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  • January 8 - Alban Berg
    Alban Berg

    Alban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Gustav Mahler Romantic music with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique....
    's Lyric Suite is premiered in Vienna
    Vienna

    Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
    .
  • July 1 - Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
    's Piano Concerto No. 1
    Piano Concerto No. 1 (Bartók)

    The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Andr?s Sz?llosy 83, BB 91 of B?la Bart?k was composed in 1926. It is about 23 to 24 minutes long....
     is premiered in Frankfurt
    Frankfurt

    is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
    , with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Wilhelm Furtwängler

    Wilhelm Furtw?ngler was a German Conducting and composer....
     conducting.
  • December 5 - Leoš Janácek
    Leoš Janácek

    Leo? Jan?cek , was a Czech people composer, Music theory, Folkloristics, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style....
    's Glagolitic Mass
    Glagolitic Mass

    The Glagolitic Mass usually refers to the M?a glagolskaja, a composition for soloists, double choir and orchestra by Leo? Jan?cek.There are a few other compositions of this genre in existence by Josef Bohuslav Foerster, Franti?ek Zdenek Skuhersk?, Alexander Gretchaninov, the Prague organist Bedrich Anton?n Wiedermann, and more re...
     is premiered in Brno
    Brno

    Brno is the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. It was founded in 1243, although the area had been settled since the 5th century. Today Brno has 403,304 inhabitants and is the seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court, Supreme Prosecutor's Office and Ombudsman....
    .
  • Publishers Chappell & Co withdraw their financial support for the Promenade Concerts, to be replaced by the BBC.
  • Benjamin Britten
    Benjamin Britten

    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
     becomes a pupil of Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge

    Frank Bridge was an English composer....
    .
  • Witold Lutoslawski
    Witold Lutoslawski

    Witold Lutoslawski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the pre-eminent Poland musicians during his last three decades....
     enters the Warsaw
    Warsaw

    Warsaw is the Capital and World's largest cities of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains....
     conservatory.
  • Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell

    William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell , was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a 12-string guitar fingerstyle Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956....
    's recording career begins.
  • The Soul Stirrers
    The Soul Stirrers

    One of the most popular and influential gospel music groups of the 20th century, the Soul Stirrers were pioneers in the development of the quartet style of gospel and, without intending it, in the creation of soul music, the secular music that owed much to gospel....
    ' recording career begins.
  • Big Bill Broonzy
    Big Bill Broonzy

    Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific United States blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played Country blues to mostly black audiences....
    's recording career begins.
  • Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
     and His Hot Seven record.
  • Jim Jackson
    Jim Jackson (musician)

    Jim Jackson was an African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist, whose sound recording and reproduction in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later musician....
    's recording career begins.


Published popular music

  • "Adios Muchachos
    I Get Ideas

    "I Get Ideas" is a popular music song....
    " w. Cesar Felipe Vedani m. Julio Cesar Sanders (aka Lenny Sanders)
  • "Ain't She Sweet
    Ain't She Sweet

    Ain't She Sweet was an United States album featuring four tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 by The Beatles featuring Tony Sheridan and cover versions of Beatles and British Invasion-era songs recorded by the The Swallows ....
    " w. Jack Yellen
    Jack Yellen

    Jack Selig Yellen was a Jewish-United States lyricist and screenwriter.Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old....
     m. Milton Ager
    Milton Ager

    Milton Ager was an United States pianist and composer.Ager was born in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. Leaving school with only three years of formal high-school education, he taught himself to play the piano and embarked on a career as a musician....
  • "Among My Souvenirs" w. Edgar Leslie m. Horatio Nicholls
  • "At Sundown" w.m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "The Babbitt And The Bromide" w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "The Best Things In Life Are Free" w. B. G. De Sylva & 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. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Black And Tan Fantasy" m. Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  • "Bless This House
    Bless This House (song)

    "Bless This House" is a song. The words were written by England Helen Taylor, a poetry, under the original title "Bless the House." The music was composed by Australian May H....
    " w. Helen Taylor m. May Brahe
  • "Blue Skies
    Blue Skies (song)

    "Blue Skies" is a popular music song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926....
    " w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Broken Hearted" w. B. G. De Sylva & 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. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
    Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

    "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" with music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, is one of the most famous songs from their classic 1927 musical play Show Boat, adapted from Edna Ferber's novel....
    " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
    . Introduced by Helen Morgan
    Helen Morgan

    Helen Morgan was an U.S. singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s....
     in the musical Show Boat
    Show Boat

    Show Boat is a musical theatre in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song Bill , which was originally written by Kern and author-lyricist P....
  • "Changes" w.m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "Chlo-e" w. Gus Kahn
    Gus Kahn

    Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist....
     m. Neil Moret
  • "Creole Love Call" w.m. Edward "Duke" Ellington
    Duke Ellington

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
  • "Dew-Dew-Dewy Day" w.m. Al Sherman
    Al Sherman

    Al Sherman was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century. Sherman is a link in a long chain of musical Sherman family members....
    , Charles Tobias
    Charles Tobias

    Charles Tobias was an American songwriter....
     & Howard Johnson
    Howard Johnson (lyricist)

    Howard Johnson was a song Lyrics.He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York....
  • "Diane
    Diane (song)

    Diane is a song by Erno Rapee and Lew Pollack originally written as a theme song for the 1927 classic silent movie "Seventh Heaven ".The song appears on the 1961 Miles Davis Quintet album Steamin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, originally recorded in 1956....
    " w.m. Ernie Rapee & Lew Pollack
    Lew Pollack

    Lew Pollack [b 16 June 1895 in New York, d 18 January 1946 in Hollywood was a composer active during the 1920's and the 1930's. Among his best known songs are "Charmaine " and "Diane " with lyrics by Erno Rapee, "Miss Annabelle Lee", "Two Cigarettes in the Dark" and Go In and Out The Window, now a children's music standard....
  • "Did You Mean It?" w. Abe Lyman & Sid Silvers m. Phil Baker
  • "The Doll Dance" m. Nacio Herb Brown
    Nacio Herb Brown

