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• Tom Brown
  Tom Brown (trombonist)
  Tom Brown , sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown, was an early New Orleans dixieland jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally....
  
  's band from New Orleans goes to Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band"
• Herbert Howells
  Herbert Howells
  Herbert Norman Howells CH was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.-Life:...
  
   is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).
• The ukulele
  Ukulele
  The ukulele, ; from ; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings....
  
   becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

Published popular music

• "Alabama Jubilee" w.m. Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
   & George L. Cobb
  George L. Cobb
  George Linus Cobb was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes. Jack Yellen was a frequent lyricist for the songs.Entering Syracuse University in 1905, his first...
  
  
• "All For You" 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...
  
  
• "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
• "Araby" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Are You From Dixie?" w.m. Jack Yellen
  Jack Yellen
  Jack Selig Yellen was an American lyricist and screenwriter.-Life and career:Born in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school...
  
   & George L. Cobb
  George L. Cobb
  George Linus Cobb was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes. Jack Yellen was a frequent lyricist for the songs.Entering Syracuse University in 1905, his first...
  
  
• "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
• "The Army Of Today's All Right" w.m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh
• "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
  
  , from the musical
  Musical theatre
  Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
  
   The Blue Paradise
  The Blue Paradise
  The Blue Paradise is a musical with music by Edmund Eysler and Sigmund Romberg, lyrics by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta Ein Tag im Paradies by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. The story is set in a Viennese cafe, where a man realizes...
  
  
• "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & 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...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi
• "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
  , & James V. Monaco
• "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser
  Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser
  Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser was a popular British patriotic song of the First World War. It was released on October 6, 1914 by Mark Sheridan and references the 1914 campaign in Belgium when the small British Expeditionary Force managed to delay the much larger German army, slowing them...
  
  " w.m. Mark Sheridan
  Mark Sheridan
  Mark Sheridan born Frederick Shaw was an English music hall comedian and singer. He became a popular singer of lusty seaside songs and was the original performer of the 1909 J.Glover-Kind classic, "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside"...
  
  
• "Blame It On The Blues" Cooke
• "Canadian Capers
  Canadian Capers
  "Canadian Capers" is a popular tune, written by Earl Burtnett, Gus Chandler, Bert White, and Henry Cohen in 1915....
  
  " w. Earl Burnett m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
• "Close To My Heart" by A.B. Sterling
• "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
• "Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan
• "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
  
  
• "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay, Brown
• "Georgia Grind" w.m. Spencer Williams
  Spencer Williams
  Spencer Williams was an American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. He is best known for his hit songs "Basin Street Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Tishomingo Blues", "Careless Love", and many...
  
  
• "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch
• "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?
  Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?
  Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? is a song written in 1915, by Jean Schwartz, Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie.The song refers to one of Marconi's then-new radio-oriented inventions, the Wireless Telephone, which became publicly available that year...
  
  " w. Bert Kalmar
  Bert Kalmar
  Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business...
  
   & Edgar Leslie 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...
  
  
• "The Hesitating Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
  W. C. Handy
  William Christopher Handy was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues"....
  
  
• "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron
  Armand J. Piron
  Armand John "A.J." Piron was an American jazz violinist, band leader, and composer.In 1915, Piron and Williams together started the Piron and Williams Publishing Company, and in their first year of business published Piron's composition, “I Wish That I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate”, which...
  
  
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier
  I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
  "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" is an American anti-war song that was influential within the pacifist movement that existed in the United States before it entered World War I...
  
  " w. Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan
  Alfred Bryan was a United States songwriter and pacifist.-Songs:His hits included*"Peg O' My Heart"*"Come Josephine in My Flying Machine"*"I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier"...
  
   m. Al Piantadosi
• "I Love A Piano" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" 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...
  
  
• "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Hermann Darewski
• "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
• "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" 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...
  
   & E. Ray Goetz
  E. Ray Goetz
  Edward Ray Goetz was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. Goetz appeared in the films Somebody Loves Me , The Greatest Show On Earth and For Me And My Gal . He wrote the songs "Toddling The Todalo" and "For...
  
   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...
  
