Events

• Clarence Williams makes his first recordings
• The Harvard Glee Club
  Harvard Glee Club
  The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
  
   takes its first trip to Europe, garnering international press attention.
• Amelita Galli-Curci
  Amelita Galli-Curci
  Amelita Galli-Curci was an Italian operatic soprano. She was one of the best-known coloratura singers of the early 20th century with her gramophone records selling in large numbers.-Early life:...
  
   marries her accompanist, Homer Samuels.
• Mary Stafford
  Mary Stafford (singer)
  Mary Stafford was an American cabaret singer in the classic blues style. In January, 1921, she became the first African American woman to record for Columbia Records. She toured widely throughout the mid-Atlantic in the 1920s and into the 1930s...
  
   becomes the first black woman to record for Columbia Records
  Columbia Records
  Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
  
  
• The 17-string koto
  17-string koto
  The ' is a traditional Japanese musical instrument, a zither with seventeen strings. It is a variant of the koto, which traditionally has thirteen strings....
  
  , or "Jūshichi-gen", is invented by Michio Miyagi.

Published popular music

• "Ain't We Got Fun?
  Ain't We Got Fun?
  "Ain't We Got Fun?" is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn.It was first performed in 1920 in the revue Satires of 1920, then moved into vaudeville and recordings...
  
  " w.m. Richard A. Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  , Raymond Egan & Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
  
• "All by Myself
  All by Myself (Irving Berlin song)
  "All by Myself" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for a 1921 musical revue.It was performed by Bing Crosby and Joan Caulfield in the 1946 film Blue Skies.Crosby also performed it alongside Al Jolson...
  
  " 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...
  
  
• "And Her Mother Came Too" w. Peter Dion Titheradge m. Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
  
  
• "Any Time
  Anytime (1921 song)
  "Anytime" is a popular song written by Herbert "Happy" Lawson. The song was published in 1939.The song is best known in a 1952 recording by Eddie Fisher...
  
  " w.m. Herbert Happy Lawson
• "April Showers" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Louis Silvers
  Louis Silvers
  Louis "Lou" Silvers was an American film score composer whose work has been used in more than 250 movies. In 1935, he won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for One Night of Love.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• "Baltimore Buzz" w.m. Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.-Early life:...
  
   & Eubie Blake
  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
  
  
• "Bandana Days" w.m. Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.-Early life:...
  
   & Eubie Blake
  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
  
  
• "Bimini Bay" w. Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   & Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "Boy Wanted
  Boy Wanted
  "Boy Wanted" is a 1921 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was introduced in the musical A Dangerous Maid .-Notable recordings:...
  
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• "Coal-Black Mammy" by Laddie Cliff
• "Dancing Time" w.(Eng) George Grossmith, Jr.
  George Grossmith, Jr.
  George Grossmith, Jr. was a British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies...
  
   (US) Howard Dietz 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...
  
   US words written 1924.
• "Dapper Dan" w. Lew Brown
  Lew Brown
  Lew Brown was a lyricist for popular songs in the United States.Brown was born as Louis Brownstein in Odessa, Russian Empire...
  
   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"....
  
  
• "Dear Old Southland" w. Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer was an American popular song lyricist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in New York. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 to 1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.Creamer was a co-founder with James Reese...
  
   m. Turner Layton
  Turner Layton
  Turner Layton , born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American songwriter, singer and pianist. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1894, he was the son of John Turner Layton, "a bass singer, music educator and hymn composer." After receiving a musical education from his father, he attended the Howard...
  
  
• "Down South" w. B. G. DeSylva m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  . Introduced 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"....
  
   in the musical Bombo
  Bombo (musical)
  Bombo is a Broadway musical with a book and lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge and music by Sigmund Romberg.Produced by Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway production, staged by J. C. Huffman, opened on October 6, 1921 at the Jolson Theatre, where it ran for 219 performances...
  
  
• "Down Yonder
  Down Yonder
  "Down Yonder" is a popular song with words and music by L. Wolfe Gilbert. It was first published in 1921. Four characters from Gilbert's 1912 lyric to "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" returned in this song...
  
  " w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man and eventually established himself as one of the leading songwriters on Tin Pan Alley.Gilbert began his career touring with John L...
  
  
• "Everybody Step" 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...
  
   
  
• "Hawaiian Chimes" w. Irving Bibo m. Eva Applefield
• "I Ain't Nobody's Darling" w. Elmer Hughes m. Robert A. King
• "I Found A Rose In The Devil's Garden" w.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...
  
   & Willie Raskin
• "I Wonder If You Still Care For Me" w.m. Harry B. Smith
  Harry B. Smith
  Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
  
   & Francis Wheeler
• "I'll Forget You" w. Annelu Burns 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'm Just Wild About Harry
  I'm Just Wild About Harry
  "I'm Just Wild About Harry" is a song written in 1921 with lyrics by Noble Sissle and music by Eubie Blake for the Broadway show Shuffle Along. "I'm Just Wild About Harry" was the most popular number of the production, which was the first financially successful Broadway play to have...
  
