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1910 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1910.

Specific locations

 * 1910 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1910 in jazz

Events

 * February 19 - English premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra, Thomas Beecham conducting at the first-ever performance of a Strauss opera in the UK at the Royal Opera House, London
 * March 19 – Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest
 * June 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris
 * September 12 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand, is premiered in Munich under his baton.
 * October – Pietro Mascagni and Giacomo Puccini make up after their 1905 quarrel
 * November – John Lomax's pioneering collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is published by Sturgis and Walton in the United States with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
 * November 7 – The musical comedy, Naughty Marietta, with music by Victor Herbert, is first performed on Broadway
 * November 10 – Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto, with Fritz Kreisler playing the solo part
 * Mary Garden begins her 20-year reign as soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera

Published popular music

 * "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" w. Rita Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert. From the operetta Naughty Marietta
 * "Alexander and His Clarinet" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "All Aboard For Blanket Bay" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "All That I Ask Of You Is Love" w. Edgar Selden m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Angels" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me" w. Thomas J. Gray m. Fred Fisher
 * "Back To My Old Home Town" w.m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
 * "A Banjo Song" by Howard Weeden
 * "The Big Bass Viol" w.m. M. T. Bohannon
 * "The Birth of Passion" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna. From the musical Madame Sherry.
 * "Bring Back My Lena To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin & David Andrew Noll
 * "By The Saskatchewan" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
 * "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Caprice Viennois" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "The Chanticleer Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Albert Gumble
 * "The Chicken Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly
 * "Chinatown, My Chinatown" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Cloud-Chief" m. J. Ernest Philie.
 * "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
 * "Come To The Ball" w. Adrian Ross m. Lionel Monckton
 * "Constantly" w. Chris Smith m. James Henry Burris
 * "The Convict And The Bird" w.m. T. W. Connor
 * "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
 * "Dear Mayme, I Love You!" Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder
 * "Doctor Tinkle Tinker" by Otto Harbach
 * "Don't Wake Me Up, I'm Dreaming" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Down By The Old Mill Stream" w.m. Tell Taylor
 * "Dream of a Miner's Child" ("Don't Go down in the Mine, Dad") w. Robert Donnely, Will Geddes
 * "Dreams, Just Dreams" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Every Little Movement" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
 * "Gee But It's Great To Meet A Friend From Your Old Home Town" w. William Tracey m. James Mc Gavisk
 * "Goodbye Rose" w. Addison Burkhart m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Grizzly Bear" w.m. George Botsford & Irving Berlin
 * "Hennessy" w.m. T.W. Connor w.m. Herman E. Darewski Jr.
 * "Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "How Can You Love Such A Man?" Irving Berlin
 * "I Feel So Lonely" w.m. Bert Lee. Introduced by Fred Allandale in the musical The Islander (musical)
 * "I'd Love To Live In Loveland" w.m. W. R. Williams (Rossiter)
 * "If He Comes In I'm Going Out" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith
 * "If I Was A Millionaire" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "I'm Falling In Love With Someone" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
 * "I'm Henery the Eighth" w.m. Fred Murray & R. P. Weston
 * "In The Shadows" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Herman Finck
 * "Is There Anything Else I Can Do For You?" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Italian Street Song" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
 * "I've Got The Time I've Got The Place But It's Hard To Find The Girl" w. Ballard MacDonald m. S. R. Henry
 * "Joshua" w.m George Arthurs & Bert Lee
 * "Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Leo Friedman
 * "Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland" w.m. Elizabeth Brice & Charles King
 * "Liebesfreud" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "Liebeslied" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "Life Is Only What You Make It After All" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
 * "Macushla" w. Josephine V. Rowe m. Dermot MacMurrough
 * "Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes" w. J. W. Johnson m. Bob Cole
 * "Morning" w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Oley Speaks
 * "Mother Machree" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Ernest R. Ball & Chauncey Olcott
 * "'Neath The Southern Moon" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert. From the operetta Naughty Marietta.
 * "Nora Malone" w. Junie McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Oh How That German Could Love" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Oh That Beautiful Rag" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "On Mobile Bay" w. Earl C. Jones m. Neil Moret
 * "A Perfect Day" w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
 * "Plant A Watermelon On My Grave And Let The Juice Soak Through" w.m. Frank Dumont & R. P. Lilly
 * "Play That Barbershop Chord" w. Ballard MacDonald & William Tracey m. Lewis F. Muir
 * "Put On Your Ta-Ta Little Girlie" w.m. Fred Leigh
 * "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" w. Junie McCree m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Red Pepper: A Spicy Rag" m. Henry Lodge
 * "Silver Bell" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Silver Star" m. Charles L. Johnson
 * "Some Of These Days" w.m. Shelton Brooks
 * "Spaghetti Rag" m. George Lyons & Bob Yosco
 * "Steamboat Bill" w. Ren Shields m. Bert Leighton & Frank Leighton
 * "Stein Song (Maine)" w. Lincoln Colcord m. E. A. Fenstad
 * "Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over And Love Me Some More)" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Sweet Italian Love" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
 * "Tambourin Chinois" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "Telling Lies" Irving Berlin, Henrietta Blanke-Belcher
 * "That Minor Strain" w. Cecil Mack m. Ford Dabney
 * "That Opera Rag" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
 * "That's Why They Call Me "Shine"" w. Cecil Mack m. Ford Dabney
 * "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
 * "Two Little Love Bees" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
 * "Under The Yum Yum Tree" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Vissi D'Arte" Giacossa, Illica, Puccini
 * "Washington And Lee Swing" w. Thornton W. Allen & C. A. Robbins m. Thornton W. Allen & M. W. Sheafe
 * "What's The Matter With Father?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Who Are You With Tonight?" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "You Are The Ideal Of My Dreams" w.m. Herbert Ingraham

Hit recordings

 * "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" – Blanche Ring

Classical music

 * Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3
 * Rutland Boughton – Five Celtic Songs
 * Claude Debussy - Préludes (book 1 begun in 1910)
 * Edward Elgar -
 * Violin Concerto, Op. 61
 * Romance for bassoon, Op. 62
 * Victor Ewald – Symphony for Brass
 * Gabriel Fauré – Préludes (Fauré) (completed in this year)
 * Charles Ives - Symphony No. 3 (1908-1910)
 * Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9
 * Erkki Melartin – String Quartet No. 4
 * Nikolai Myaskovsky –
 * Symphonic poem Silence
 * String Quartet No. 3 (original version)
 * Carl Nielsen –
 * At the Bier of a Young Artist (orchestral work for funeral)
 * Paaske-Liljen (choral work)
 * Sinfonia espansiva, Op. 27 / FS 60 (begun, concluded 1911)
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
 * 13 Preludes, Op. 32
 * Arnold Schoenberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra
 * Alexander Scriabin – Prometheus, "The Poem of Fire"
 * Jean Sibelius - In Memoriam, Op. 59 (completed)
 * Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams
 * Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (first version)
 * Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony")
 * Anton Webern – 4 Pieces for Violin (Webern)

Incidental music

 * Carl Nielsen - Hagbarth og Signe

Opera

 * Gialdino Gialdini – La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
 * Jules Massenet – Don Quichotte premiered February 19 in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
 * Giacomo Puccini – La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City
 * Alexander Zemlinsky – Kleider machen Leute

Ballet

 * June 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris

Musical theatre

 * The Balkan Princess London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on February 19 and ran for 176 performances
 * The Chocolate Soldier (Rudolf Friml) – London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on September 10 and ran for 500 performances
 * The Islander London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on April 23 and ran for 114 performances
 * The Jolly Bachelors Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 6 and ran for 165 performances
 * Die keusche Susanne (m. Jean Gilbert) opened in Magdeburg
 * Madame Sherry Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on August 30 and ran for 231 performances
 * Naughty Marietta (Rida Johnson Young and Victor Herbert) – Broadway production opened at the New York Theatre on November 7 and ran for 136 performances
 * Our Miss Gibbs Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 29 and ran for 64 performances
 * The Quaker Girl (Music: Lionel Monckton Lyrics: Adrian Ross & Percy Greenbank Book: James T. Tanner).  London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on November 5 and ran for 536 performances.  Starring Gertie Millar, Joseph Coyne and C. Hayden Coffin.
 * The Satyr London production
 * Tillie's Nightmare Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 5 and was revived at the Manhattan Opera House on December 18, 1911, for a total run of 85 performances
 * Up and Down Broadway Broadway revue opened at the Casino Theatre on July 18 and ran for 72 performances
 * The Yankee Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 10 and ran for 92 performances
 * Zigeunerliebe Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on January 8

Births

 * January 1 – Koesbini, Indonesian composer (d. 1991)
 * January 8 – Fabian Andre, composer (d. 1960)
 * January 17 – Sid Catlett, American jazz drummer (d. 1951)
 * January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Romani-French guitarist (d. 1953)
 * February 3 – Blas Galindo Dimas, Mexican composer (d. 1993?)
 * February 25 – Winifred Shaw, US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1982)
 * March 9 – Samuel Barber, composer (d. 1981)
 * March 11 – Nicola Salerno, Italian lyricist (d. 1969)
 * March 15 – Anna-Lisa Björling, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
 * March 25 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (d. 2014)
 * March 27 – Manfred Bukofzer, German-American musicologist (d. 1955)
 * April 14 – Werner Wolf Glaser, Swiss composer (d. 2006)
 * April 26 – Erland von Koch, Swedish composer (d. 2009)
 * April 30 – Levi Celerio, songwriter (d. 2002)
 * May 8 – Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist and composer (d. 1981)
 * May 12
 * Gordon Jenkins, US songwriter, conductor and pianist (d. 1984)
 * Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
 * May 13 – Cleavant Derricks, gospel songwriter (d. 1977)
 * May 23
 * Artie Shaw, US bandleader (d. 2004)
 * Scatman Crothers, American actor, singer, dancer and musician (d. 1986)
 * May 26 – Lola Gjoka, Albanian pianist (d. 1985)
 * May 28 – T-Bone Walker, blues musician (d. 1975)
 * June 4 – Anton Dermota, operatic tenor (d. 1989)
 * June 10 – Howlin' Wolf, blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
 * June 15 – Alf Pearson, British singer, part of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 2012)
 * June 17 – H. Owen Reed, conductor and composer (d. 2014)
 * June 18
 * Ray McKinley, US drummer, singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
 * Takahashi Chikuzan, Japanese musician and composer (d. 1998)
 * June 22 – Anne Ziegler, English soprano (d. 2003)
 * June 29 – Frank Loesser, US songwriter (d. 1969)
 * July 10 – Rafael Cepeda, folk musician (d. 1996)
 * July 15 – Ronald Binge, British composer (d.1973)
 * July 18 – Lou Busch, US arranger and composer a.k.a. Joe "Fingers" Carr (died 1979)
 * August 1 – Walter Scharf, film composer (died 2003)
 * August 7 – Freddie Slack, US pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1965)
 * August 12 – Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (d. 1995)
 * August 17 – Erkki Aaltonen, composer (d. 1990)
 * August 24 – Tunde King, Nigerian singer and instrumentalist, originator of Jùjú music (d. c.1980)
 * August 25 – Ethel Stark, violinist and composer (d. 2012)
 * September 3 – Kitty Carlisle, US actress and singer (d. 2007)
 * September 12 – Shep Fields, bandleader (d. 1981)
 * September 29 – Virginia Bruce, actress and singer (d. 1982)
 * October 1 – André Dumortier, pianist (d. 2004)
 * October 13 – Otto Joachim, composer (d. 2010)
 * December 4 – Alex North, film composer (d. 1991)
 * December 7 – Louis Prima, musician, singer (d. 1978)
 * December 10 – John H. Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Otakar Hostinský, musicologist (b. 1847)
 * March 10 – Carl Reinecke, composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1824)
 * March 17 – Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (b. 1846)
 * March 28 – Édouard Colonne, violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
 * May 3 – Lottie Collins, singer and dancer (b. 1865)
 * May 7 – Bernhard Cossmann, cellist (b. 1822)
 * May 18
 * Pauline Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
 * Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist (b. 1843)
 * May 29 – Mily Balakirev, composer (b. 1837)
 * June 6 – Concepció Bordalba, opera singer (b. 1866)
 * July 4 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, pianist and composer (b. 1840)
 * July 7 – Emilio Usiglio, conductor and composer (b. 1841)
 * July 14 – Marius Petipa, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
 * August 31 – Emīls Dārziņš, composer, conductor and music critic (b. 1875) (probable suicide)
 * September 5
 * Julian Edwards, composer (b. 1855)
 * Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (b. 1840)
 * September 24 – Rudolf Dellinger, composer (b. 1857)
 * October 14 – Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (b. 1826)
 * October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, lyricist of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (b. 1819)
 * November 25 – John Henry Martin, Band instrument manufacturer (b. 1835)
 * date unknown – Albert Schatz, composer and librettist (b. 1839)