  
• "In A Monastery Garden" m. Albert William Ketèlbey
• "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara & J. Keirn Brennan
  J. Keirn Brennan
  J. Keirn Brennan was an American songwriter. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914 and collaborated with many notable songwriters...
  
   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....
  
  
• "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. Richard A. Whiting
  Richard A. Whiting
  Richard Armstrong Whiting was a composer of popular songs including the standards, "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?" & "On the Good Ship Lollipop"....
  
  
• "I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River
  I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River
  I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River is a 1915 song with words by Bert Kalmar and music by Joe Cooper.The song is sung from the point of view of a husband who has to explain to his wife why he stayed out until 4:30 in the morning. The tag line in the lyric is:The song is a play on words, as...
  
  " w. Bert Kalmar
  Bert Kalmar
  Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist.He was born in New York, New York. He ran away from home at the age of 10 to become a magician at a tent show, and retained an interest in magic all his life. He never got much of an education, but decided to make a career in show business...
  
   m. Joe Cooper
• "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" 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. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. Raymond Hubbell
• "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
• "Love Is The Best Of All" 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...
  
  
• "Love, Here Is My Heart" w. Adrian Ross
  Adrian Ross
  For the NFL player see Adrian Ross Arthur Reed Ropes , better known under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, was a prolific writer of lyrics, contributing songs to more than sixty British musical comedies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
   m. Lãu Silésu
• "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene 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...
  
  
• "Memories
  Memories (1915 song)
  "Memories" is a popular song with music by Egbert Van Alstyne and lyrics by Gus Kahn, published in 1915.The song has become a pop standard, recorded by many people over the years. John Barnes Wells may have made the first recording in 1916. Henry Burr also did a recording in 1916, as Harry...
  
  " w. Gustave Kahn
  Gustave Kahn
  Gustave Kahn was a French Symbolist poet and art critic.Kahn was born in Metz.He claimed to have invented the term vers libre, or free verse; he was in any case one of the first European exponents of the form. His principal publications include Les Palais nomades, 1887, Domaine de fée, 1895, and...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Molly Dear It's You I'm After" w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether
• "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (lyricist)
  Howard Johnson was a song lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.Songwriter , author and lyricist, Johnson was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York. He was educated in high school and in private music study...
  
   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...
  
  
• "My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon 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"....
  
  
• "My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "My Sweet Adair" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert
  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  Louis Wolfe Gilbert was a Russian-born American songwriter.-Biography:Born in Odessa, Russian Empire, Gilbert moved to the United States as a young man and eventually established himself as one of the leading songwriters on Tin Pan Alley.Gilbert began his career touring with John L...
  
   & Anatole Friedland
• "Neapolitan Love Song" w. Henry Blossom Jr 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...
  
  
• "Nola" m.Felix Arndt
  Felix Arndt
  Felix Arndt was an American pianist and composer of popular music. His mother was the Countess Fevrier, related to Napoleon III....
  
  
• "Norway" by Joe McCarthy
• "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai
• "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
  Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag
  "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag, and Smile, Smile, Smile" is the full name of a World War I marching song, published in 1915 in London. It was written by George Henry Powell under the pseudonym of "George Asaf", and set to music by his brother Felix Powell...
  
  " w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell
• "Paper Doll
  Paper doll
  Paper dolls are figures cut out of paper, with separate clothes that are usually held onto the dolls by folding tabs. They have been inexpensive children's toys for almost two hundred years. Today, many artists are turning paper dolls into an art form....
  
  " w.m. Johnny S. Black
• "The Perfect Song" w. Clarence Lucas
  Clarence Lucas
  Clarence Lucas , was a Canadian composer, lyricist, conductor, and music professor.Lucas was born at Six Nations Reserve, Ontario and was a student of Romain-Octave Pelletier I. He taught at the Toronto College of Music, taught in Utica, New York, and was the musical director at Wesleyan Ladies...
  
   m. Joseph Carl Breil
  Joseph Carl Breil
  Joseph Carl Breil was an American lyric tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. He was one of the earliest American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures. His first film was Les amours de la reine Élisabeth starring Sarah Bernhardt...
  
  
• "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. Elsa Maxwell
  Elsa Maxwell
  Elsa Maxwell was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day....
  
