Events

• March 3 - Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
  's String Quartet No. 2
  String Quartet No. 2 (Bartók)
  The String Quartet No. 2 by Béla Bartók was written between 1915 and October 1917 in Rákoskeresztúr in Hungary.The work is in three movements:#Moderato#Allegro molto capriccioso#Lento...
  
  is premiered in Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
  
• May 24 - Béla Bartók
  Béla Bartók
  Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
  
  's 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...
  
   Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest.
• April 30/May 1 - Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Timoteus Kuula was a Finnish conductor and composer. He was born in the city of Vaasa , when Finland still was a Grand Duchy under Russian rule. He is known as a colorful and passionate portrayer of Finnish nature and people...
  
   is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War
  Finnish Civil War
  The Finnish Civil War was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I in Europe. The Civil War concerned control and leadership of The Grand Duchy of Finland as it achieved independence from Russia after the October Revolution in Petrograd...
  
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• November 15 - Rosa Ponselle
  Rosa Ponselle
  Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano with a large, opulent voice. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years.-Early life:She was born Rosa Ponzillo on January 22, 1897,...
  
   makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, opposite Enrico Caruso.
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
  
   is appointed Director of Music, First Army.
• First documented racially integrated jazz
  Jazz
  Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
  
   recording session.
• Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone
  Phonograph
  The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...
  
   records estimated at 100 million records this year.

Published popular music

• "After You've Gone
  After You've Gone (song)
  "After You've Gone" is a 1918 popular song composed by Turner Layton, with lyrics written by Henry Creamer. It was recorded by Marion Harris on July 22, 1918 and released on Victor 18509. It is the basis for many other jazz songs, as it can easily be improvised over...
  
  " w. Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer was an American popular song lyricist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in New York. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 to 1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.Creamer was a co-founder with James Reese...
  
   m. Turner Layton
  Turner Layton
  Turner Layton , born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American songwriter, singer and pianist. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1894, he was the son of John Turner Layton, "a bass singer, music educator and hymn composer." After receiving a musical education from his father, he attended the Howard...
  
  
• "At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca
  Nick LaRocca
  Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca , was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag"...
  
  , Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
  Larry Shields
  Lawrence James "Larry" Shields was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist.Shields was born into an Irish-American family in Uptown New Orleans, on the same block where jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden lived...
  
  
• "Bagdad" w.Harold Atteridge m.Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
• "Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
• "Dallas Blues" w. Lloyd Garrett m. Hart A. Wand
• "Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
• "Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
• "The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "Dear Little Boy Of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan 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....
  
  
• "Dear Old Pal Of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
• "Ding Dong" 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...
  
  
• "Every Day" 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...
  
  
• "Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer
  Henry Creamer was an American popular song lyricist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and died in New York. He co-wrote many popular songs in the years from 1900 to 1929, often collaborating with Turner Layton, with whom he also appeared in vaudeville.Creamer was a co-founder with James Reese...
  
   and Turner Layton
  Turner Layton
  Turner Layton , born John Turner Layton, Jr., was an American songwriter, singer and pianist. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1894, he was the son of John Turner Layton, "a bass singer, music educator and hymn composer." After receiving a musical education from his father, he attended the Howard...
  
  
• "Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
• "Fidgety Feet" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
• "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
• "Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!
  Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!
  "Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip" is a ragtime song published as sheet music in 1918 by Leo Feist Inc. of New York City. It was one of the most popular tunes with United States soldiers during the World War I era....
  
  " w.m. Robert Lloyd
• "Good-bye, France" 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, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
• "Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
• "Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" by Edward Rowland
• "How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn
  Ned Wayburn
  Ned Wayburn, born Edward Claudius Weyburn, was a choreographer. He was born in Pennsylvania but spent much of his childhood in Chicago where he was introduced to theater and studied classical piano. At the age of 21, he abandoned his family’s tradition of manufacturing and began teaching at the...
  
