Events

• April 1 - Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
  
  's opera La vida breve
  La vida breve
  La vida breve is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw...
  
  is given its world première in Nice
  Nice
  Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
  
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• May 29 - There is a near-riot at the première of the Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Stravinsky
  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
  
  -scored ballet
  Ballet
  Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
  
   The Rite of Spring
  The Rite of Spring
  The Rite of Spring, original French title Le sacre du printemps , is a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; and concept, set design and costumes by Nicholas Roerich...
  
  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...
  
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• October - Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced
• Edward Bairstow
  Edward Bairstow
  Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow was born in Huddersfield on 22 August 1874 and died in York on 1 May 1946. He was an English organist and composer in the Anglican church music tradition....
  
   becomes organist of York Minster
  York Minster
  York Minster is a Gothic cathedral in York, England and is one of the largest of its kind in Northern Europe alongside Cologne Cathedral. The minster is the seat of the Archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England, and is the cathedral for the Diocese of York; it is run by...
  
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• The Aeolian Company
  Aeolian Company
  The Æolian Company was a manufacturer of player organs and pianos.- History :It was founded by New York City piano maker William B. Tremaine as the Æolian Organ & Music Co. to make automatic organs, and, after 1895, as the Æolian Co. automatic pianos as well. The Æolian Company was a...
  
   introduces the Duo-Art
  Duo-Art
  Duo-Art was one of the leading reproducing piano technologies of the early 20th century, the others being American Piano Company , introduced in 1913 too, and Welte-Mignon in 1905. These technologies flourished at that time because of the poor quality of the early Phonograph...
  
   piano technology.

Published popular music

• "Abie Sings An Irish Song": words & music by 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...
  
  
• "All Aboard For Dixieland": words Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
  , music George L. Cobb
  George L. Cobb
  George Linus Cobb was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes. Jack Yellen was a frequent lyricist for the songs.Entering Syracuse University in 1905, his first...
  
  
• "And Then", 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. Herman Paley
• "The Angelus", 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....
  
  , w. 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...
  
  
• "Asia" by E. Ray Goetz
  E. Ray Goetz
  Edward Ray Goetz was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. Goetz appeared in the films Somebody Loves Me , The Greatest Show On Earth and For Me And My Gal . He wrote the songs "Toddling The Todalo" and "For...
  
  
• "At The Ball, That's All" by J. Leubrie Hill
• "Ay, Ay, Ay!" by Osman Perez Freire
• "Ballin' The Jack
  Ballin' the Jack
  "Ballin' the Jack" is a popular song written by Jim Burris with music by Chris Smith. It introduced a popular dance of the same name with "Folks in Georgia's 'bout to go insane." The song and dance were performed in For Me and My Gal, the 1942 movie starring Judy Garland and Gene Kelly.-Lyrics and...
  
  ", w. James Henry Burris, m. Chris Smith
  Chris Smith (composer)
  Chris Smith was an American composer and performer.Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante...
  
  
• "Brighten The Corner Where You Are" w. Ina Duley Ogdon m. Charles H. Gabriel
  Charles H. Gabriel
  Charles Hutchinson Gabriel was a writer of gospel songs and composer of gospel tunes. He is said to have written and/or composed between 7,000 and 8,000 songs, many of which are available in 21st century hymnals. He used several pseudonyms, including Charlotte G. Homer, H. A. Henry, and S. B...
  
  
• "The Bubble" by Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
  
• "Crazy Bone Rag" 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...
  
  
• "The Cricket On The Hearth" 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. 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...
  
  
• "'Cross The Great Divide" w. Sam M. Lewis
  Sam M. Lewis
  Sam M. Lewis was a Jewish-American singer and lyricist, born in New York City, New York as Samuel Levine-Biography:...
  
   m. George W. Meyer
  George W. Meyer
  George W. Meyer aka Geo. W. Meyer was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter....
  
  
• "The Curse Of An Aching Heart" w. Henry Fink m. Al Piantadosi
• "Daddy, Come Home
  Daddy, Come Home
  Daddy, Come Home is a song written by Irving Berlin and first published in 1913.The humorous song begins "Hello Central, dear Central, listen here: please connect me with my father" and tells the story from the point of view of a young boy calling his father on the telephone to ask him to leave...
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "Danny Boy
  Danny Boy
  -Background:The words to "Danny Boy" were written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the "Londonderry Air" in 1913, after his sister-in-law in the U.S. sent him a copy. Ernestine...
  
  " w. Frederick Weatherly
  Frederick Weatherly
  Frederic Edward Weatherly was an English lawyer, author, lyricist and broadcaster. He is estimated to have written the lyrics to at least 3,000 popular songs, among the best-known of which are the sentimental ballad Danny Boy set to the tune Londonderry Air, the religious "The Holy City", and the...
  
   m. trad
• "Don't Blame It All On Broadway" w. Joe Young & Harry Williams m. Bert Grant
• "Down In Chattanooga" 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...
  