  
• "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole
• "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w. Harold J. Atteridge m. Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg
  Sigmund Romberg was a Hungarian-born American composer, best known for his operettas.-Biography:Romberg was born as Siegmund Rosenberg to a Jewish family in Gross-Kanizsa during the Austro-Hungarian kaiserlich und königlich monarchy period...
  
   from the revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   A World of Pleasure
• "Railroad Jim" by Nat H. Vincent
• "Ritual Fire Dance" m. 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....
  
  
• "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen 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....
  
  
• "Siam" w. Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (lyricist)
  Howard Johnson was a song lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.Songwriter , author and lyricist, Johnson was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York. He was educated in high school and in private music study...
  
   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...
  
  
• "So Long Letty" by Earl Carroll
  Earl Carroll
  Earl Carroll was an American theatrical producer, director, songwriter and composer born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Career:...
  
  
• "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein. Introduced by Roy Atwell
  Roy Atwell
  Jay Leroy Atwell was an American actor, comedian, and composer. He was educated at the Sargent School of Acting, and appeared in 34 films between 1914 and 1947. He is probably famous for his voice performance as Doc the Head Dwarf in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
  
   in the musical Alone at Last.
• "Some Sort Of Somebody" w. Elsie Janis
  Elsie Janis
  Elsie Janis was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" .-Early career:...
  
   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...
  
  
• "Song Of The Islands" w.m. Charles E. King
• "That Hula Hula" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
• "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson
  Howard Johnson (lyricist)
  Howard Johnson was a song lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.Songwriter , author and lyricist, Johnson was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and died in New York, New York. He was educated in high school and in private music study...
  
   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...
  
  
• "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "Underneath The Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer
• "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "When I Get Back To The USA" w.m Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "When I Leave The World Behind" w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" w.m. Charles McCarron & Nat Vincent
• "When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi
• "Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" David, Barnett & Darewski
• "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" by Shelton Brooks
  Shelton Brooks
  Shelton Brooks was a popular music and jazz composer who wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century.Brooks was born in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada...
  
  
• "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
  Jerome Kern
  Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
  
  
• "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" 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...
  
  

Hit recordings

• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
  Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
  "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" is a song which was written by James A. Bland , an African American minstrel who wrote over 700 folk songs...
  
  " by Alma Gluck
  Alma Gluck
  Alma Gluck was a Romanian-born American soprano, one of the world's most famous female singers at the peak of her career .-Life and career:...
  
  
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" by John McCormack
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey
  Morton Harvey
  Morton Harvey was an American vaudeville performer and singer who had a moderately successful recording career during the 1910s....
  
  

Classical music

• 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...
  
   - En blanc et noir
• Jesús Guridi
  Jesús Guridi
  Jesús Guridi Bidaola was a Spanish Basque composer, and is a key player in the Spanish and Basque music of the twentieth century. His style fits into what we might call the late romantic stamp, directly inherited from Wagner, and with a strong influence from the Basque culture...
  
   - Así cantan los chicos
• Federico Mompou
  Federico Mompou
  Frederic Mompou i Dencausse was a Catalan Spanish composer and pianist. He is best known for his solo piano music and his songs.-Life:...
  
   - L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)
• Max Reger
  Max Reger
  Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
  
   - String Trio No. 2 in D minor Op. 141b
• Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
   - String Quartets 1 & 2
• Manuel M. Ponce-Balada Mexicana
  Balada Mexicana
  Balada Mexicana is a 1915 musical composition by Mexican composer Manuel M. Pounce....
  
  

Opera

• Umberto Giordano
  Umberto Giordano
  Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Puglia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples...
  
   - Madame Sans-Gene
• Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
  
   - Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)

Musical theater

• Alone at Last Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre
  Shubert Theatre (Broadway)
  The Shubert Theatre is a Broadway 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. Shubert, the second oldest of the three brothers of the theatrical producing family...
  
   on October 14 and ran for 180 performances
• Betty
  Betty (musical)
  Betty is an English musical in three acts, with a book by Frederick Lonsdale and Gladys Unger, music by Paul Rubens and Ernest Steffan, and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Rubens. It was first produced at the Prince's Theatre in Manchester, opening on December 24, 1914, then at Daly's Theatre in London,...
  