  
• "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson
  Walter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
  
  
• "I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & 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...
  
  
• "I Want To Shimmy" 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...
  
  
• "If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany" w. Grant Clarke & 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. George W. Meyer
• "I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   & Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
• "Ja-Da
  Ja-Da
  "Ja-Da " was a hit song written in 1918 by Bob Carleton . The title is sometimes rendered as "Jada." Ja-Da has flourished through the decades as a jazz standard....
  
  " w.m. Bob Carleton
• "K-K-K-Katy
  K-K-K-Katy
  "K-K-K-Katy" was a popular World War I-era song written by Geoffrey O'Hara in 1917 and published in 1918. The sheet music advertised it as "The Sensational Stammering Song Success Sung by the Soldiers and Sailors," reflecting a time when speech impediments could be poked fun at—albeit gentle fun...
  
  " w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara
  Geoffrey O'Hara
  Geoffrey O'Hara was a Canadian American composer, singer and music professor.O'Hara was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada. He initially planned a military career. O'Hara entered the prestigious Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario at age 18 and he trained with the 1st Hussars...
  
  
• "Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
• "Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
• "Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
• "Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
• "My Baby Boy" w. Will 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"....
  
  
• "Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Pete Wendling
  Pete Wendling
  Pete Wendling , an American composer and pianist, was born in New York City to German immigrants.He started his working life as a carpenter, but gained fame during the mid 1910s as a popular music composer - producing such hits as Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula, Take Me To The Land Of Jazz, Take Your...
  
  
• "Oh! Frenchy!" w. Sam Ehrlich m. Con Conrad
  Con Conrad
  Con Conrad was an American songwriter and producer.-Biography:Con Conrad was born Conrad K. Dober in New York City. He published his first song, "Down in Dear Old New Orleans", in 1912. Conrad produced the Broadway show The Honeymoon Express, starring Al Jolson, in 1913...
  
  
• "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
  Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
  "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1918 that gives a comic perspective on military life. Berlin composed the song as an expression of protest against the indignities of Army routine shortly after being drafted into the United States Army in 1918...
  
  " w.m. Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
  
  
• "On The Road To Calais" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. Joe Jordan (musician)
  Joe Jordan (musician)
  Joe Jordan was an African American musician and composer. Jordan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in St...
  
  , Nick LaRocca
  Nick LaRocca
  Dominic James "Nick" LaRocca , was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag"...
  
   & J. Russell Robinson
  J. Russell Robinson
  Joseph Russel Robinson was a United States ragtime and dixieland jazz pianist and a composer of jazz, blues, and popular tunes....
  
  
• "Oui Oui Marie" w. Alfred Bryan & Joseph McCarthy
  Joseph McCarthy (lyricist)
  Joseph McCarthy was an American lyricist whose most famous songs include You Made Me Love You, and I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, based upon the haunting melody from the middle section of Chopin's "Fantasie Impromptu".McCarthy, who was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, was a frequent collaborator...
  
   m. Fred Fisher
• "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
  Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody
  "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" is a popular song written by Jean Schwartz, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. The song was published in 1918....
  
  " w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
• "The Rose Of No Man's Land" w. Jack Caddigan m. James A. Brennan
• "Russian Rag" m. George L. Cobb
  George L. Cobb
  George Linus Cobb was a prolific composer best known for ragtime, including both instrumental compositions and ragtime songs, although he did produce other works including marches and waltzes. Jack Yellen was a frequent lyricist for the songs.Entering Syracuse University in 1905, his first...
  
  
• "Somebody Stole My Gal
  Somebody Stole My Gal
  "Somebody Stole My Gal" is a popular song from 1918, written by Leo Wood. In 1923 Ted Weems & his Orchestra had a five-week run at number one with his million-selling version of Leo Wood’s 1922 standard...
  