  " w.m. Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.-Early life:...
  
   & Eubie Blake
  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
  
  
• "I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin'" w. Sidney Clare m. Lew Pollack
• "I'm Nobody's Baby" w.m. Benny Davis
  Benny Davis
  Benny Davis was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. He composed the classic 1926 standard "Baby Face" with Harry Akst.-Life and career:...
  
  , Milton Ager & Lester Santly
• "Jazz Me Blues" m. Tom Delaney
  Tom Delaney
  Cyril Terence "Tom" Delaney was a British sportsman and industrialist, perhaps best known in his later years for being the oldest licensed racing driver in the world, having competed in the same Lea-Francis car for more than three-quarters of a century from 1930 until just a few months before his...
  
  
• "Keep Movin'" Helen Trix
  Helen Trix
  Helen Trix was an American actress, dancer, singer, and song composer.- Stage Entertainer :During World War I Trix took part in a gala performance which combined vaudeville performers with members of Company A of the Seventy-First Regiment, U.S. Army...
  
  
• "Kitten On The Keys" m. Zez Confrey
  Zez Confrey
  Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey was an American composer and performer of piano music. His most noted works were "Kitten on the Keys," and "Dizzy Fingers."-Life and career:...
  
  
• "Laughin' Rag" S. Moore, H. Skinner
• "Learn To Smile" w. Otto Harbach
  Otto Harbach
  Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies...
  
   m. Louis A. Hirsch
• "Leave Me With A Smile" w.m. Charles Koehler & Earl Burtnett
• "Love Will Find A Way" w.m. Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.-Early life:...
  
   & Eubie Blake
  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
  
   
  
• "Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me" w. Sidney Clare m. Con Conrad
• "Make Believe" w. Benny Davis
  Benny Davis
  Benny Davis was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. He composed the classic 1926 standard "Baby Face" with Harry Akst.-Life and career:...
  
   m. Jack Shilkret
• "Mandy 'N' Me" 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. Con Conrad
  Con Conrad
  Con Conrad was an American songwriter and producer.-Biography:Con Conrad was born Conrad K. Dober in New York City. He published his first song, "Down in Dear Old New Orleans", in 1912. Conrad produced the Broadway show The Honeymoon Express, starring Al Jolson, in 1913...
  
  
• "My Sunny Tennessee" w.m. 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...
  
  , Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...
  
   & Herman Ruby
• "Peggy O'Neill" w.m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge
• "Puttin' on the Ritz" Irving Berlin
• "Sally" w. Clifford Grey 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...
  
  
• "Say It With Music" 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...
  
  
• "Second Hand Rose" w. Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke
  Grant Clarke was an American songwriter.Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians...
  
   m. James F. Hanley
• "The Sheik of Araby" w. Harry B. Smith
  Harry B. Smith
  Harry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
  
   & Francis Wheeler 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...
  
  
• "She's Mine, All Mine" w.m. 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...
  
   & Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby
  Harry Ruby was a Jewish American songwriter and screenwriter.After failing in his early ambition to become a professional baseball player,...
  
  
• "Shuffle Along
  Shuffle Along
  Shuffle Along is the first major successful African American musical. Written by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the musical premiered on Broadway in 1921.-Plot:...
  
    w.m. Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle
  Noble Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.-Early life:...
  
   & Eubie Blake
  Eubie Blake
  James Hubert Blake was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African Americans...
  
  
• "Shimmy With Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse
  P. G. Wodehouse
  Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...
  
   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...
  
   from the musical The Cabaret Girl
  The Cabaret Girl
  The Cabaret Girl is a musical comedy in three acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by George Grossmith, Jr. and P. G. Wodehouse. It was produced by Grossmith and J. A. E...
  
  
• "Song Of Love" w. Dorothy Donnelly
  Dorothy Donnelly
  Dorothy Donnelly was a stage actress, playwright, producer, librettist, and lyricist. She made famous the play Madame X on the Broadway stage in 1910 and in a 1916 silent film, the first filming of the story...
  
   m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
  
  
• "Strut Miss Lizzie" w. Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer was an American popular song lyricist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in New York. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 to 1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.Creamer was a co-founder with James Reese...
  
   m. Turner Layton
  Turner Layton
  Turner Layton , born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American songwriter, singer and pianist. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1894, he was the son of John Turner Layton, "a bass singer, music educator and hymn composer." After receiving a musical education from his father, he attended the Howard...
  
