" is probably best known for its use in early animated cartoons as a catchy tune used to represent animal activity. Originally composed...
  
  " m. Joseph M. Daly
• "Cloud-Chief
  Cloud-Chief
  "Cloud-Chief" is an intermezzo composed by J. Ernest Philie in 1910. "Cloud-Chief" was named for the Southern Cheyenne chief of the same name.-External links:*, American Symphony Orchestra —....
  
  " m. J. Ernest Philie.
• "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine
  Come Josephine in My Flying Machine
  "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" is a popular song.The music was written by Fred Fisher, the lyrics by Alfred Bryan. The song was published in 1910. It was originally recorded by Blanche Ring in 1910 and was, for a while, her signature song...
  
  " 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. Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher
  Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher. Fisher founded Fred Fisher Music Publishing Company in 1907. He was born as Albert von Breitenbach in Cologne...
  
  
• "Come To The Ball" w. Adrian Ross m. Lionel Monckton
• "Constantly" w. Chris Smith m. James Henry Burris
• "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" w. Harry B. Smith & 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. Heinrich Reinhardt
• "Dear Mayme, I Love You!" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Doctor Tinkle Tinker" by Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
  
• "Don't Wake Me Up, I'm Dreaming" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Down By The Old Mill Stream
  Down by the Old Mill Stream
  "Down by the Old Mill Stream" is a song written by Tell Taylor. It was one of the most popular songs of the early 20th century.It was written in 1908 while Taylor was sitting on the banks of the Blanchard River in Northwest Ohio. Reportedly, Taylor's friends convinced him not to publish the song...
  
  " w.m. Tell Taylor
  Tell Taylor
  William "Tell" Taylor was a United States songwriter. By far his biggest hit was "Down by the Old Mill Stream" from 1910, one of the most commercially successful Tin Pan Alley publications of the era. The song was published by Forster Music Publishing Company of Chicago. Taylor was born in...
  
  
• "Dreams, Just Dreams" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Every Little Movement" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
• "Gee But It's Great To Meet A Friend From Your Old Home Town" w. William Tracey m. James Mc Gavisk
• "Goodbye Rose" w. Addison Burkhart m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Grizzly Bear" w.m. George Botsford & Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "How Can You Love Such A Man?" Berlin
• " I Feel So Lonely" w.m. Bert Lee
  Bert Lee
  Bert Lee was an English songwriter. He wrote for music hall and the musical stage, often in partnership with R. P. Weston.Lee was born 11 June 1880 in Ravensthorpe, Yorkshire, England....
  
  . Introduced by Fred Allandale in the musical The Islander
  The Islander
  The Islander is a book by the Newbery Medal winning author Cynthia Rylant published in 1998 by Dorling Kindersley.It is the story of Daniel, whose parents have died; he goes to live with his grandfather on a remote gray island off British Columbia. Together they live an extremely lonely life,...
  
  
• "I'd Love To Live In Loveland" w.m. W. R. Williams (Rossiter)
• "If He Comes In I'm Going Out" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Chris Smith
• "If I Was A Millionaire" 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:...
  
  
• "I'm Falling In Love With Someone" w. Rida Johnson Young 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'm Henery the Eighth
  I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am
  "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am" is a 1910 British music hall song by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston...
  
  " w.m. Fred Murray & R. P. Weston
  R. P. Weston
  Robert Patrick Weston was an English songwriter. He was born and died in London. Among other songs, he co-authored , "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm", a macabre little ditty about the ghost of Anne Boleyn haunting the Tower of London, seeking revenge on Henry VIII for having her...
  
  
• "In The Shadows" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Herman Finck
• "Is There Anything Else I Can Do For You?" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Italian Street Song
  Italian Street Song
  "Italian Street Song" is a popular song written by Victor Herbert and Rida Johnson Young in 1910.The song was written for and introduced in the operetta Naughty Marietta, which originally opened in Syracuse, New York on October 24, 1910....
  
  " w. Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   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've Got The Time I've Got The Place But It's Hard To Find The Girl" w. Ballard MacDonald m. S. R. Henry
• "Joshua" w.m George Arthurs & Bert Lee
• "Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me" w. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Let Me Call You Sweetheart
  Let Me Call You Sweetheart
  "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" is a popular song, with music by Leo Friedman and lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson. The song was published in 1910 and first recorded by The Peerless Quartet....
  
