Events

• January 26 - 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...
  
  's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande
  Pelleas und Melisande
  Pelleas und Melisande, a Symphonic Poem for orchestra, is composer Arnold Schoenberg's earliest completed orchestral work, and his opus 5. The work was completed in February 1903, when Schoenberg was 28, and was premiered on 25 January 1905 at the Musikverein in Vienna under the composer's...
  
  is premiered in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
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• January 29 - Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's Kindertotenlieder
  Kindertotenlieder
  Kindertotenlieder is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler...
  
  is premiered in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
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• October 15 - Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
  's La Mer
  La Mer (Debussy)
  La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre , or simply La mer , is an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne...
  
  is premiered in Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
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• September - The lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore
  Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
  
  's song "Amar Shonar Bangla
  Amar Shonar Bangla
  Amar Shonar Bangla is a 1905 song written and composed by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore , the first ten lines of which were adopted in 1972 as the Bangladeshi national anthem...
  
  " are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
• December 28 - Premiere of The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play,...
  
  by Franz Lehár
  Franz Lehár
  Franz Lehár was an Austrian-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow .-Biography:...
  
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• Otto Klemperer
  Otto Klemperer
  Otto Klemperer was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the leading conductors of the 20th century.-Biography:Otto Klemperer was born in Breslau, Silesia Province, then in Germany...
  
   meets Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
   for the first time, while conducting one of his works.

Published popular music

• "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
• "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
• "Bandana Land" by Glen MacDonough
  Glen MacDonough
  Glen MacDonough was a US American writer, lyricist and librettist. He was the son of theater manager Thomas B. MacDonough and actress/author Laura Don...
  
  
• "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
• "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich 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"....
  
  
• "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
• "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
• "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
• "College Life" m. Hery Frantzen
• "Come Clean
  Come Clean (rag)
  New Orleans ragtime composer Paul Sarebresole published Come Clean in 1905. , it is still performed by groups such as the New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra....
  
  " by Paul Sarebresole
  Paul Sarebresole
  Paul Sarebresole was an early composer of ragtime music.Sarebresole was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His French ancestors spelled the family name "Sarrebresolles"....
  
  
• "Daddy's Little Girl" w. Edward Madden
  Edward Madden
  Edward Madden was an American lyricist.Madden was born in New York City and graduated from Fordham University. After graduation he wrote material for many singers including Fanny Brice and for vaudeville acts...
  
   m. Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse
  Theodore F. Morse was an American composer of popular songs.Born in Washington D.C., Morse was educated at the Maryland Military & Naval Academy. He went on to study both violin and piano. He and his wife, Theodora Morse, became a successful songwriting team for Tin Pan Alley...
  
  
• "Dearie" w.m. Clare Kummer
• "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John Heinzman & Otto Heinzman
• "Everybody Works But Father
  Everybody Works but Father
  "Everybody Works but Father" is a popular song published in 1905, with words and music by Jean Havez. It is sung from the point of view of the son, lamenting that he, his sister and his mother all work, while his father lounges all day: "Everybody works at our house but my old man."The song was...
  
  " w.m. Jean Havez
• "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
   from the musical
  Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
  Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. The play's title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway....
  
   of the same name.
• "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
• "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
• "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
• "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" Schwartz
• "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Happy Heine" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
  J. Bodewalt Lampe
  Jens Bodewalt Lampe was a Danish-born American composer, arranger, performer and band-leader of ragtime and syncopated dance music. With the exception of Scott Joplin, Lampe was possibly the most famous composer of ragtime songs of the early-20th century.Lampe was born in Ribe, Denmark to...
  
  
• "He's Me Pal" w. Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
• "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska 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...
  
  
• "I Don't Care" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
• "I Love A Lassie" w. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
   & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
  
• "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
• "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" 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...
  
  
• "I'm Getting Sleepy" w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander
• "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
• "In Dear Old Georgia" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne
• "In My Merry Oldsmobile
  In My Merry Oldsmobile
  "In My Merry Oldsmobile" is a popular song from 1905, with music by Gus Edwards and lyrics by Vincent P. Bryan.The song's chorus is one of the most enduring automobile-oriented songs...
  
  " w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
  In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
  In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree is a popular song dating from 1905. It was written by Harry Williams and Egbert Van Alstyne .The meter of its chorus is in the form of a Limerick.It can safely be characterized as a highly sentimental tune...
  