  London production opened at Daly's Theatre on April 24 and ran for 391 performances
• Bric-A-Brac
  Bric-a-brac
  Bric-à-brac , first used in the Victorian era, refers to collections of curios such as elaborately decorated teacups and small vases, feathers, wax flowers under glass domes, eggshells, statuettes, painted miniatures or photographs, and so on...
  
  London production opened at the Palace Theatre
  Palace Theatre, London
  The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster in London. It is an imposing red-brick building that dominates the west side of Cambridge Circus and is located near the intersection of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road...
  
   on September 18.
• 5064 Gerrard London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Alhambra Theatre
  Alhambra Theatre
  The Alhambra was a popular theatre and music hall located on the east side of Leicester Square, in the West End of London. It was built originally as The Royal Panopticon of Science and Arts opening on 18 March 1854. It was closed after two years and reopened as the Alhambra. The building was...
  
   on March 19.
• Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 30 and ran for 425 performances.
• Maid in America Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
• The Blue Paradise
  The Blue Paradise
  The Blue Paradise is a musical with music by Edmund Eysler and Sigmund Romberg, lyrics by Herbert Reynolds, and a book by Edgar Smith, based on the operetta Ein Tag im Paradies by Eysler with original text by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach. The story is set in a Viennese cafe, where a man realizes...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5 and ran for 356 performances.
• The Only Girl London production opened at the Apollo Theatre
  Apollo Theatre
  The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
  
   on September 25 and ran for 107 performances.
• The Passing Show Of 1915
  The Passing Show
  The Passing Show was a musical revue in three acts, billed as a "topical extravaganza", with a book and lyrics by Sydney Rosenfeld and music by Ludwig Engländer and various other composers. It featured spoofs of theatrical productions of the past season. The show was presented in 1894 by George...
  
  Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on May 29 and ran for 145 performances.
• Shell Out London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24 and ran for 315 performances.
• Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre
  Globe Theatre
  The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613...
  
   on December 25 and ran for 105 performances.
• Tonight's The Night London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on April 18 and ran for 460 performances.
• Very Good Eddie
  Very Good Eddie
  Very Good Eddie is a musical with a book by Guy Bolton and Philip Bartholomae, music by Jerome Kern, and lyrics by Schuyler Green and Herbert Reynolds, with additional lyrics by Elsie Janis, Harry B. Smith and John E. Hazzard and additional music by Henry Kailimai. The story was based on the farce...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre
  Princess Theatre
  The Princess Theatre was a joint venture between the Shubert Brothers , producer Ray Comstock, theatrical agent Elisabeth Marbury and actor-director Holbrook Blinn...
  
   on December 23 and ran for 341 performances
• A World of Pleasure Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
• Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915
  Ziegfeld Follies
  The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions on Broadway in New York City from 1907 through 1931. They became a radio program in 1932 and 1936 as The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air....
  
  Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre
  New Amsterdam Theatre
  The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square...
  
   on June 21 and ran for 104 performances

Births

• January 6 - Bob Copper, folk singer (d. 2004)
• January 25 - Ewan MacColl
  Ewan MacColl
  Ewan MacColl was an English folk singer, songwriter, socialist, actor, poet, playwright, and record producer. He was married to theatre director Joan Littlewood, and later to American folksinger Peggy Seeger. He collaborated with Littlewood in the theatre and with Seeger in folk music...
  
  , folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
• January 27 - Jack Brymer
  Jack Brymer
  John Alexander Brymer OBE , was a British clarinettist, born in South Shields.-Biography:The son of a builder, Jack Brymer started his working life as a teacher, being at Heath Clark School, Thornton Heath, Surrey in the late 1940s...
  
  , clarinettist (d. 2003)
• January 29 - John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr.
  John Serry, Sr. was an accomplished concert accordionist virtuoso, arranger, composer, organist and educator who performed on the CBS Radio and CBS Television networks...
  
  , concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003)
• January 30 - Dorothy Dell
  Dorothy Dell
  Dorothy Dell was an American film actress.-Early life and career:Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she moved with the family to New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 13. She was born into a socially prominent family, and her mother was a descendant of Jefferson Davis...
  