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William Lilly

William Lilly (11 May 1602 – 9 June 1681) was a seventeenth century English astrologer. He is described as having been a genius at something "that modern mainstream opinion has since decided cannot be done at all" having developed his stature as the most important astrologer in England through his social and political connections as well as going on to have an indelible impact on the future course of Western astrological tradition.

Born the son of a yeoman farmer in Leicestershire, Lilly travelled to London as a youth to take up a servant's position. Seven years later he secured his fortune by marrying his former master's widow, allowing him the leisure to study astrology. In 1644, during the English Civil War, he published the first of many popular astrological texts, and in 1647 he published Christian Astrology, a huge compendium of astrological technique. This was the first of its kind to be printed in the English language rather than Latin, and is said to have tutored "a nation in crisis in the language of the stars". By 1659, Lilly's fame was widely acknowledged and his annual almanac was achieving sales of around 30,000 copies a year.

Lilly's autobiography, published towards the end of his life in 1681, at the request of his patron Elias Ashmole, gives candid accounts of the political events of his era, and biographical details of contemporaries that are unavailable elsewhere. It was described, in the late 18th century, as "one of the most entertaining narratives in our language", in particular for the historical portrayal it leaves of men like John Dee, Simon Forman, John Booker, Edward Kelley, including a whimsical first meeting of John Napier and Henry Briggs, respective co-inventors of the logarithm and Briggsian logarithms, and for its curious tales about the effects of crystals and the appearance of Queen Mab. In it, Lilly describes the friendly support of Oliver Cromwell during a period in which he faced prosecution for issuing political astrological predictions. He also writes about the 1666 Great Fire of London, and how he was brought before the committee investigating the cause of the fire, being suspected of involvement because of his publication of images, 15 years earlier, which depicted a city in flames surrounded by coffins.

Lilly was a controversial character who was both aided and abetted by powerful friends and enemies. He attracted the attention of many members of Parliament, through the support of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, (to whom he dedicated his Christian Astrology), but also accused Members of Parliament of engineering charges against him in 1651. To his supporters he was an "English Merlin"; to his detractors he was a "juggling wizard and imposter".

Early life
Lilly was born on 1 May 1602 in the small village of Diseworth, Leicestershire; the thatched cottage his family lived in still stands near the village church. It was a substantial house for its time, although Lilly's father, (also called William), struggled with the cost of running his farm. By the time Lilly came to school age, his mother, Alice, complained about the family's back-slidings and decayed estate, yet she determined to give her son the best education the family could afford.

Lilly was fortunate in receiving a classical education at the Grammar school of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, under John Brinsley, one of the finest teachers of his time. Brinsley was strict in discipline but advocated encouragement and praise, and by the time Lilly left the school in 1619, he was excellently educated and excelled at Latin. This was to serve him well in his later astrological studies, since almost all astrological textbooks were written in Latin at that time.

Lilly's hopes of attending Cambridge University were dashed by his father's increasing poverty. His biography records his disappointment at being denied the opportunity that all of his fellow students enjoyed, even though he describes the knowledge of most of them as "defective": "[A]ll and every of those scholars who were of my form and standing went to Cambridge ... only poor I, William Lilly, was not so happy; fortune then frowning upon father's present condition, he not in any capacity to maintain me at the university."

A lesser opportunity came through his father's attorney, who recognised Lilly's level of education and recommended him to Gilbert Wright, Master of the Salters' Company and resident of the Strand in London (but formerly of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire). Wright was looking for a literate youth to act as his secretary and general servant, and at that time Lilly's father (then in prison for debt) was very happy to be rid of him, considering that since his son was no good around the farm, he was "good for nothing". With his letter of recommendation and just a few shillings, eighteen-year-old Lilly walked to London alongside a carrier's cart, later recounting "it was a very stormy week, cold and uncomfortable: I footed it all along".

Lilly received a warm welcome from Gilbert Wright, and worked as his servant until Wright's death in 1627. His biography recounts how, during these seven years, he was happy to perform all manner of menial tasks for his master; how he nursed Gilbert's wife through breast-cancer, until she died of the illness in 1624; how he survived the Great Plague of London in 1625; how his master married again in 1626 (a widow named Ellen Whitehaire), and then settled upon Lilly an annuity of £20 a year, before his death in May 1627.

Within months of Wright's death, the newly widowed Ellen made it clear that, having married twice for money, she was now looking to marry someone who would be loving and look after her, regardless of her suitor's status. Lilly took the "audacious" step of proposing himself, and despite her initial protestations that at 25 years of age Lilly was too young, they married in September of that year, keeping their marriage secret from her friends and family for two years.

Lilly describes a contented marriage with Ellen, which continued for six years. Upon her death she left everything to Lilly, of which he reports "it was considerable, very near to the value of one thousand pounds".

Astrological career
The comfortable lifestyle and fortune that Lilly inherited from Ellen, gave him leisure time to frequent sermons and lectures in London society. In 1632, shortly before Ellen's death, he began to study astrology, reading all the books on the subject he could fall in with, and occasionally trying his hand at unravelling mysteries by means of his art. The years 1642 and 1643 were devoted to a careful revision of all his previous reading, and in particular, having lighted on Valentine Naibod's Commentary on Alcabitius, he "seriously studied him and found him to be the profoundest author he ever met with." About the same time he tells us that he "did carefully take notice of every grandaction betwixt king and parliament, and did first then incline to believe that as all sublunary affairs depend on superior causes, so there, was: a possibility of discovering them by the configurations of the superior bodies." And, having thereupon "made some essays," he "found encouragement to proceed further, and ultimately framed to himself that method which he ever afterwards followed."

Lilly's most comprehensive book was published in 1647 and was entitled Christian Astrology. It is so large that it came in three separate volumes in modern times, and it remains popular even today and has never gone totally out-of-print. It is considered one of the classic texts for the study of traditional astrology from the Middle Ages, in particular horary astrology, which is mainly concerned with predicting future events or investigating unknown elements of current affairs, based on an astrological chart cast for the time a particular question is asked of the astrologer. Worked examples of horary charts are found in Volume 2 of Christian Astrology.

He then began to issue his prophetical almanacs and other works, which met with serious attention from some of the most prominent members of the Long Parliament. Lilly was on intimate terms with Bulstrode Whitelocke, William Lenthall the speaker, Sir Philip Stapleton, Elias Ashmole and others. Even John Selden seems to have acknowledged him, and probably the chief difference between him and the mass of the community at the time was that, while others believed in the general truth of astrology, he ventured to specify the future events to which he referred.

In 1650, Lilly wrote a preface to Sir Christopher Heydon's An Astrological Discourse with Mathematical Demonstrations, a defence of astrology written about 1608 which was first published posthumously, largely at the expense of Elias Ashmole.

Retirement and death
After the Restoration he very quickly fell into disrepute. His sympathy with the parliament, which his predictions had generally shown, was not calculated to bring him into royal favour. He came under the lash of Samuel Butler, who, making allowance for some satiric exaggeration, has given in the character of Hudibras' Sidrophel a probably not very incorrect picture of the man; and, having by this time amassed a tolerable fortune, he bought a small estate at Hersham in Surrey, to which he retired, and where he diverted the exercise of his peculiar talents to the practice of medicine. He died in 1681. In 2003 a commemorative plaque was placed next to the disused Aldwych tube station on the Strand. Lilly lived in a house on the site from 1627 to 1665.

Influence and works
The publication of a facsimile of the original 1647 edition of Lilly's Christian Astrology in 1985 by Regulus Publishing Company Ltd., in the UK, brought about a renaissance in astrological scholarship in North America and Europe, and also a transformation of the techniques of modern astrology. Olivia Barclay and other British astrologers began to unearth Lilly's astrological work, and were influential in the eventual re-publication of Christian Astrology.

Besides his 36 annual almanacs published between 1647 and 1682, Lilly's published works also include:
 * Merlinus Anglicus Junior, 1644.
 * Supernatural Sights and Apparitions seen in London, June 20th 1644, 1644.
 * The Prophecy of the White King, 1644.
 * England's Prophetical Merlin, 1644.
 * Collections of Prophecies, 1646.
 * Christian Astrology, 1647.
 * The World's Catastrophe, or Europe's many mutations untill [sic] 1666, 1647; which includes 'A Whip for Wharton'; some copies also include Elias Ashmole's translations of The Prophecies of Ambrose Merlin, with a Key, and Trithemius, or the Government of the World by presiding Angels.
 * An Astrologicall Prediction of the Occurrences in England for the years 1648, 1649, 1650, London, 1648, with 'Hamilton's nativity', and a dedication addressed to the House of Commons.
 * Monarchy or No Monarchy, 1651.
 * Mr. Lillyes Prognostications of 1667, predicting the Prosperity … of the English and their glorious Victories … by Land and Sea, 1667.
 * The dangerous Condition of the United Provinces prognosticated, 1672.
 * Mr. Lillies late Prophecy come to pass concerning the present War and the late unseasonableness of the Weather, 1673.
 * Mr. Lillies Prophesie of a General Peace, 1674.
 * Mr. Lillies Prophecy, or a sober Prediction of a Peace between the French and the Dutch and their Allies, 1675.
 * Anima Astrologiae, or a Guide for Astrologers, being translated from Guido Bonatus, and Cardan's seaven Segments, with a new Table of the Fixed Stars, rectified for several years to come, 1676.
 * Mr Lillies Astrological Predictions for 1677, proving the happy Condition of this our Nation for the Year ensuing, 1676.
 * Mr. Lillies Prediction concerning the many lamentable Fires which have lately happened, with a full Account of Fires at Home and Abroad, 1676.
 * Strange News from the East, or a sober Account of the Comet or blazing Star that has been seen several Mornings of late, 1677.
 * Lillies New Prophecy relating to the Year, 1678.
 * William Lilly's History of His Life and Times by William Lilly, 1681.
 * Fore-Warn'd, Fore-Arm'd, or England's Timely Warning in general, and London's in particular, 1682.
 * Catastrophe Mundi, Mr. Lilly's Hieroglyphicks exactly cut, 1683, a reissue of the appendix to Monarchy or No Monarchy, 1651.