  
• "Swanee River Moon" w.m. H. Pitman Clarke
• "Sweet Lady" w. Howard Johnson m. Frank Crumit
  Frank Crumit
  Frank Crumit was an American singer, composer. radio entertainer and vaudeville star. He shared his radio programs with his wife, Julia Sanderson, and the two were sometimes called "the ideal couple of the air."...
  
   & Dave Zoob
• "Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes" w. Harry Pease & Johnny White m. Ira Schuster
  Ira Schuster
  Ira Schuster born October 1889 in New York City, worked as a pianist at various publishing companies on Tin Pan Alley in the early 20th Century. Collaborating with notable songwriters of the time, Schuster had a string of hits in the early 1910s, 20s and 30s...
  
   & Ed G. Nelson
• "There'll Be Some Changes Made
  There'll Be Some Changes Made
  "There'll Be Some Changes Made" is a popular song with music by Benton Overstreet and lyrics by Billy Higgins, published in 1921. The song is a jazz standard, with many recordings having been made.-References in popular culture:...
  
  " w. Billy Higgins
  Billy Higgins
  Billy Higgins was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop.Higgins was born in Los Angeles, California. Higgins played on Ornette Coleman's first records, beginning in 1958...
  
   m. Benton Overstreet
• "Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home" w. Sam H. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
• "Wabash Blues
  Wabash Blues
  Wabash Blues, with words by Dave Ringle and music by Fred Meinken, was the first success for pianist, saxophonist and song composer Isham Jones . Recorded in 1921 by Isham Jones and his Orchestra, this million-seller stayed twelve weeks in the U.S. charts, six at No. 1.The author of the original...
  
  " w. Dave Ringle m. Fred Meinken
• "When Big Profundo Sang Low C" w. Marion T. Bohannon m. George Botsford
• "When Buddha Smiles" w. Arthur Freed
  Arthur Freed
  Arthur Freed was born Arthur Grossman in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a Jewish American lyricist and a Hollywood film producer.- Biography :Freed began his career as a song-plugger and pianist in Chicago...
  
   m. Nacio Herb Brown
  Nacio Herb Brown
  Nacio Herb Brown was an American writer of popular songs, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s.-Biography:...
  
  
• "When Francis Dances With Me" w. Ben Ryan m. Sol Violinsky
• "When Shall We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan
  Raymond B. Egan
  Raymond Blanning Egan was a songwriter. He moved to the United States in 1892 and settled in Michigan where he attended the University of Michigan. His first job was a bank clerk, but he soon moved onto be a staff writer for Ginnells Music Co...
  
   m. Richard A. Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "Whip-poor-will" w. B. G. De Sylva 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...
  
  
• "Yoo-Hoo" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  

Top Hit Recordings

• "Wang Wang Blues" by Paul Whiteman
  Paul Whiteman
  Paul Samuel Whiteman was an American bandleader and orchestral director.Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz"...
  
  's Orchestra, featuring Gussie Mueller
  Gussie Mueller
  Gustave "Gussie" Mueller was an early jazz clarinetist....
  
  
• "Look for the Silver Lining
  Look for the Silver Lining
  "Look for the Silver Lining" is a popular song with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by B.G. DeSylva. It was written in 1919 for the unsuccessful musical Zip, Goes a Million. In 1920 it was published and reused in the musical Sally whence it was popularized by Marilyn Miller...
  
  " by Marion Harris
  Marion Harris
  Marion Harris was an American popular singer, most successful in the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs....
  
  
• "Margie
  Margie (song)
  "Margie", also known as "My Little Margie", is a 1920 popular song. It was composed in collaboration by vaudeville performer and pianist Con Conrad and ragtime pianist J. Russel Robinson, a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Lyrics were written by Benny Davis, a vaudeville performer and...
  
  " by Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor
  Eddie Cantor was an American "illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter...
  
  
• "Margie, introducing Singing the Blues/Palesteena" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
• "The Wabash Blues" by Isham Jones
  Isham Jones
  Isham Jones was a United States bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.-Career:Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, where he started his first band...
  
   & His Orchestra
• "Say It with Music" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
• "All by Myself" by Ted Lewis
  Ted Lewis (musician)
  Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He led a band presenting a combination of jazz, hokey comedy, and schmaltzy sentimentality that was a hit with the American public. He was known by the moniker "Mr...
  
   & His Jazz Band
• "Everybody Step" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra

Classical music

• Agustín Barrios
  Agustín Barrios
  Agustín Pío Barrios , an eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer, was born in the department of Misiones, Paraguay and died in San Salvador, El Salvador...
  
   – La Catedral
• John Foulds
  John Foulds
  John Herbert Foulds was a British composer of classical music. Largely self-taught as a composer, he was one of the most remarkable and unjustly forgotten figures of the "British Musical Renaissance"....
  
   – World Requiem
  World Requiem
  A World Requiem, Op. 60 is a large-scale symphonic work with soloists and choirs by the British composer John Foulds. Written as a requiem and using forces similar in scale to Gustav Mahler's Eighth Symphony, the work calls for a full symphony orchestra, soloists, massed choirs including children's...
  