  " w. Beth Slater Whitson
  Beth Slater Whitson
  Beth Slater Whitson was an American lyricist. Whitson was born in Goodrich, Tennessee and died in Nashville, Tennessee...
  
   m. Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman was an American composer of popular music. Friedman was born in Elgin, Illinois and died in Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for composing the sentimental waltz "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" with lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson in 1910...
  
  
• "Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland" w.m. Elizabeth Brice
  Elizabeth Brice
  Elizabeth Brice may refer to:*Elizabeth Brice, later Elizabeth Amadas, mistress of Henry VIII of England*Liz May Brice, English actress*Elizabeth Brice, a theraputic cannabis activist who wrote as Clare Hodges...
  
  & Charles King
  Charles King
  -Academics:* Charles King , former president of Columbia University* Charles King , Georgetown University professor and author* Charles Spencer King ,Baba Awo and author-Arts:...
  
  
• "Liebesfreud" m. Fritz Kreisler
  Fritz Kreisler
  Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
  
  
• "Liebeslied" m. Fritz Kreisler
  Fritz Kreisler
  Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
  
  
• "Life Is Only What You Make It After All" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "Macushla
  Macushla
  Macushla is an Irish song copyrighted circa 1910 with music by Dermot MacMurrough and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe. The title is a transliteration of the Irish mo chuisle meaning "my pulse" as used in the phrase a chuisle mo chroí meaning "darling" or "sweetheart".It was used in the end credits of...
  
  " w. Josephine V. Rowe m. Dermot MacMurrough

• "Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes" w. J. W. Johnson 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...
  
  
• "Morning" 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. Oley Speaks
  Oley Speaks
  Oley Speaks was an accomplished composer and songwriter who was born in Canal Winchester, Franklin County, Ohio...
  
  
• "Mother Machree" w. Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   m. Ernest R. Ball
  Ernest Ball
  Ernest R. Ball was a United States singer and songwriter, most famous for composing the music for the song "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" in 1912. He was not, himself, Irish....
  
   & Chauncey Olcott
• " 'Neath The Southern Moon" w. Rida Johnson Young 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...
  
  . From the operetta Naughty Marietta
  Naughty Marietta (operetta)
  Naughty Marietta is an operetta in two acts, with libretto by Rida Johnson Young and music by Victor Herbert. Set in New Orleans in 1780, it tells how Captain Richard Warrington is commissioned to unmask and capture a notorious French pirate calling himself "Bras Priqué" – and how he is helped and...
  
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• "Nora Malone" w. Junie McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
  Albert Von Tilzer
  Albert Von Tilzer was an American songwriter, the younger brother of fellow songwriter Harry Von Tilzer. He wrote the music to many hit songs, including, most notably, "Take Me Out To The Ball Game"....
  
  
• "Oh How That German Could Love" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   & Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Oh That Beautiful Rag" w. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
   m. Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "On Mobile Bay" w. Earl C. Jones m. Neil Moret
• "A Perfect Day" w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s....
  
  
• "Plant A Watermelon On My Grave And Let The Juice Soak Through" w.m. Frank Dumont
  Frank Dumont
  Frank Dumont was a popular American minstrel show performer and manager., by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania -Life:...
  
   & R. P. Lilly
• "Play That Barbershop Chord" w. Ballard MacDonald & William Tracey m. Lewis F. Muir
  Lewis F. Muir
  Lewis F. Muir, born Louis Meuer was an American composer and ragtime pianist.Muir started as a pianist in St. Louis and played in the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. He moved to New York in 1910. His first published composition was "Play That Barber-Shop Chord" from 1910. Vaudeville entertainer...
  
  
• "Put On Your Ta-Ta Little Girlie" w.m. Fred Leigh
• "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" w. Junie McCree 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...
  
  
• "Red Pepper: A Spicy Rag" m. Henry Lodge
• "Silver Bell" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
  Percy Wenrich
  Percy Wenrich was a United States composer of ragtime and popular music.Born in Joplin, Missouri, he left for Chicago in 1901 and moved on to New York City around 1907 to work as a Tin Pan Alley composer, but his music retains a Missouri folk flavor...
  