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1909 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1909.

Specific locations

 * 1909 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1909 in jazz

Events

 * January 25 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
 * February 19 – First production of Bedřich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta) in the United States, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, conducted by Gustav Mahler with Ema Destinová in the title role, sung in German.
 * February 22 – Thomas Beecham conducts the first concert with his newly established Beecham Symphony Orchestra in the UK.
 * May 12 – Leopold Stokowski makes his debut as a conductor, for the Colonne Orchestra in Paris.
 * November 8 – Boston Opera House in the United States opens with a performance of La Gioconda starring Lillian Nordica and Louise Homer.
 * November 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premièred in New York City with the composer as soloist.
 * December 18 – George Enescu's Octet for Strings and Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major are premiered together on a program also featuring his Sept chansons de Clement Marot, Op. 15, at the Salle des agriculteurs in Paris, as part of the "Soirées d'Art" concert series.
 * Chemnitz Opera in Germany opens.
 * Foerster & Sons, musical instrument maker, is founded in Milwaukee.

Published popular music

 * "Ace In The Hole" w.m. George D. Mitchell & James E. Dempsey
 * "And Now Assemble" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
 * "Arcady Is Ever Young" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Lionel Monckton. Introduced by Florence Smithson in the musical The Arcadians.
 * "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" w. George Whiting & Carter De Haven m. Ted Snyder
 * "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti
 * "Blue Feather" w. Jack Mahoney, m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Boiled Beef and Carrots" w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Murray
 * "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" w. Edward Madden m. Gus Edwards
 * "Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)" w. Juni McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "The Ballad of Casey Jones" w. T. Lawrence Seibert m. Eddie Newton
 * "Chewska" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
 * "Christmas-Time Seems Years And Years Away" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "The Cubanola Glide" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "The Dollar Princesses" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
 * "Dublin Daisies" m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Fickle Fortune" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot
 * "For You Alone" w. P. J. O'Reilly m. Henry E. Geehl
 * "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman
 * "The Garden of Roses" by J.E. Dempsey
 * "Golden Arrow w. Harry Williams, m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
 * "How Do You Do?" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
 * "I Just Came Back To Say Good Bye" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Kid" w.m. Harry Armstrong & Billy Clark
 * "I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife—But Oh! You Kid!" m. Harry von Tilzer w. Jimmy Lucas
 * "I Wish That You Was My Gal, Molly" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard & Harold Orlob
 * "If The Wind Had Only Blown The Other Way" w.m. Edna Williams & Bessie Wynn
 * "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "I'm Alabama Bound" by Robert Hoffman
 * "I'm Awfully Glad I Met You" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
 * "I'm Glad I'm A Boy/ I'm Glad I'm A Girl" w.m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
 * "I'm Going To Do What I Please" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
 * "I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust" w. Henry Edward Warner m. Herman Avery Wade
 * "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" w. R. P. Weston & F. J. Barnes m. Maurice Scott
 * "Let's All Go Down The Strand" w.m. Harry Castling & C. W. Murphy
 * "Kissing-Bug" m. Charles L. Johnson
 * "Let's Go Into A Picture Show" w.m. Junie McCree & Albert von Tilzer
 * "The Letter Song" w. Stanislaus Stange m. Oscar Straus
 * "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Leo Friedman
 * "Moonstruck" w.m. Lionel Monckton
 * "Moving Day In Jungle Town" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
 * "My Cousin Caruso" w. Edward Madden m. Gus Edwards
 * "My Hero" w. (Eng) Stanislaus Stange (Ger) Rudolf Bernauer & m. Oscar Straus
 * "My Motter" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Howard Talbot
 * "My Pony Boy" w. Bobby Heath m. Charles O'Donnell
 * "My Prairie Song Bird" w. Jack Drislane, m. George W. Meyer
 * "My Southern Rose" by Earl Taylor
 * "My Wife's Gone To The Country" w. George Whiting & Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "Next To Your Mother Who Do You Love" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "No One Could Do It Like My Father" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Nobody Knows Nobody Cares" w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "Oh! You Candy Kid" w.m. Bob Adams & John Golden
 * "Oh, What I Know About You" Irving Berlin, Joseph H. McKeon, Harry M. Piano, W. Raymond Walker
 * "On Wisconsin" w. Carl Beck m. W. T. Purdy
 * "Only a Dream of You" w. Carol Loveland m. Harry J. Lincoln
 * "Our Farm" Caryll & Monckton
 * "Pork And Beans" m. Theron C. Bennett
 * "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" w. Stanley Murphy m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Rainbow" w. Alfred Bryan m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Sadie Salome Go Home" w.m. Irving Berlin & Edgar Leslie
 * "She Was A Dear Little Girl" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "Ship Ahoy!" w.m. A. J. Mills & Bennett Scott
 * "Stop That Rag (Keep On Playing, Honey)" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
 * "Take Me Up With You, Dearie" w. Junie McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Temptation Rag" m. Henry Lodge
 * "That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "That's A Plenty" w. Henry Creamer m. Bert A. Williams
 * "When I Dream In The Gloaming Of You" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "When You First Kissed The Last Girl You Loved" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
 * "Where My Caravan Has Rested" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Herman Lohr
 * "The Whiffenpoof Song" w. Meade Minnigerode & George S. Pomeroy m. Tod B. Galloway
 * "The White Wash Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Wild Cherries (Coony, Spoony Rag)" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
 * "Yiddle On Your Fiddle" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "You Taught Me How To Love You Now Teach Me To Forget" w. Jack Drislane & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer

Recorded popular music

 * "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" – Ada Jones
 * "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" – Nellie Melba
 * "Black And White Rag", recorded by
 * Victor Dance Orchestra
 * Prince's Band
 * "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon" – Billy Murray and Haydn Quartette
 * "Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)" – Billy Murray
 * "College Life" – Billy Murray
 * "Dill Pickles Rag" – Pryor's Band
 * "Down Among The Sugar Cane" – Collins and Harlan
 * "Down In Jungle Town" – Peter Dawson (as Charles Handy)
 * "Face To Face" – Frank C. Stanley
 * "Good Evening, Caroline" – Billy Murray
 * "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" – Florrie Forde
 * "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
 * "I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside", recorded by:
 * Mark Sheridan
 * Florrie Forde
 * "I Just Came Back To Say Good Bye" – Amy Butler
 * "I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Kid" – Billy Murray
 * "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" – Billy Murray
 * "If The Wind Had Only Blown The Other Way" – Grace Cameron
 * "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew" – Eddie Morton
 * "I'm Going To Do What I Please" – Stella Tobin
 * "I've Got Rings On My Fingers", recorded by:
 * Ada Jones
 * Blanche Ring
 * "Just Before The Battle, Mother" – Will Oakland
 * "Let's Go Into A Picture Show", recorded by:
 * Harry Tally with orchestra directed by Walter B. Rogers
 * Pete Murray
 * "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" – Will Oakland
 * "Maple Leaf Rag" – United States Marine Band (popular remake by the U.S.M.B. of their historic 1906 recording)
 * "Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" – Peter Dawson (as Mr C. Handy)
 * "My Pony Boy" – Ada Jones & Peerless Quartette
 * "My Wife's Gone To The Country" – Collins & Harlan
 * "Not For Me" – Bessie Wynn
 * "Now I Have To Call Him Father" – Florrie Forde
 * "Oh You Kid!" – Billy Murray & Ada Jones
 * "Oh! You Candy Kid" – Ada Jones
 * "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
 * "Old Black Joe" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
 * "Put Me Upon An Island" – Wilkie Bard
 * "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" – Haydn Quartette
 * "Rainbow" – Frank C. Stanley and Henry Burr
 * "She Sells Sea-Shells" – Billy Murray
 * "The Star Spangled Banner" – Geraldine Farrar w. male chorus (Harry Macdonough, Reed Miller, Reinald Werrenrath and Frank C. Stanley)
 * "Sweet Simplicitas" – Peter Dawson (as Charles Handy) w. Chorus (Ernest Pike, Harold Wilde and Stewart Gardner)
 * "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
 * "Take Me Up With You, Dearie" – Billy Murray and Haydn Quartet
 * "That's A Plenty" – Arthur Collins
 * "When I Dream In The Gloaming Of You", recorded by:
 * Harry Tally with Prince's Orchestra
 * Walter Van Brunt
 * "The Whole Damm Family" – Billy Murray
 * "The Yama Yama Man" – Ada Jones
 * "Yankiana Rag" – The American Symphony Orchestra
 * "Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon" – Nellie Melba
 * "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!", recorded by:
 * George Grossmith Jr.
 * Blanche Ring with orchestra directed by Walter B. Rogers

Classical music

 * Arnold Bax – In the Faery Hills
 * Ferruccio Busoni – An die Jugend
 * Alfredo Casella - Symphony No. 2, Op. 12
 * George Enescu – Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16
 * Gustav Helsted – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor
 * Anatoly Lyadov – Kikimora, Op. 63
 * John Blackwood McEwen – A Solway Symphony
 * Gustav Mahler
 * Das Lied von der Erde completed
 * Symphony No. 9 completed
 * Nikolai Medtner – Violin Sonata No.1, Op. 21
 * Adolf Mišek – Sonata for Double Bass and Piano no 1 in A major
 * Max Reger –
 * Psalm 100, op. 106
 * Clarinet Sonata No. 3, op. 107
 * String Quartet No. 4, op. 109
 * Arnold Schoenberg –
 * "Am Strande", for voice and piano
 * Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
 * Erwartung, monodrama in one act, Op. 17
 * Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
 * Cyril Scott – Piano Sonata No.1, Op. 66
 * Jean Sibelius – Voces intimae
 * Igor Stravinsky – Pogrebal’naya Pesnya
 * Sergei Taneyev – Suite de concert for Violin and Orchestra
 * Charles Tournemire – Symphony No. 2 (Ouessant)
 * Anton Webern –
 * Fünf Lieder for voice and piano, Op. 4
 * Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5