    Nacio Herb Brown born Ignacio Herb Brown was an United States songwriter, movie scores, and Broadway theatre music in the 1920s through the early 1950s....
  • "Everywhere You Go" w.m. Larry Shay
    Larry Shay

    Larry Shay was an United States songwriter.Larry Shay was born in Chicago, Illinois. While still young, he studied the piano at the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago....
    , Joe Goodwin & Mark Fisher
    Mark Fisher (songwriter)

    Mark Fisher was an United States songwriter.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He died in Long Lake, Illinois or Ingleside, Illinois....
  • "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" w. Willie Raskin & Billy Rose m. Fred Fisher
  • "Four Or Five Times" w.m. Byron Gay
  • "Funny Face
    Funny Face (song)

    "Funny Face" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was the title song of Funny Face , where it was introduced by Fred Astaire, and his sister, Adele Astaire...
    " w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Girl Of My Dreams" w.m. Sunny Clapp
  • "Good News
    Good News (musical)

    Good News is a musical theatre with a book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson....
    " w. B. G. De Sylva & 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. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Hallelujah!" w. Leo Robin & Clifford Grey m. Vincent Youmans
  • "He Loves and She Loves
    He Loves and She Loves

    "He Loves and She Loves" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It replaced "How Long Has This Been Going On?" in the broadway theatre musical Funny Face ....
    " w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "High Hat" w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Hoosier Sweetheart" w.m. Billy Baskette, Paul Ash & Joe Goodwin
  • "I Don't Know How" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "I Feel At Home With You" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "I Left My Sugar Standing In The Rain" w. Irving Kahal m. Sammy Fain
  • "I Scream You Scream" w.m. Robert King, Howard Johnson & Billy Moll
  • "I Still Suits Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
  • "I'll Take Care Of Your Cares" w. Mort Dixon m. James V. Monaco
  • "I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now" w. Benny Davis m. Jesse Greer
  • "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
  • "I'm Proud Of A Baby Like You" Schoenberg, Stevens, Helmick
  • "In A Mist" m. Bix Beiderbecke
    Bix Beiderbecke

    Leon Bix Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism....
  • "It All Belongs To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Just Like A Butterfly" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
  • "Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella
    Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

    "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" is a popular music song.The music was written by Sammy Fain, the lyrics by Irving Kahal and Francis Wheeler. The song was published in 1927 in music....
    " w. Irving Kahal
    Irving Kahal

    Irving Kahal, [b 5 March 1903 in Houtzdale, d 7 February 1942 in New York] was a popular lyricist active in the 1920's and '30's. He is best remembered for his collaborations with composer Sammy Fain which started in 1926 when Kahal was working in vaudeville sketches written by Gus Edwards ....
     & Francis Wheeler m. Sammy Fain
    Sammy Fain

    Sammy Fain was an American composer of popular music....
  • "Let's Kiss And Make Up
    Let's Kiss and Make Up

    "Let's Kiss and Make Up" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was introduced in their 1927 musical Funny Face by Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire....
    " w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
    . Introduced by Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire

    Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
     and Adele Astaire
    Adele Astaire

    Lady Charles Cavendish , better known as Adele Astaire, was an United States dancer and entertainer. She was Fred Astaire elder sister. Her birthdate was often given as 1897 or 1898, but the 1900 U.S....
     in the musical Funny Face
    Funny Face (musical)

    Funny Face is a 1927 musical theater composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith....
  • "Lindbergh (The Eagle Of The U.S.A.)
    Lindbergh (The Eagle Of The U.S.A.)

    "Lindbergh " was a popular song written by famous Tin Pan Alley songwriters, Howard Johnson and Al Sherman in 1927 in music. It chronicles Charles Lindbergh's famous pioneer solo-flight across the Atlantic Ocean....
    " w.m. Al Sherman
    Al Sherman

    Al Sherman was an American Tin Pan Alley songwriter from the first half of the twentieth century. Sherman is a link in a long chain of musical Sherman family members....
     & Howard Johnson
    Howard Johnson (lyricist)

    Howard Johnson was a song Lyrics.He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York....
  • "The Lonesome Road" w. Gene Austin
    Gene Austin

    Gene Austin was an United States singer and songwriter who is considered to have been the first "crooner". His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards....
     m. Nathaniel Shilkret
  • "Lucky Lindy" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Abel Baer
  • "Mary, (What Are You Waiting For)" w.m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "Maybe It's Me" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "Me And My Shadow
    Me and My Shadow

    "Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 in music popular music song by Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose, and Al Jolson.The song has become a standard, with many artists performing it....
    " w.m. Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose
    Billy Rose

    Billy Rose was an United States impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist. He is credited with many famous songs, notably "Me and My Shadow" , "It Happened in Monterey" and "It's Only a Paper Moon " ....
     & Al Jolson
    Al Jolson

    Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...
  • "Miss Annabelle Lee" w.m. Lew Pollack, Sidney Clare & Harry Richman
  • "Mississippi Mud" w. James Cavanaugh m. Harry Barris
  • "My Blue Heaven
    My Blue Heaven (song)

    "My Blue Heaven" is a popular music song. The music was written by Walter Donaldson, the lyrics by George Whiting.The song was published in 1927 in music and became a huge 1928 hit for crooner Gene Austin, when its was charted for 26 weeks, stayed at #1 for 13, and sold over five million copies....
    " w. George Whiting
    George Whiting

    George Elbridge Whiting was an United States composer of European classical music music. He was born 14 September 1840 in Holliston, Massachusetts, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts 14 October 1923 at the age of 83....
     m. Walter Donaldson
    Walter Donaldson

    Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, producing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.Donaldson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a piano teacher....
  • "My Heart Stood Still" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "My One And Only
    My One and Only (song)

    "My One and Only" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, written for the 1927 musical Funny Face where it was introduced by Fred Astaire, Betty Compton and Gertrude McDonald....
    " w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Ol' Man River
    Ol' Man River