  " w.m. Leo Wood
  Leo Wood
  Leo Wood was a songwriter and lyricist for popular songs in the United States. He is best remembered as the songwriter of the 1920’s hit Somebody Stole My Gal. Wood wrote lyrics for many of the top songwriters of the day, including Theodore F. Morse...
  
  
• "Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
  
• "Tell That To The Marines" w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
   m. Jean Schwartz
• "That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
• "That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
• "There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. Con Conrad
  Con Conrad
  Con Conrad was an American songwriter and producer.-Biography:Con Conrad was born Conrad K. Dober in New York City. He published his first song, "Down in Dear Old New Orleans", in 1912. Conrad produced the Broadway show The Honeymoon Express, starring Al Jolson, in 1913...
  
  
• "They Were All Out Of Step But Jim" 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...
  
  
• "Those Draftin' Blues" w.m. Maceo Pinkard
  Maceo Pinkard
  Maceo Pinkard was an American composer, lyricist, and music publisher. Among his compositions is "Sweet Georgia Brown", a popular standard for decades after its composition and famous as the theme of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.Pinkard was inducted in the National Academy of...
  
  
• "Till We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan 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"....
  
  
• "Tishomingo Blues" 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...
  
  
• "Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
• "We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
• "When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
• "When Tony Goes Over The Top" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
• "When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
• "Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
• "Without You" w. Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes
  Nora Bayes was a popular American singer, comedienne and actress of the early 20th century.-Early life and career:...
  
   m. Irving Fisher
• "Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
• "You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
• "You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, Gus Kahn
  Gus Kahn
  Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
  
   & Egbert van Alstyne

Top hit recordings

• "Tiger Rag
  Tiger Rag
  "Tiger Rag" is a jazz standard, originally recorded and copyrighted by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. It is one of the most recorded jazz compositions of all time.-Origins:...
  
  /Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
  Original Dixieland Jass Band
  The Original Dixieland Jass Band were a New Orleans, Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz single ever issued. The group composed and made the first recordings of many jazz standards, the most famous being Tiger Rag...
  
  
• "Over There" by Enrico Caruso
• "After You've Gone" by Marion Harris
  Marion Harris
  Marion Harris was an American popular singer, most successful in the 1920s. She was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs....
  
  
• "Smiles" by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
• "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
• "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  
• "Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" by Al Jolson
• "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by Henry Burr
  Henry Burr
  Henry Burr was a Canadian singer of popular songs from the early 20th century, an early radio performer and producer...
  
  

Classical music

• Arnold Bax
  Arnold Bax
  Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
  
   - Symphonic Variations
• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
  
   - A Song Before Sunrise
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   - Romance of Nina
• Agustín Barrios
  Agustín Barrios
  Agustín Pío Barrios , an eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer, was born in the department of Misiones, Paraguay and died in San Salvador, El Salvador...
  
   - Un sueño en la foresta
• 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...
  
   - Pan and Syrinx
  Pan and Syrinx
  Carl Nielsen's Pan and Syrinx is a symphonic poem written for a concert of the composer's works which was held on 11 February 1918 in Copenhagen.-Background:...
  
  (tone poem)
• Karol Szymanowski
  Karol Szymanowski
  Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
  
   - Songs of an infatuated Muezzin

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...

• Charles Wakefield Cadman
  Charles Wakefield Cadman
  Charles Wakefield Cadman was an American composer.Cadman’s musical education, unlike that of most of his American contemporaries, was completely American. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he began piano lessons at 13...
  
   - Shanewis
• Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
   - Il Trittico (consisting of Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)
• Gabriel von Wayditch
  Gabriel von Wayditch
  Gabriel von Wayditch was a Hungarian-American composer whose output consisted primarily of 14 grand operas....
  
   - Jesus Before Herod

Musical theatre

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...