Opera

 * Jules Massenet – Bacchus (opera)
 * Ruperto Chapí – Margarita la tornera (Margarita the Gatekeeper)
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Golden Cockerel
 * Richard Strauss – Elektra
 * Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Il segreto di Susanna

Musical theater

 * The Arcadians London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 28 and ran for 809 performances.
 * The Beauty Spot Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on April 10 and ran for 137 performances
 * The Belle of Brittany (Music: Howard Talbot & Marie Horne Lyrics: Percy Greenbank Book: P. J. Barron & Leedom Bantock)  Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on November 8 and ran for 72 performances.  Starring Frank Daniels and Frances Kennedy.
 * A Broken Idol Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on August 16 and ran for 40 performances
 * The Chocolate Soldier Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on September 13, transferred to the Herald Square Theatre on October 25, transferred back to the Lyric Theatre on November 22 and transferred to the Casino Theatre on December 20 for a total run of 295 performances
 * The Dashing Little Duke London production opened at Hicks Theatre on February 17 and ran for 101 performances
 * Dear Little Denmark opened at the Prince Of Wales Theatre on September 1 and ran for 109 performances
 * The Dollar Princess London production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 25 and ran for 428 performances
 * The Dollar Princess Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 6 and ran for 250 performances
 * Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxembourg) Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on November 12 and ran for 299 performances
 * Fallen Fairies (Music: Edward German Book & Lyrics W. S. Gilbert)  London production opened at the Savoy on 15 December and ran for 51 performances
 * The Midnight Sons Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 22 and ran for 257 performances
 * Our Miss Gibbs (Music: Ivan Caryll & Lionel Monckton Lyrics: Adrian Ross & Percy Greenbank)  London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on January 23 and ran for 636 performances.
 * A Persian Princess London production opened at the Queen's Theatre on April 27 and ran for 68 performances.
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1909 Broadway revue opened at the Jardin de Paris on June 14 and ran for 64 performances

Births

 * January 3 – Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, Danish-born comedian, musician and actor (d. 2000)
 * January 11 – Gunnar Berg, Swiss-born Danish composer (d. 1989)
 * January 13 – Ed Burke, jazz musician (d. 1988)
 * January 15 – Gene Krupa, drummer (d. 1973)
 * February 5 – Grazyna Bacewicz, Polish composer (d. 1969)
 * February 9 – Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress (d. 1955)
 * March 17 – K. P. H. Notoprojo, Javanese musician (d. 2007)
 * May 1 – George Melachrino, English conductor, singer and composer (d. 1965)
 * May 10 – Maybelle Carter née Addington, American country singer and musician, member of the Carter Family (d. 1978)
 * May 13 – Ken Darby, American chorale director (d. 1992)
 * May 30 – Benny Goodman, musician, actor (d. 1986)
 * June 12 – Archie Bleyer, American arranger and bandleader (d. 1989)
 * June 14 – Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (d. 1995)
 * June 26 – Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
 * July 9 – Manolo Caracol, Andalusian flamenco singer (d. 1973)
 * July 18 – Harriet Hilliard, American singer and actress, wife of Ozzie Nelson and mother of Rick Nelson (d. 1994)
 * July 22 – Licia Albanese, Italian-born operatic soprano and songwriter (d. 1995)
 * August 10 – Claude Thornhill, American bandleader, pianist and composer (d. 1965)
 * August 11 – Yuji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)
 * August 15 – Hugo Winterhalter, American conductor and arranger (d. 1973)
 * August 17 – Larry Clinton, American bandleader and songwriter (d. 1985)
 * August 23 – Ichirō Saitō, Japanese film composer (d. 1979)
 * August 25 – Ruby Keeler, dancer, actress (d. 1993)
 * September 24 – Carl Sigman, songwriter (d. 2000)
 * October 3 – Borney Bergantine, songwriter (d. 1952)
 * November 10 – Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
 * November 18 – Johnny Mercer, songwriter (d. 1976)
 * December 4 – Barbarito Diez, Cuban singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
 * December 20 – Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (d. 1996)
 * date unknown – Antonio Mairena, Andalusian flamenco singer (d. 1983)

Deaths

 * January 15 – Ernest Reyer, composer and music critic (b. 1823)
 * March 21 – Rudolf von Gottschall, lyricist and poet (born 1823)
 * March 22 – Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
 * March 25 – Ruperto Chapí, composer (b. 1851)
 * May 6 – Fanny Cerrito, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1817)
 * May 19 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (born 1860)
 * May 20 – Ernest Hogan, ragtime musician (b. 1865)
 * June 1 – Giuseppe Martucci, composer and conductor
 * June 7 – P. W. Halton, conductor (b. 1841)
 * July 19 – Leopold Rosenfeld, composer (b. 1849)
 * August 17 – Richard Hoffman, composer and pianist (b. 1831)
 * October 6 – Dudley Buck, organist, composer and music writer (b. 1839)
 * October 13 – Julius Ruthardt, violinist and composer (b. 1841)
 * November 8 – Charles Bordes, composer (b. 1863)
 * November 10 – Ludvig Schytte, Danish composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1848)
 * November 16 – Francis Thomé, pianist and composer (b. 1850)
 * December 11 – Domenico Salvatori, castrato singer (b. 1855)
 * December 15 – Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
 * date unknown
 * August Jaeger, music publisher (b. 1860)
 * Katharine Purvis, lyricist of "When The Saints Go Marching In"
 * Pallavi Seshayyar, Carnatic music composer (b. 1842)
 * Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres of Russia

title: 1909 in music


text:
1908 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1908.

Specific locations

 * 1908 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1908 in jazz

Events

 * January 26 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 receives its première.
 * March 15 – Maurice Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole receives its première in Paris.
 * April 11 – Spyridon Samaras's opera Rhea is premiered in Florence (Teatro Verdi)
 * September 19 – Première of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7 in Prague.
 * November 18 – Release in France of the film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise with a score from Saint-Saëns.
 * December 3 – Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 receives its première in Manchester.
 * December 18 – Claude Debussy's Children's Corner receives its première in Paris.
 * Anthony Maggio publishes a dance band orchestration of early Blues "I Got The Blues" in New Orleans.
 * Opera singer Amelita Galli marries the Marchese Luigi Curci, and acquires the name by which she becomes best-known.
 * Claude Debussy marries Emma Bardac.

Published popular music

 * "The ABCs of the U.S.A." w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Yankee Prince
 * "All For Love Of You" w. Dave Reed m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Any Old Port In A Storm" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Kerry Mills
 * "Black And White Rag" w.m. George Botsford
 * "Call Round Any Old Time" w.m. Charles Moore & E. W. Rogers
 * "Consolation" by Edward Madden
 * "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
 * "Daisies Won't Tell" w.m. Anita Owen
 * "Down Among The Sugar Cane" w. Avery & Charles Hart m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
 * "Down In Jungle Town" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Dusty Rag" m. May Aufderhelde
 * "The Fairest Of The Fair" w.m. John Philip Sousa
 * "Feed The Kitty" w. Ed Moran m. J. Fred Helf
 * "Fig Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
 * "Gee But There's Class To A Girl Like You" w.m. W. R. Williams
 * "Golliwog's Cake Walk" m. Claude Debussy
 * "Good Evening, Caroline" by Albert Von Tilzer & Jack Norworth
 * "Ham And !" by Arthur Marshall
 * "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" w.m. C. W. Murphy & Will Letters. With new lyrics by William McKenna it was performed by Nora Bayes in the 1910 Broadway production of the musical The Jolly Bachelors
 * "Hoo-oo Ain't You Calling Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "I Hear You Calling Me" w. Harold Harford (actual name Harold Lake) m. Charles Marshall
 * "I Want To Be Loved Like A Leading Lady" w. Paul West m. Herman Avery Wade
 * "If I Had A Thousand Lives To Live" w. Sylvester Maguire m. Alfred Solman
 * "If You Cared for Me" by E. Rose
 * "I'm A Yiddish Cowboy" w. Edgar Leslie m. Al Piantodosi & Halsey K. Mohr
 * "I'm Glad I'm Married" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "I'm Looking For The Man That Wrote "The Merry Widow Waltz"" w. Edgar Selden m. Seymour Furth
 * "In The Garden Of My Heart" w. Caro Roma m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "It's Moonlight All The Time On Broadway" Wenrich
 * "It's The Pretty Things You Say" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
 * "I've Taken Quite A Fancy To You" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Kerry Mills' Barn Dance" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
 * "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" w. Ren Shields m. Kerry Mills
 * "Love Is Like A Cigarette" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
 * "Love Me Like I Want To Be Loved" w. Earle C. Jones & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
 * "Love's Roundelay" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
 * "Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" w. Ren Shields m. J. Fred Helf
 * "Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Mephisto Rag" by Anthony J. Stasny
 * "Mother Hasn't Spoken To Father Since" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "My Brudda Sylvest'" w. Jesse Lasky m. Fred Fisher
 * "My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl" w.m. C. W. Murphy & Dan Lipton
 * "Now I Have To Call Him Father" w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Godfrey
 * "The Old Time Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore Morse
 * "Pine Apple Rag" by Scott Joplin
 * "Roses Bring Dreams Of You" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "She Sells Sea-Shells" w. Terry Sullivan m. Harry Gifford
 * "Shine On Harvest Moon" w. Jack Norworth m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
 * "A Singer Sang A Song" w. Will Heelan m. Seymour Furth
 * "Smarty" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Somebody Lied" w.m. Jeff T. Branen & Evans Lloyd
 * "Sun Bird m. Kerry Mills
 * "Sweetest Gal In Town" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Sweetest Maid Of All" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus [[Image:TakeMeOutBallgameCover.jpg|thumb|right]]
 * "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Up In A Balloon" w. Ren Shields m. Percy Wenrich
 * "A Vision Of Salome" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
 * "When Highland Mary Danced The Highland Fling" w. Jack Mahoney m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "When It's Moonlight On The Prairie" w. Robert F. Roden m. S. R. Henry
 * "When We Are M-A-Double-R-I-E-D" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical Fifty Miles From Boston
 * "The Whitewash Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "The Yama Yama Man" w. Collin Davis m. Karl Hoschna
 * "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!" w. Will D. Cobb m. John H. Flynn
 * "You Will Have To Sing An Irish Song" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "You're In The Right Church, But The Wrong Pew" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith

Hit recordings

 * " The Small Town Gal" – George M. Cohan
 * "All She Gets from the Iceman Is Ice" – Ada Jones