    "Ol' Man River" is a song in the 1925 Musical theater Show Boat, that tells a melancholy story of African American hardship and struggles of the time, related to the endless flow of the Mississippi River, from the view of a dock worker on a showboat....
    " w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
  • "Plenty Of Sunshine" w. B. G. De Sylva & 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. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Preludes" by George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Rain" w.m. Eugene Ford, Carey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom
  • "Ramona" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert
    L. Wolfe Gilbert

    Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born United States songwriter....
     m. Mabel Wayne
  • "The Rangers' Song" w. Joseph McCarthy
    Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)

    'Joseph McCarthy' was an United States lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You and "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows....
     m. Harry A. Tierney. Introduced in the musical Rio Rita
    Rio Rita

    Rio Rita may refer to:*Rio Rita , a 1927 musical*Rio Rita , a 1929 film starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles, with Wheeler and Woolsey as comedy relief...
     by J. Harold Murray
    J. Harold Murray

    .J. Harold Murray was an American baritone. For more than a decade, during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression Thirties, he contributed to the development of musical theater by bridging vaudeville, operetta and the modern American musical....
    , Harry Ratcliffe, Donald Douglas
    Donald Douglas

    Donald Douglas may refer to:*Donald Douglas , film and television actor*Don Douglas Scottish-born film actor of the 1920s to 1940s*Donald Wills Douglas, Sr....
     and chorus. Performed in the 1929
    1929 in music

    Events*January 1 - Pianist and composer Abram Chasins makes his professional debut playing his own piano concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra....
     film version by John Boles
    John Boles (actor)

    John Boles was a United States actor....
     and chorus.
  • "A Room with a View" w.m. Noel Coward
    Noël Coward

    Sir No?l Peirce Coward was an English people playwright, composer, Theatre director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"....
  • "Russian Lullaby" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "'S Wonderful
    'S Wonderful

    "'S Wonderful" is a popular music song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics written by Ira Gershwin. It was introduced in the Broadway musical Funny Face by Adele Astaire and Allen Kearns....
    " w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Shaking The Blues Away" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Side By Side" w.m. Harry Woods
  • "The Song Is Ended" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Strike Up The Band" w. Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
     m. George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
  • "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" w.m. Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
     & Lillian Hardin Armstrong
  • "Thou Swell" w. Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
    . Introduced by William Gaxton
    William Gaxton

    William Gaxton , born Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, California, was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre. He appeared in some ten films and eleven shows....
     and Constance Carpenter
    Constance Carpenter

    Constance Carpenter was an English people-born Americanized Stage and film actress known primarily for her musical theatre performances....
     in the musical A Connecticut Yankee. Performed in the 1948 film Words and Music
    Words and Music (1948 film)

    Words and Music is a movie loosely based on the lives of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The film starred Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Betty Garrett, and Ann Sothern and is best remembered for the final screen pairing between Rooney and Judy Garland and fine showcasing of the Rodgers & Hart catalog....
     by June Allyson and the Blackburn Twins.
  • "The Varsity Drag" w. B. G. De Sylva & 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. His family emigrated to the United States in 1898 and settled in The Bronx of New York City....
     m. Ray Henderson
    Ray Henderson

    Ray Henderson , was an United States songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley....
  • "Washboard Blues" m. Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
     & Irving Mills
  • "What Does It Matter?" w.m. Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  • "Where's That Rainbow?" Lorenz Hart
    Lorenz Hart

    Lorenz "Larry" Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway theatre songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include, "Blue Moon ", "Isn't It Romantic?", "Mountain Greenery", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Where or When", "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered", "Falling in Love with Love", "I%27ll_Tell_the_M...
     m. Richard Rodgers
    Richard Rodgers

    Richard Charles Rodgers was an United States Musical compositionr of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway theatre musicals. He also composed music for films and television....
  • "Why Do I Love You?" w. Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
     m. Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
  • "You Remind Me Of A Naughty Springtime Cuckoo" w.m. Leslie Sarony
    Leslie Sarony

    Leslie Sarony was a United Kingdom entertainer, singer and songwriter. Sarony was born in Surbiton, Surrey and died in London.He began his stage career aged 14 with the group Park Eton's Boys....
  • "Your Land And My Land" w. Dorothy Donnelly m. Sigmund Romberg
    Sigmund Romberg

    Sigmund Romberg, born Zsigmond Romberg was an United States composer best known for his operettas....
  • "You're Always In My Arms" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney


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Popular music on record

  • "Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" by Ted Lewis
    Ted Lewis (musician)

    Theodore Leopold Friedman, better known as Ted Lewis , was an United States 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....
     & His Band
  • "My Blue Heaven
    My Blue Heaven (song)

    "My Blue Heaven" is a popular music song. The music was written by Walter Donaldson, the lyrics by George Whiting.The song was published in 1927 in music and became a huge 1928 hit for crooner Gene Austin, when its was charted for 26 weeks, stayed at #1 for 13, and sold over five million copies....
    " by Gene Austin
    Gene Austin

    Gene Austin was an United States singer and songwriter who is considered to have been the first "crooner". His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards....
  • "Mine, All Mine" by the Coon-Sanders' Nighthawks
  • "Mary (What Are You Waiting For?)" by Paul Whiteman
    Paul Whiteman

    Paul Whiteman was an United States orchestral leader. He was born in Denver, Colorado. After a start as a classical violinist and viola, Whiteman then led a jazz-influenced dance band, which became locally popular in San Francisco, California in 1918....
     & His Orchestra
  • "Changes" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra
  • "Blue Skys/Falling In Love With You" by Jesse Crawford
    Jesse Crawford

    Jesse Crawford , was a US pianist and organist. He was well-known in the 1920s as a theater organist for silent films and very popular gramophone record recording artist....
  • "Fifty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" by Sophie Tucker
    Sophie Tucker

    Sophie Tucker was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century.She was born Sonia Kalish to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia....
     with Miff Mole
    Miff Mole

    Irving Milfred Mole, better known as Miff Mole was a jazz trombonist and band leader. He is generally considered as one of the greatest jazz trombonists and credited with creating "the first distinctive and influential solo jazz trombone style." His major recordings included "Slippin' Around", "Red Hot Mama" in 1924 with Sophie Tucker...
     & His Little Molers
  • "Shaking The Blues Away" by Ruth Etting
    Ruth Etting