  " w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
  Egbert Van Alstyne
  Egbert Anson Van Alstyne was a United States songwriter and pianist. Van Alstyne was the composer of a number of popular and ragtime tunes from the early 20th century.He was born in Marengo, Illinois...
  
  
• "The Irish Girl I Love" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
• "Is Everybody Happy ?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
• "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
• "It's Allus De Same In Dixie" Cook
• "I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" Farrell, Silver
• "I've Sweethearts In Every Port" Keith
• "Jolly Pickaninnies" m. Ernst Rueffe
• "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Kiss Me Again" w. Henry Blossom
  Henry Blossom
  Henry Martyn Blossom was the lyricist for several Victor Herbert musicals, including The Yankee Consul , Mlle. Modiste , The Red Mill , Eileen , and Kiss Me Again , and was a master at puzzle solving and cipher writing.Born in St...
  
   m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
• "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  . From the musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
  Forty-five Minutes from Broadway
  Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. The play's title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway....
  
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• "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" Brady, Johnston, Frantzen
• "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson 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"....
  
  
• "Moonlight" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
• "My Dusky Rose" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
• "My Gal Sal" w.m. Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
• "My Irish Molly O" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Nellie Dean
  Nellie Dean
  " Nellie Dean" is a sentimental ballad in common time by Henry W. Armstrong, published in 1905 by M. Witmark & Sons of New York City...
  
  " Henry W. Armstrong
  Henry W. Armstrong
  Henry W. "Harry" Armstrong was a U.S. boxer, booking agent, producer, singer, pianist and Tin Pan Alley composer.His biggest hit was "Sweet Adeline", written in 1903 with Richard H. Gerard...
  
  
• "Nobody
  Nobody (1905 song)
  "Nobody" is a popular song with music by Bert Williams and lyrics by Alex Rogers, published in 1905.The song premiered in February 1906, in the Broadway production "Abyssinia." The show, which included live camels, premiered at the Majestic Theater and continued the string of hits for the...
  
  " w. Alex Rogers m. Bert A. Williams
• "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. William Jerome
  William Jerome
  William Jerome was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery...
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" w. William Cahill m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Paddy's Day" Fogarty, Mullen
• "Parade Of The Tin Soldiers" later known as "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
  Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
  Parade of the Wooden Soldiers is a 1933 Fleischer Studios animated short film starring Betty Boop. It is now public domain.The instrumental title theme, "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" , was composed by Leon Jessel.-Synopsis:A large factory complex struggles to produce a single package, which is...
  
  " m. Leon Jessel
  Leon Jessel
  Leon Jessel, or Léon Jessel was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today he is best known internationally as the composer of the popular jaunty march "The Parade of the Tin Soldiers," also known as "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers." Jessel was a prolific composer...
  
  
• "Peaches And Cream" m. Percy Wenrich
  Percy Wenrich
  Percy Wenrich was a United States composer of ragtime and popular music.Born in Joplin, Missouri, he left for Chicago in 1901 and moved on to New York City around 1907 to work as a Tin Pan Alley composer, but his music retains a Missouri folk flavor...
  
  
• "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb 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"....
  
  
• "Pretty Desdamone" w.m. F. Collins Wildman
• "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
• "Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry H. Williams m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  

• "Say Yes, Honey, Do" by Sara E. Posey
• "She Is My Daisy" w.m. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
   & J. D. Harper
• "Silence And Fun" Mullen
• "Since Nellie Went Away" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
• "So Long Mary" w.m. George M. Cohan
  George M. Cohan
  George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
  
  
• "Tammany" w. Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent P. Bryan
  Vincent Patrick Bryan was a composer and lyricist.In the 1903-1909 production of The Wizard of Oz he was called upon to introduce new songs in numerous revisions.*with Theodore F. Morse...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
• "The Umpire Is A Most Unhappy Man" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
• "Violette" w. Dolly Jardon m. J. B. Mullen
• "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" w. Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling
  Andrew B. Sterling was an American lyricist.Born in New York City, after he graduated from high school, he began writing songs and vaudevilles. An important event was his meeting with the composer Harry Von Tilzer in 1898...
  
   m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Waiting At The Church" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
• "Waltzing With The Girl You Love" w.m. George Evans & Ren Shields
  Ren Shields
  Ren Shields was an American folk musician born in 1868 in Chicago, Illinois. He died on 25 October 1913 in Massapequa, New York. He co-wrote the song "In the Good Old Summer Time"....
  