Classical music

 * Kurt Atterberg – Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
 * Béla Bartók – First Violin Concerto
 * Alban Berg – Piano Sonata, Op.1
 * York Bowen – Viola Concerto in C minor
 * Henry Walford Davies – Solemn Melody for organ
 * George Enescu –
 * Cantate pour la pose de la prèmiere pierre du pont à transbordeur de Bordeaux, for military band, two harps, string orchestra, solo cello, choir, baritone solo, and cannons
 * "Morgengebet", for voice and piano
 * Sept chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15
 * Gabriel Fauré –
 * Nocturne No. 9 in B minor, Op. 97
 * Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, Op. 99
 * Serenade for cello and piano, Op. 98
 * Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 8
 * Reinhold Glière – Second Symphony, Op. 25
 * Hamilton Harty – Violin Concerto
 * Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Symphony No. 1
 * John Ireland – Phantasy Piano Trio
 * Charles Ives –
 * Prelude on Eventide
 * The Unanswered Question
 * Paul von Klenau – Symphony No. 1
 * Toivo Kuula – Piano Trio
 * Gian Francesco Malipiero – Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte
 * Erkki Melartin – Third String Quartet
 * Carl Nielsen – Saga-Drøm (tone poem)
 * Max Reger –
 * Auferstanden, auferstanden, cantata for SATB soloists, SATB choir, and organ
 * Sonatinas for two pianos (4), Op. 89
 * Suite, for violin and piano, in E minor
 * Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 102
 * Violin Concerto, in A major, Op. 101
 * Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, Op. 108
 * Weihegesang, for alto solo, SATB choir, and winds
 * Zwei geistliche Lieder, for choir
 * Xaver Scharwenka – Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor
 * Arnold Schoenberg –
 * Lieder (2), Op. 14
 * String Quartet No. 2 – premiered in Vienna
 * Alexander Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy
 * Igor Stravinsky – Feu d'artifice
 * May Summerbelle 'Beaux Yeux' Waltz for solo piano
 * Anton Webern – Passacaglia for orchestra, Op. 1

Opera

 * Paul Le Flem – Aucassin et Nicolette

Film

 * Camille Saint-Saëns - La Mort du duc de Guise

Musical theater

 * Algeria Broadway production opened at The Broadway Theatre on August 31 and ran for 48 performances
 * The Belle of Brittany opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 24 October 1908 with music by Howard Talbot to a book by Leedham Bantock and lyrics by Percy Greenbank
 * The Dollar Princess Manchester production
 * Fifty Miles from Boston Broadway production opened on February 3 at the Garrick Theatre and ran for 40 performances
 * The King of Cadonia London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on September 3 and ran for 333 performances
 * Mr. Hamlet of Broadway Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on December 23 and ran for 54 performances
 * My Mimosa Maid London production opened at the Prince Of Wales Theatre on April 21 and ran for 83 performances
 * Der Tapfere Soldat (The Chocolate Soldier) (Rudolf Friml) Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on November 14 and ran for 62 performances
 * The Three Twins opened at the Herald Square Theatre on June 15 and moved to the Majestic Theatre on January 18, 1909, for a total run of 289 performances
 * A Waltz Dream London production opened at the Hicks Theatre on March 7 and ran for 146 performances.
 * A Waltz Dream Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 27 and ran for 111 performances
 * The Yankee Prince Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 20 and ran for 112 performances
 * Ziegfeld Follies Broadway revue opened at the Jardin de Paris on June 15 and ran for 120 performances

Births

 * January 7 – Red Allen, jazz musician (d. 1967)
 * January 14 – Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, composer (d. 1934)
 * January 16 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (d. 1984)
 * January 26
 * Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (d. 1997)
 * Ernst Oster, pianist, musicologist, and music theorist (d. 1977)
 * January 27 – Hot Lips Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)
 * February 20 – Ruby Elzy, US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess (d. 1943)
 * February 29 – A. L. Lloyd, folk song collector (d. 1982)
 * March 14 – Nikolai Rakov, Soviet composer (d. 1990)
 * March 18 – Ivor Moreton, British singer, composer and pianist (d. 1984)
 * April 2 – Buddy Ebsen, US actor and singer (d. 2003)
 * April 5 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
 * April 7 – Percy Faith, composer, musician (d. 1976)
 * April 8 – Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999)
 * April 15 – eden ahbez, hermit, musician (d. 1995)
 * April 20 – Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)
 * May 6 – Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish composer (d. 1999)
 * May 8 – Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1985)
 * May 15 – Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer (d. 1986)
 * May 27 – Harold Rome, US songwriter (d. 1993)
 * June 24 – Hugo Distler, organist and composer (d. 1942)
 * June 29 – Leroy Anderson, US composer and conductor (d. 1975)
 * July 8 – Louis Jordan, bandleader (d. 1975)
 * July 22 – Ljerko Spiller, Croat-Argentine violinist (d. 2008)
 * July 25 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Carnatic vocalist (d. 2003)
 * August 1 – Miloslav Kabeláč, composer (d. 1979)
 * August 4 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (d. 1994)
 * August 12 – Nina Makarova, composer (d. 1976)
 * August 29 – Orestes López, Cuban bassist, cellist, pianist and composer (d. 1991)
 * September 5 - Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer
 * September 6 – Maria Grinberg, pianist (d. 1978)
 * September 7 – Max Kaminsky, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
 * September 10 – Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
 * September 13 – Mae Questel, US singer (d. 1998)
 * September 16 – Chick Bullock, US singer (d. 1981)
 * September 25 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (d. 1993)
 * September 30 – David Oistrakh, violinist (d. 1974)
 * October 1 – Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)
 * October 14 – Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
 * October 19 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
 * October 20 – Stuart Hamblen, US singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1989)
 * October 21
 * Harry Stewart, comedian, singer, and songwriter (d. 1956)
 * Howard Ferguson, British composer and musicologist (d. 1999)
 * November 19
 * Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, French organist and composer (d. 2002)
 * Keg Johnson, US jazz trombonist (d. 1967)
 * December 10 – Olivier Messiaen, composer (d. 1992)
 * December 11 – Elliott Carter, composer (d. 2012)
 * December 16 – Frances Day, US actress and singer (d. 1984)
 * December 17 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)
 * December 21 – Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer (died 1988)

Deaths

 * January 22 – August Wilhelmj, German violinist, 62
 * January 23 – Edward MacDowell, American composer (b. 1860)
 * February 28 – Pauline Lucca, operatic soprano (b. 1842)
 * March 2 – Walter Slaughter, conductor and composer (b. 1860)
 * March 12 – Clara Novello, soprano (b. 1818)
 * March 26 – Louis Chauvin, ragtime musician (b. 1881)
 * April 29 – Auguste Götze, German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (b. 1840)
 * May 7 – Ludovic Halévy, lyricist (b. 1834)
 * May 12 – Melisio Morales, composer (b. 1838)
 * June 5 – Josef Wagner, composer (b. 1856)
 * June 20 – Federico Chueca, zarzuela composer (b. 1846)
 * June 21 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
 * July 10 – Phoebe Knapp, composer of hymns (b. 1839)
 * July 14 – William Mason, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
 * July 18 – Jaime Nunó, composer of Mexico's national anthem (b. 1824)
 * August 13 – Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (b. 1840)
 * August 20 – Louisa Bassano, opera singer (b. 1818)
 * August 26 – Tony Pastor, vaudeville founder & theater impresario (b. 1837)
 * September 20 – Pablo de Sarasate, violinist (b. 1844)
 * September 21 – Atanas Badev, composer and music teacher (b. 1860)
 * November 15 – Katti Lanner, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1829)
 * November 20 – Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (b. 1829)
 * date unknown – Alois Kaiser, cantor and composer (b. 1840)

title: 1908 in music


text:
1907 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1907.

Specific locations

 * 1907 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 27 – Executives of the Metropolitan Opera removes Richard Strauss's Salome from the repertoire following protests that the opera was indecent.
 * February 3 – Josef Suk's first performance of Symphony č.2 C moll (Asrael) in the National Theatre in Prague, Karel Kovarovic conducting.
 * February 7 – Jules Massenet's Therese is produced in Monte Carlo.
 * February 20 – The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
 * February 21 – Frederick Delius' opera Romeo and Julia auf dem Dorf has its premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin.
 * February 22 - Maurice Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for harp, string quartet, flute and clarinet premieres at the Cercle Masical in Paris.
 * March 1 - Claude Debussy's La Mer receives its American premiere as it is performed by Karl Muck and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
 * March 19 - Edward Elgar conducts a New York performance of his oratio The Apostles with the Ontario Society of New York City.
 * April 20 - Vincent d'Indy's symphnic work dedicated to the memory of his wife, Souvenirs premiers in Paris.
 * April 23 - Excerpts from Arthur Nevin's opera Poia are premiered at the White House. President Theodore Roosevelt listens as the composer performs at the piano in the absence of an orchestra.
 * April 27 - Igor Stravinski's Symphony No.1 E-flat receives its first private performance in Saint Peterburg at a private concert
 * May 10 – Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, by Paul Dukas by the libretto based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, premiers at the Paris Opéra-Comique
 * May 16 – The first of series of five concerts is presented by Serge Diaghilev in Paris, featuring Russian music, including works of Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky and others. Feodor Chaliapin sings operatic excerpts, creating a sensation.
 * May 27 – Bach House (Eisenach) opens in what is at this time believed to be the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, the first museum devoted to a single composer.
 * June 12 – Cambridge University awards the honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Alexander Glazunov.
 * June 18 – Oxford University awards the honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Alexander Glazunov.
 * June 26 – Cambridge University awards the honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Camille Saint-Saens.
 * August 24 - Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance No.4 premiers at London.
 * September 25 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 3 in C major Op.52 in Helsinki.
 * September 27 - Norfolk Rhapsody No.2 and Norfolk Rhapsody No.3 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, are premiered at the Cardiff Festival.
 * November 9 – Umberto Giordano's Marcella is peroduced at La Scala in Milan. The opera, in three episodes, is about the love affair between an artist and his model.
 * Publication of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni.
 * November 20 – Feodor Chaliapin makes his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera house in Mefistofele
 * Cosima Wagner steps down from her position as head of the Bayreuth Festival. She is succeeded by her son Siegfried.