  (1919–21) (premiered 1923)
• Howard Hanson
  Howard Hanson
  Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and champion of American classical music. As director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a high-quality school and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American music...
  
   – Before the night
• 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...
  
   – Moderen
  Moderen
  Carl Nielsen's incidental music Moderen , Opus 41, was written for a gala celebrating the reunification of Southern Jutland with Denmark. It was first performed on 30 January 1921 at the Royal Danish Theatre...
  
  (stage music)
• Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
   – Piano Concerto No. 3
  Piano Concerto No. 3 (Prokofiev)
  Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 is the best-known concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. It was completed in 1921 using sketches first started in 1913.-Composition and performances:...
  
  in C Major
• Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Varèse
  Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, , whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
  
   – Offrandes; Amériques
  Amériques
  Amériques is a musical composition by the French-born composer Edgard Varèse.Written between 1918 and 1921 and revised in 1927, it is scored for a very large, romantic orchestra with additional percussion including sirens...
  
  (1918–21)
• 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...
  
   – A Pastoral Symphony (1921)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
   – Fantasia de Movimentos Mistos, for violin & orchestra
• 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...
  
   – Suite for Piano Op. 25

Opera

• Franco Alfano
  Franco Alfano
  Franco Alfano was an Italian composer and pianist. Best known today for his opera Risurrezione and above all for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.- Biography :He was born in Posillipo, Naples...
  
   – La leggenda di Sakùntala
• Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan
  Nicolae Bretan was a Romanian opera composer, baritone, conductor and music critic.He studied in Cluj, Vienna and Budapest before becoming one of the pioneers of Romanian opera - his opera Luceafarul is cited as the first opera in Romanian...
  
   – Luceafarul
• Leoš Janáček
  Leoš Janácek
  Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
  
   – Katya Kabanova
• Hans Jelmoli
  Hans Jelmoli
  Hans Jelmoli was a Swiss composer and pianist.-Life:Jelmoli was came from a wealthy Swiss family who had founded a well known retailing business by the same name. He studied music with Bernhard Scholz, Iwan Knorr, and Engelbert Humperdinck at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt. He first studied...
  
   – Die Badener Fahrt
• Emmerich Kalman
  Emmerich Kalman
  Emmerich Kálmán was a Hungarian-born composer of operettas.- Biography :Kálmán was born Imre Koppstein in Siófok, on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, Hungary in a Jewish family.Kálmán initially intended to become a concert pianist, but because of early-onset arthritis, he focused on composition...
  
   – Die Bajadere
• 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...
  
   – Il Piccolo Marat
• Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Prokofiev
  Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
  
   – The Love for Three Oranges

Musical theater

• Bombo
  Bombo (musical)
  Bombo is a Broadway musical with a book and lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge and music by Sigmund Romberg.Produced by Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway production, staged by J. C. Huffman, opened on October 6, 1921 at the Jolson Theatre, where it ran for 219 performances...
  
  , Broadway production opened at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on October 6 and ran for 213 performances
• The Broadway Whirl, Broadway revue opened at the Times Square Theatre
  Times Square Theatre
  The Times Square Theatre is a former Broadway theatre, located at 217 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, in New York City.-History:The Times Square Theatre was built in 1920 by the Selwyn brothers. It was one of three theatres they built and controlled on 42nd Street, including the Apollo and the Selwyn...
  
   on June 8 and ran for 85 performances
• The Golden Moth (Music: Ivor Novello
  Ivor Novello
  David Ivor Davies , better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. Born into a musical family, his first successes were as a songwriter...
  
  ) 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 5. Starring Bobbie Comber
  Bobbie Comber
  -Selected filmography:* Brother Alfred * There Goes Susie * Lilies of the Field * Be Careful, Mr. Smith * Sporting Love * A Romance in Flanders * The Singing Cop -External links:...
  
   and Thorpe Bates.
• Good Morning, Dearie, Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 1 and ran for 347 performances
• Pot Luck
  Pot luck
  Pot luck may refer to:* Potluck, a form of group gathering, usually involving a meal* Pot Luck * Pot Luck * L'Auberge espagnole, a film also released in Britain and Canada under the title Pot Luck...
  