  , actress and singer (d. 1934)
• February 4 - Ray Evans
  Ray Evans
  Raymond Bernard Evans was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films...
  
  , songwriter (d. 2007)
• March 10 - Sir Charles Groves
  Charles Groves
  Sir Charles Barnard Groves CBE was an English conductor. He was known for the breadth of his repertoire and for encouraging contemporary composers and young conductors....
  
  , conductor (d. 1992)
• March 20
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe
    Sister Rosetta Tharpe was an Amercian pioneering gospel singer, songwriter and recording artist who attained great popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and early rock and roll accompaniment...
    
    , gospel singer (d. 1973)
  • Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Richter
    Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet pianist well known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century.-Childhood:...
    
    , pianist (d. 1997)
• March 25 - Dorothy Squires
  Dorothy Squires
  Dorothy Squires was a Welsh vocalist. Among her recordings were versions of "A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening", "I'm in the Mood for Love", "Anytime", "If You Love Me " and "And So to Sleep Again".-Biography:...
  
  , singer (d. 1998)
• March 28 - Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston
  Jay Livingston was an American composer and singer best known as half of a songwriting duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
  
  , songwriter (d. 2001)
• March 29 - George Chisholm
  George Chisholm (musician)
  George Chisholm OBE was a Scottish jazz trombonist.Born in Glasgow to a family of musicians, Chisholm's musical career began in the Glasgow Playhouse orchestra. In the late 1930s he moved to London, where he played in dance bands led by Bert Ambrose and Teddy Joyce...
  
  , jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)
• April 4 - Muddy Waters
  Muddy Waters
  McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
  
   (d. 1983)
• April 7 - Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday
  Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing...
  
  , blues singer (d. 1959)
• April 12 - Hound Dog Taylor
  Hound Dog Taylor
  Theodore Roosevelt "Hound Dog" Taylor was an American Chicago blues guitarist and singer.-Career:Taylor was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1915 . He originally played piano, but began playing guitar when he was 20...
  
  , blues musician (d. 1975)
• April 29 - Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers
  Mills Brothers
  The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed as The Four Mills Brothers, were an American jazz and pop vocal quartet of the 20th century who made more than 2,000 recordings that combined sold more than 50 million copies, and garnered at least three dozen gold records...
  
   (d. 1999)
• May 5 - Alice Faye
  Alice Faye
  Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, called by The New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader and comedian...
  
  , US actress and singer (d. 1998)
• May 8 - Nan Wynn
  Nan Wynn
  Nan Wynn was an American big-band singer and actress from Wheeling, West Virginia.She recorded with well-known orchestras, including those of Teddy Wilson, Freddie Rich, Raymond Scott and Hal Kemp.-Films:...
  
  , US singer (d. 1971)
• May 25 - Ginny Simms
  Ginny Simms
  Ginny Simms was an American Popular Singer and film actress. She labeled with Dinah Shore, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and others. Born in San Antonio, Texas, she sang with big bands and worked as MGM contract player film actress.She appeared in 11 movies from 1939 to 1951, when she...
  
  , US singer (d. 1994)
• May 27 - Midge Williams
  Midge Williams
  Midge Williams was an African American swing and jazz vocalist during the 1930s and 1940s. Although not as famous as other jazz recording artists, Williams was a respected singer and her group, Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters, made several well-received recordings during the late 1930s.-Early...
  
  , jazz singer (d. 1952)
• June 1 - Bart Howard
  Bart Howard
  Bart Howard was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard "Fly Me To The Moon", which has been performed by singers Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Diana Krall, June Christy and Astrud Gilberto...
  
  , composer and pianist (d. 2004)
• June 9 - Les Paul
  Les Paul
  Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations...
  
  , musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
   (d. 2009)
• June 12 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress (d. 1995)
• June 17 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician (d. 1973)
• June 18 - Vic Legley
  Vic Legley
  Vic Legley was a Belgian violist and composer of classical music, of French birth. He first studied in Ypres with Lionel Bromme...
  
  , Dutch composer (d. 1994)
• June 28 - David Honeyboy Edwards
  David Honeyboy Edwards
  David "Honeyboy" Edwards was a Delta blues guitarist and singer from the American South. Edwards was the last Delta bluesman before his 2011 death.-Life and career:Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi...
  