  
• "When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "Where The River Shannon Flows" w.m. James J. Russell
• "The Whistler And His Dog" m. Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Pryor
  Arthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. In later life, he was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.Pryor was born on the second floor of...
  
  
• "The Whole Damm Family" Smith, Von Tilzer
• "Why Don't You Try?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne
• "Will You Love Me In December" w. James J. Walker 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....
  
  
• "A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  

Classical music

• Hugo Alfvén
  Hugo Alfvén
  was a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...
  
   - Symphony No. 3 in E major
• Claude Debussy
  Claude Debussy
  Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
  
   - La mer
  La Mer (Debussy)
  La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre , or simply La mer , is an orchestral composition by the French composer Claude Debussy. It was started in 1903 in France and completed in 1905 on the English Channel coast in Eastbourne...
  
  
• Edward Elgar
  Edward Elgar
  Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
  
   - Introduction and Allegro for Strings
  Introduction and Allegro (Elgar)
  Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op. 47, was composed in 1905 for performance in an all-Elgar concert by the newly formed London Symphony Orchestra. Scored for string quartet and string orchestra, Elgar composed it to show off the players' virtuosity. Though initial critical...
  
  
• Nikolai Medtner
  Nikolai Medtner
  Nikolai Karlovich Medtner was a Russian composer and pianist.A younger contemporary of Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin, he wrote a substantial number of compositions, all of which include the piano...
  
   - Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
• 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...
  
   - Søvnen
  Søvnen
  Søvnen , for chorus and orchestra, Opus 18, is Carl Nielsen's second major choral work. It was first performed at the Music Society in Copenhagen on 21 March 1905 under the baton of the composer.-Background:...
  
  (The Sleep)
• Vítězslav Novák
  Vítezslav Novák
  Vítězslav Novák was one of the most well-respected Czech composers and pedagogues, almost singlehandedly founding a mid-century Czech school of composition...
  
   - Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
• Maurice Ravel
  Maurice Ravel
  Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
  
   - Introduction et Allegro
  Introduction and Allegro (Ravel)
  Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet was written by Maurice Ravel in 1905...
  
  , for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
• 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...
  
   - String Quartet No. 1
  String quartets (Schoenberg)
  The Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime. These were the String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 , String Quartet No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 10 , String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 , and the String Quartet No. 4, Op...
  
  , op. 7 in D minor.
• Anton Webern
  Anton Webern
  Anton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. 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 exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
  
   - Langsamer Satz, String Quartet in one movement
• Haydn Wood
  Haydn Wood
  Haydn Wood was a 20th century English composer and a respected violinist.-Life:Haydn Wood was born in the Yorkshire town of Slaithwaite on 25 March 1882...
  
   - Phantasy String Quartet

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

• Frederick Converse
  Frederick Converse
  Frederick Shepherd Converse , was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:Converse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Edmund Winchester and Charlotte Augusta Converse. His father was a successful merchant, and president of the National Tube Works and the Conanicut Mills...
  
   - The Pipe of Desire
• Leo Fall
  Leo Fall
  Leo Fall was an Austrian composer of operettas.-Life:Born in Olmütz , Leo Fall was taught by his father Moritz Fall , a bandmaster and composer, who settled in Berlin. The younger Fall studied at the Vienna Conservatory before rejoining his father in Berlin...
  
   - Irrlicht
• Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla
  Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
  
   - La Vida breve (Libretto by Fernández Shaw)
• Franz Lehár
  Franz Lehár
  Franz Lehár was an Austrian-Hungarian composer. He is mainly known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow .-Biography:...
  
   - Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play,...
  
  ) (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein
  Leo Stein
  Leo Stein was an American art collector and critic. He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the older brother of Gertrude Stein. He became an influential promoter of 20th-century paintings. Beginning in 1892, he studied at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for two years. The...
  
  , after the play L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac
  Henri Meilhac
  Henri Meilhac , was a French dramatist and opera librettist.-Biography:Meilhac was born in Paris in 1831. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront...
  
  )
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
  
   - Chérubin (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
• Leopoldo Mugnone
  Leopoldo Mugnone
  Leopoldo Mugnone was an Italian conductor, especially of opera, whose most famous work was done in the period 1890-1920, both in Europe and South America...
  