  
• "El Cóndor Pasa
  El Cóndor Pasa (song)
  El Cóndor Pasa is a song from the zarzuela El Cóndor Pasa by the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles, written in 1913 and based on traditional Andean folk tunes....
  
  " by Daniel Alomía Robles
  Daniel Alomía Robles
  Daniel Alomía Robles was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song El Cóndor Pasa in 1913 as part of a zarzuela, a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts, by the same name...
  
  
• "Fat Li'l' Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes" w.m. Sheridan Gordon & F. L. Stanton
• "Fifteen Cents" by Chris Smith
  Chris Smith (composer)
  Chris Smith was an American composer and performer.Smith was born in Charleston, South Carolina; he started traveling with Medicine Shows when young and went into Vaudeville where he performed in an acts with Elmer Bowman and Jimmy Durante...
  
  
• "Gasoline" w. J. Will Callahan (1874–1946), m. Paul Pratt (1890–1948)
• "Goodbye Boys" 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...
  
   & 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. 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...
  
  
• "Happy Little Country Girl" 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...
  
  
• "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" w. Grant Clark & Edgar Leslie
  Edgar Leslie
  Edgar Leslie was an American songwriter. His first song Lonesome in 1909 was an immediate success, recorded by the Haydn Quartet and again by Byron G. Harlan. Other notable artists he worked with are:...
  
   m. Maurice Abrahams
  Maurice Abrahams
  Maurice Abrahams was a successful American songwriter in the early years of the 20th century.Popular songs co-written by Abrahams included "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" and "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under " ....
  
  
• "Hello, Honey" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell. Introduced by 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...
  
  in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1913
  Ziegfeld Follies
  The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
  
  
• "Hungarian Rag" m. Julius Lenzberg
• "I Can Live Without You" w. Gene Buck
  Gene Buck
  Edward Eugene Buck was an American illustrator of sheet music, musical theater lyricist, and president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers .-Early career:...
  
   m. Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper
  Dave Stamper was an American songwriter of the Tin Pan Alley and vaudeville eras, a contributor to twenty-one editions of the Ziegfeld Follies, writer for the Fox Film Corporation, and composer of more than one thousand songs, in spite of never learning to read or write traditional music notation...
  
  
• "I Miss You Most Of All" w.m. Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
   Sr. & James V. Monaco
• "If I Had My Way" w. Lou Klein
  Lou Klein
  Louis Frank Klein was an infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cleveland Indians, and the Philadelphia Athletics, but he was best known as one of the players that jumped to the Mexican League and was subsequently banned by Commissioner Happy Chandler for a five year span .Klein was the...
  
   m. James Kendis
• "I'll Change The Shadows To Sunshine" w. George Graff Jr 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....
  
  
• "I'll Get You" 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 On My Way To Mandalay" w. Al Bryan 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...
  
  
• "The Incandescent Rag" m. George Botsford
  George Botsford
  George Botsford was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in Iowa. His first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer -- Cake Walk," published in 1899. His most important rag is "Black and White Rag," published in 1908...
  
  
• "The International Rag" 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...
  
  
• "Isle D'Amour" w. Earl Carroll
  Earl Carroll
  Earl Carroll was an American theatrical producer, director, songwriter and composer born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Career:...
  
   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....
  
  
• "It's Nice To Get Up In The Morning" w.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:...
  
  
• "Just For Tonight" w.m. George L. Cobb
  George L. Cobb
  George Linus Cobb was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes. Jack Yellen was a frequent lyricist for the songs.Entering Syracuse University in 1905, his first...
  
  
• "Keep On Walking" 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...
  
  
• "Lion Tamer Rag" m. Mark Janza
• "Look In Her Eyes" w. M. E. Rourke
  Herbert Reynolds
  Michael Elder Rourke , who assumed the pen name Herbert Reynolds in 1913, was an Irish-American lyricist.Reynolds wrote the lyrics to Jerome Kern's first big hit, "They Didn't Believe Me", interpolated into the 1914 American version of The Girl from Utah, produced by Charles Frohman...
  
   m. Jerome Kern
  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
  
  
• "Marcheta" by Victor Schertzinger
  Victor Schertzinger
  Victor L. Schertzinger was an American composer, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His films include Paramount on Parade , Something to Sing About with James Cagney, and the first two "Road" pictures Road to Singapore and Road to Zanzibar...
  
  
• "Melinda's Wedding Day" Berlin
• "My Little Moonlight Maid" w. W. R. Williams m. Spencer Williams
• "Never Mind" w.m. Harry Dent
  Harry Dent
  Harry S. Dent, Jr. is an American financial newsletter writer. His latest book, The Great Depression Ahead, appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List.-Biography:...
  