  , blues musician
• July 9 - David Diamond
  David Diamond (composer)
  David Leo Diamond was an American composer of classical music.-Life and career:He was born in Rochester, New York and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music under Bernard Rogers, also receiving lessons from Roger Sessions in New York City and Nadia Boulanger in...
  
  , classical composer (d. 2005)
• July 15 - Frankie Yankovic
  Frankie Yankovic
  Frankie Yankovic was a Grammy Award-winning polka musician. Known as "America's Polka King," Yankovic was the premier artist to play in the Slovenian style during a long and successful career.-Background:Of Slovene descent, he was raised in South Euclid, Ohio...
  
  , polka musician (d. 1998)
• July 23 - Emmett Berry
  Emmett Berry
  Emmett Berry was a jazz trumpeter.Berry was born in Macon, Georgia. He began with study of classical trumpet in Georgia, but by 18 had switched to jazz and moved to New York City. He became a member of Fletcher Henderson's band and later replaced Roy Eldridge as soloist...
  
  , jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
• July 31 - George Forrest
  George Forrest (author)
  George Forrest was a writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin.-Biography:...
  
  , musical theatre writer (d. 1999)
• August 6 - Jacques Abram
  Jacques Abram
  Jacques Abram , an American classical pianist, was born in Lufkin, Texas and died in Tampa, Florida.Abram began improvising at age 3 and performing in public at age 6. As a youth he studied with Ima Hogg and Ruth Burr of Houston...
  
  , pianist (d. 1998)
• August 24 - Wynonie Harris
  Wynonie Harris
  Wynonie Harris , born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. With fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952, Harris is generally considered one of rock and roll's forerunners, influencing Elvis Presley...
  
  , US singer (d. 1969)
• August 26 - Humphrey Searle
  Humphrey Searle
  Humphrey Searle was a British composer.-Biography:He was born in Oxford where he was a classics scholar before studying — somewhat hesitantly — with John Ireland at the Royal College of Music in London, after which he went to Vienna on a six month scholarship to become a private pupil of Anton...
  
  , composer (d. 1982)
• September 3 - Memphis Slim
  Memphis Slim
  Memphis Slim was an American blues pianist, singer, and composer. He led a series of bands that, reflecting the popular appeal of jump blues, included saxophones, bass, drums, and piano. A song he first cut in 1947, "Every Day I Have the Blues", has become a blues standard, recorded by many other...
  
  , blues musician (d. 1988)
• September 5 - Florencio Morales Ramos
  Florencio Morales Ramos
  Florencio "Flor" Morales Ramos , much more better known as Ramito, was a famous Puerto Rican singer, trovador, and composer who was a native of Caguas, Puerto Rico. He is considered the king of Jíbaro music...
  
  , singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989)
• September 12 - Billy Daniels
  Billy Daniels
  William Boone Daniels , better known as Billy Daniels, was a singer active in the United States and Europe from the mid-1930s to 1988, notable for his hit recording of "That Old Black Magic" and his pioneering performances on early 1950s television.Daniels was born in Jacksonville, Florida, where...
  
  , US singer (d. 1988)
• September 23 - Julius Baker
  Julius Baker
  Julius Baker was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players.He was well known as a teacher and served as a faculty member at the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University...
  
  , flautist (d. 2003)
• September 24 - Ettore Gracis
  Ettore Gracis
  Ettore Gracis was an Italian conductor. Born in La Spezia, he studied at the Venice Conservatory and the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. He became involved with the Venice Festival of Contemporary Music and the Naples Festival, conducting modern revivals of classical Italian and German operas...
  
  , conductor (d. 1992)
• October 10 - Sweets Edison
  Sweets Edison
  Harry "Sweets" Edison , born in Columbus, Ohio, was an American jazz trumpeter and member of the Count Basie Orchestra.-Biography:He spent his early childhood in Kentucky, where he was introduced to music by an uncle...
  
  , jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
• November - Jane Jarvis
  Jane Jarvis
  Jane Nossette Jarvis was an American jazz pianist. She was also known for her work as a composer, a baseball stadium organist and a recording industry executive...
  