   - Vita Bretone
• Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
   - Salome
  Salome (opera)
  Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer....
  
  (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
  )

Musical theater

• The Babes and the Baron Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (New York)
  The Lyric Theatre was a prominent Broadway theatre built in 1903 in Manhattan, New York City in the 42nd Street Theatre District. It had two entrances, one at 213 West 42nd Street and another at 214-26 West 43rd Street and was one of the few New York houses that had two formal entrances. In 1934,...
  
   on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
• The Catch of the Season
  The Catch of the Season
  The Catch of the Season is an Edwardian musical comedy by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, with music by Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor, based on the fairy tale Cinderella...
  
  Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre
  Daly's Theatre was a theatre in the City of Westminster. It was located at 2 Cranbourn Street, just off Leicester Square. It opened on 27 June 1893, and was demolished in 1937.-Early years:...
  
   on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
• The Earl and the Girl
  The Earl and the Girl
  The Earl and the Girl is a musical comedy in two acts by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll. It was produced by William Greet and opened at the Adelphi Theatre in London on 10 December 1903. It transferred to the Lyric Theatre on 12 September 1904, running for...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
• Fantana Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (New York)
  The Lyric Theatre was a prominent Broadway theatre built in 1903 in Manhattan, New York City in the 42nd Street Theatre District. It had two entrances, one at 213 West 42nd Street and another at 214-26 West 43rd Street and was one of the few New York houses that had two formal entrances. In 1934,...
  
   on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
• Lifting the Lid Broadway production opened at the Aerial Gardens Theatre on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
• Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow
  The Merry Widow is an operetta by the Austro–Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's attempt to keep her money in the principality by finding her the right husband – on an 1861 comedy play,...
  
  ) Vienna production
• Miss Dolly Dollars
  Miss Dolly Dollars
  Miss Dolly Dollars is a musical comedy written in two acts with the book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith and music by Victor Herbert. The musical concerns a wealthy American girl in Europe, who is sought after by bankrupt aristocrats...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on September 4 and moved to the New Amsterdam Theatre
  New Amsterdam Theatre
  The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square...
  
   on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
• Mlle. Modiste
  Mlle. Modiste
  Mlle. Modiste is an operetta in two acts written by Victor Herbert, libretto by Henry Blossom. It concerns hat shop girl Fifi, who longs to be an opera singer, but who is such a good hat seller that her employer, Mme. Cecil discourages her in her ambitions and exploits her commercial talents...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
• The Rogers Brothers in Ireland Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
• The Rollicking Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre
  Olympia Theatre (New York)
  The Olympia Theatre , also known as Hammerstein's Olympia, was a theatre complex built by impresario Oscar Hammerstein I in Longacre Square , New York City, opening in 1895. It consisted of a theatre, a music hall, a concert hall, and a roof garden...
  
   on April 16, 1906 for a total run of 199 performances
• Sergeant Brue Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
• The Spring Chicken
  The Spring Chicken
  The Spring Chicken is an English musical comedy adapted by George Grossmith, Jr. from Coquin de Printemps by Jaime and Duval, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and Grossmith, produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre, opening on 30 May...
  
  London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
• When We Were Forty-One Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
• Wonderland Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 24 and ran for 73 performances

Births

• January 2 - Michael Tippett
  Michael Tippett
  Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...
  
  , composer
• January 8 - Giacinto Scelsi
  Giacinto Scelsi
  Giacinto Scelsi , Count of Ayala Valva was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French....
  
  , composer
• January 12 - Tex Ritter
  Tex Ritter
  Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...
  
  , actor, singer (d. 1974)
• January 24 - Elena Nicolai
  Elena Nicolai
  Stoyanka Savova Nikolova, more famous by her stage name Elena Nicolai , was a Bulgarian mezzo-soprano and opera singer.-Biography:...
  
  , opera singer
• January 26 - Maria von Trapp
  Maria von Trapp
  Maria Augusta von Trapp , also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers...
  
  , singer (d. 1987)
• February 11 - William Henry "Chick" Webb
  Chick Webb
  William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader.-Biography:...
  