  
• "Silver Star
  Silver Star (1910)
  "Silver Star" is an intermezzo composed by Charles L. Johnson in 1910. In 1911, William R. Clay added lyrics which tell of an Indian warrior eloping with an unnamed Indian maiden whom he refers to as his "silver star".-Lyrics:The lyrics as written by Clay:...
  
  " m. Charles L. Johnson
  Charles L. Johnson
  Charles Leslie Johnson was an American composer of ragtime and popular music. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, died in Kansas City, Missouri, and lived his entire life in those two cities...
  
  
• "Some Of These Days
  Some of These Days
  "Some of These Days" is a popular song published in 1910 associated with Sophie Tucker.-Background:Originally written and composed by Shelton Brooks for the “Last of the Red-Hot Mamas”, "Some of These Days" became a signature song for Sophie Tucker, who made the first of her several recordings of...
  
  " w.m. Shelton Brooks
  Shelton Brooks
  Shelton Brooks was a popular music and jazz composer who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century.Brooks was born in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada...
  
  
• "Spaghetti Rag" m. George Lyons & Bob Yosco
• "Steamboat Bill" w. Ren Shields m. Bert Leighton & Frank Leighton
• "Stein Song (Maine)" w. Lincoln Colcord m. E. A. Fenstad
• "Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over And Love Me Some More)" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Sweet Italian Love" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  , Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "Tambourin Chinois" m. Fritz Kreisler
  Fritz Kreisler
  Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most famous violin masters of his or any other day, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately...
  
  
• "Telling Lies" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  , Henrietta Blanke-Belcher
• "That Minor Strain" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Ford Dabney
• "That Opera Rag" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  , Ted Snyder
  Ted Snyder
  Theodore Frank Snyder , was a U.S. composer, lyricist, and music publisher . His hits include "The Sheik of Araby" and "Who's Sorry Now?" . In 1970, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
  
  
• "That's Why They Call Me "Shine"" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Ford Dabney
• "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" w. Rida Johnson Young 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 Little Love Bees" w. Harry B. Smith & 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. Heinrich Reinhardt
• "Under The Yum Yum Tree" 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...
  
  
• "Vissi D'Arte" Giacossa, Illica, Puccini
• "Washington And Lee Swing" w. Thornton W. Allen & C. A. Robbins m. Thornton W. Allen & M. W. Sheafe
• "What's The Matter With Father?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Who Are You With Tonight?" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "You Are The Ideal Of My Dreams" w.m. Herbert Ingraham

Classical music

• Victor Ewald
  Victor Ewald
  -Biography:Victor Ewald , was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. Ewald was a professor of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg, and was also the cellist with the Beliaeff Quartet for sixteen years. This was the...
  
   - Symphony for Brass
• 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...
  
   - Symphony No. 9
  Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1909 and 1910, and was the last symphony that he completed.Though the work is often described as being in the key of D major, the tonal scheme of the symphony as whole is progressive...
  
   finished
• Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin
  Erkki Melartin was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. He shares identical birth and death years with the composer Maurice Ravel....
  
   - String Quartet No. 4
• Nikolai Myaskovsky
  Nikolai Myaskovsky
  Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...
  
   - Symphonic poem Silence; original versions of String Quartet No. 3, String Quartet No. 4
• 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...
  
   - At the Bier of a Young Artist
  At the Bier of a Young Artist
  Carl Nielsen's At the Bier of a Young Artist for string orchestra, FS 58, was written for the funeral of the Danish painter Oluf Hartmann in January 1910.-Background:...
  
  (orchestral for funeral)
• Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
  
   - Five Pieces for Orchestra
  Five Pieces for Orchestra
  The Five Pieces for Orchestra Op. 16 was composed by Arnold Schoenberg in 1909. The titles of the pieces, reluctantly added by the composer after the work's completion upon the request of his publisher, are as follows:...
  
  
• Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
  
   - Prometheus, "The Poem of Fire"
  Prometheus: Poem of Fire
  Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 , is a symphonic work by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin for piano, orchestra, optional choir, and clavier à lumières or "Chromola" . However, the clavier à lumières is rarely featured in the performance of the piece, including performances during...
  