Published popular music

 * "All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
 * "And A Little Bit More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
 * "Ballooning" w. Paul West m. Jerome Kern
 * "The Bandolero" w. m. Leslie Stuart
 * "Be My Little Teddy Bear" w. Vincent Bryan m. Max Hoffman
 * "Because I'm Married Now" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Bon Bon Buddy" by Alex Rogers
 * "Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain" w.m. Arthur Longbrake
 * "Budweiser's A Friend Of Mine" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Seymour Furth
 * "Bye Bye Dearie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "The Caissons Go Rolling Along" m. Edmund L. Gruber
 * "Come Along, My Mandy" w.m. Tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence & Harry Gifford New words Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth 1910
 * "Common Sense" w.m. Chris Smith & John Larkins
 * "Don't Worry" w.m. Ed Rose & Ted Snyder
 * "Down Home Shout" Herman Carle
 * "Fairy Queen" m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Fishing For the Moon" David Kilburn Stevens
 * "Gladiolus Rag" by Scott Joplin
 * "Golden Rod" McKinley
 * "The Handsome, Brave Life Saver" Gumble
 * "Harrigan" w.m. George M. Cohan. Introduced by George M. Cohan in the musical Fifty Miles from Boston
 * "He Goes to Church on Sunday" w. Vincent Bryan m. E. Ray Goetz
 * "He Was One Of The Boys" w.m. T. W. Connor
 * "Heliotrope Bouquet" Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin
 * "The Homesick Yankee" Clark
 * "Honey Boy" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "The Honeybee's Honeymoon" Reed
 * "I Finnish 'em Off!" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "I Love You So" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
 * "I Wish I Had A Girl" w. Gus Kahn m. Grace LeBoy
 * "I'd Rather Be A Lobster Than A Wise Guy" Morse
 * "I'd Rather Two-Step Than Waltz, Bill" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "I'm Happy When The Band Plays Dixie" Vandeveer
 * "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" w. E. S. S. Huntingdon m. J. Fred Helf
 * "In A Hammock Built For Two" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "In the Land of the Buffalo" Williams, Van Alstyne
 * "In The Wildwood Where The Bluebells Grow" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
 * "In Washington" w. Vincent Bryan m. Gertrude H. Hoffman
 * "It's A Poor Heart That Never Rejoices" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "It's Delightful To Be Married" w. Anna Held m. Vincent Scotto
 * "It's Great To Be A Soldier Man" Morse
 * "It's Nice To Have A Sweetheart" Kerker
 * "I've Told His Missus All About Him" Tate
 * "Just Because He Couldn't Sing "Love Me And The World Is Mine"" w.m. Bert Fitzgibbon
 * "Kansas City Rag" by James Scott
 * "Keep On Smiling" Paley
 * "The Last Rose Of Summer Is The Sweetest Rose Of All" w. Arthur Gillespie m. Harry Sidney
 * "Lucia" Klein
 * "A Man Without A Woman" Rogers
 * "Marie From Sunny Italy" w. Irving Berlin m. M. Nicholson
 * "Mariutch Down At Coney Island" (aka "Mariutch Dance Da Hootch-A-Ma-Kootch") w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "(You'll Find Me At) Maxim's" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
 * "Meet Me Down At The Corner" w. Will D. Cobb m. Harry Hoyt
 * "(The Best I Get Is) Much Obliged To You" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "'Neath The Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle" w. C. M. Denison m. J. Fred Helf
 * "'Neath The Old Cherry Tree, Sweet Marie" w.m. Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne
 * "Nestle By My Side" Luders
 * "No Wedding Bells For Me" w. E. P. Moran & Will A. Heelan m. Seymour Furth
 * "No, No, Positively No" w.m. Chris Smith & Harry Brown
 * "No-One Knows" w.m. Francis Mack
 * "Not For Me" w.m. Bessie Wynn
 * "On The Road To Mandalay" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Oley Speaks
 * "The Peach That Tastes The Sweetest Hangs The Highest On The Tree" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Pride Of The Prairie" w. Harry Breen m. George Botsford
 * "Put Me Among The Girls" w. C. W. Murphy m. Dan Lipton
 * "Rain-in-the-Face" by Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "Red Wing" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
 * "Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Out For The Day Today" w. Fred Leigh m. Orlando Powell
 * "San Antonio" w.m. Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne
 * "Sandy, You're A Dandy" w.m. Hector Grant
 * "Searchlight Rag" by Scott Joplin
 * "She's A Lassie From Lancashire" Murphy, Lipton, Neat
 * "Sleepy Sidney" by Archie W Scheu
 * "Smile, Smile, Smile" Hoffman
 * "Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone" m. John Walter Bratton
 * "Somebody's Waiting For You" w. Vincent Bryan m. Albert Gumble
 * "Take Me Back To New York Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Take Me Where There's A Big Brass Band" Morse
 * "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" w. James B. Kennedy m. John Walter Bratton (Words 1932)
 * "That Lovin' Rag" w. Victor H. Smalley m. Bernie Adler
 * "Theodore" w.m. Vincent Bryan
 * "There Never Was A Girl Like You" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Tipperary" w. Leo Curley m. James M. Fulton & J. Fred Helf
 * "Tommy, Lad!" w. Edward Teschemacher m. E. J. Margetson
 * "Two Blue Eyes" by Edward Madden
 * "Two Little Baby Shoes" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Under Any Old Flag At All" Cohan
 * "Vilia" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
 * "Wal, I Swan!" (aka "Ebeneezer Frye") w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "'Way Down In Colon Town" Hoffman
 * "When A Fellow's On The Level With A Girl That's On The Square" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Talk Of New York
 * "Who? Me?" Snyder
 * "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" w. Ada R. Habershon m. Charles H. Gabriel
 * "Won't You Be My Honey?" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Wouldn't You Like To Have Me For A Sweetheart?" Robyn
 * "You Splash Me And I'll Splash You" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman

Classical music

 * Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24 (Uppsalarapsodi)
 * York Bowen –
 * Piano Concerto No. 3 "Fantasia" Op. 23
 * Viola Concerto in C minor Op. 25
 * Havergal Brian – English Suite
 * Frederick Delius – Songs of Sunset; Brigg Fair
 * Ernő Dohnányi – String Quartet No. 2 in D-flat, Op. 15
 * Edward Elgar – The Wand of Youth
 * Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 2 in C minor
 * Gustav Holst – A Somerset Rhapsody
 * Sylvio Lazzari – Symphony in E-flat
 * Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Violin Sonata in G
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff –
 * Symphony No. 2 in E minor
 * Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor
 * Maurice Ravel -
 * Histoires naturelles
 * Une Barque sur l'ocean
 * Max Reger – Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 102
 * Ottorino Respighi – Quartet for Strings in D major
 * Arnold Schoenberg -
 * String Quartet No.1 in D Minor, Op.7
 * Kammersymphonie, Op.9
 * Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 5, Op.53
 * Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52
 * Charles Villiers Stanford – Stabat Mater
 * Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in Eb, Op. 1
 * Josef Suk – Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 27 (Asrael)
 * Joaquín Turina – Piano Quintet, Op.1

Opera

 * Francesco Cilea – Gloria
 * Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet, Berlin, February 21.
 * Paul Dukas - Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, Paris, May 10
 * Umberto Giordano - Marcella, La Scala, November 9
 * Luigi Mancinelli – Paolo e Francesca
 * Jules Massenet – Thérèse
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Le Coq d'Or
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya

Dance

 * Frederic Chopin - Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana), St.Petersburg, February 23.
 * Camille Saint-Saens - The Dying Swan (solo dance for Anna Pavlova), St.Petersburg, December 22.
 * Nikolai Tcherepnin - The Animated Goblins, St.Petersburg, April 28.
 * Nikolai Tcherepnin - Le Pavillon d'Armide, St.Petersburg, November 25.

Musical theater

 * Die Dollarprinzessin Vienna production
 * Follies of 1907 Broadway production
 * The Gay Gordons, with a book by Seymour Hicks, music by Guy Jones and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, C. H. Bovill, Henry Hamilton and P. G. Wodehouse. It opened at London's Aldwych Theatre on 11 September.
 * The Gay White Way Broadway revue opened at the Casino Theatre on October 7 and ran for 105 performances
 * The Girls of Gottenberg London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 15 and ran for 303 performances. Starring May de Sousa, George Grossmith Jr., Gertie Millar, Robert Nainby and Edmund Payne.
 * Franz Lehár – The Merry Widow London and Broadway productions
 * The Merry Farmer Mannheim production
 * Miss Hook of Holland London and Broadway productions
 * Nelly Neil London production
 * The Orchid Broadway production
 * The Rogers Brothers in Panama Broadway production
 * The Talk of New York Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 3 and ran for 157 performances.
 * The Time, the Place and the Girl – Broadway production
 * Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream) Vienna and Berlin productions

Births

 * January 4 – Thrasybulos Georgiades, Greek musicologist (died 1977)
 * January 7 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (died 1993)
 * January 16 – Martin Scherber, composer and music teacher (died 1974)
 * January 17 – Henk Badings, Dutch composer (died 1987)
 * February 1 – Günter Eich, German lyricist (died 1972)
 * February 1 – Sándor Veress, Swiss-Hungarian composer born in Indonesia (died 1992)
 * February 12 – Ennio Gerelli, Italian composer and conductor
 * February 13 – Katy de la Cruz, Filipino singer (died 2004)
 * February 15 – Jean Langlais, French organist and composer (died 1991)
 * February 26 – Harry Gold, British dixieland jazz saxophonist and bandleader (died 2005)
 * February 27 – Mildred Bailey, US singer (died 1951)
 * March 3 – Joy Finzi, wife of Gerald Finzi and founder of the Finzi Trust (died 1991)
 * March 11 – Jessie Matthews, British actress and singer (died 1981)
 * March 14 – Tolibjon Sadikov, Uzbek composer (died 1957)
 * March 15 – Zarah Leander, Swedish singer and actress (died 1981)
 * March 19 – Elizabeth Maconchy, English composer (died 1994)
 * April 2 – Alfredo Giovine, Italian music historian (died 1995)
 * April 12 – Imogen Holst, British conductor and composer (died 1984)
 * April 18 – Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American film composer (died 1995)
 * April 21 – Beatrice Kay, US singer and actress (died 1986)
 * April 29 – Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (died 1983)
 * May 1 – Kate Smith, US singer (died 1986)
 * May 5 – Yoritsune Matsudaira, Japanese composer (died 2001)
 * May 10 – Harilaos Perpessas, Greek composer (d. 1995)
 * May 14 – Edythe Wright, US singer (died 1965)
 * May 18 – Clifford Curzon, English pianist (died 1982)
 * June 14 – Sid Phillips, jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and arranger (died 1973)
 * June 22 – Ernest "Doc" Paulin, American trumpeter (died 2007)
 * July 17 - Kathleen Riddick, British conductor (died 1973)
 * July 19 – Günter Bialas, German composer (died 1995)
 * July 26 – André Gertler, Hungarian violinist (died 1998)
 * August 3 – Lawrence Brown, US jazz trombonist (died 1988)
 * August 8 – Benny Carter, US jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader (died 2003)
 * August 15 – Bob Pearson, British pianist and singer, part of Bob and Alf Pearson double act (died 1985)
 * August 20 – Anatole Fistoulari, Russian composer (died 1995)
 * August 21 – Hy Zaret, songwriter (died 2007)
 * September 29 – Gene Autry, US singer and performer (died 1998)
 * October 5 – Mrs. Miller, US singer (died 1997)
 * October 12 – Wolfgang Fortner, composer (died 1987)
 * October 19 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, US jazz and popular musician, composer, and bandleader (died 1962)
 * October 27 – Helmut Walcha, organist (died 1991)
 * November 17 – James Moody, composer for harmonica (died 1995)
 * November 18 – Compay Segundo, Cuban singer and songwriter, inventor of the armónico (died 2003)
 * November 30 – György Ránki, Hungarian composer (died 1992)
 * December 7 – Wanda Toscanini, daughter of Arturo Toscanini and wife of Vladimir Horowitz (died 1998)
 * December 25 – Cab Calloway, US jazz singer and band leader (died 1994)
 * December 27 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor (died 1978)
 * date unknown
 * Seán Reid, Irish Uilleann piper (died 1978)
 * N. Senada, German composer and music theorist (died 1993)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Beniamino Cesi, pianist, 62
 * February 5 – Ludwig Thuille, composer, 45
 * February 28 – Rosina Brandram, D'Oyly Carte singer and actress, 61
 * March 1 – August Manns, conductor, 81
 * March 17 – Ernesto Köhler, flautist and composer, 57
 * April 3 – Désirée Artôt, operatic soprano, 71
 * April 4 – Lucile Grahn, ballerina, 86
 * June 1 – Richard Mühlfeld, clarinettist, 51
 * June 2 – Anastazy Wilhelm Dreszer, pianist and composer, 62
 * June 4 – Agathe Backer-Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer, 59
 * July 15 – Gustav Schirmer, American founder of the Boston Music Company, 43
 * July 23 – William Shakespeare Hays, songwriter, 70
 * August 15 – Joseph Joachim, violinist, composer, and conductor, 76
 * September 4 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer, 64
 * September 5 – Adolf Østbye, first Norwegian recording artist, 39
 * September 17 – Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer, 60
 * October 4 – Alfredo Keil, composer and painter, 57
 * October 9 – Romualdo Marenco, composer, 66
 * October 10 – Charles Dancla, violinist and composer, 89
 * November 6 – Sophie Cruvelli, operatic soprano, 81
 * November 8 – Marie Sasse, operatic soprano, 73
 * November 21 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer, 78
 * November 24 – Theodor Bertram, German opera singer, 38 (suicide)
 * December 18 – Luscombe Searelle, composer and impresario, 54 (cancer)

title: 1907 in music


text:
1906 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1906.