• As You Were London production opened at the Pavilion
  London Pavilion
  The London Pavilion is a building located on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Coventry Street on the north-east side of, and facing, Piccadilly Circus in London...
  
   on August 3
• The Better 'Ole
  The Better 'Ole
  The Better 'Ole, also called The Romance of Old Bill, is an Edwardian musical comedy with a book by Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliott, music by Herman Darewski, and lyrics by Percival Knight and James Heard, based on the cartoon character Old Bill, an infantryman, drawn by Bairnsfather...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on October 19, transferred to the Cort Theatre
  Cort Theatre
  The Cort Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 138 West 48th Street in the Theatre District of midtown Manhattan in New York City...
  
   on November 18 and transferred to the Booth Theatre
  Booth Theatre
  The Booth Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 222 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan, New York City.Architect Henry B. Herts designed the Booth and its companion Shubert Theatre as a back-to-back pair sharing a Venetian Renaissance-style façade...
  
   on June 16, 1919 for a total run of 353 performances
• Buzz-Buzz London revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Vaudeville Theatre
  Vaudeville Theatre
  The Vaudeville Theatre is a West End theatre on The Strand in the City of Westminster. As the name suggests, the theatre held mostly vaudeville shows and musical revues in its early days. It opened in 1870 and was rebuilt twice, although each new building retained elements of the previous...
  
   on December 20 and ran for 612 performances
• The Canary Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 4 and ran for 152 performances
• Fiddlers Three
  Fiddlers Three
  The fiddlers three are characters featured in the English nursery rhyme "Old King Cole".Fiddlers Three may also refer to:*Fiddlers Three , a 1918 Broadway production that ran for 87 performances...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Cort Theatre
  Cort Theatre
  The Cort Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 138 West 48th Street in the Theatre District of midtown Manhattan in New York City...
  
   on September 3 and ran for 87 performances
• The Girl Behind The Gun Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre
  New Amsterdam Theatre
  The New Amsterdam Theatre is a Broadway theater located at 214 West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Theatre District of Manhattan, New York City, off of Times Square...
  
   on September 16 and ran for 160 performances
• Hullo, America 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 25
• The Lilac Domino
  The Lilac Domino
  Der lila Domino is an operetta in three acts by Charles Cuvillier. The original German libretto is by Emmerich von Gatti and Béla Jenbach, about a gambling count who falls in love at a masquerade ball with a noblewoman wearing a lilac domino mask.The operetta achieved far greater popularity in...
  
  London production opened at the Empire Theatre on February 21 and ran for 747 performances
• Listen Lester (Music: Harold Orlob Book and Lyrics: Harry L. Cort & George E. Stoddard. 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 23 and ran for 272 performances. Starring Mary Milburn, Eddie Garvie, Johnny Dooley
  Johnny Dooley
  Johnny Dooley is an Irish former hurling manager and player. He played hurling with his local club Seir Kieran and was a member of the Offaly senior inter-county team from 1991 until 2002...
  
  , Clifton Webb
  Clifton Webb
  Clifton Webb was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his Oscar-nominated roles in such films as Laura, The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty...
  
  , Ada Mae Weeks, Ada Lewis and Gertrude Vanderbilt.
• Oh, Lady! Lady!!
  Oh, Lady! Lady!!
  Oh, Lady! Lady!! is a musical with music by Jerome Kern, a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse and lyrics by Wodehouse. It was written for the Princess Theatre on Broadway, where it played in 1918 and ran for 219 performances. The story concerns an engaged young man, Bill, whose ex-fiancée...
  
  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 February 1, transferred to the Casino Theatre on June 17 and ran for a total of 219 performances.
• The Passing Show of 1918
  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 July 25 and ran for 142 performances
• Phi-Phi
  Phi-Phi
  Phi-Phi is an opérette légère in three acts with music by Henri Christiné and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar. The piece was one which founded the new style of French comédie musicale, the first to really use the latest rhythms of jazz along with a plot which emphasised...
  