  London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre
  Vaudeville Theatre
  The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on The Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each new building retained elements of the previous...
  
   on December 24.
• The League of Notions London 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 Oxford Theatre on January 17
• The Rebel Maid 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 Empire Theatre
  Empire Theatre
  Empire Theatre or Empire Theater may refer to:In the United Kingdom:*Empire Theatre of Varieties, now the Empire, Leicester Square, City of Westminster, London*Glasgow Empire Theatre, Glasgow*Hackney Empire, in Hackney...
  
   on March 12 and ran for 114 performances.
• The Rose Girl (Music: Anselm Goetzl Book & Lyrics: William Carey Duncan) Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre
  Ambassador Theatre (New York)
  The Ambassador Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 219 West 49th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp for the Shuberts, the structure is unusual in that it is situated diagonally on its site to fit the maximum number of...
  
   on February 11 and ran for 99 performances. Starring Mabel Withee, Charles Purcell and May Boley.
• Sally
  Sally (musical)
  Sally is a musical comedy with music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Clifford Grey and book by Guy Bolton , with additional lyrics by Buddy De Sylva, Anne Caldwell and P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, opening on December 21, 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway...
  
  , 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 Winter Garden Theatre on September 10 and ran for 387 performances
• Shuffle Along
  Shuffle Along
  Shuffle Along is the first major successful African American musical. Written by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, the musical premiered on Broadway in 1921.-Plot:...
  
  , Broadway production opened at the Daly's 63rd Street Theatre
  Daly's 63rd Street Theatre
  Daly's 63rd Street Theatre was a Broadway theater, which was active from 1921 to 1941. It was built in 1914 as the 63rd Street Music Hall and had several other names between 1921 and 1938. The building was demolished in 1957.-History:...
  
   on May 23 and ran for 504 performances
• Sybil
  Sybil
  In antiquity, the oracular seeresses of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean were referred to by the Greek term "sibyls". In modern times, when "Sibyl" is adopted for a woman's name, the conventional spelling is "Sybil".-People:...
  
  , 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 Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.-Early years:...
  
   on February 19 and ran for 346 performances

Births

• January 10 – Helen Bonchek Schneyer
  Helen Bonchek Schneyer
  Helen Bonchek Schneyer was an American folk musician. She was raised Jewish in New York City. While a student at Columbia University, she was introduced to American folk music. She also sang Baptist spirituals.Over a sixty year career, Schneyer worked with such influential artists as Pete Seeger...
  
  , folk musician (d. 2005)
• January 22 – Arno Babajanian
  Arno Babajanian
  Arno Harutyuni Babajanian was a Soviet Armenian composer and pianist, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR and Soviet Union . He was a laureate of two Stalin State Prizes of the USSR and two Armenian SSR State Prizes ....
  
  , composer (d. 1983)
• January 26 – Eddie Barclay
  Eddie Barclay
  Eddie Barclay was a French music producer whose singers included Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. He founded Barclay Records.-Life:...
  
  , music producer (d. 2005)
• January 31
  • Mario Lanza
    Mario Lanza
    right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
    
    , operatic tenor and film star (d. 1959)
  • Carol Channing
    Carol Channing
    Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
    
    , musical comedy star
• February 5 – Sir John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
• February 16 – Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen
  Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye and Donald O'Connor.-Early life:...
  
  , dancer and actress (d. 1981)
• February 26 – Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton
  Betty Hutton was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.-Early life:Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg and his wife, the former Mabel Lum . While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 2007)
• March 2 – Robert Simpson
  Robert Simpson (composer)
  Robert Simpson was an English composer and long-serving BBC producer and broadcaster.He is best known for his orchestral and chamber music , and for his writings on the music of Beethoven, Bruckner, Nielsen and Sibelius. He studied composition under Herbert Howells...
  
  , musicologist and composer (d. 1997)
• March 6 – Julius Rudel
  Julius Rudel
  Julius Rudel is an American opera and orchestra conductor who emigrated to the United States from Austria at the age of 17 and studied conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. He then forged a 35-year career with the New York City Opera, from 1944 to 1979, and was the Music...
  
  , conductor
• March 8 – Cyd Charisse
  Cyd Charisse
  Cyd Charisse was an American actress and dancer.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s...
  
  , dancer (d. 2008)
• March 11 – Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Piazzolla
  Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
  
  , tango composer (d. 1992)
• March 12 – Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae
  Gordon MacRae was an American actor and singer, best known for his appearances in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, Oklahoma! and Carousel and films with Doris Day like Starlift.-Early life:Born Albert Gordon MacRae in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from...
  
  , singer and actor (d. 1986)
• March 21
  • Arthur Grumiaux
    Arthur Grumiaux
    Arthur Grumiaux was a Belgian violinist who was also proficient in piano.-Youth:Grumiaux was born in Villers-Perwin, Belgium to a working-class family, and it was his grandfather who urged him to begin music studies at the age of only 4...
    
    , violinist (d. 1986)
  • Antony Hopkins
    Antony Hopkins
    Antony Hopkins CBE is an English composer, pianist, conductor, and radio broadcaster.Hopkins was born in London under the name Ernest William Antony Reynolds; his surname was changed during his childhood to Hopkins...
    