  
• Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
   - The Firebird
  The Firebird
  The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....
  
  
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
  
   - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
  Thomas Tallis
  Thomas Tallis was an English composer. Tallis flourished as a church musician in 16th century Tudor England. He occupies a primary place in anthologies of English church music, and is considered among the best of England's early composers. He is honoured for his original voice in English...
  
  , Symphony No. 1 ('A Sea Symphony')

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...

• Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
   - La fanciulla del West
  La fanciulla del West
  La fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco. Its highly-publicised premiere occurred in New York City in 1910...
  
  (The Girl of the Golden West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in New York City
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Don Quichotte
  Don Quichotte
  Don Quichotte is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn.Massenet's comédie-héroïque, like so many other dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the great novel by Miguel de Cervantes...
  
  premiered in Monte Carlo
  Monte Carlo
  Monte Carlo is an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco....
  
  , starring Feodor Chaliapin
  Feodor Chaliapin
  Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin was a Russian opera singer. The possessor of a large and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form.During the first phase...
  
  
• Gialdino Gialdini
  Gialdino Gialdini
  Gialdino Gialdini was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor.He studied at Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. He won a prize offered by the Pergola Theatre of that city for the best opera, with Rosmunda, which met, however, with an unfavorable reception when produced in 1868...
  
   - La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
  Pula
  Pula is the largest city in Istria County, Croatia, situated at the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, with a population of 62,080 .Like the rest of the region, it is known for its mild climate, smooth sea, and unspoiled nature. The city has a long tradition of winemaking, fishing,...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Treemonisha
  Treemonisha
  Treemonisha is an opera composed by the famed African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Though it encompasses a wide range of musical styles other than ragtime, and Joplin did not refer to it as such, it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "ragtime opera"...
  
  completed but not staged

Musical theater

• The Balkan Princess
  The Balkan Princess
  The Balkan Princess is a British musical in three acts by Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Curzon, with lyrics by Paul Rubens and Arthur Wimperis, and music by Paul Rubens. It opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 19 February 1910. The cast included Isabel Jay and Bertram Wallis...
  
  London production opened 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...
  
   on February 19 and ran for 176 performances
• The Chocolate Soldier
  The Chocolate Soldier
  The Chocolate Soldier is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man...
  
  (Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
  ) - 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 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 10 and ran for 500 performances
• The Islander
  The Islander
  The Islander is a book by the Newbery Medal winning author Cynthia Rylant published in 1998 by Dorling Kindersley.It is the story of Daniel, whose parents have died; he goes to live with his grandfather on a remote gray island off British Columbia. Together they live an extremely lonely life,...
  
  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 April 23 and ran for 114 performances
• The Jolly Bachelors Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 6 and ran for 165 performances
• Die keusche Susanne
  Die keusche Susanne
  Die keusche Susanne is an operetta in three acts by Jean Gilbert. The German libretto was by Georg Okonkowski, based on the play Le fils à papa by Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières. Jean Gilbert's son, Robert Gilbert prepared a revised version in 1953.-Performance history:It was first performed...
  
  (m. Jean Gilbert
  Jean Gilbert
  Jean Gilbert was a German operetta composer and conductor. His real name was Max Winterfeld. He adopted the name of Jean Gilbert for the production of his first operetta in 1901.Gilbert was born in Hamburg...
  
  ) opened in Magdeburg
  Magdeburg
  Magdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
  
  
• Madame Sherry Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...
  
   production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre
  New Amsterdam Theatre
  The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square...
  
   on August 30 and ran for 231 performances
• Naughty Marietta
  Naughty Marietta (operetta)
  Naughty Marietta is an operetta in two acts, with libretto by Rida Johnson Young and music by Victor Herbert. Set in New Orleans in 1780, it tells how Captain Richard Warrington is commissioned to unmask and capture a notorious French pirate calling himself "Bras Priqué" – and how he is helped and...
  
  (Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   and 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...
  