  Paris operetta
  Operetta
  Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
  
   opened at the Bouffes-Parisiens on November 12
• Sinbad
  Sinbad (musical)
  Sinbad is a Broadway musical with a book and lyrics by Harold R. Atteridge and music by Sigmund Romberg, Al Jolson and others.Produced by Lee Shubert and J. J. Shubert, the Broadway production, staged by J. C. Huffman and J. J. Shubert, opened on February 14, 1918 at the Winter Garden Theatre,...
  
  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 14 and ran for 164 performances
• Sometime (Music: Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml
  Rudolf Friml was a composer of operettas, musicals, songs and piano pieces, as well as a pianist. After musical training and a brief performing career in his native Prague, Friml moved to the United States, where he became a composer...
  
   Book: Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young
  Rida Johnson Young was an American playwright, songwriter and librettist. In her career, Young wrote over thirty plays and musicals, and over 500 songs. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970...
  
   ) 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 4 and transferred to the Casino Theatre on November 11 for a total run of 283 performances. Featuring Mae West
  Mae West
  Mae West was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades....
  
   and Ed Wynn
  Ed Wynn
  Ed Wynn was a popular American comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor....
  
  
• Toot-Toot! Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on March 11 and ran for 40 performances
• Very Good, Eddie London production opened at the Palace Theatre on May 18 and ran for 341 performances

Births

• January 20 – Juan García Esquivel
  Juan García Esquivel
  Juan García Esquivel often simply known as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films. He is recognized today as one of the foremost exponents of a sophisticated style of largely instrumental music that combines elements of lounge music and jazz with Latin...
  
  , Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
• January 24 - Gottfried von Einem
  Gottfried von Einem
  Gottfried von Einem was an Austrian composer. He is known chiefly for his operas influenced by the music of Stravinsky and Prokofiev, as well as by jazz. He also composed pieces for piano, violin and organ.-Biography:...
  
  , composer (d. 1996)
• January 27
  • Skitch Henderson
    Skitch Henderson
    Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.- Biography :...
    
    , bandleader (d. 2005)
  • Elmore James
    Elmore James
    Elmore James was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter and band leader. He was known as "the King of the Slide Guitar" and had a unique guitar style, noted for his use of loud amplification and his stirring voice.-Biography:James was born Elmore Brooks in the old Richland community in...
    
    , blues musician (d. 1963)
• February 3 - Joey Bishop
  Joey Bishop
  Joey Bishop was an American entertainer who was perhaps best known for being a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Dean Martin...
  
  , all-round entertainer (d. 2007)
• February 15 - Hank Locklin
  Hank Locklin
  Lawrence Hankins Locklin , better known as Hank Locklin, was an American country music singer-songwriter...
  
  , singer (d. 2009)
• February 16 - Patty Andrews of The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters
  The Andrews Sisters were a highly successful close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia Andrews , soprano Maxene Angelyn Andrews , and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews...
  
   singing group
• March 20 - Marian McPartland
  Marian McPartland
  Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio, NPR.-Early life:...
  
  , British jazz pianist
• March 23 - Alberto Caracciolo
  Alberto Caracciolo
  Alberto Pascual Caracciolo , was an Argentine tango musician, a musical arranger, orchestra director, composer and bandoneón player....
  
  , tango musician (d. 1994)
• March 29 - Pearl Bailey
  Pearl Bailey
  Pearl Mae Bailey was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968...
  
  , singer (d. 1990)
• April 3 - Sixten Ehrling
  Sixten Ehrling
  Sixten Ehrling, , was a Swedish conductor who, during a long career, served as the music director of the Royal Swedish Opera and the principal conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, amongst others....
  
  , conductor (d. 2005)
• May 15 - Eddy Arnold
  Eddy Arnold
  Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...
  
  , country singer (d. 2008)
• May 17 - Birgit Nilsson
  Birgit Nilsson
  right|thumb|Nilsson in 1948.Birgit Nilsson was a celebrated Swedish dramatic soprano who specialized in operatic and symphonic works...
  