    , composer and music writer
• March 22 – Nino Manfredi
  Nino Manfredi
  Nino Manfredi was an Italian actor, one of the most prominent in the commedia all'italiana genre....
  
  , actor and film score composer (d. 2004)
• April 1
  • William Bergsma
    William Bergsma
    -Biography:After studying piano with his mother, a former opera singer, and then the viola, Bergsma moved on to study composition; his most significant teachers were Howard Hanson and Bernard Rogers. Bergsma attended Stanford University for two years before moving on to the Eastman School of...
    
    , composer (d. 1994)
  • Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, musician, composer
• April 8
  • Alfie Bass
    Alfie Bass
    Alfred Bass was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; their parents had fled persecution in Russia...
    
    , actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) (d. 1987)
  • Franco Corelli
    Franco Corelli
    Franco Corelli was a famous Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, a...
    
    , operatic tenor (d. 2003)
• April 22 – Candido Camero
  Candido Camero
  Candido de Guerra Camero, also known simply as Candido is a Cuban percussionist who backed many Afro-Cuban jazz and straightforward jazz acts since the 1950s...
  
  , percussionist
• April 26 – Jimmy Giuffre
  Jimmy Giuffre
  James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinet and saxophone player, composer and arranger. He is notable for his development of forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.-Biography:Born in Dallas, Texas, of Italian ancestry,...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 2008)
• May 17 – Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill
  Bob Merrill was an American songwriter, theatrical composer, lyricist, and screenwriter.Merrill was born Henry Merrill Levan in Atlantic City, New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following a stint with the Army during World War II, he moved to Hollywood, where he worked as a...
  
  , US songwriter (d. 1998)
• May 23 – Humphrey Lyttelton
  Humphrey Lyttelton
  Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton , also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster, and chairman of the BBC radio comedy programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 2008)
• May 25 – Hal David
  Hal David
  Harold Lane "Hal" David is an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York. David is best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach.-Career:...
  
   – US lyricist
• June 1 – Nelson Riddle
  Nelson Riddle
  Nelson Smock Riddle, Jr. was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid 1980s...
  
  , US conductor, composer and arranger (d. 1985)
• June 3- Betty Freeman
  Betty Freeman
  Betty Wishnick-Freeman was an American philanthropist and photographer. Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of three she moved with her parents and two brothers to Brooklyn, attending high school in New Rochelle, New York...
  
  , patron of classical music (d. 2009)
• June 15 – Errol Garner, jazz pianist (d. 1977)
• June 21 – Judy Holliday
  Judy Holliday
  Judy Holliday was an American actress.Holliday began her career as part of a night-club act, before working in Broadway plays and musicals...
  
  , US actress and singer (d. 1965)
• June 24 – Peggy DeCastro, US singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters (d. 2004)
• June 25 – Celia Franca
  Celia Franca
  Celia Franca, was the founder of The National Ballet of Canada and its artistic director for 24 years ....
  
  , dancer and choreographer (d. 2007)
• July 12 – Hilary Corke
  Hilary Corke
  Hilary Topham Corke was a writer, composer and mineralogist...
  
  , writer and composer (d. 2001)
• July 17 – George Barnes
  George Barnes (musician)
  George Barnes was a world-renowned swing jazz guitarist, who claimed he played the first electric guitar in 1931, preceding Charlie Christian by six years. George Barnes made the first recording of an electric guitar in 1938 in sessions with Big Bill Broonzy.-Biography:George Barnes was born in...
  
  , jazz musician (d. 1977)
• July 24 – Giuseppe Di Stefano
  Giuseppe Di Stefano
  Giuseppe Di Stefano was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. He was known as the "Golden voice" or "The most beautiful voice", as the true successor of Beniamino Gigli...
  
  , opera singer (d. 2008)
• August 3 – Richard Adler
  Richard Adler
  Richard Adler is an American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows.-Biography:Born in New York City, Adler had a musical upbringing, his father being a concert pianist. After serving in the Navy he began his career as a lyricist, teaming up with Jerry Ross in 1950...
  
  , US composer and lyricist
• August 4 – Herb Ellis
  Herb Ellis
  Mitchell Herbert "Herb" Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. Perhaps best known for his 1950s membership in the trio of pianist Oscar Peterson, Ellis was also a staple of west-coast studio recording sessions, and was described by critic Scott Yanow as "an excellent bop-based guitarist with a...
  
  , guitarist (d. 2010)
• August 7 – Karel Husa
  Karel Husa
  Karel Husa is a Czech-born classical composer and conductor, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Music Composition...
  
  , composer
• August 9 – Lola Bobesco
  Lola Bobesco
  Lola Bobesco was a Belgian violinist of Romanian origin.She was born in Craiova, Romania, and began her career as a child prodigy, giving her first recital there at the age of 6 with her father, composer and conductor Aurel Bobesco...
  