    Ruth Etting was an United States singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recordings.Her signature tunes were "Shine On Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me ", and her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly like you", and "Shaking the Blues Away"....
  • "Varsity Drag" by Ruth Etting
  • "It All Belongs To Me" by Ruth Etting
  • "In A Little Spanish Town" by Carson Robison
    Carson Robison

    Carson Jay Robison was an United States country music singer and songwriter. Although his impact is generally forgotten today, he played a large role in promoting country music in its early years through his work on numerous recordings and appearances on radio....
  • "My Pretty Girl" by Jean Goldkette
    Jean Goldkette

    John Jean Goldkette was a jazz pianist and bandleader born in Patras, Greece. Goldkette spent his childhood in Greece and Russia, and emigrated to the United States in 1911....
     & His Orchestra
  • "Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
  • "I'm Coming, Virginia" by Bix Beiderbecke
    Bix Beiderbecke

    Leon Bix Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism....
  • "Lucky Lindy" by Nat Shilkret
  • "I'm Gona Meet My Sweetie Now" by Jane Green
    Jane Green (singer)

    Jane Green was a United States singer popular in the 1920s.She was born in Kentucky as Martha Jane Greene. During her career she recorded over 30 gramophone record, and appeared in some early sound films....
  • "Black and Tan Fantasy" by Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
     & His Orchestra
  • "Singin' The Blues" by Frankie Trumbauer
    Frankie Trumbauer

    Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played C-melody saxophone, which in size is between an alto and tenor saxophone....
    's Orch., with Bix
    Bix Beiderbecke

    Leon Bix Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism....
     & Lang
    Eddie Lang

    Eddie Lang was an American jazz guitarist, regarded as the most important Chicago jazz guitarist and the Father of the Jazz Guitar. He played a Gibson L-4 and Gibson L-5 guitar, providing great influence for many guitarists, including Django Reinhardt....
  • "Potato Head Blues" by Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  • "Stardust
    Stardust (song)

    "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with the lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish.Composition...
    " by Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
  • "Honky Tonk Train Blues" recorded Meade Lux Lewis
    Meade Lux Lewis

    Meade Anderson "Lux" Lewis was a United States pianist and composer noted for his work in the Boogie Woogie style. His best known work, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", has been recorded in various contexts, often in a big band arrangement....
     (not released until 1930)
  • "Match Box Blues" - Blind Lemon Jefferson
    Blind Lemon Jefferson

    "Blind" Lemon Jefferson was an influential blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues."...
  • "Mama 'T Ain't Long Fo' Day" - Blind Willie McTell
    Blind Willie McTell

    William Samuel McTell, better known as Blind Willie McTell , was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a 12-string guitar fingerstyle Piedmont blues guitarist, and recorded 149 songs between 1927 and 1956....
  • "Roamin Rambler Blues" - Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson

    Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an United States blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos....
  • "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues
    Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues

    "Jim Jackson's Kansas City Blues" is a song by Jim Jackson ....
    " - Jim Jackson
    Jim Jackson (musician)

    Jim Jackson was an African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist, whose sound recording and reproduction in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later musician....


Classical music

  • Béla Bartók
    Béla Bartók

    B?la Viktor J?nos Bart?k was a Hungarian people composer and pianist, considered to be one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of ethnomusicology....
     - String Quartet No. 3
    String Quartet No. 3 (Bartók)

    The String Quartet No. 3 by B?la Bart?k was written in September 1926 in Budapest.The work is in one continuous stretch with no breaks, but is divided in the score into four parts:...
  • Havergal Brian
    Havergal Brian

    William Brian , was a United Kingdom classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the 32 symphony he had managed to write, an unusually large number for any composer since Joseph Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and of which eight were completed after the age of 90....
     - Symphony No. 1 Gothic
    Symphony No. 1 (Havergal Brian)

    The Symphony No. 1 in D minor by Havergal Brian was composed between 1919 and 1927, and partly owes its notoriety to being the largest symphony ever composed ....
  • Frank Bridge
    Frank Bridge

    Frank Bridge was an English composer....
     - Rhapsody: Enter Spring
  • John Alden Carpenter
    John Alden Carpenter

    John Alden Carpenter was a United States composer....
     - String Quartet
  • Gerald Finzi
    Gerald Finzi

    Gerald Raphael Finzi was a Great Britain composer, whose popularity has increased considerably in the years since his death....
     - Violin Concerto
  • André Fleury
    André Fleury

    Andr? Edouard Antoine Marie Fleury was a French composer, pianist, organist, and pedagogue....
     - Allegro symphonique
  • Reinhold Gličre
    Reinhold Gličre

    Reinhold Moritzevich Gli?re was a Ukraine, Soviet Union composer of Germans-Poland descent.Gli?re was the second son of the wind instrument maker Ernst Moritz Glier from Saxony, who emigrated to Kiev and married J?zefa Korczak , the daughter of his master, from Warsaw ....
     - The Red Poppy (ballet)
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky
    Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russians Soviet Union composer.Kabalevsky is regarded as one of the great modern composers of children's music....
     - Piano Sonata No. 1
  • Zoltán Kodály
    Zoltán Kodály

    Zolt?n Kod?ly ; December 16, 1882 – March 6, 1967) was a Hungary composer, ethnomusicologist, education, linguistics, and philosophy....
     - Suite Hary Janos
  • Bohuslav Martinu
    Bohuslav Martinu

    Bohuslav Martinu He became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught music in his home town. In 1923 Martinu left Czechoslovakia for Paris, and deliberately withdrew from the Romantic style in which he had been trained....
     - La Revue de Cuisine
  • Dane Rudhyar
    Dane Rudhyar

    Dane Rudhyar , born Daniel Chennevi?re, was an author, modernist composer and humanistic astrologer. He was the pioneer of modern transpersonal astrology....
     - Paeans
  • Henri Sauguet
    Henri Sauguet