  ) - Broadway production opened at the New York Theatre
  Olympia Theatre (New York)
  The Olympia Theatre , also known as Hammerstein's Olympia, was a theatre complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I in Longacre Square , New York City, opening in 1895. It consisted of a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden...
  
   on November 7 and ran for 136 performances
• Our Miss Gibbs
  Our Miss Gibbs
  Our Miss Gibbs is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts by 'Cryptos' and James T. Tanner, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. Produced by George Edwardes, it opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London on 23 January 1909 and ran for an extremely...
  
  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 August 29 and ran for 64 performances
• The Quaker Girl
  The Quaker Girl
  The Quaker Girl is a Edwardian musical comedy in three acts with a book by James T. Tanner, lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and music by Lionel Monckton. In its story, The Quaker Girl contrasts dour Quaker morality with Parisienne high fashion. The protagonist, Prudence, is thrown out...
  
  (Music: Lionel Monckton
  Lionel Monckton
  Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
   Lyrics: Adrian Ross
  Adrian Ross
  For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   & Percy Greenbank
  Percy Greenbank
  Percy Greenbank was an English lyricist, best known for his contribution of lyrics to a number of successful Edwardian musical comedies in the early years of the 20th century. His older brother, lyricist Harry Greenbank, had a brilliant career in the 1890s that was cut short by his death at the...
  
    Book: James T. Tanner
  James T. Tanner
  James Tolman Tanner was an English stage director and dramatist who wrote many of the successful musicals produced by George Edwardes.-Life and career:...
  
  ). 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 November 5 and ran for 536 performances. Starring Gertie Millar
  Gertie Millar
  Gertrude "Gertie" Millar was one of the most famous English singer-actresses of the early 20th century, known for her performances in Edwardian musical comedies....
  
  , Joseph Coyne
  Joseph Coyne
  Joseph Coyne , sometimes billed as Joe Coyne, was an American-born singer and actor, known for his appearances in leading roles in Edwardian musical comedy in London.-Life and career:...
  
   and C. Hayden Coffin
  C. Hayden Coffin
  Charles Hayden Coffin was an English actor and singer known for his performances in many famous Edwardian musical comedies, particularly those produced by George Edwardes....
  
  .
• The Satyr London production
• Tillie's Nightmare Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 5 and was revived at the Manhattan Opera House on December 18, 1911 for a total run of 85 performances
• Up and Down Broadway Broadway revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Casino Theatre on July 18 and ran for 72 performances
• The Yankee Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 10 and ran for 92 performances
• Zigeunerliebe Vienna production opened at the Carltheater
  Carltheater
  The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna. It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31 .It was the successor to the Leopoldstädter Theater. After a series of financial difficulties, that theater had been sold in 1838 to the director, Carl Carl, who continued to run it in parallel to his...
  
   on January 8

Births

• January 8 - Fabian Andre
  Fabian Andre
  Fabian Andre was an American composer, best known for cowriting the music of "Dream a Little Dream of Me" with Wilbur Schwandt in 1931. Popular in its time, the song was revived when covered by The Mamas & the Papas after Andre's death in Mexico City in 1960.-External links:*...
  
  , composer (d. 1960)
• January 23 - Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt
  Django Reinhardt was a pioneering virtuoso jazz guitarist and composer who invented an entirely new style of jazz guitar technique that has since become a living musical tradition within French gypsy culture...
  
  , guitarist (d. 1953)
• February 3 - Blas Galindo Dimas, Mexican composer (d. 1993?)
• February 25 - Winifred Shaw
  Wini Shaw
  Wini Shaw , sometimes credited as Winifred Shaw, was an American actress, dancer and singer. Although credited with a 1910 year of birth, she was actually born in 1907 as per the Social Security Death Index under her married name Wini O'Malley .-Early life:She was born as Winifred Lei Momi in San...
  
  , US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1982)
• March 9 - Samuel Barber
  Samuel Barber
  Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is his most popular composition and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music...
  
  , composer (d. 1981)
• March 15 - Anna-Lisa Björling
  Anna-Lisa Björling
  Anna-Lisa Björling, née Emy Anna-Lisa Berg , was a Swedish opera singer and actress. She was married to tenor, Jussi Björling, from 1935 until his death in 1960....
  