  , drummer (d. 1939)
• February 15 - Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen
  Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
  
  , popular composer
• February 17 - Orville "Hoppy" Jones, The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots
  The Ink Spots were a popular vocal group in the 1930s and 1940s that helped define the musical genre that led to rhythm and blues and rock and roll, and the subgenre doo-wop...
  
   singer
• March 6 - Bob Wills
  Bob Wills
  James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
  
  , country music singer (d. 1975)
• March 11 - Michael Carr
  Michael Carr (composer)
  Michael Carr , real name Maurice Alfred Cohen, was a British light music composer born in Leeds. He is best remembered for the song "South of the Border ", written with Jimmy Kennedy for the 1939 film of the same name.Among Carr's other compositions were The Shadows instrumental hits "Man of...
  
  , composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
• March 15 – Harold Loeffelmacher
  Harold Loeffelmacher
  Harold Loeffelmacher was an American musician and bandleader best known for forming the polka band known as the Six Fat Dutchmen. The band, based in New Ulm, Minnesota, traveled extensively and played as many as 335 dates per year, mostly in the Midwestern United States...
  
  , musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen
  Six Fat Dutchmen
  The Six Fat Dutchmen was a polka band formed around 1932 by Harold Loeffelmacher in New Ulm, Minnesota. The band was known mostly for playing the "Oom-pah" style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia...
  
   (d. 1987)
• March 23 - Lale Andersen
  Lale Andersen
  Lale Andersen was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Bremerhaven, Germany. She is best known for her interpretation of the song "Lili Marleen" in 1939, which became tremendously popular on both sides during the Second World War.- Early life :She was born in Lehe and baptized Liese-Lotte...
  
  , singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
• May 2 - Alan Rawsthorne
  Alan Rawsthorne
  Alan Rawsthorne was a British composer. He was born in Haslingden, Lancashire, and is buried in Thaxted churchyard in Essex.-Career:...
  
  , composer (d. 1971)
• May 8 - Red Nichols
  Red Nichols
  Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols was an American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader.Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett describes him as "an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is...
  
  , US bandleader and cornettist
• June 13 - Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter
• June 18 - Eduard Tubin
  Eduard Tubin
  -Life:Tubin was born in Torila, Governorate of Livonia, Estonia. Both his parents were music lovers, and his father played trumpet and trombone in the village band. His first taste of music came at school where he learned flute and balalaika. Later, his father swapped a cow for a piano, and the...
  
  , Estonia
  Estonia
  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
  
  n composer (d. 1982)
• July 10 - Ivie Anderson
  Ivie Anderson
  Ivie Anderson was an American jazz singer. She was best-known for her performances with Duke Ellington's orchestra between 1931 and 1942....
  
  , US jazz singer
• July 15 - Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields
  Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films...
  
  , US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974)
• August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  Karl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.-Life:...
  
  , composer (d. 1963)
• August 8 - André Jolivet
  André Jolivet
  André Jolivet was a French composer. Known for his devotion to French culture and musical thought, Jolivet's music draws on his interest in acoustics and atonality as well as both ancient and modern influences in music, particularly on instruments used in ancient times...
  
  , composer (d. 1974)
• August 23 - Constant Lambert
  Constant Lambert
  Leonard Constant Lambert was a British composer and conductor.-Early life:Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music...
  
  , composer (d. 1951)
• August 29 - Jack Teagarden
  Jack Teagarden
  Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden , known as "Big T" and "The Swingin' Gate", was an influential jazz trombonist, bandleader, composer, and vocalist, regarded as the "Father of Jazz Trombone".-Early life:...
  
  , jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)
• November 7 - William Alwyn
  William Alwyn
  William Alwyn, CBE, born William Alwyn Smith was an English composer, conductor, and music teacher.-Life and music:...
  
  , composer (d. 1985)
• November 15 - Annunzio Mantovani
  Mantovani
  Annunzio Paolo Mantovani known as Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book British Hit Singles & Albums states that he was "Britain's most successful album act before The Beatles .....
  
   Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
• November 19 - Tommy Dorsey
  Tommy Dorsey
  Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey, Jr. was an American jazz trombonist, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing", due to his smooth-toned trombone playing. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey...
  
  , jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey
  Jimmy Dorsey
  James "Jimmy" Dorsey was a prominent American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and big band leader. He was known as "JD"...
  
   (d. 1956)
• November 21 - Ted Ray
  Ted Ray (comedian)
  Ted Ray was a popular English comedian of the 1940s, 50s and 60s....
  
  , comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
• November 24 - Harry Barris
  Harry Barris
  Harry Barris was an American popular singer and songwriter.Born in New York City, he was a member of the Rhythm Boys, a late 1920s singing trio which included Al Rinker and Bing Crosby, and was Crosby's entry into show business...
  
  , US singer, composer and pianist
• December 31 - Jule Styne
  Jule Styne
  Jule Styne was a British-born American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows.-Early life:...
  
  , composer

Deaths

• January 4 - Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
• January 10 - Kārlis Baumanis
  Karlis Baumanis
  Kārlis Baumanis , better known as Baumaņu Kārlis, was a Latvian composer. He is the author of the lyrics and music of Dievs, svētī Latviju! , the national anthem of Latvia....
  
  , composer (b. 1835)
• February 12 - Edward Dannreuther
  Edward Dannreuther
  Edward Dannreuther was a German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. He trained as a musician at the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles, a severe critic of the music of Wagner and Franz Liszt...
  
  , pianist (b. 1844)
• April 12 - Giuseppe Gariboldi
  Giuseppe Gariboldi
  Giuseppe Gariboldi was an Italian flautist and composer....
  
  , flautist and composer (b. 1833)
• April 29 - Ignacio Cervantes
  Ignacio Cervantes
  Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh was a Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music....
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• May 13 - Sam S. Shubert
  Sam S. Shubert
  Samuel S. Shubert was a Polish-born American producer and theatre owner/operator. He was the middle son in the Shubert family and was raised in Syracuse, New York.-Biography:...
  
  , Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
• May 14 - Jessie Bartlett Davis
  Jessie Bartlett Davis
  Jessie Bartlett Davis was an American operatic singer and actress from Morris, Illinois, who was billed as "America's Representative Contralto".-Opera and acting:...
  
  , operatic contralto (b. 1859)
• May 15 - Andrey Schulz-Evler
  Andrey Schulz-Evler
  Adolf or Andrey or Adolf Andrey Schulz-Evler was a Polish-born composer.Born in Radom, Poland , he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory, then under Carl Tausig in Berlin. From 1884 to 1904 he taught at the Kharkiv Music School.He wrote about 52 pieces, most of which are now forgotten...
  
  , composer and arranger (b. 1852)
• May 31 - Franz Strauss
  Franz Strauss
  Franz Joseph Strauss was a German musician. He was a composer, a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the guitar, clarinet and viola...
  
  , musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
   (b. 1822)
• July 8 - Walter Kittredge
  Walter Kittredge
  Walter Kittredge , was a famous musician during the American Civil War.Born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, the tenth of eleven children, Kittredge was a talented self-taught musician who played the seraphine, the melodeon , and the violin. Kittredge toured solo and with the Hutchinson Family, a...
  
  , self-taught musician (b. 1834)
• August 31 - Francesco Tamagno
  Francesco Tamagno
  Francesco Tamagno was an operatic tenor from Italy who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. On 5 February 1887, he cemented his place in musical history by creating the role of Otello in Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece of the same name...
  
  , operatic tenor (b. 1850)
• September 2 - Célestine Marié
  Célestine Marié
  Célestine Galli-Marié was a French mezzo-soprano most famous for creating the title role in the opera Carmen.-Career:...
  
  , mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1840)
• date unknown
  • Belle Cole
    Belle Cole
    Belle Cole was a well-known American contralto.She first achieved success while on a transcontinental tour of the United States with Theodore Thomas in 1883. She later sang in England, performing at The Crystal Palace and many other venues. In 1901, she toured Australia. It is said that musical...
    
    , operatic contralto (b. 1845)
  • Luigi Manzotti
    Luigi Manzotti
    Luigi Manzotti was an Italian mime dancer and choreographer.Born in Milan, Manzotti created his first ballet in 1858 and his subsequent productions were performed around the world. Today he is best remembered for his choreography of the ballet Excelsior , music by Romualdo Marenco.-External links:...
    
    , choreographer (b. 1835)
  • Ernst Pauer
    Ernst Pauer
    Ernst Pauer was an Austrian pianist, composer and educator.Pauer formed a direct link with great Viennese traditions: he was born in Vienna, his mother was a member of the famous Streicher family of piano makers, and for a time he was a piano pupil of Mozart's son, F. X. W. Mozart and a...
    
    , pianist (b. 1826)