  , violinist (d. 2003)
• September 4 – Ariel Ramírez
  Ariel Ramirez
  Ariel Ramírez was an Argentine composer, pianist and music director. He was considered "a chief exponent of Argentine folk music" and noted for his "iconic" musical compositions....
  
  , composer (d. 2010)
• September 8 – Sir Harry Secombe
  Harry Secombe
  Sir Harry Donald Secombe CBE was a Welsh entertainer with a talent for comedy and a noted fine tenor singing voice. He is best known for playing Neddie Seagoon, the central character in the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show...
  
  , singer and comedian (d. 2001)
• September 19 – Billy Ward
  Billy Ward and the Dominoes
  Billy Ward and His Dominoes were an African-American vocal group, one of the best-selling American R&B groups of the 1950s. The team began the careers of both Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson.-Career:Billy Ward Billy Ward and His Dominoes were an African-American vocal group, one of the...
  
   (The Dominoes) (d. 2002)
• September 21 – Chico Hamilton
  Chico Hamilton
  Chico Hamilton , is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.-Early life through 1960s:Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a fast-track musical education in a band with Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso...
  
  , jazz drummer
• October 1 – James Whitmore
  James Whitmore
  James Allen Whitmore, Jr. was an American film and stage actor.-Early life:Born in White Plains, New York, to Florence Belle and James Allen Whitmore, Sr., a park commission official, Whitmore attended Amherst Central High School in Snyder, New York, before graduating from The Choate School in...
  
  , actor in film musicals (d. 2009)
• October 21
  • Sir Malcolm Arnold
    Malcolm Arnold
    Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold, CBE was an English composer and symphonist.Malcolm Arnold began his career playing trumpet professionally, but by age thirty his life was devoted to composition. He was ranked with Benjamin Britten as one of the most sought-after composers in Britain...
    
    , composer (d. 2006)
  • Jarmil Burghauser
    Jarmil Burghauser
    Jarmil Michael Burghauser was a Czech composer, conductor, and musicologist....
    
    , conductor, composer and musicologist (d. 1997)
• October 25 – Little Hatch
  Little Hatch
  Little Hatch was an American electric blues singer, musician and harmonica player. He variously worked with George Jackson and John Paul Drum.-Biography:...
  
  , blues musician (d. 2003)
• November 5 – Georges Cziffra
  Georges Cziffra
  Georges Cziffra was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist. He became a French citizen in 1968.Cziffra is most known for his dazzling recordings of Franz Liszt's virtuoso works...
  
  , pianist (d. 1994)
• November 9 – Pierrette Alarie
  Pierrette Alarie
  Pierrette Alarie, was a French Canadian coloratura soprano. She was married to the French-Canadian tenor Léopold Simoneau.-Life and career:...
  
  , soprano
• November 21 – Vivian Blaine
  Vivian Blaine
  Vivian Blaine was an American actress and singer best known for originating the role of Miss Adelaide in the musical theater production Guys and Dolls.-Life and career:...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 1995)
• November 23 – Fred Buscaglione
  Fred Buscaglione
  Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humorous mobster with a penchant for whisky and women.-Biography:Ferdinando Buscaglione was born in...
  
  , Italian singer, musician and songwriter (d. 1960)
• December 3 – Phyllis Curtin
  Phyllis Curtin
  Phyllis Curtin is an American classical soprano who had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s. She was known for her creation of new roles such as the title role in the Carlisle Floyd opera Susannah, Catherine Earnshaw in Floyd's Wuthering Heights, and in...
  
  , soprano
• December 4 – Deanna Durbin
  Deanna Durbin
  Deanna Durbin is a Canadian-born, Southern California-raised retired singer and actress, who appeared in a number of musical films in the 1930s and 1940s singing standards as well as operatic arias....
  
  , singer and actress
• December 8 – Johnny Otis
  Johnny Otis
  Johnny Otis is an American singer, musician, talent scout, disc jockey, composer, arranger, recording artist, record producer, vibraphonist, drummer, percussionist, bandleader, and impresario.He is commonly referred to as The Godfather Of Rhythm And Blues.-Personal life:Otis, the son of Alexander...
  
  , blues musician
• December 15 – Alan Freed
  Alan Freed
  Albert James "Alan" Freed , also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey. He became internationally known for promoting the mix of blues, country and rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll...
  
  , disc jockey (d. 1965)
• December 26 – Steve Allen
  Steve Allen (comedian)
  Stephen Valentine Patrick William "Steve" Allen was an American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his television career. He first gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent...
  
  , musician and comedian (d. 2000)

Deaths

• January 23 – Władysław Żeleński, pianist, organist and composer (b. 1837)
• February 8 – George Formby (Senior), singer (b. 1875)
• March 14 – Gustave Barnes
  Gustave Barnes
  Gustave Barnes was an Australian artist and modeller.Gustave Barnes was born in Islington, Middlesex, England, the eldest son of John William Barnes, a plasterer, and his wife Ann Eliza, née May. The family migrated to Adelaide when Gustave was a child; his father establishing Barnes & Neate, a...
  