  , operatic soprano (d. 2006)
• March 27 - Manfred Bukofzer
  Manfred Bukofzer
  Manfred Bukofzer was a German-American musicologist and humanist. He studied at Heidelberg University and the Stern conservatory in Berlin, but left Germany in 1933, going to Basle, where he received his doctorate. In 1939 he moved to the United States where he remained, becoming a U.S. citizen...
  
  , German-American musicologist
  Musicology
  Musicology is the scholarly study of music. The word is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses. In the narrow sense, musicology is confined to the music history of Western culture...
  
   (d. 1955)
• April 14 - Werner Wolf Glaser
  Werner Wolf Glaser
  Werner Wolf Glaser was a German-born Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, professor, music critic, and poet.-Life:...
  
  , Swiss composer (d. 2006)
• April 26 - Erland von Koch
  Erland von Koch
  Erland von Koch was a Swedish composer.-Life and career:Born in Stockholm as the son of composer Sigurd von Koch , Erland von Koch studied at the Stockholm Conservatory from 1931 to 1935 and subsequently passed the advanced choirmaster and organist examinations...
  
  , Swedish composer (d. 2009)
• April 30 - Levi Celerio
  Levi Celerio
  Levi Celerio was a Filipino composer and lyricist who was born in Manila, Philippines. Celerio was a prolific song-writer, with over 4,000 songs to his credit. He is perhaps best-known for being a leaf-player, a feat for which he was put into the Guinness Book of World Records...
  
  , songwriter (d. 2002)
• May 8 - Mary Lou Williams
  Mary Lou Williams
  Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Williams wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records...
  
  , US jazz pianist and composer (d. 1981)
• May 12 - Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Jenkins
  Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger, composer and pianist who was an influential figure in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s, renowned for his lush string arrangements...
  
  , US songwriter, conductor and pianist (d. 1984)
• May 13 - Cleavant Derricks
  Cleavant Derricks (songwriter)
  Reverend Cleavant Derricks was a pastor and choir director at a number of black Baptist churches....
  
  , gospel songwriter (d. 1977)
• May 23 - Artie Shaw
  Artie Shaw
  Arthur Jacob Arshawsky , better known as Artie Shaw, was an American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader. He was also the author of both fiction and non-fiction writings....
  
  , US bandleader (d. 2004)
• May 28 - T. Bone Walker, blues musician (d. 1975)
• June 4 - Anton Dermota
  Anton Dermota
  Kammersänger Anton Dermota was a Slovene tenor.He was born in a poor family Born in the Upper Carniolan village of Kropa, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire . He went to the Ljubljana Conservatory with the intention of studying composition and organ, but in 1934 he received a scholarship...
  
  , operatic tenor (d. 1989)
• June 10 - Howlin' Wolf
  Howlin' Wolf
  Chester Arthur Burnett , known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player....
  
  , blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
• June 17 - H. Owen Reed
  H. Owen Reed
  Herbert Owen Reed is an American composer, conductor, and author.-Education:Reed was raised in rural Odessa, Missouri, where his first exposure to music was his father's playing of the old-time fiddle...
  
  , conductor and composer
• June 18 - Ray McKinley
  Ray McKinley
  Ray McKinley was an American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.McKinley got his start working with local bands in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, before joining Smith Ballew in 1929, when he met Glenn Miller. The two formed a friendship which lasted from 1929 until Miller's death in 1944....
  
  , US drummer, singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
• June 29 - Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
  , US songwriter (d. 1969)
• July 10 - Rafael Cepeda
  Rafael Cepeda
  Rafael Cepeda Atiles a.k.a. "The Patriarch of the Bomba and Plena" was the patriarch of the Cepeda family, known internationally as the exponents of Afro-Puerto Rican folk music.-Early years:...
  
  , folk musician (d. 1996)
• July 15 - Ronald Binge
  Ronald Binge
  Ronald Binge was a British composer and arranger of light music.-Biography:He was born in a working-class neighbourhood in Derby in the English Midlands. In his childhood he was a chorister at Saint Andrews Church , London Road, Derby - 'the railwaymens church'...
  
  , British composer (d.1973)
• July 18 - Lou Busch
  Lou Busch
  Louis Ferdinand Busch was a music producer, musician and songwriter who was best known for performing as a pianist under the nickname Joe "Fingers" Carr.-Biography:...
  