   & Tom Goldburn
• "The Old Maids' Ball" 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...
  
  
• "On the Old Fall River Line
  On the Old Fall River Line
  On the Old Fall River Line is a song composed in 1913 by William Jerome , Andrew B. Sterling and Harry Von Tilzer set on a steamship of the Fall River Line of steamships between New York and Newport, Rhode Island, which connected with trains from Newport to Boston...
  
  " 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...
  
   & 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...
  
  
• "Panama" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell
• "Peg O' My Heart
  Peg o' My Heart
  "Peg o' My Heart" is a popular song written by Alfred Bryan and Fred Fisher. It was published on March 15, 1913 and it featured in the 1913 musical Ziegfeld Follies. The song was first performed publicly by Irving Kaufman in 1912 at The College Inn in New York City after he had stumbled across a...
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "The Pullman Porters On Parade" w. Ren G. May m. Maurice Abrahams
• "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Albert Gumble
• "Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay" George Botsford
  George Botsford
  George Botsford was an American composer of ragtime and other forms of music.Botsford was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and grew up in Iowa. His first copyrighted number was "The Katy Flyer -- Cake Walk," published in 1899. His most important rag is "Black and White Rag," published in 1908...
  
   & Jean C. Harvez
• "San Francisco Bound
  San Francisco Bound
  "San Francisco Bound" is a song by Irving Berlin, published by the Berlin & Snyder Company in 1913. The sheet music's cover proclaims that it was "successfully featured by Amy Butler".- External links :...
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "Snookey Ookums" 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...
  
  
• "Somebody's Coming To My House" 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...
  
  
• "Something Seems Tingle-Ingling" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. 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...
  
  
• "The Sunshine Of Your Smile" w. Leonard Cooke m. Lilian Ray
• "Sweethearts" 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. 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...
  
  
• "Take Me to Roseland, My Beautiful Rose" w. Jack Strouse & Ed Johnson, m. Nat Osbrone
• "There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland" w. Ballard MacDonald
  Ballard MacDonald
  Ballard MacDonald was a Tin Pan Alley lyricist.Born in Portland, Oregon, among his credits are:Beautiful Ohio, Rose of Washington Square, Second Hand Rose, Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Back Home Again in Indiana, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, Play That Barbershop Chord, Clap Hands, Here Comes...
  
   m. Harry Carroll
  Harry Carroll
  Harry Carroll, a famous American songwriter, pianist and composer, was born on November 28, 1892, in Atlantic City, New Jersey and died December 26, 1962, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. He taught himself how to play the piano and began playing in movie houses before he finished grade school...
  
  
• "There's A Long Long Trail" w. Stoddard King m. Alonzo Elliot
  Alonzo Elliot
  Alonzo Elliot was an American composer and songwriter.-Early life:Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Elliot was educated at St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire, Phillips Academy , Yale University, Cambridge University, and Columbia Law School...
  
  
• "They've Got Me Doin' It Now" 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...
  
  
• "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Looral" w.m. James R. Shannon
• "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine
  The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (song)
  "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" is a popular song published in 1913, with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and music by Harry Carroll. In the song the singer expresses his love for June who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The chorus is:...
  
  " w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Tra-La, La, La!" 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...
  
  
• "We Have Much To Be Thankful For" 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...
  
  
• "Welcome Home" 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...
  
  
• "When You Play In The Game Of Love" w. Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
• "When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
• "Where Did You Get That Girl?" w. Bert Kalmar
  Bert Kalmar
  Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business...
  
   m. Harry Puck
• "You Made Me Love You
  You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)
  "You Made Me Love You " is a popular song.The music was written by James V. Monaco, the lyrics by Joseph McCarthy. The song was published in 1913. It was introduced in the Broadway revue The Honeymoon Express....
  
  " w. Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
   m. James V. Monaco
• "You're Here And I'm Here" w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
  
  
• "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" 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...
  
  

Popular recordings

• "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" by Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" by Alan Turner
• "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" by 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...
  
  
• "Cohen on the Telephone" - Ethnic humor
• "It's Nicer To Be In Bed" by 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:...
  
  

Classical music

• George Butterworth
  George Butterworth
  George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, MC was an English composer best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E...
  
   - Banks of Green Willow
• John Alden Carpenter
  John Alden Carpenter
  John Alden Carpenter was an American composer.-Biography:Born in Park Ridge, Illinois, Carpenter was raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club and wrote music for the Hasty-Pudding Club...
  