Specific locations

 * 1906 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 8 – Pianist Arthur Rubinstein plays Camille Saint-Saens' Piano concerto at his New York debut.
 * January 15 – Excerpts from Arthur Nevin's opera Poia are premiered in concert form by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
 * January 17 – Felix Weingartner makes his Boston debut conducting the New York Symphony Orchestra in program that includes Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz.
 * January 21 – Georges Enesco's Symphony No.1 in E-flat Major premieres in Paris. The work has three movements.
 * January 27 – Ernest Bloch's symphonic work Hiver-Printemps premieres in Geneva, the composer conducting.
 * January 27 – Russian pianist Josef Lhevinne makes his American debut with the Russian Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Safonov in New York.
 * February 6 – Karol Szymanowski's Concert Overture in E major (Uwertura koncertowa E-dur) premiered by Gregor Fitelberg in Warsaw.
 * February 18 – Vincent d'Indy's symphonic work Jour d'été à la montagne premieres at a Colonne concert in Paris.
 * February – Abyssinia receives its première at the Majestic Theatre (Broadway), with a score co-written by Bert Williams, including premiere of "Nobody".
 * March 7 – Ernst von Dohnányi's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra premieres with Hugo Becker as soloist and the composer conducting Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra.
 * March 10 – Don Procopio, an opera buffa written by Georges Bizet, is premiered posthumously at the Theatre du Casino, Monte Carlo.The two-act opera, written during Bizet's student days, had not been discovered until 30 years later.
 * March 19 – The premiere of I quattro rusteghi (or Die Vier Grobiane), by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, takes place at the Hoftheater in Munich. The libretto, by Giuseppe Pizzolato, is based on a popular play of the same name by Carlo Goldoni.
 * March 27 – John Philip Sousa's comic opera The Free Lance receives its initial performance in Springfield, Massachusetts.
 * April 2 – Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco gives a lavish dinner party for the purpose of raising money to build a new opera house. Violinist Jan Kubelik is the guest of honor.
 * April 8 – Vincenzo Tommasini's Medea premieres at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. The libretto, written by the composer, is based on the Greek myth of Medea.
 * April 18 – The catastrophic San Francisco earthquake occurs. The Grand Opera house, where Enrico Caruso performed last night, is destroyed by fire. Costumes and scenery of twelve operas go up in smoke, resulting in a loss of $120,000.
 * May 24 – The choral rhapsody for baritone solo, chorus and orchestra Sea Drift by Frederick Delius is performed for the first time at the music festival in Essen, Germany.
 * May 27 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor receives its première in Essen, Germany.
 * May 29 – The University of Oxford in England awards an honorary Doctor of Music degree to Edvard Grieg.
 * June 20 – Anton von Webern's doctoral dissertation is approved by his doctoral advisors at the Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna.
 * July – The first console gramophone is released, known as Victrola, a horn-enclosed phonograph, manufactured by Victor in the United States.
 * July 25 – Percy Grainger arrives at Brigg to start a 10-day tour of Lincolnshire making the first recordings of traditional singers of English folk music onto phonograph cylinders using an Edison machine. The following day he records Dean Robinson singing songs including "As I Walked Out One May Morning" and versions of "Turpin Hero" and "Seventeen Come Sunday".
 * August 23 – Norfolk Rhapsody No.1 in E Minor receives its first performance at a Promenade Concert in London. The work of Ralph Vaughan Williams, it is based on Norfolk folk tunes.
 * October 15 – Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly receives its first American performance when the Henry W. Savage Opera Company performs the opera in Washington D.C.
 * October 31 – Jules Massenet's Ariane has its premiere at the Paris Opera. The libretto, by Catulle Mendes, is based on the Greek myth of Ariane.
 * October 27 – Enrique Granados's zarzuela Gaziel is produced in Barcelona.
 * November 11
 * Strandrecht (The Wreckers), by English composer Ethel Smyth, premieres in Leipzig, at the Königliches Opernhause.
 * Maskarade, a three-act opera by Carl Nielsen, receives its first performance in Copenhagen, the composer conducting.
 * November 16 – In what becomes known as "monkey-house scandal", Enrico Caruso is arrested by a New York City officer on a charge of making improper advances to a passer-by, Mrs Hannah Stanhope. The police accuse him of pinching the buttocks of a married woman. The scandal threatens to reduce sales at the Metropolitan Opera box office, where Caruso sings.
 * November 26 – Geraldine Farrar makes her Metropolitan Opera debut as Juliette in Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette.
 * November 28 – Enrico Caruso sings Rodolfo in La Boheme, by Giacomo Puccini. This is his first appearance after having been arrested, convinced and fined for making improper advances to a woman in the Central Park. He virtually bring down the house and the "monkey-house scandal" is quickly forgotten nad Caruso's stature remains unaffected.
 * December 1 – The celebrated soprano Adelina Patti gives her farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
 * December 3 – Impresario Oscar Hammerstein opens the Manhattan Opera House to compete with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The first presentation is Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani.
 * December 8 – Moloch, an opera by Max von Schillings, receives its first performance in Dresden.
 * December 9 – Richard Strauss' Salome receives its first Berlin performance. It stars Emmy Destinn and is so successful that, over next 27 years, it is performed 285 times in Berlin alone.
 * December 11 – The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra plays its first concert, the oldest continuously active professional orchestra in Australia.
 * December 22 – Alexander Glazunov's Symphony No.8 in E-flat Major premieres in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting. This four-movement symphony is his last.
 * December 26 – Italian coloratura soprano Amelita Galli-Curci makes her operatic debut at Trani, as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto.
 * December 27
 * Matteo Falcone, a dramatic scene by Cesar Cui, is performed for the first time in Moscow. The operatic work is based on a novella by Prosper Merimee about Corsicans.
 * Florent Schmitt's Psalm XLVII premieres at the a Paris concert of music by winners of the Prix de Rome.
 * December 29 – Jean Sibelius's symphonic tone poem Pohjola's Daughter premieres in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting.
 * Approximate start of Yue opera.
 * Last full-scale court performance of gambuh dance-drama with gamelan ensemble in Bali.
 * Vassily Safonov becomes then new music director of the New York Philharmonics Society, after a three-year period during which guest conductors led this orchestra.

Published popular music

 * "Abraham Jefferson Washington Lee" Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Ain't You Coming Back To Old New Hampshire, Molly?" w. Robert F. Roden m. J. Fred Helf
 * "Alice, Where Art Thou Going?" Heelan, Gumble
 * "All In Down And Out" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith, Billy B. Smith & Elmer Bowman
 * "Anchors Aweigh" w. Alfred Hart Miles & R. Lovell m. Charles A. Zimmerman
 * "Andulko Safárova" Kmoch
 * "Anxious" William Jerome, Jean Kendis, Paley
 * "Are You Coming Out Tonight, Mary Ann?" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Arrah Wanna" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "At Dawning" w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman
 * "Because You're You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "The Bee That Gets The Honey Doesn't Hang Around The Hive" w. Ed Rose m. J. Fred Helf
 * "The Bird On Nellie's Hat" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
 * "The Buffalo Rag" Tom Turpin
 * "By The Side Of The Zuyder Zee" w. A. J. Mills m. Bennett Scott
 * "Captain Baby Bunting Of The Rocking Horse Brigade" w. Ed Gardinier & Will D. Cobb m. J. Fred Helf
 * "Cheyenne" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Colleen Bawn" w. Edward Madden m. J. Fred Helf
 * "College Life" w. Porter Emerson Browne m. Henry Frantzen
 * "Come, Take A Skate With Me" w.m. Raymond Brown & Gus Edwards
 * "Crocodile Isle" Morse
 * "Dill Pickles Rag" m. Charles L. Johnson
 * "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do" w. William Cahill m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "Don't You Think It's Time To Marry?" Edwards
 * "Dreaming" w. L. W. Heiser m. J. Anton Dailey
 * "Every Day Is Ladies' Day To Me" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "The Free Lance March" m. John Philip Sousa
 * "Frog Legs Rag" m. James Scott
 * "The Galloping Major" w. Fred W. Leigh m. George Bastow
 * "The Game Of Peek-a-Boo" Edwards
 * "Girlie, I Love You" Morse
 * "The Good Old USA" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "The Grand Old Rag" (aka "You're a Grand Old Flag") w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "He Walked Right In Turned Around And Walked Right Out Again" w. Edward Rose m. Maxwell Silver
 * "Here's To Our Absent Brothers" w.m. J. Fred Helf
 * "He's A Cousin Of Mine" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein
 * "Highland Birthday Party" w.m. Hector Grant
 * "Holding Hands (You Don't Say Nothing At All)" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Honora H. Doolin" Mills
 * "I Don't Like Your Family" Howard
 * "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards
 * "I Miss You In A Thousand Different Ways" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "I Never Saw Such Jealousy In My Life" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "I Was Born In Virginia" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Ida-Ho!" Von Tilzer
 * "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" w.m. Harry Hoyt
 * "I'm Sorry" Von Tilzer
 * "I'm Wise" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne
 * "In Old New York" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "Is It Warm Enough For You?" Paley
 * "I've Said My Last Farewell" Sischer
 * "Just One Word Of Consolation" w. Frank B. Williams m. Tom Lemonier
 * "Keep on the Sunny Side" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (If You Want To Learn To Kiss)" w. Harry B. Smith m. Gertrude Hoffmann
 * "Lassie, Dinna Sigh For Me" w.m. Hector Grant
 * "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love" w. M. E. Rourke m. Richard Carle
 * "Let Bygones Be Bygones And Let Us Be Sweethearts Again" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert Williams
 * "Let It Alone" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert Williams
 * "Let Me See You Smile" Fischer
 * "The Little Chauffeur" Bowers
 * "The Load That Father Carried" w. Frank Fogerty m. J. B. Mullen
 * "Love Me And The World Is Mine" w. Dave Reed Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Mississippi Sunflower" (characteristic march & two-step) m. Otto and John Heinzman
 * "Moonbeams" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "Moonlight Dance" m. Herman Finck
 * "Mr Monkey" Edwards
 * "My Mariuccia Take A Steamboat" w. George Ronklyn m. Al Piantadosi
 * "National Emblem" m. E. E. Bagley
 * "The Next Horse I Ride On" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
 * "Not Because Your Hair Is Curly" w.m. Bob Adams
 * "Nothing Like That In Our Family" Heelan, Furth
 * "Pickles and peppers" Adaline Shepherd
 * "Poor John" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
 * "The Poor Old Man" w.m. Vincent Bryan
 * "School Days" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Since Father Went To Work" w.m. William Cahill
 * "Some One Looks Good To Some One" Weaver
 * "The Streets Of New York" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Red Mill
 * "Sunbonnet Sue" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Sweet Anastasia Brady" Schwartz
 * "That's The Reason Noo I Wear A Kilt" w.m. A. B. Kendal & Harry Lauder
 * "Waltz Me Around Again Willie" w. Will D. Cobb m. Ren Shields (From the musical "His Honor the Mayor")
 * "We Parted On The Shore" w.m. Harry Lauder
 * "We've Been Chums For Fifty Years" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
 * "What a Mouth" w.m. R. P. Weston
 * "What's The Use Of Dreaming?" w.m. Joseph E. Howard
 * "What's The Use Of Loving If You Can't Love All The Time" w. Joseph Mittenthal m. Harry Armstrong
 * "When Love Is Young In Springtime" w.m. Rida Johnson Young & Melville Ellis
 * "When The Whip-poor-will Sings, Marguerite" w. C. M. Denison m. J. Fred Helf
 * "When Tommy Atkins Marries Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "When You Know You're Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget" w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf
 * "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning" w. Will D. Cobb m. Kerry Mills
 * "Whistle It!" Blossom, Herbert
 * "Wonderland" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
 * "Won't You Come Over To My House" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Wouldn't You Like To Flirt with Me?" Rogers
 * "You Can Have Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical George Washington, Junior
 * "You Can't Give Your Heart To Somebody Else And Still Hold Hands With Me" Edwards