    Henri Sauguet , was a France composer. Born Henri-Pierre Poupart in Bordeaux, he adopted his mother's maiden name as his pseudonym.He started learning the piano when he was just five years old, being taught by his mother, Elisabeth, and also Marie Brodier....
     - La Chatte (ballet)
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    Arnold Schoenberg

    Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
     - String Quartet No. 3
    String quartets (Schoenberg)

    The Austria composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime. These were the String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op....
  • Roger Sessions
    Roger Sessions

    Roger Huntington Sessions was an USA composer, critic and teacher of music.Born in Brooklyn, New York to a family that could trace its roots back to the American revolution, Sessions studied music at Harvard University from the age of 14....
     - Symphony No. 1
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a List of Russian composers of the Soviet Union period.After a period influenced by Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Stravinsky , Shostakovich developed a hybrid of styles as exemplified in his opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District ....
     - Symphony No. 2 in B major
    Symphony No. 2 (Shostakovich)

    Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 2 in B major, Opus 14 and subtitled To October, for the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution....
    , Op. 14
  • Igor Stravinsky
    Igor Stravinsky

    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer, considered by many to be the most influential composer of 20th century music. He was a quintessentially Cosmopolitanism Russian who was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people of the century....
     - Oedipus Rex
  • Karol Szymanowski
    Karol Szymanowski

    Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Poland composer and pianist....
     - String Quartet No. 2
  • Edgard Varčse
    Edgard Varčse

    Edgard Victor Achille Charles Var?se, whose name was also spelled Edgar Var?se , was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States....
     - Arcana (1925-27)
  • Anton Webern
    Anton Webern

    Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and Conducting. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known proponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of pitch, rhythm and dynamics were formative...
     - String Trio, Op. 20


Opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....

  • Franz Lehár
    Franz Lehár

    Franz Leh?r , known in Hungarian as Leh?r Ferenc, was an Austrian composer of Hungarian people descent, mainly known for his operettas....
     - Der Zarewitsch
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    Sergei Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer who mastered numerous musical genres and came to be admired as one of the greatest composers of the 20th century....
     - The Fiery Angel
  • Jaromír Weinberger
    Jaromír Weinberger

    Jarom?r Weinberger was a Czech American composer....
     - Švanda the Bagpiper
    Švanda the Bagpiper

    Schwanda the Bagpiper, also known as ?vanda the Bagpiper , is an opera in two acts, with music by Jarom?r Weinberger to a Czech libretto by Milo? Kare?, based on a story by Josef Kajet?n Tyl....


Musical theater

  • Burlesque Broadway production opened at the Plymouth Theatre on September 1 and ran for 372 performances
  • Clowns in Clover London
    West End theatre

    West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
     revue
    Revue

    A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatre entertainment that combines music, dance and sketch comedy. The revue has its roots in nineteenth-century American popular entertainment and melodrama, but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from ca....
     opened at the Adelphi Theatre
    Adelphi Theatre

    The Adelphi Theatre is a 1500-seat West End theatre, located on the Strand, London in the City of Westminster. The present building is the fourth on the site....
     on December 1 and ran for 508 performances
  • The Desert Song
    The Desert Song

    The Desert Song is an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, inspired by the 1925 uprising of the Riffs, a group of Morocco fighters, against French colonial rule....
     (Sigmund Romberg
    Sigmund Romberg

    Sigmund Romberg, born Zsigmond Romberg was an United States composer best known for his operettas....
    ) - London
    West End theatre

    West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York City's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English language world....
     production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre
    Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

    The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a London borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane....
     on April 7 and ran for 432 performances
  • Enchanted Isle (Music, Lyrics and Book: Ida H. Chamberlain). Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre
    Lyric Theatre (New York)

    The Lyric was a prominent theater in Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1903 and hosted such notable shows in the early decades of the 20th century as Cole Porter's Fifty Million Frenchmen....
     on September 19 and ran for 32 performances. Starring Marga Waldron and Greek Evans.
  • The Five O'Clock Girl 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. It was located on Broadway, at W. 44th Street....
     on October 10 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre
    Shubert Theatre (Broadway)

    The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 225 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York, United States.Designed by architect Henry Beaumont Herts, it was named after Sam S....
     on April 16, 1928 for a total run of 280 performances
  • Funny Face
    Funny Face (musical)

    Funny Face is a 1927 musical theater composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and book by Fred Thompson and Paul Gerard Smith....
     Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 22 and ran for 250 performances
  • Golden Dawn Broadway operetta opened at the Hammerstein Theatre on November 30 and ran for 184 performances
  • Good News!
    Good News (musical)

    Good News is a musical theatre with a book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson....
     Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on September 6 and ran for 557 performances
  • Hit The Deck (Vincent Youmans
    Vincent Youmans

    Vincent Youmans was an United States popular composer and Broadway theatre producer....
     and Clifford Grey)
    • Broadway production opened at the Belasco Theatre
      Belasco Theatre

      The Belasco Theatre is a legitimate theater Broadway theatre theatre located at 111 West 44th Street in midtown-Manhattan.Designed by architect George Keister for impresario David Belasco, the interior featured Tiffany glass lighting and ceiling panels, rich woodwork and expansive murals by American artists Everett Shinn, and a ten-room du...
       on April 25 and ran for 532 performances
    • London production opened at the Hippodrome on November 3 and ran for 277 performances
  • Just Fancy Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre
    Casino Theatre

    The Casino Theatre was a New York City Broadway theatre from 1882 to 1930 in the United States. It was located at 1404 Broadway, at W. 39th Street....
     on October 11 and ran for 79 performances. Starring Mrs Thomas Whiffen, Peggy O'Neill, Ivy Sawyer
    Ivy Sawyer

    Ivy Sawyer was an United States cabaret and ballroom dancer, singer, and theatre actress.Ivy Sawyer danced professionally with John Jarrot until she met and married fellow dancer/actor Joseph Santley....
    , Joseph Santley
    Joseph Santley

    Joseph Santley was an United States actor, singer, dancer, writer, director, and producer of musical theatre and motion pictures.Born Joseph Mansfield in Salt Lake City, Utah, he adopted the stage name of his stepfather, actor Eugene Santley....
    , Eric Blore
    Eric Blore

    Eric Blore was an England comic actor. Blore was born in Finchley , England.He worked as an insurance agent for a time. He gained theatre experience while touring Australia....
     and Raymond Hitchcock
    Raymond Hitchcock

    Raymond Edward Hitchcock is a former New Zealand first class cricketer who played in England for Warwickshire County Cricket Club.Hitchcock played two games for Canterbury before moving to England....
    .
  • The Merry Malones Broadway
    Broadway theatre

    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
     production opened at the Erlanger's Theatre on September 26 and ran for 216 performances
  • My Maryland
    My Maryland

    My Maryland is a "musical romance" with book and lyrics by Dorothy Donnelly and music by Sigmund Romberg, based on the play Barbara Frietchie by Clyde Fitch....
     Broadway production opened at the Jolson Theatre on September 12 and ran for 312 performances
  • Oh, Kay!
    Oh, Kay!