   - Violin Sonata
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   - La boîte à joujoux (ballet); Trois poèmes de Mallarmé
• Gustav Holst
  Gustav Holst
  Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
  
   - St Paul's Suite
• 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 Rite of Spring
  The Rite of Spring
  The Rite of Spring, original French title Le sacre du printemps , is a ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; and concept, set design and costumes by Nicholas Roerich...
  
  
• Louis Vierne
  Louis Vierne
  Louis Victor Jules Vierne was a French organist and composer.-Life:Louis Vierne was born in Poitiers, Vienne, nearly blind due to congenital cataracts, but at an early age was discovered to have an unusual gift for music. Louis Victor Jules Vierne (8 October 1870 – 2 June 1937) was a French...
  
   - Messe basse, Op. 30

Opera

• Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
  
   - La vida breve
  La vida breve
  La vida breve is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw...
  
  
• Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Fauré
  Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
  
   - Pénélope
  Pénélope
  Pénélope is an opera in three acts by the French composer Gabriel Fauré. The libretto, by René Fauchois, is based on Homer's Odyssey. It was first performed at the Salle Garnier, Monte Carlo on 4 March 1913.-Background and performance history:...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Panurge
  Panurge (opera)
  Panurge is an opera in three acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Georges Spitzmuller and Maurice Boukay, after Pantagruel by Rabelais...
  
  
• Italo Montemezzi
  Italo Montemezzi
  Italo Montemezzi was an Italian composer. He is best known for his opera L'amore dei tre re , once part of the standard repertoire....
  
   - L'amore dei tre re
  L'amore dei tre re
  L'amore dei tre re is an opera in three acts by Italo Montemezzi. Its Italian-language libretto was written by playwright Sem Benelli who based it on his own play of the same title.-Performance history:...
  
   (The Love of the Three Kings)
• Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Mussorgsky
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
  
   - The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Sorochinskaya yarmarka) (incomplete)
• Uzeyir Hajibeyov
  Uzeyir Hajibeyov
  Uzeyir bey Abdul Hussein oglu Hajibeyov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer, conductor, publicist, playwright, teacher, translator, and social figure from Azerbaijan. He is recognized as the father of Azerbaijani classical music and opera...
  
   - Arshin Mal Alan
  Arshin Mal Alan (operetta)
  Arshin Mal Alan is a 1913 comic and romantic operetta by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov about the cloth peddler in the 1900s Shusha, who is looking for a wife. Hajibeyov composed the operetta in Saint Petersburg and it was staged on October 25, 1913. The operetta is rich in national...
  
  (operetta)

Musical theater

• Adele
  Adele (musical)
  Adele is a musical in three acts with music by Jean Briquet and Adolph Philipp, original French book and lyrics by Paul Hervé, and English adaptation by Adolf Philipp and Edward A. Paulton...
  
  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 Longacre Theatre
  Longacre Theatre
  The Longacre Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 220 West 48th Street in midtown Manhattan.-Theatre History:Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts in 1912, it was named for Longacre Square, the original name for Times Square...
  
   on August 28 and ran for 196 performances
• The American Maid Broadway production
• The Girl from Utah
  The Girl from Utah
  The Girl from Utah is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with music by Paul Rubens, and Sidney Jones, a book by James T. Tanner, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and Rubens. The story concerns an American girl who runs away to London to avoid becoming a wealthy Mormon's newest wife...
  
  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 October 18 and ran for 195 performances
• The Girl on the Film
  The Girl on the Film
  Filmzauber, literally 'Film Magic', is a Posse mit Gesang in four scenes by Walter Kollo and Willy Bredschneider, with a German libretto by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Schanzer. A parody of silent films, Filmzauber premiered in Berlin in 1912. An English version, The Girl on the Film, translated...
  
  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 April 5 and ran for 232 performances
• The Girl on the Film
  The Girl on the Film
  Filmzauber, literally 'Film Magic', is a Posse mit Gesang in four scenes by Walter Kollo and Willy Bredschneider, with a German libretto by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolf Schanzer. A parody of silent films, Filmzauber premiered in Berlin in 1912. An English version, The Girl on the Film, translated...
  
  Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre
  44th Street Theatre
  The 44th Street Theatre was a New York City Broadway theatre from 1912 to 1945 in the United States of America. It was located on Broadway, at West 44th Street. Architect was William A. Swansea. Built by the Shuberts, and first named Weber and Fields' Music Hall, its name was changed when the...
  
   on December 29 and ran for 64 performances
• The Honeymoon Express Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on February 6 and ran for 156 performances
• Hullo, Tango London production opened at the Hippodrome on December 23
• The Isle o' Dreams Broadway production opened at the Grand Opera House
  Pike's Opera House
  Pike's Opera House, later renamed the Grand Opera House, was a theatre in New York City on the northwest corner of 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, in Chelsea, Manhattan.His other Pike's Opera House, in Cincinnati, burned in the Great Fire of Cincinnati, in 1866. Rebuilt after the fire, and the first...
  