  , artist and musician (b. 1877)
• March 24 – Déodat de Séverac
  Déodat de Séverac
  Déodat de Séverac was a French composer.-Biography:...
  
  , composer (b. 1872)
• April 3 – Annie Louise Cary
  Annie Louise Cary
  Annie Louise Cary was an American singer.-Origins and education:She was born in Wayne, Maine, the daughter of Nelson Howard Cary and his wife, Maria Stockbridge. After an early education in the common schools, she attended the female seminary at Gorham, Maine, and graduated in 1862...
  
  , operatic contralto (b. 1842)
• April 5 – Alphons Diepenbrock
  Alphons Diepenbrock
  Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.-Life and work:...
  
  , composer and writer (b. 1862)
• April 7 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat
  Víctor Mirecki Larramat
  Víctor Alexander Marie Mirecki Larramat was a Spanish cellist and music teacher of Franco-Polish origin. He was born in Tarbes, France and died in Madrid, Spain.-Introduction:...
  
  , cellist (b. 1847)
• April 20 – Tony Jackson, pianist, singer and composer (b. 1876)
• May 4 – Max Kalbeck
  Max Kalbeck
  Max Kalbeck was a German writer, critic and translator.-Education:Kalbeck studied music in Munich. In 1875 he became the music-critic for the Schlesische Zeitung and assistant director of the Breslau Museum...
  
  , music writer and critic (b. 1850)
• June 8 - Natalie Bauer-Lechner
  Natalie Bauer-Lechner
  Natalie Bauer-Lechner was a viola-player who is best known to musicology for having been a close and devoted friend of Gustav Mahler in the period between the break-up of her marriage in 1890 and the start of his to Alma Schindler in 1902...
  
  , viola player (b. 1858)
• July 9 – Marianne Brandt
  Marianne Brandt (contralto)
  Marianne Brandt was an Austrian operatic singer with an international reputation.She was born as Marie Bischof in Vienna and was educated at the music conservatory in that city. She first attracted attention on stage in 1867 as Recha in La Juive and soon afterward accepted an engagement at the...
  
  , operatic contralto (b. 1842)
• August 2 – Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (b. 1873)
• August 8 - Arthur Pougin
  Arthur Pougin
  Arthur Pougin was a French musical and dramatic critic and writer. He was born at Châteauroux and studied music at the Paris Conservatory under Alard and Reber . In 1855 he became conductor at the Théatre Beaumarchais...
  
  , music critic (b. 1834)
• September 27
  • Engelbert Humperdinck
    Engelbert Humperdinck
    Engelbert Humperdinck was a German composer, best known for his opera, Hänsel und Gretel. Humperdinck was born at Siegburg in the Rhine Province; at the age of 67 he died in Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.-Life:After receiving piano lessons, Humperdinck produced his first composition...
    
    , composer (b. 1854)
  • Zdzisław Birnbaum, violinist and conductor (b. 1878)
• September 28 – Princess Pauline von Metternich, patron of composers including Wagner and Smetana (b. 1836)
• October 4 - Sophie Stehle
  Sophie Stehle
  Sophie Stehle was a German operatic soprano.She was born in Sigmaringen and was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 1860 to 1874. While there she created the roles of Fricka in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold on 22 September 1869 and Brunhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre on 26 June 1869...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1838)
• November 20 – Christina Nilsson
  Christina Nilsson
  Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1843)
• November 25 – Théodore Lack
  Théodore Lack
  Théodore Lack was a French pianist and composer. He studied under Antoine François Marmontel and François Bazin.-Books:...
  
  , pianist (b. 1846)
• November 29 – Ivan Caryll
  Ivan Caryll
  Félix Marie Henri Tilkin , better known by his pen name Ivan Caryll, was a Belgian composer of operettas and Edwardian musical comedies in the English language...
  
  , composer of operettas (b. 1861)
• December 10 – Victor Jacobi
  Victor Jacobi
  Victor Jacobi, Jakobi Viktor was a Hungarian operetta composer.He studied at Zeneakadémia in Budapest at the same time as the noted Hungarian composers Imre Kálmán and Albert Szirmai...
  
  , composer of operettas (b. 1883)
• December 16 – Camille Saint-Saëns
  Camille Saint-Saëns
  Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
  
  , composer (b. 1835)
• December 25 – Hans Huber
  Hans Huber (composer)
  Hans Huber was a composer from Switzerland.He was born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau . The son of an amateur musician, Huber became a chorister and showed an early talent for the piano. In 1870 he entered Leipzig Conservatory...
  
  , composer (b. 1852)