Recorded popular music

 * "Stop Your Tickling Jock" – Harry Lauder

Classical music

 * Amy Beach – Variations on Balkan Themes, Op.60
 * Frank Bridge –
 * Three Idylls for String Quartet
 * String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "Bologna"
 * Grigoraş Dinicu – Hora staccato
 * Ernő Dohnányi – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15
 * Edward Elgar – The Kingdom (oratorio)
 * George Enescu –
 * Au soir, for four trumpets
 * Concertstück, for viola and piano
 * Decet for winds in D major, Op. 14
 * Légende, for trumpet and piano
 * Charles Ives – Central Park in the Dark
 * Paul Ladmirault – Variations sur des airs de biniou trégorois
 * Theodore Leschetizky – 2 Morceaux, Op.47
 * Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 6 (3rd version)
 * Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 4 in F major, Op. 44
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
 * Max Reger – Serenade in G for orchestra Op. 95
 * Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Symphony No. 1
 * Josef Suk – Symphony No. 2 "Asrael"
 * Sergei Taneyev – Piano Quartet in E major Op. 20
 * Edgard Varèse – Un grand sommeil noir
 * Anton Webern – Rondo for string quartet
 * Leó Weiner
 * Serenade for Small Orchestra, Op. 3
 * String Quartet No.1, Op. 4

Opera

 * Walter Braunfels – Falada
 * Cesar Cui - Mateo Falcone
 * Enrique Granados - Gaziel
 * Jules Massenet – Ariane
 * Carl Nielsen – Maskarade
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff – Francesca Da Rimini
 * Max von Schillings - Moloch
 * Dame Ethel Smyth – The Wreckers
 * John Philip Sousa - The Free Lance
 * Richard Strauss - Salome
 * Vincenzo Tommasini - Medea
 * Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – I quattro rusteghi

Ballet

 * January 6 - Cinderella - another new production of the Empire Theater - premieres in London. It is a fairy ballet in five scenes, choreography by Fred Farren, music by Sidney Jones.
 * January 14 - The Debutante is produced at London's Empire Theater. The music by Cuthbert Clarke, the lead dancer Fred Farren.
 * January 28 - Radha - a modern dance work by Ruth Saint Denis - is performed for the first time at a private performance at the New York Theater. Music by Leo Delibes.
 * March 26 - Choreographer Ruth Saint Denis has two premieres: The Cobras (music by Leo Delibes) and The Incense (music by Harvey Worthington Loomis). Performed at the Hudson Theater in New York.
 * May 14 - The London public sees its first complete performance of Coppélia by Leo Delibes as Adeline Genee recreates her famous role at the Empire Theater.
 * August 6 - Fete Galante premieres at the Empire Theater, London. This ballet is an extended version of the first scene of Cinderella, produced at the same theater on January 6 of this year.

Musical theater

 * About Town Broadway production
 * Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway Broadway production
 * The Free Lance Broadway production
 * George Washington, Junior Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 12 and ran for 81 performances.
 * The Glass-Blowers Broadway production
 * His Honor the Mayor Broadway production
 * A Parisian Model Broadway production
 * The Little Cherub London production
 * The Red Mill Broadway production
 * Seeing New York Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 5 and ran for 75 performances
 * The Spring Chicken Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 8 and transferred to the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 10 and ran for a total of 91 performances.
 * The Vicar of Wakefield London production

Births

 * January 1 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (died 1974)
 * January 4 – Frankie Newton, American trumpeter (died 1954)
 * January 15 – Alessandro Cicognini, film composer (died 1995)
 * January 21 – Gunnar Johansen, Danish composer and pianist (died 1991)
 * January 21 – Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer, choreographer and ballet director (died 2007)
 * January 27 – Radamés Gnattali, Brazilian composer (died 1988)
 * January 31
 * Benjamin Frankel, composer (died 1973)
 * Roosevelt Sykes, blues musician (died 1983)
 * February 1 – Hildegarde, actress and cabaret singer (died 2005)
 * February 1 – Pierre Capdevielle, French pianist and composer (died 1969)
 * February 5 – Zara Levina, pianist and composer (died 1976)
 * February 8 – Artur Balsam, Polish pianist (died 1994)
 * February 19 – Grace Williams, Welsh composer (died 1977)
 * February 21 – Jeanne Aubert, singer and actress (died 1988)
 * March 3 – Barney Bigard, jazz musician (died 1980)
 * March 13
 * Dave Kaye, British pianist (died 1996)
 * Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (died 1932)
 * March 20 – Ozzie Nelson, actor, band leader (died 1975)
 * March 25 – Jean Sablon, French singer (died 1994)
 * March 27 – Pee Wee Russell, jazz musician (died 1969)
 * March 29 – E. Power Biggs, English organist (died 1977)
 * April 8 – Raoul Jobin, French-Canadian tenor (died 1974)
 * April 9 – Antal Doráti, conductor (died 1988)
 * April 18 – Little Brother Montgomery, jazz musician (died 1985)
 * May 5 – Maria Caniglia, Italian soprano (died 1979)
 * May 17 – Zinka Milanov, Croatian soprano (died 1989)
 * May 23 – Lucha Reyes, singer (d. 1944)
 * June 1 – Walter Legge, record producer (died 1979)
 * June 3 – Josephine Baker, US singer, dancer and toast of Paris (died 1975)
 * June 26 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (died 1974)
 * June 28 – Safford Cape, American conductor and musicologist (died 1973)
 * July 7 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (died 1985)
 * July 9 – Elisabeth Lutyens, English composer (died 1983)
 * July 19 – Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (died 1979)
 * July 24 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986)
 * July 25 – Arthur Kreutz, American composer (died 1991)
 * July 30 – Ľudovít Rajter, Slovak composer (died 2000)
 * August 6 – Cátulo Castillo, Argentine tango composer (died 1975)
 * September 1 - Aksel Schiøtz, Danish tenor and later baritone (died 1975)
 * September 4 – Alexander Moyzes, Slovak composer and conductor (died 1984)
 * September 25 - Alfred Frankenstein, American music critic (died 1981)
 * Jaroslav Ježek, Czech composer (died 1942)
 * Dmitri Shostakovich, composer (died 1975)
 * September 30 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer (died 1996)
 * October 9 – Janis Ivanovs, Latvian composer (died 1983)
 * October 10 – Paul Creston, (born as Joseph Guttoveggio), American composer (died 1985)
 * October 15 – Victoria Spivey, US singer, pianist and composer (died 1976)
 * October 22 – Charles Lynch, Irish concert pianist (died 1984)
 * October 31 – Louise Talma, composer (died 1996)
 * November 3 – Alma Rosé, violinist (died 1944)
 * November 9 – Pete Brown, jazz musician (died 1963)
 * December 5
 * Ahn Eak-tai, Korean-born conductor and composer (died 1965)
 * Elisabeth Höngen, German soprano (died 1997)
 * December 10 – Harold Adamson, US lyricist (died 1980)
 * December 23 - Ross Lee Finney - American composer (died 1997)
 * December 25 - Peter Carl Goldmark - Hungarian electronic and recording engineer (died 1997)
 * December 26 – Morgan Lewis, songwriter (died 1968)
 * December 27 – Oscar Levant, pianist and actor (died 1972)
 * Billie Maxwell, country guitarist/vocalist (died 1954)

Deaths

 * January 23 – Charles Hunter, ragtime composer (born 1876)
 * January 30 – Paul Dresser, US composer (born 1857)
 * February 25 – Anton Arensky, composer (born 1861)
 * March 22 – Martin Wegelius, composer (born 1846)
 * April 25 – John Knowles Paine, organist and composer (born 1839)
 * May 9 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, operatic soprano (born 1834)
 * May 11 – Gottardo Aldighieri, operatic baritone (born 1824)
 * May 24 – Heinrich Reimann, organist and composer (born 1850)
 * May 30 – Enrique el Mellizo, flamenco singer (born 1848)
 * June 7 – Signor Brocolini, opera singer (born 1841)
 * July 1 – Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García, singer and music teacher (born 1805)
 * July 8 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (born 1832)
 * July 9 – Alfred Stelzner, designer of musical instruments (born 1852)
 * July 29 – Alexandre Luigini, composer (born 1850)
 * August 26 – Eugen Gura, opera singer (born 1842)
 * September 1 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for Giacomo Puccini
 * October 18 – Léon Gastinel, composer (born 1823)
 * October 23 – Vladimir Stasov, Russian critic (born 1824)
 * December 14 – Federico Consolo, violinist and composer (born 1841)
 * December 30 – Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (born 1845)
 * date unknown
 * Léontine de Maësen, operatic soprano (born 1835)
 * Nissan Spivak, cantor and composer (born 1824)

title: 1906 in music