   on January 27 and ran for 32 performances
• The Laughing Husband London production opened at the New Theatre
  Noël Coward Theatre
  The Noël Coward Theatre, formerly known as the Albery Theatre, is a West End theatre on St. Martin's Lane in the City of Westminster. It opened on 12 March 1903 as the New Theatre and was built by Sir Charles Wyndham behind Wyndham's Theatre which was completed in 1899. The building was designed by...
  
   on October 2.
• The Little Café Broadway 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 November 10 and ran for 144 performances
• The Madcap Duchess (Music: 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 Globe Theatre on November 11 and ran for 71 performances. Starring Ann Swinburne, Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood
  Peggy Wood was an American actress of stage, film and television.-Early career:She was born Mary Margaret Wood in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator. She was a direct descendant of Daniel Boone...
  
   and Glenn Hall
  Glenn Hall
  Glenn Henry "Mr. Goalie" Hall is a former professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues, Hall seldom missed a game and was a consistent performer, winning the Vezina Trophy three times, and the...
  
  
• Der Mädchenmarkt 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 May 7
• The Marriage Market London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 17 and ran for 423 performances
• The Pearl Girl 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 September 25 and ran for 254 performances
• The Pleasure Seekers
  The Pleasure Seekers
  The Pleasure Seekers is a 1964 20th Century Fox motion picture starring Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, and Carol Lynley, with Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, Brian Keith, and Gene Tierney....
  
  Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on November 3 and ran for 72 performances
• The Sunshine Girl
  The Sunshine Girl
  The Sunshine Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with a book by Paul A. Rubens and Cecil Raleigh, lyrics and music by Rubens and additional lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. The story involves a working girl who falls in love with the heir to the factor...
  
  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 February 3 and ran for 160 performances
• Sweethearts
  Sweethearts (theater)
  Sweethearts is an operetta or musical play in two acts with music by Victor Herbert, lyrics by Robert B. Smith and book by Harry B. Smith and Fred De Gressac.-Productions:...
  
  Broadway 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 September 8 and transferred to the Liberty Theatre on November 10 for a total run of 272 performances
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1913
  Ziegfeld Follies
  The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
  
  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 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 June 16 and ran for 108 performances

Births

• January 18 - Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye
  Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
  
  , actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
• January 22 - Sid Bass
  Sid Bass (songwriter)
  Sid Bass was a songwriter and orchestra leader. He was born in New York City and attended New York University.After working for Muzak he was hired as a staff composer by RCA...
  
  , songwriter (d. 1993)
• January 24 – Norman Dello Joio
  Norman Dello Joio
  - Life :He was born Nicodemo DeGioio in New York City to Italian immigrants. He began his musical career as organist and choir director at the Star of the Sea Church on City Island in New York at age 14. His father was an organist, pianist, and vocal coach and coached many opera stars from the...
  
  , American composer (d. 2008)
• January 25 - Witold Lutosławski, composer (d. 1994)
• January 26 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (d. 1990)
• January 27 - Milton Adolphus
  Milton Adolphus
  Irving Milton Adolphus was a pianist and American classical music composer.-Biography:Born in the Bronx, New York and educated at Yale University, his classical compositions include over 200 orchestral, vocal and chamber works, among them 13 symphonies and 35 string quartets...
  
  , pianist and composer (d. 1988)
• March 2 - Celedonio Romero
  Celedonio Romero
  Celedonio Romero was a guitarist, composer and poet, perhaps best known as the founder of The Romeros guitar quartet....
  
  , guitarist, composer and poet (d. 1996)
• March 4 - Willie Johnson, guitarist (d. 1995)
• March 5 - Gangubai Hangal
  Gangubai Hangal
  Gangubai Hangal was an Indian singer of the khyal genre of Hindustani classical music, who was known for her deep and powerful voice. Hangal belonged to the Kirana gharana.-Early life:...
  
  , Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
• March 6 - Ella Logan
  Ella Logan
  Ella Logan was a Scottish-born actress and singer, who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally.-Early years:...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 1969)
• March 13
  • Smoky Dawson
    Smoky Dawson
    Smoky Dawson, MBE , born Herbert Henry Dawson, was an Australian country music performer. He was widely touted as Australia's first singing cowboy.-Biography:...
    
    , Australian singer (d. 2008)
  • Libero de Luca
    Libero de Luca
    Libero De Luca is an Italian lyric tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory.- Life and career :De Luca was born in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, and studied voice at the Zurich Coservatory with Alfredo Cairati...
    