  , jazz pianist and composer
• November 5 – Myron Floren
  Myron Floren
  Myron Floren was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1982...
  
  , accordionist (d. 2005)
• November 9 - Hanka Bielicka
  Hanka Bielicka
  Anna Weronika Bielicka was a Polish singer and actress known by the name Hanna and its affectionate diminutive Hanka.-Career:...
  
  , Polish singer and actress (d. 2006)
• November 14 - Billy Bauer
  Billy Bauer
  Billy Bauer was an American cool jazz guitarist.-Life:Bauer was born in New York City. He played banjo as a child before switching to guitar...
  
  , jazz guitarist (d. 2005)
• December 12 - Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
  
  , US singer and actor (d. 1998)
• December 16 - Georgy Sviridov
  Georgy Sviridov
  Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov was a Soviet Russian neoromantic composer....
  
  , Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998)
• December 17 - André Claveau
  André Claveau
  André Claveau was born in Paris and was a very popular singer in France from the 1940s to 1960s....
  
  , singer (d. 2003)
• December 19 - Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
  
  , French singer (d. 1963)
• December 25 - Pete Rugolo
  Pete Rugolo
  Pietro "Pete" Rugolo was an Italian-born jazz composer and arranger.-Life and career:Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily, Italy. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California...
  
  , Italian-born US pianist and bandleader
• December 30 - Brownie McGhee
  Brownie McGhee
  Walter Brown McGhee was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaborations with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.-Life and career:...
  
  , folk-blues singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
• date unknown - Fulgencio Aquino
  Fulgencio Aquino
  Fulgencio Aquino , was a Venezuelan musician and popular composer, the author of the song .Aquino was born in Sabaneta, Miranda state...
  
  , Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994)

Deaths

• January 2 - Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark, also known originally as Károly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; May 18, 1830, Keszthely – January 2, 1915, Vienna) was a Hungarian composer.- Life and career :...
  
  , composer (b. 1830)
• January 21 - Louis Gregh
  Louis Gregh
  Louis Gregh was a French composer and music publisher.His family was of Maltese origin...
  
  , composer and publisher (b. 1843)
• January 22 - Anna Bartlett Warner
  Anna Bartlett Warner
  Anna Bartlett Warner was an American writer, the author of several books, and of poems set to music as hymns and religious songs for children...
  
  , songwriter (b. 1827)
• January 25 - Rudolf Tillmetz
  Rudolf Tillmetz
  Rudolf Tillmetz was a flute virtuoso and pedagogue from Munich, Germany. He was a great contributor to modern ideas on interpretation on the flute with his teachings and his technical writings. As a child Rudolf showed great promise as a musician and was provided a through musical education by his...
  
  , flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847)
• February 12
  • Emile Waldteufel
    Émile Waldteufel
    Émile Waldteufel was a French composer of dance music.-Life:Émile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg to a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians....
    
    , composer (b. 1837)
  • Fanny Crosby
    Fanny Crosby
    Frances Jane Crosby , usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne, in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. During her lifetime, she was well-known throughout the United States...
    
    , hymn-writer (b. 1820)
• March 12 - Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen
  Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen
  Heinrich Donatien Wilhelm Schulz-Beuthen was a composer of the high Romantic era.-Life:...
  
  , composer (b. 1838)
• March 19 - Franz Xaver Neruda
  Franz Xaver Neruda
  Franz Xaver Neruda was a Danish cellist and composer of Moravian origin.-Life:...
  
  , cellist and composer (b. 1843)
• April 27 - Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Scriabin
  Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
  
  , composer (b. 1872)
• May 7 - Charles Frohman
  Charles Frohman
  Charles Frohman was an American theatrical producer. Frohman was producing plays by 1889 and acquired his first Broadway theatre by 1892. He discovered and promoted many stars of the American theatre....
  
  , Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in sinking of Lusitania)
• June 9 - Enrico Rocca
  Enrico Rocca
  Enrico Rocca was an Italian violin maker of the 19th and the 20th Centuries and son of Giuseppe Rocca....
  