    Oh, Kay! is a musical theatre with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. It is based on the play La Presidente by Maurice Hanniquin and Pierre Veber....
     London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre
    His Majesty's Theatre

    His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen, is the largest theatre in north-east Scotland, seating over 1400. The theatre is sited on Rosemount Viaduct, opposite the City's Union Terrace Gardens....
     on September 21 and ran for 214 performances
  • One Dam Thing After Another London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre
    Pavilion Theatre

    Pavilion Theatre may refer to:*Pavilion Theatre , in Glasgow is the most prominent still existing today*Pavilion Theatre , in Bournemouth is part of the Bournemouth International Centre complex...
     on May 20
  • Peggy-Ann
    Peggy-Ann

    Peggy-Ann is a Broadway theatre musical theater comedy that opened December 27, 1926, with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Herbert Fields, based on Tillie?s Nightmare by Edgar Smith ....
     London production opened at Daly's Theatre
    Daly's Theatre

    Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937....
     on July 27 and ran for 130 performances
  • Polly of Hollywood Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on February 21 and ran for 24 performances. Starring Midge Miller.
  • Rio Rita
    Rio Rita

    Rio Rita may refer to:*Rio Rita , a 1927 musical*Rio Rita , a 1929 film starring Bebe Daniels and John Boles, with Wheeler and Woolsey as comedy relief...
     Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre
    Ziegfeld Theatre

    The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre theatre formerly located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City....
     on February 2 and ran for 494 performances
  • Show Boat
    Show Boat

    Show Boat is a musical theatre in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. One notable exception is the song Bill , which was originally written by Kern and author-lyricist P....
     (Jerome Kern
    Jerome Kern

    Jerome David Kern was an American composer of popular music. He wrote around 700 songs, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance ", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight", and "Who? ", a 6-week #1 hit for George Olsen & his Orchestra in 1925....
     and Oscar Hammerstein II
    Oscar Hammerstein II

    Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, Theatrical producer, and Theatre director of Musical theatre for almost forty years, collaborating on many of the most important pieces of musical theatre of the twentieth century....
    ) - Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre
    Ziegfeld Theatre

    The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre theatre formerly located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City....
     on December 27 and ran for 572 performances
  • The Vagabond King
    The Vagabond King

    This article is about the operetta, for the films see: The Vagabond King and The Vagabond King The Vagabond King is a 1925 operetta by Rudolf Friml, with a book and lyrics by Brian Hooker and W.H....
     London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
    Winter Garden Theatre

    The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown-Manhattan.It was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
     on April 19 and ran for 480 performances
  • The White Eagle Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre
    Casino Theatre

    The Casino Theatre was a New York City Broadway theatre from 1882 to 1930 in the United States. It was located at 1404 Broadway, at W. 39th Street....
     on December 26 and ran for 48 performances
  • Yes, Yes, Yvette Broadway
    Broadway theatre

    Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City....
     production opened at the Sam H. Harris Theatre on October 3 and ran for 40 performances


Musical film
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....

  • The Jazz Singer
    The Jazz Singer (1927 film)

    The Jazz Singer is a American musical film. The first feature film motion picture with synchronization dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "sound film" and the decline of the silent film era....
     released October 6, starring Al Jolson
    Al Jolson

    Al Jolson , born in Lithuania, Russian Empire, was a highly acclaimed American singer, comedian, and actor, and, according to PBS, the "first openly Jewish man to become an entertainment star in America." His career lasted from 1911 until his death in 1950, during which time he was commonly dubbed "the world's greatest entertainer.? Numerous...


Births

  • January 10 - Johnnie Ray
    Johnnie Ray

    John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
    , singer, pianist and songwriter (d. 1990)
  • January 17 - Eartha Kitt
    Eartha Kitt

    Eartha Mae Kitt was an American actor, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her 1953 Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavaila...
    , singer
  • January 26 - Ronnie Scott
    Ronnie Scott

    Ronnie Scott was an England jazz Tenor saxophone and jazz club owner....
    , jazz musician and club owner (d. 1996)
  • February 2:
    • Stan Getz
      Stan Getz

      Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
      , jazz musician (d. 1991)
    • Richard Maxfield
      Richard Maxfield

      Richard Maxfield was a composer of instrumental, electro-acoustic, and electronic music.Born in Seattle, he most likely taught the first University-level course in electronic music in America at the New School for Social Research....
      , composer (d. 1969)
  • February 7 - Juliette Gréco
    Juliette Gréco

    Juliette Gr?co is a France actor and popular chanson singer....
    , singer
  • February 9 - Joe Maneri
    Joe Maneri

    Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri is an United States jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. Violinist Mat Maneri is his son.After decades of obscurity, Maneri vaulted to wide praise and relative fame in the 1990s....
    , composer
  • February 10 - Leontyne Price
    Leontyne Price

    Mary Violet Leontyne Price in Laurel, Mississippi in the United States is one of America's most beloved and widely recorded operatic sopranos....
    , opera singer
  • February 27 - Guy Mitchell
    Guy Mitchell

    Guy Mitchell was a List of Croatian Americans popular music singer, was successful in his homeland as well in the United Kingdom and Australia....
    , singer (d. 1999)
  • March 3 - Junior Parker
    Junior Parker