    , operatic tenor
  • Sergey Mikhalkov
    Sergey Mikhalkov
    Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Soviet and Russian author of children's books and satirical fables who had the opportunity to write the lyrics of his country's national anthem on three different occasions, spanning almost 60 years.-Life and career:...
    
    , Russian lyricist (d. 2009)
• March 30 - Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine
  Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005...
  
  , singer (d. 2007)
• March 31 - Etta Baker
  Etta Baker
  Etta Baker was an American Piedmont blues guitarist and singer from North Carolina, United States.-Biography:...
  
  , blues guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
• April 4 - Gene Ramey
  Gene Ramey
  Gene Ramey was an American jazz double bassist.Ramey was born in Austin, Texas, and played trumpet in college, but switched to sousaphone when playing with George Corley's Royal Aces, The Moonlight Serenaders, and Terrence Holder. In 1932 he moved to Kansas City and took up the bass, studying with...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1984)
• April 14 – Jean Fournet
  Jean Fournet
  Jean Fournet was a French conductor.Fournet’s father was a flutist who gave him some instruction on the flute and music theory. Fournet was then trained at the Conservatoire de Paris in flute by Gaston Blanquart and Marcel Moyse, and conducting by Philippe Gaubert...
  
  , French conductor (d. 2008)
• May 1 – Walter Susskind
  Walter Susskind
  Jan Walter Susskind was a Czech-born British conductor.-Biography:Susskind was born in Prague, Austria–Hungary, now the Czech Republic. His father was a Viennese music critic and his Czech mother was a piano teacher. At the State Conservatorium he studied under composer Josef Suk, the son-in-law...
  
  , Czech conductor (d. 1980)
• May 6
  • Carmen Cavallaro
    Carmen Cavallaro
    Carmen Cavallaro was an American pianist. He established himself as one of the most accomplished and admired light music pianists of his generation.-Music career:...
    
    , pianist (d. 1989)
  • Gyula Dávid
    Gyula Dávid
    Gyula Dávid was a Hungarian violist and composer.Dávid studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music...
    
    , composer (d. 1977)
• May 12 - Jamelão
  Jamelão
  José Bispo Clementino dos Santos was a Brazilian samba singer known as Jamelão . He began in music as a tamborim player, but later became known as the official singer at samba school Mangueira's carnaval parades, performing in every Carnaval from 1949 to 2006...
  
  , samba singer
• May 16 - Woody Herman
  Woody Herman
  Woodrow Charles Herman , known as Woody Herman, was an American jazz clarinetist, alto and soprano saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called "The Herd," Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and '40s bandleaders...
  
  , US jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1987)
• May 21 - Gina Bachauer
  Gina Bachauer
  Gina Bachauer , was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe....
  
  , pianist (d. 1976)
• May 18 - Charles Trenet
  Charles Trenet
  Charles Trenet was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s...
  
  , French singer, actor and songwriter (d. 2001)
• June 10 – Tikhon Khrennikov
  Tikhon Khrennikov
  Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities...
  
  , Russian composer (d. 2007)
• June 11 – Risë Stevens
  Risë Stevens
  Risë Stevens is a retired American operatic mezzo-soprano.-Professional life:Stevens studied at New York's Juilliard School for three years. She went to Vienna, where she was trained by Marie Gutheil-Schoder and Herbert Graf. She made her début as Mignon in Prague in 1936 and stayed there until...
  
  , American mezzosoprano
• June 12 - Nina Mae McKinney
  Nina Mae McKinney
  Nina Mae McKinney was an American actress who worked internationally in theatre, film and television after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood...
  
  , dancer and actress (d. 1967)
• June 18 - Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn
  Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
  
  , songwriter (d. 1993)
• June 23 - Helen Humes
  Helen Humes
  Helen Humes was an American jazz and blues singer.Humes was successively a teenaged blues singer, band vocalist with Count Basie, saucy R&B diva and a mature interpreter of the classy popular song.-Career:...
  
  , US singer (d. 1981)
• June 28 - George Lloyd
  George Lloyd (composer)
  George Walter Selwyn Lloyd was a British composer.-Early life:Of Cornish ancestry, Lloyd grew up in a family with great enthusiasm for music. He was mainly home-schooled because of rheumatic fever. He later studied violin with Albert Sammons and composition with Harry Farjeon. He was a student at...
  
  , composer (d. 1998)
• July 12 - Reino Helismaa
  Reino Helismaa
  Reino Vihtori "Repe" Helismaa was a Finnish singer-songwriter, musician and scriptwriter, mainly known for his humorous, yet homely songs. One of his best-known interpreters was Tapio Rautavaara.-Works:...
  
  , singer-songwriter (d. 1965)
• July 15 - Cowboy Copas
  Cowboy Copas
  Lloyd Estel Copas , known by his stage name Cowboy Copas, was an American country music singer popular from the 1940s until his death in the 1963 plane crash that also killed country stars Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry.-Biography:Copas was born in 1913 in...
  