  , violin maker (b. 1847)
• June 19 - Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1856)
• June 25 - Rafael Joseffy
  Rafael Joseffy
  Rafael Joseffy was a Hungarian pianist and composer.-Life:Raael Joseffy was born in Hunfalu in 1852. His youth was spent in Miskolcz , and there, at the age of 8, he began his study of the piano. He studied in Budapest with Friedrich Brauer, the teacher of Stephen Heller...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1852)
• September 15 - Isidor Bajić
  Isidor Bajic
  Isidor Bajic was a Serbian composer, pedagogue, and publisher.He was born in Kula...
  
  , composer (b. 1878)
• September 29 - Rudi Stephan
  Rudi Stephan
  Rudi Stephan , was a German composer of great promise who shortly before the First World War was considered one of the leading talents among his generation....
  
  , composer (b. 1887) (killed in action)
• October 2 - Russell Alexander
  Russell Alexander
  Russell Alexander was an entertainer and composer, active primarily with vaudeville shows and musical comedy organizations. He was a euphonium virtuoso who joined the circus band of Belford's Carnival at the age of 18...
  
  , entertainer and composer (b. 1877)
• October 5
  • Otto Malling
    Otto Malling
    Otto Valdemar Malling was a Danish composer, from 1900 the cathedral organist in Copenhagen and from 1889 professor, then from 1899 Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen....
    
    , organist and composer (b. 1848)
  • Jose Maria Usandizaga
    Jose Maria Usandizaga
    José María Usandizaga was a Spanish Basque composer.A native of San Sebastián, Usandizaga began his musical studies in his hometown before moving to the Schola Cantorum in Paris. There, he was a composition pupil of Vincent d'Indy, and he took piano lessons from Gabriel Grovlez...
    
    , composer (b. 1887)
• October 22 - Adèle Isaac
  Adèle Isaac
  Adèle Isaac was a French operatic soprano, active in Paris in the late 19th century.Isaac was born in Calais. After studying with Gilbert Duprez, her professional debut was in 1870 in Victor Massé's Les noces de Jeannette at the Théatre Montmartre...
  
  , operatic soprano (b. 1854)
• October 26 - August Bungert
  August Bungert
  August Bungert was a German opera composer and poet.-Early life:Bungert was born in Mülheim. His unusual musical talent was noticed and nurtured at high school by his teacher, Heinrich Kufferath, the brother of the composer Ferdinand Kufferath...
  
  , composer and poet (b. 1845)
• November 14 - Teodor Leszetycki
  Teodor Leszetycki
  Theodor Leschetizky was a Polish pianist, professor and composer.-Life:Theodor Leschetizky was born on the estate of the family of Count Potocki in Łańcut. His father was a gifted pianist and music teacher of Viennese birth. His mother Therèse Ulmann was a gifted singer of German origin...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1830)
• November 27 - Sigismund Zaremba
  Sigismund Zaremba
  Sigismund Vladislavovitch Zaremba was a Ukrainian and Russian composer of Polish ethnicity, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, son of Vladislav Ivanovitch Zaremba, also a composer....
  
  , composer (b. 1861)
• December 10 - David Jenkins
  David Jenkins (composer)
  David Jenkins was a Welsh composer, best known for his choral works and hymn tunes.Born at Trecastle near Brecon, Jenkins was at first apprenticed to a tailor, but in 1874 he began studying music at Aberystwyth under Joseph Parry. In 1893 he returned to Aberystwyth as a lecturer, rising to...
  
  , composer (b. 1848)
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  • Henry Hart
    Henry Hart (musician)
    Henry Hart was an African American musician. He composed, led the Henry Hart Minstrels, was proclaimed a "social necessity" in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was the leader of a family musical group that Emma Lou Thornbrough called "the best-known group of colored entertainers in the state."-Early...
    
    , entertainer and composer (b. 1839)
  • Billy Kersands
    Billy Kersands
    Billy Kersands was an African American comedian and dancer. He was the most popular black comedian of his day, best known for his work in blackface minstrelsy...
    
    , dancer (b. c. 1842)
  • Bertha Tammelin
    Bertha Tammelin
    Bertha Carolina Mathilda Tammelin, née Bock was a Swedish actress, operatic mezzo soprano, pianist, composer and drama teacher.Bertha Tammelin was born to Karolina Bock and the musician of Kungliga Hovkapellet, C. Bock...
    
    (b. 1836)