  , operatic soprano (d. 2005)
• June 4 - Noel Estrada
  Noel Estrada
  Noel Estrada was the composer of "En mi Viejo San Juan", one of the most famous Boleros in Puerto Rico.-Early years:Estrada was born in the town of Isabela, Puerto Rico where he received his primary education...
  
  , composer (d. 1979)
• June 8 - Robert Preston
  Robert Preston (actor)
  -Early life:Preston was born Robert Preston Meservey in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth L. and Frank Wesley Meservey, a garment worker and billing clerk for American Express. After attending Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles, California, he studied acting at the Pasadena Community...
  
  , star of musicals (d. 1987)
• June 10 - Patachou
  Patachou
  Patachou, real name Henriette Ragon is a French singer and actress. She is an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.-Early life:...
  
  , French singer
• June 26 - Roger Voisin
  Roger Voisin
  Roger Louis Voisin was a French-born American classical trumpeter. In 1959, The New York Times called him "one of the best-known trumpeters in this country."-Performing career:...
  
  , trumpeter (d. 2008)
• July 5 - George Rochberg
  George Rochberg
  George Rochberg was an American composer of contemporary classical music.-Life:Rochberg was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He attended the Mannes College of Music, where his teachers included George Szell and Hans Weisse, and the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Rosario Scalero and...
  
  , composer (d. 2005)
• July 6 - Eugene List
  Eugene List
  Eugene List was an American concert pianist and teacher.-Early life:Eugene List was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Los Angeles, California where his father Louis List was a language teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and his mother, Rose, a...
  
  , classical pianist (d. 1985)
• July 24 - Ruggiero Ricci
  Ruggiero Ricci
  Ruggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist and his sister Emma played violin with the New York Metropolitan Opera.He is the son of Italian immigrants. His...
  
  , violinist
• July 27 - Leonard Rose
  Leonard Rose
  Leonard Rose was an American cellist and pedagogue.Rose was born in Washington, D.C., his parents were immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine...
  
  , cellist (d. 1984)
• August 18 - Cisco Houston
  Cisco Houston
  Gilbert Vandine 'Cisco' Houston was an American folk singer and songwriter who is closely associated with Woody Guthrie due to their extensive history of recording together....
  
  , folk singer (d. 1961)
• August 25 - Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
  
  , composer (d. 1990)
• August 31 - Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner
  Alan Jay Lerner was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film...
  
  , US lyricist (d. 1986)
• September 22 - Henryk Szeryng
  Henryk Szeryng
  Henryk Szeryng was a Polish violinist.-Early years:He was born in Żelazowa Wola, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy family....
  
  , violinist (d. 1988)
• September 23 - Lola Graham
  Lola Graham
  Lola Glenn Graham was born in Melbourne, Australia on 23 September 1918. She first came to public attention after winning a musical competition at age six by playing the piano. In 1930 she was employed by Melbourne radio station 3?? and continued to work in radio for most of her life. She also...
  
  , pianist (d. 1992)
• September 26 - John Zacherle
  John Zacherle
  John Zacherle is an American television host, radio personality and voice actor known for his long career as a television horror host broadcasting horror movies in Philadelphia and New York City in the 1950s and 1960s. Best known for his character "Roland/Zacherley," he also did voice work for...
  
  , actor and singer
• October 11 - Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins
  Jerome Robbins was an American theater producer, director, and choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television. His work has included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theater...
  
  , choreographer (d. 1998)
• October 17 - Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth
  Rita Hayworth was an American film actress and dancer who attained fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars...
  
  , actress, dancer and singer (d. 1987)
• November 20 - Tibor Frešo
  Tibor Frešo
  Tibor Frešo was a Slovak composer and conductor.Frešo was born in Spišský Štiavnik. He conducted the orchestra of the Slovak National Opera as well as the Slovak Philharmonic. He died in Piešťany.-External links:*...
  