  , country singer (d. 1963)
• July 22
  • Licia Albanese
    Licia Albanese
    Licia Albanese is an Italian-born American operatic soprano. Noted especially for her portrayals of the lyric heroines of Verdi and Puccini, Albanese was a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera of New York from 1940 to 1966...
    
    , operatic soprano
  • Gorni Kramer
    Gorni Kramer
    Gorni Kramer was an Italian songwriter, musician and band leader.- Biography :He was born Kramer Gorni at Rivarolo Mantovano . Despite the exotic sound of Gorni Kramer in Italian language, which lead part of his audience to believe he was a foreigner or had adopted a fancy pseudonym, it was his...
    
    , Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
• August 2
  • Hal Block
    Hal Block
    Harold "Hal" Block was an American comedy writer, comedian, producer, songwriter and television personality. Block is most often remembered as an original panelist of the TV game show What's My Line? who was fired from the show in only its third season, reportedly for inappropriate on-air behavior...
    
    , songwriter (d. 1981)
  • Edric Connor
    Edric Connor
    Edric Connor was a pioneering calypso singer, folklorist and actor who was born in Mayaro, Trinidad in 1913...
    
    , calypso singer (d. 1968)
• August 28 - Robert Irving
  Robert Irving (conductor)
  Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.Born in Winchester, England, the son of mountaineer and author R. L. G. Irving, he was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in music...
  
  , conductor (d. 1991)
• August 29 - Sylvia Fine
  Sylvia Fine
  Sylvia Fine was an American lyricist, composer, producer and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye...
  
  , songwriter (d. 1991)
• September 26 - Dorothy Sloop
  Dorothy Sloop
  Dorothy Sloop , also known as Dorothy Sloop Heflick, was an American jazz musician. She was born in Steubenville, Ohio. She went by the nickname Sloopy. During her performing years, she was best known as a pianist with a number of all female jazz bands in the New Orleans area, primarily from the...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1998)
• October 15 - David Carroll
  David Carroll (musician)
  David Carroll was a studio arranger, conductor, and musical director....
  
  , songwriter and conductor
• October 16 - Gino Bechi
  Gino Bechi
  Gino Bechi was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially in Verdi roles.-Life and career:...
  
  , operatic bass-baritone (d. 1993)
• October 19 - John Blackburn
  John Blackburn (songwriter)
  John M. Blackburn was a lyricist, perhaps best remembered for writing the lyrics to "Moonlight in Vermont".He was raised in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio....
  
  , lyricist (d. 2006)
• October 24 - Tito Gobbi
  Tito Gobbi
  Tito Gobbi was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation.-Biography:Tito Gobbi was born in Bassano del Grappa and studied law at the University of Padua before he trained as a singer. Giulio Crimi, a well-known Italian tenor of a previous generation, was Gobbi's teacher in Rome...
  
  , operatic baritone (d. 1984)
• October 26 - Charlie Barnet
  Charlie Barnet
  Charles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", "In a Mizz", and "Southland Shuffle".-Early life:...
  
  , US bandleader (d. 1991)
• November 2 - Harry Babbitt
  Harry Babbitt
  Harry Babbitt was an American singer and star during the Big Band era. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he joined the Kay Kyser band in 1938. With Kyser he recorded several hits in his rich baritone...
  
  , US singer with Kay Kyser
  Kay Kyser
  James Kern Kyser was a popular bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.-Early years:He was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, the son of pharmacists Paul Bynum Kyser and Emily Royster Kyser. Editor Vermont C. Royster was his cousin...
  
   & his orchestra (d. 2004)
• November 3 - Marika Rökk
  Marika Rökk
  Marika Rökk was an Austrian-German singer, dancer and actress of Hungarian descent, who became famous in German films, notably in the Nazi era.- Life and work :...
  
  , singer, dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• November 8 - June Havoc
  June Havoc
  June Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, writer, and theater director. Havoc was a child Vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood and stage directed . She last appeared on television in 1990 on General Hospital...
  
  , vaudeville performer and film star
• November 15 - Gus Johnson
  Gus Johnson (jazz musician)
  Gus Johnson was the drummer in various jazz bands, including that of Jay McShann for many years. In the 1960s he played for saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and accompanied singer Ella Fitzgerald in her 1960 concert in Berlin...
  
  , jazz drummer (d. 2000)
• November 19 - Blue Barron
  Blue Barron
  Blue Barron , born Harry Freidman, was an American orchestra leader in the 1940s and early 1950s during the "Big Band" era....
  