    Junior Parker, also known as Little Junior Parker or "Mr Blues" was a successful and influential Memphis blues singer and musician....
    , blues musician (d. 1971)
  • March 16 - Ruby Braff
    Ruby Braff

    Reuben "Ruby" Braff was an United States of America jazz trumpeter and cornetist.Braff was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was renowned for working in an idiom ultimately derived from the playing of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke....
    , jazz trumpeter (d. 2003)
  • March 18 - John Kander
    John Kander

    John Harold Kander is the United States composer of a series of musical theatre successes as part of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb....
    , composer of musicals
  • March 27 - Mstislav Rostropovich
    Mstislav Rostropovich

    Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire , , known to close friends as ?Slava,? was a Russians cellist and conducting....
    , cellist (d. 2007)
  • April 6 - Gerry Mulligan
    Gerry Mulligan

    Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan was an United States jazz saxophonist, composer and arrangement.Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophone in jazz history - playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz - he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis,...
    , jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
  • April 22 - Laurel Aitken
    Laurel Aitken

    Lorenzo Aitken , better known as Laurel Aitken, was a singer and one of the originators of Jamaican ska music....
    , ska singer (d. 2005)
  • April 30 - Johnny Horton
    Johnny Horton

    Johnny Horton was an United States country music singer who was most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which launched the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s....
    , country singer (d. 1960)
  • May 1 - Gary Bertini
    Gary Bertini

    Gary Bertini was an Israeli conducting.Gary Bertini was born Shloyme Golergant in Bricheva, Bessarabia, then in Romania, now in Moldova. His father, K....
    , conductor (d. 2005)
  • June 23 - Bob Fosse
    Bob Fosse

    Robert Louis ?Bob? Fosse was an American musical theater choreographer and theatre director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction....
    , choreographer (d. 1987)
  • July 3 - Ken Russell
    Ken Russell

    Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell , is an England film director. He is known for his pioneering work in television and film and for his controversial style....
    , controversial director of composer biopics
  • July 4 - Wilfred Josephs
    Wilfred Josephs

    Wilfred Josephs was an England composer....
    , composer (d. 1997)
  • July 7:
    • Charlie Louvin
      Charlie Louvin

      Charlie Louvin is an United States country music singer and songwriter. He is best known as one of the Louvin Brothers. He is a cousin of John D....
      , country singer and songwriter
    • Doc Severinsen
      Doc Severinsen

      Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an United States popular music and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the Tonight Show Band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson....
      , jazz trumpeter
  • July 16 - Mindy Carson
    Mindy Carson

    Mindy Carson was an United States Traditional pop music singer.She was born in New York City. In 1946, still in her teens, she won an audition to the radio program, Stairway To The Stars. This gave her a chance to perform with Paul Whiteman's band and singer Martha Tilton, stars of the program....
    , singer
  • August 1 - Raymond Leppard
    Raymond Leppard

    Raymond John Leppard, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom conducting and harpsichordist.He was born in London and grew up in Bath, England, where he was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, now known as the Beechen Cliff School....
    , conductor
  • September 11 - Vernon Corea
    Vernon Corea

    Vernon Corea was a pioneer radio broadcaster with 45 years of public service broadcasting both in Sri Lanka and the UK. He joined Radio Ceylon, South Asia's oldest radio station, in 1956 and later the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation....
    , radio DJ, "Golden Voice of Radio Ceylon" (d. 2002)
  • September 25 - Sir Colin Davis
    Colin Davis

    Sir Colin Rex Davis, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire is an England Conducting. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano....
    , conductor
  • September 27 - Red Rodney
    Red Rodney

    Robert Roland Chudnick , who performed by the stage name Red Rodney, was an American bop and hard bop trumpeter.Born in Philadelphia, PA, he became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940s for Jerry Wald, Jimmy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Elliott Lawrence, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown ....
    , jazz trumpeter (d. 1994)
  • October 7 - Al Martino
    Al Martino

    Al Martino is an Italian American singing and actor. Allmusic music journalism Steve Huey states, "Martino was one of the great Italian American pop music crooners, boasting a string of hit singles and albums that stretched from the early 1950s all the way into the mid 1970s....
    , singer
  • October 25 - Barbara Cook
    Barbara Cook

    Barbara Cook is a Tony Award winning United States singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway theatre musical theatre Candide and The Music Man among others....
    , singer and actress
  • October 27 - Dominick Argento
    Dominick Argento

    Dominick Argento is an American composer, best known as a leading composer of lyric opera and choral music. Among his most prominent pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, and The Masque of Angels, and the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, the latter of wh...
    , composer
  • October 28 - Cleo Laine
    Cleo Laine

    Dame Cleo Laine Order of British Empire is a jazz singer and an actor, noted for her scat singing.She is the only female performer to have received Grammy nominations in the jazz, popular music and European classical music categories....
    , singer
  • November 8 - Patti Page
    Patti Page

    Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
    , singer
  • November 11 - Mose Allison
    Mose Allison

    Mose John Allison, Jr. is an United States Jazz piano and singer.Early lifeHe was born in Tallahatchie County, in the Mississippi Delta....
    , jazz pianist
  • November 21 - Charlie Palmieri
    Charlie Palmieri

    Charlie Palmieri, also known as "The Giant of the Keyboards" , was a renowned Bandleader and musical director of Music of Puerto Rico music....
    , salsa musician (d. 1988)
  • November 22 - Jimmy Knepper
    Jimmy Knepper

    James M. Knepper was an United States jazz trombonist.He was a good friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer Charles Mingus....
    , jazz trombonist (d. 2003)
  • December 26 - Denis Quilley
    Denis Quilley

    Denis Clifford Quilley Order of the British Empire was an England theatre, television and film actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre....
    , musical theatre actor (d. 2003)


Deaths

  • February 9 - James Warren York
    James Warren York

    James Warren York, more commonly known as J. W. York, was a musician, a businessman, a business owner, and a musical instrument innovator....
    , businessman and musical instrument maker
  • February 19 - Robert Fuchs
    Robert Fuchs

    Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
    , composer and music theorist
  • February 26 - Isabel Jay
    Isabel Jay

    Isabel Jay was an England opera singer and actress, best known for her performances in soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and in musical theatre....
    , singer and actress with the d'Oyly Carte Opera Company
    D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

    The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company was a professional light opera company that staged performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy Operas in the UK, Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia and elsewhere from the 1870s until it closed in 1982....
  • March 3 - Alberto Zelman
    Alberto Zelman

    Alberto Zelman was an Australian musician and conducting.Zelman was born in Melbourne, Australia. His father, also Alberto Zelman , was born at Trieste, Austria , of Italian parents....
    , musician and conductor
  • March 17 - James Scott Skinner
    James Scott Skinner

    James Scott Skinner was a Scottish dancing master, violinist and fiddler.Skinner was born in Banchory, near Aberdeen. His father was a dancing master on Deeside....
    , violinist
  • April 16 - Rosa Sucher
    Rosa Sucher

    Rosa Sucher , n?e Hasselbeck, was a German operatic soprano.Her debut was in Munich in 1871 as Waltraute in Die Walk?re and engagements followed in Berlin and Leipzig....
    , opera singer
  • May 3 - Ernest 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....
    , singer and songwriter (b. 1878)
  • May 4 - Jakob Aljaž
    Jakob Aljaž

    Jakob Alja? , was a Slovenes Roman Catholic priest, composer and mountaineer.Alja? was born in a small Upper Carniolan village of Zavrh pod ?marno Goro, northeast of Ljubljana, in what was then the Austrian Empire....
    , priest and composer (b. 1845)
  • May 16 - Sam Bernard
    Sam Bernard

    Sam Bernard was a renowned stage, film and vaudeville star. He also performed comic opera and burlesque.At the beginning of his acting career in vaudeville, Bernard went by Samuel Barnet, which was his given name; he changed his surname to 'Bernard' as he considered it "more ethnic." He began to explore acting in motion pictures...
    , star of vaudeville and comic opera (b. 1863)
  • May 29 - Jesse Shepard
    Jesse Shepard

    Benjamin Henry Jesse Francis Shepard was a composer and pianist, who also wrote under the pen name of Francis Grierson.He was born in Birkenhead, England, but his family migrated to Illinois, United States while Jesse was still a baby....
    , composer and pianist
  • June 5 - Paul Lacombe, composer
  • August 13
    • Hermann Abert
      Hermann Abert

      Hermann Abert was a Germany history of music....
      , music historian (b. 1871)
    • Árpád Doppler
      Árpád Doppler

      ?rp?d Doppler was a Hungary-Germany composer....
      , composer (b. 1857)
  • August 20 - Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
    Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler

    Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist....
    , pianist (b. 1863)
  • September 4 - Isadora Duncan
    Isadora Duncan

    Isadora Duncan was an American dancer. She was born Angela Isadora Duncan in San Francisco, California. Isadora Duncan is considered by many to be the mother of Modern Dance....
    , dancer (b. 1877) (strangled in freak accident)
  • October 1 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
  • November 2 - Fred Billington
    Fred Billington

    Fred Billington, was an English people singer and actor, best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company....
    , singer and actor with the d'Oyley Carte
  • November 3 - George Dallas Sherman
    George Dallas Sherman

    George Dallas Sherman was born in Richmond, Vermont on August 23, 1844 to Hathaway and Relief Sherman. In 1858, at the age of 14, he joined the Richmond Cornet Band and soon became its leader....
    , bandleader
  • November 9 - Ole Olsen
    Ole Olsen (musician)

    Ole Olsen was a Norway organist, composer, conducting and Military band....
    , organist, composer and conductor
  • November 20
    • John Stillwell Stark
      John Stillwell Stark

      John Stillwell Stark was a United States publisher of ragtime music. He is best known for publishing and promoting the music of Scott Joplin....
      , music publisher
    • Wilhelm Stenhammar
      Wilhelm Stenhammar

      Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar , was a Sweden composer, Conducting and pianist....
      , composer, pianist and conductor
  • December 21 - Courtice Pounds
    Courtice Pounds

    Charles Courtice Pounds , better known by the stage name Courtice Pounds, was an England singer and actor, known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and his later roles in Shakespeare plays and Edwardian musical comedies....
    , singer and actor with the d'Oyly Carte
  • date unknown
    • Bulbuljan, Azerbaijani folk musician (b. 1841)
    • Haldane Burgess
      Haldane Burgess

      James John Haldane Burgess is a great figure in Shetland's cultural history, being a fine poet, novelist, musician, and linguist, as well as a pioneer socialist....
      , writer and musician (b. 1862)
    • Emma Carus
      Emma Carus

      Emma Carus was a contralto singer from New York who was in the cast of the original Ziegfeld Follies in 1907. Her given name was Emma Carus Everall....
      , contralto
    • Frank Curzon
      Frank Curzon

      Frank Curzon , was an English people actor who became an important theatre manager, the lessee of the Royal Strand Theatre, the Avenue Theatre, Criterion Theatre, Comedy Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre, Wyndham's Theatre, and The Playhouse Theatre....
      , theatre manager (b. 1869)
    • Ragbaby Stevens
      Ragbaby Stevens

      Joe Stephens, generally known as "Ragbaby" or "Rag Baby Stephens", was an early New Orleans dixieland and jazz drummer. . He was the 13th and last child of Philip Stephens and his wife Catherine Kolb , both natives of Baden-Baden....
      , jazz musician
    • Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson
      Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson

      Sveinbj?rn Sveinbj?rnsson was an Icelandic composer best known for composing Lofs?ngur, the National Anthem of Iceland.Sveinbj?rn was studying divinity when he met a young Norway violinist and composer, Johan Svendsen....
      , composer
    • Abdulbagi Zulalov
      Abdulbagi Zulalov

      Bulbuljan , born Abdulbagi Ali oglu Zulalov , was an Azerbaijani singer of folk music and mugam . He was also famous for his performance of Azeri mugams in other regional languages, such as Georgian language, Armenian language, Lezgian language, Kumyk language, Persian language, and Russian language....
      , folk musician