  , composer (d. 1987)
• December 12 - Joe Williams
  Joe Williams (jazz singer)
  Joe Williams was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues, ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.-Early life:...
  
  , jazz singer (d. 1999)
• December 19 - Professor Longhair
  Professor Longhair
  Professor Longhair was a New Orleans blues singer and pianist...
  
  , blues singer and pianist (d. 1980)
• December 23 - José Greco
  José Greco
  Jose Greco was a flamenco dancer and choreographer.He was born in Montorio nei Frentani, Italy of Italian parents. He was raised in New York City from the time he was 10 years old. He began dancing in Brooklyn with his sister Norina at a young age.He made his professional dancing debut in 1937 at...
  
  , flamenco dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)

Deaths

• January 19 - Juan José Cañas
  Juan José Cañas
  Juan José Cañas is perhaps most famous for the writing of Himno Nacional De El Salvador with Italian-born composer Juan Aberle....
  
  , co-writer of the El Salvador national anthem (b. 1826)
• February 7 - Alexander Taneyev
  Alexander Taneyev
  Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev was a Russian composer of the late Romantic era, specifically of the nationalist school. Among his best works were three string quartets, believed to have been composed between 1898–1900....
  
  , composer (b. 1850)
• February 15 - Miguel Marqués
  Miguel Marqués
  Pedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García was a Spanish composer and violinist.-Life:He was the son of a chocolate maker...
  
   - Spanish composer and violinist (b. 1843)
• March 1 - Emil Sjögren
  Emil Sjögren
  Johan Gustav Emil Sjögren was a Swedish composer.Born in Stockholm, Sjögren entered the Stockholm Conservatory at the age of seventeen and later continued his studies at the Berlin Conservatory....
  
  , composer (b. 1853)
• March (12-15) - José White Lafitte
  José White Lafitte
  José Silvestre White Lafitte , also known as Joseph, was a Cuban violinist and composer. His father was Spanish and his mother was Afro-Cuban....
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1836)
• March 13 - César Cui
  César Cui
  César Antonovich Cui was a Russian of French and Lithuanian descent. His profession was as an army officer and a teacher of fortifications; his avocational life has particular significance in the history of music, in that he was a composer and music critic; in this sideline he is known as a...
  
  , music critic and composer (b. 1835)
• March 15 - Lili Boulanger
  Lili Boulanger
  Lili Boulanger was a French composer, the younger sister of the noted composer and composition teacher Nadia Boulanger.-Early years:A Parisian-born child prodigy, who was good at piano...
  
  , composer (b. 1893)
• March 23 - Théo Ysaÿe
  Théo Ysaÿe
  Théophile Ysaÿe was a Belgian composer and pianist, born in Verviers, Belgium. His brother was the violinist and conductor Eugène Ysaÿe.-Biography:...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1865)
• March 25 - 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...
  
  , composer (b. 1862)
• April 13 - David Ffrangcon Davies
  David Ffrangcon Davies
  David Ffrangcon-Davies, M.A. was a Welsh operatic baritone.-Early life and education:David Thomas Davies was born in Bethesda, Gwynedd. He later adapted the name Ffrangcon, an early variant spelling of the nearby valley Nant Ffrancon, as part of his new surname...
  
  , operatic baritone (b. 1855)
• April 21 - Antonio Pini-Corsi
  Antonio Pini-Corsi
  Antonio Pini-Corsi was an Italian operatic baritone of international renown. He possessed a ripe-toned voice of great flexibility and displayed tremendous skill at patter singing...
  
  , operatic baritone (b. 1859)
• May 5 - Bertha Palmer
  Bertha Palmer
  Bertha Palmer was an American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist.- Biography :Born Bertha Matilde Honoré in Louisville, Kentucky, her father was businessman Henry Hamilton Honoré...
  
  , writer and musician
• May 18 - Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Kuula
  Toivo Timoteus Kuula was a Finnish conductor and composer. He was born in the city of Vaasa , when Finland still was a Grand Duchy under Russian rule. He is known as a colorful and passionate portrayer of Finnish nature and people...
  