  , orchestra leader (d. 2005)
• November 22 - Benjamin Britten
  Benjamin Britten
  Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
  
  , composer (d. 1976)
• December 1 - Mary Martin
  Mary Martin
  Mary Virginia Martin was an American actress and singer. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989...
  
  , US singer and actress (d. 1990)
• December 30 - Lucio Agostini
  Lucio Agostini
  Lucio Agostini was an Italian-born composer, arranger, and conductor who established his career in Canada.-Life:...
  
  , conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• date unknown - John Collins
  John Collins (jazz guitarist)
  John Elbert Collins was a jazz guitarist who accompanied many swing era names from 1935–1950, including Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday and Lester Young. His longest association was with Nat "King" Cole, 1951-1965. Known for his rhythm work, he soloed infrequently...
  
  , jazz guitarist (d. 2001)

Deaths

• February 26 - Felix Draeseke
  Felix Draeseke
  Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...
  
  , composer (b. 1835)
• March 19 - John Thomas
  John Thomas (harpist)
  John Thomas was a Welsh composer and harpist. The bardic name Pencerdd Gwalia was conferred on him at the 1861 Aberdare Eisteddfod....
  
  , harpist and composer (b. 1826)
• March 20 - Christian Barnekow
  Christian Barnekow
  Christian Barnekow was a Danish composer.-External links:* Soundbites and discussion of work....
  
  , Danish composer (b. 1837)
• April 4 - Alessandro Parisotti
  Alessandro Parisotti
  Alessandro Parisotti was an Italian composer and music editor.Though also a composer, Alessandro Parisotti is better known today as the original editor of a collection of songs known as arie antiche...
  
  , composer and music writer (b. 1853)
• May 5 - Helen Carte, theatre impresario (b. 1852)
• June 6 - Mary Seney Sheldon
  Mary Seney Sheldon
  Mary R. Seney Sheldon was the first female president of the New York Philharmonic. She is credited with reorganizing the orchestra into a modern institution in 1909. One of her major contributions was the hiring of Gustav Mahler....
  
  , first female president of the New York Philharmonic (b. 1863)
• July 4 - Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel
  Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel
  Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel was a Russian opera singer. Vocally, she is best described as a lyrical soprano, with a particularly high tessitura....
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1868)
• July 16 - Sigismund Bachrich
  Sigismund Bachrich
  Sigismund Bachrich , aka Sigmund Bachrich or Siegmund Bachrich, was a Hungarian composer, violinist, and violist....
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1841)
• July 17 - Armes Beaumont
  Armes Beaumont
  Edward Armes Beaumont was a vocalist active in Australia.Beaumont was born in St Faith's, Norfolk, England...
  
  , singer (b. 1842)
• September 17 - Alfred Sormann
  Alfred Sormann
  Alfred Richard Gotthilf Sormann was a German pianist and composer.Born in Danzig, Sormann studied at the Hochschule in Berlin under Ernst Rudorff, Karl Heinrich Barth, Philipp Spitta, and Woldemar Bargiel; in 1885 he was a pupil of Franz Liszt. His debut performance was in 1886, and he gave...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1861)
• September 22 - Eliakum Zunser
  Eliakum Zunser
  Eliakum Zunser , was a Lithuanian Jewish Yiddish-language poet, songwriter, and badchen who lived out the last part of his life in U.S.. A 1905 article in the New York Times lauded him as "the father of Yiddish poetry". About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive...
  
  , poet and songwriter (b. 1835)
• October 20
  • Charles Brookfield
    Charles Brookfield
    Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield was a British actor, author, playwright and journalist, including for The Saturday Review. His most famous work for the theatre was The Belle of Mayfair ....
    
    , theatre writer (b. 1857)
  • Polk Miller
    Polk Miller
    Polk Miller was a pharmacist and musician from Richmond and Bon Air, Virginia.-Early life, Civil War, druggist:Polk Miller was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia in August, 1844. While growing up, he learned to play the banjo from slaves on his father's plantation. He became a druggist in...
    
    , banjo player and folk musician (b. 1844)
• November 3 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
• December 6 - Alexander Hurley
  Alexander Hurley
  Alexander Hurley was best known for being Marie Lloyd's second husband, though he was also a successful and talented performer in his own right....
  
  , music hall performer (b. 1871)
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  • Géza Allaga
    Géza Allaga
    Géza Allaga was a Hungarian composer, cellist and cimbalist. He was a member of the Hungarian Royal Opera orchestra and published Cimbalom, his first textbook on the subject in 1889....
    
    , composer, cellist and cimbalist (b. 1841)
  • Ludwig Milde
    Ludwig Milde
    Ludwig Milde is known primarily as a composer of music for the bassoon. In particular, his 25 Studies in Scales and Chords and his 50 Concert Studies are widely played to this day.-Biography:...
    
    , composer of bassoon music (b. 1849)