  , US arranger and composer aka Joe "Fingers" Carr (died 1979)
• August 1 - Walter Scharf
  Walter Scharf
  Walter Scharf was an American film composer.Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling...
  
  , film composer (died 2003)
• August 7 - Freddie Slack
  Freddie Slack
  Frederick Charles Slack was an American swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader.He played with the Jimmy Dorsey Band in the 1930s and was a charter member of the Will Bradley Orchestra when it formed in 1939...
  
  , US pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1965)
• August 12 - Heinrich Sutermeister
  Heinrich Sutermeister
  Heinrich Sutermeister was a Swiss opera composer.-Life and career:During the early 1930s he was a student at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich where Carl Orff was his teacher and Orff remained a powerful influence on his music. Returning to Switzerland in the mid 1930s, he devoted his life to...
  
  , Swiss composer (d. 1995)
• August 17 - Erkki Aaltonen
  Erkki Aaltonen
  Erkki Aaltonen was a Finnish composer.-Biography:Born in Hämeenlinna , Finland, he was a student of the violin at the Helsinki Conservatory and of composition in privacy with Väinö Raitio and Selim Palmgren. He directed the Kemi Music Institute from 1966–1973...
  
  , composer (d. 1990)
• August 24 - Tunde King
  Tunde King
  Tunde King was a Nigerian musician, credited as the founder of Jùjú music, who had great influence on Nigerian popular music.Lagos in the 1920s and 1930s was peopled by a mixture of local Yoruba people and returnees from the New World. Together they created a form of music named "Palm Wine" that...
  
  , Nigerian singer and instrumentalist, originator of Jùjú music
  Jùjú music
  Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. The name comes from a Yoruba word "juju" or "jiju" meaning "throwing" or "something being thrown." Juju music did not derive its name from juju, which "is a form of magic and the use of magic objects or...
  
   (d. c.1980)
• September 3 - Kitty Carlisle, US actress and singer (d. 2007)
• September 12 - Shep Fields
  Shep Fields
  Shep Fields was the band leader for the "Shep Fields and His Rippling Rhythm" orchestra during the Big Band era of the 1930s.-Biography:...
  
  , bandleader (d. 1981)
• September 29 - Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce
  Virginia Bruce was an American actress and singer.-Career:Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she went with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 1982)
• October 1 - André Dumortier
  André Dumortier
  André Dumortier was a Belgian pianist.He participated in the Concours Eugène Ysaye in 1938, and it has been said that he is firmly entrenched in the public memory of Tournai...
  
  , pianist (d. 2004)
• October 13 - Otto Joachim, composer (d. 2010)
• November 22 - Ethel Smith
  Ethel Smith (organist)
  Ethel Smith was an organist who played primarily in a pop style on the Hammond organ.Her recording of Tico Tico was her best-known hit. It reached No. 14 on the U.S. pop charts in November 1944 and sold over one million copies worldwide. She also recorded it for the 1944 film, Bathing Beauty...
  
  , organist (d. 1996)
• December 7 - Louis Prima
  Louis Prima
  Louis Prima was a Sicilian American singer, actor, songwriter, and trumpeter. Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively leading a swing combo in the 1930s, a big band in the 1940s, a Vegas lounge act in the...
  
  , musician, singer (d. 1978)
• December 10 - John H. Hammond
  John H. Hammond
  John Henry Hammond II was an American record producer, musician and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s...
  
  , record producer (d. 1987)
• date unknown Nicola Salerno
  Nicola Salerno
  Nicola Salerno, also known as Nisa was an Italian lyricist. He formed a famous songwriting duo with Renato Carosone.-Career:Nicola Salerno was born in Naples....
  
  , Italian lyricist (d. 1969)

Deaths

• January 19 - Otakar Hostinský
  Otakar Hostinský
  Otakar Hostinský was a Czech historian, musicologist, and professor of musical aesthetics...
  
  , musicologist (b. 1847)
• March 10 - Carl Reinecke
  Carl Reinecke
  Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...
  
  , composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1824)
• March 17 - Joaquín Valverde Durán
  Joaquín Valverde Durán
  Joaquín Valverde Durán was a Spanish composer, conductor and flautist. As a composer he is known for his collaborations with other composers on zarzuelas...
  