  , conductor and composer (b. 1883) (accidentally shot)
• May 22 - Fritz Seitz
  Fritz Seitz
  Fritz Seitz was a German Romantic Era composer. He was a violinist who served as a concertmaster, who wrote chamber music and five student concertos for the violin....
  
  , violinist and composer (b. 1848)
• June 9 - Jozsef Angster
  József Angster
  József Angster was a Hungarian organ making master and founder of the Angster dynasty, one of Central Europe's most sought after in the craft, an important figure in Hungarian applied arts history.-Origins:...
  
  , master organ maker (b. 1834)
• June 10 - Arrigo Boito
  Arrigo Boito
  Arrigo Boito , aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele...
  
  , writer and composer (b. 1842)
• August 12 - Anna Held
  Anna Held
  Helene Anna Held was a Polish-born stage performer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband. -Early life:...
  
  , singer (b. 1872)
• August 15 - Heinrich Köselitz
  Heinrich Köselitz
  Johann Heinrich Köselitz was a German author and composer. He is known for his longtime friendship with Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave him the pseudonym Peter Gast.- Life :...
  
  , author and composer (b. 1854)
• August 26 - Cecil Coles
  Cecil Coles
  Cecil Frederick Coles was a Scottish composer who was killed on active service in World War I.Coles was born in Kirkcudbright, and educated at George Watson’s School, Edinburgh. In 1907 he went to the Royal College of Music on a scholarship. He later studied at Edinburgh University and Stuttgart...
  
  , composer (b. 1888) (killed in action)
• September 7 - Morfydd Llwyn Owen
  Morfydd Llwyn Owen
  Morfydd Llwyn Owen was a Welsh composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano. Though she lived an abbreviated life, dying shortly before her 27th birthday, Owen was a prolific composer, as well as a member of influential intellectual circles.-Early life and education:Owen was born in Treforest, South...
  
  , singer, pianist and composer (b. 1891) (appendicitis)
• October 7 - Hubert Parry
  Hubert Parry
  Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...
  
  , composer (b. 1848)
• October 15 - Antonio Cotogni
  Antonio Cotogni
  Antonio Cotogni was an Italian baritone of the first magnitude. Regarded internationally as being one of the greatest male opera singers of the 19th century, he was particularly admired by the composer Giuseppe Verdi...
  
  , operatic baritone (b. 1831)
• October 16 - 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....
  
  , pianist & composer (b. 1889)
• October 22 - Charles Peccatte
  Charles Peccatte
  Charles Peccatte was a French Archetier . He was born in Mirecourt, the son of François Peccatte.He was probably trained by August Lenoble with whom he later had a partnership which lasted until 1881....
  
  , archetier (b. 1850)
• October 24
  • Charles Lecocq, composer (b. 1832)
  • Marianne Scharwenka
    Marianne Scharwenka
    Marianne Scharwenka was a German violinist and composer. She was married to the German composer Philipp Scharwenka.-External links:...
    
    , violinist (b. 1856)
• October 29 - Rudolf Tobias
  Rudolf Tobias
  Rudolf Tobias was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory...
  
  , organist and composer (b. 1873)
• November 4 - Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán
  Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán
  Joaquín "Quinito" Valverde Sanjuán was a Spanish composer of zarzuelas. He was the son of Joaquín Valverde Durán, also a zarzuela composer, and was usually called Quinito Valverde to distinguish him from his father...
  
  , zarzuela composer (b. 1875)
• date unknown - King Watzke
  King Watzke
  Alex "King" Watzke was a violinist and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana. His band enjoyed fair popularity ca. 1900-1910. The band played ragtime, popular music, and possibly an early or ancestral version of what later became known as jazz. By 1904 Watzke's band's repertory included an early...
  
  , violinist and bandleader (b. c. 1880)