  , flautist, conductor and composer (b. 1846)
• March 28 - Édouard Colonne
  Édouard Colonne
  Édouard Juda Colonne was a French conductor and violinist, who was a champion of the music of Berlioz and other eminent 19th-century composers.-Life and career:...
  
  , violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
• May 3 - Lottie Collins
  Lottie Collins
  Lottie Collins was an English singer and dancer, most famous for introducing the song "Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay!"-Life:...
  
  , singer and dancer (b. 1865)
• May 7 - Bernhard Cossmann
  Bernhard Cossmann
  Bernhard Cossmann was a German cellist. Born in Dessau, he first studied under Theodore Muller. During his life, he worked for the Grand Opera in Paris and became acquainted with Franz Liszt, with whom he went to Weimar. In 1866, Cossmann was appointed professor of cello studies at the Moscow...
  
  , cellist (b. 1822)
• May 18
  • Pauline Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
  • Flor van Duyse
    Flor van Duyse
    Florimond van Duyse was a Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist.He was born in Ghent and went to school at Veurne, and to high school at the Atheneum in Ghent. Then he studied Law at the Gentse Rijksuniversiteit, graduating as Doctor of Law in 1867...
    
    , Belgian composer and musicologist (b. 1843)
• May 29 - Mily Balakirev
  Mily Balakirev
  Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...
  
  , composer (b. 1837)
• July 4 - Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
  Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
  Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray was a French Breton composer, pianist, and professor of music history/theory at the Conservatoire de Paris as well as a Prix de Rome laureate. He was born at Nantes and died at Vernouillet, near Dreux...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1840)
• July 7 - Emilio Usiglio
  Emilio Usiglio
  Emilio Usiglio was an Italian composer and conductor.Usiglio studied music in Parma, first with Giuseppe Barbacini and then with Giovanni Rossi, before continuing his education in Pisa with Carlo Romani and in Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. At the age of 20 he began his operatic career with...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1841)
• July 14 - Marius Petipa
  Marius Petipa
  Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa was a French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet that has ever lived....
  
  , ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
• August 31 - Emīls Dārziņš
  Emils Darzinš
  Emils Darzins, in Latvian Emīls Dārziņš, was a Latvian composer, conductor and music critic. Dārziņš' work bears a distinct romantic character, with a strong trend towards national themes. His main musical authorities and influences were Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Jean Sibelius...
  
  , composer, conductor and music critic (b. 1875) (probable suicide)
• September 5 - Franz Xaver Haberl
  Franz Xaver Haberl
  Franz Xaver Haberl was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt, Perosi, and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske....
  
  , musicologist (b. 1840)
• September 24 - Rudolf Dellinger
  Rudolf Dellinger
  Rudolf Dellinger was a Bohemian German composer and Kapellmeister. He almost exclusively composed operettas and was considered to be among the most outstanding composers of his time....
  
  , composer (b. 1857)
• October 14 - Georges Mathias
  Georges Mathias
  Georges Amédée Saint-Clair Mathias was a French composer, pianist and teacher.Mathias was born in Paris. He studied at the Paris Conservatory with François Bazin, Auguste Barbereau, Augustin Savard and Fromental Halévy, composition with Friedrich Kalkbrenner and piano with Frédéric Chopin. He was...
  
  , composer and pianist (b. 1826)
• October 17 - Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe
  Julia Ward Howe was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".-Biography:...
  
  , lyricist of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic
  The Battle Hymn of the Republic
  "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is a hymn by American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body". Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861 and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It became popular during the American Civil War...
  
  " (b. 1819)
• November 25 - John Henry Martin
  Martin Band Instrument Company
  The Martin Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer in Elkhart, Indiana.-John Henry Martin and the first Martin company:This company was actually the reappearance of a previous company. John Henry Martin The Martin Band Instrument Company was a musical instrument manufacturer...
  
  , Band instrument manufacturer (B. 1835)
• date unknown - Albert Schatz
  Albert Schatz (music)
  - External links :* , which includes some details about Schatz, such as his lifespan...
  
  , composer and librettist (b. 1839)