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1920 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1920.

Specific locations

 * 1920 in British music
 * 1920 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1920 in country music
 * 1920 in jazz

Events

 * January 19 – The Salzburg Festival is revived.
 * September 4 – City of Birmingham Orchestra (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.
 * November 15 – First complete public performance of Gustav Holst's suite The Planets given in London by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates.
 * December 4 – Première of the opera Die tote Stadt by 23-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold. It later becomes known that the librettist, "Paul Schott", is Korngold's father Julius.
 * December 30 – Pearl Hamilton (later with the Three X Sisters), plays piano with small jazz ensemble to appreciative audience at the Star Theater in New York City.
 * Mamie Smith's first blues recordings become a hit, alerting record companies to the African American market.
 * Hamilton Harty is appointed resident conductor of the Hallé Orchestra.
 * Henri Sauguet forms Groupe des Trois (the Group of Three) along with Louis Emié and Jean-Marcel Lizotte.
 * The Central Band of the Royal Air Force is formed in Britain.
 * The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra launches its Mahler festival.
 * Gabriel Fauré retires from the Paris Conservatoire, and is awarded the Grand-Croix of the Légion d'Honneur.

Publications

 * Stewart Macpherson – Melody and Harmony, Book 1. London: Stainer & Bell.

Published popular music

 * "After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum"" w.m. King Zany, Mac Emery, Gus Van & Joe Schenck
 * "All The Boys Love Mary" Gus Van & Joe Schenck
 * "Aunt Hagar's Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
 * "Avalon" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Al Jolson & Vincent Rose
 * "Blue Jeans"    w. Harry D. Kerr, m. Lou Traveller
 * "Bright Eyes" w. Harry B. Smith m. Otto Motzan & M. K. Jerome
 * "Broadway Rose" w. Eugene West m. Martin Fried & Otis Spencer
 * "Chanson" m. Rudolf Friml
 * "Chili Bean" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Crazy Blues" w.m. Percy Bradford
 * "The Cuckoo Waltz" w. Arthur Kingsley m. J. E. Jonasson
 * "Daddy, You've Been A Mother To Me" w.m. Fred Fisher
 * "Do You Ever Think Of Me?" w. John Cooper & Harry D. Kerr m. Earl Burtnett
 * "Down By The O-HI-O (I've Got The Sweetest Little O, My ! O ! )" w. Jack Yellen m. Abe Olman
 * "Feather Your Nest" w.m. James Kendis, James Brockman & Howard Johnson
 * "The Gipsy Warned Me" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
 * "Great Camp Meeting Day" w. Noble Sissle
 * "He Went In Like A Lion (And Came Out Like A Lamb)" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "Home Again Blues" w.m. Harry Akst & Irving Berlin
 * "I Belong to Glasgow" w.m. Will Fyffe
 * "I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You" w.m. Tom Pitts, Raymond B. Egan & Roy Marsh
 * "I Used To Love You, But It's All Over Now" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "I'd Love To Fall Asleep And Wake Up In My Mammy's Arms" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Fred E. Ahlert
 * "I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time" w. Neville Fleason m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "I'll See You In C-U-B-A" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "In a Persian Market" m. Albert William Ketèlbey
 * "The Japanese Sandman" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
 * "Jellybean" by Jimmie Dupre, Sam Rosen, and Joe Verges
 * "Kalua" w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern
 * "La Veeda" w. Nat Vincent m. John Alden
 * "Left All Alone Again Blues" w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern
 * "Little Town In The Ould County Down" w. Richard Pascoe m. Monte Carlo & Alma Saunders
 * "Look for the Silver Lining" w. B. G. DeSylva m. Jerome Kern
 * "The Love Boat" by Gene Buck
 * "Love Nest" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
 * "Margie" w. Benny Davis m. Con Conrad & J. Russel Robinson
 * "Mary" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
 * "My Little Bimbo Down On A Bamboo Isle" w. Grant Clarke w. Walter Donaldson
 * "My Mammy" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
 * "My Man" w. (Eng) Channing Pollock (Fr) Albert Willemetz & Jacques Charles m. Maurice Yvain
 * "O'er The Hills To Ardentinny" w.m. Harry Lauder
 * "Old Pal Why Don't You Answer Me" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. M. K. Jerome
 * "Pale Moon" w. Jesse Glick m. Frederick Knight Logan
 * "Palesteena" w.m. Con Conrad & J. Russell Robinson
 * "Polly" w. Leo Wood m. Jack Richmond
 * "Pretty Kitty Kelly" w. Harry Pease m. Ed G. Nelson
 * "Rose Of Washington Square" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
 * "San" w.m. Lindsay McPhail & Walter Michels
 * "So Long, Oo Long" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
 * "Tell Me Little Gypsy" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "That Old Irish Mother Of Mine" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Wang Wang Blues" w. Leo Wood m. Gus Mueller, Buster Johnson & Henry Busse
 * "When My Baby Smiles At Me" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Billy Munro
 * "Where Do They Go When They Row, Row, Row?" w. Bert Kalmar & George Jessel, m. Harry Ruby
 * "Whispering" w. Malvin Schonberger m. John Schonberger
 * "White Army, Black Baron" w. Pavel Grigor'ev, m. Samuel Pokrass
 * "Whose Baby Are You?" w. Anne Caldwell m. Jerome Kern
 * "Wild Rose" w. Clifford Grey m. Jerome Kern
 * "A Young Man's Fancy" w. John Murray Anderson & Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager

Top Popular Recordings 1920
The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1920: Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.

Classical music

 * Granville Bantock – Arabian Nights
 * Béla Bartók – Eight Improvisations on Peasant Songs
 * Arnold Bax – Phantasy for viola and orchestra
 * Arthur Bliss – The Tempest, overture and interludes;
 * Concerto for piano, tenor voice, strings and percussion
 * Rout (for soprano and chamber orchestra)
 * Ernest Bloch – Violin Sonata No. 1
 * Max Bruch - String Octet
 * Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Sonatina No. 6 (Fantasia da camera super Carmen),
 * Divertimento for flute and orchestra
 * Frederick Delius – Hassan
 * George Enescu – String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 22, No. 1
 * Gabriel Fauré – Masques et Bergamasques
 * Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2
 * Arthur Honegger – Pastorale d'été
 * Viola Sonata
 * Cello Sonata
 * Leoš Janáček – Ballad of Blanik (symphonic poem)
 * Darius Milhaud – Ballade (for piano and orchestra)
 * Le Boeuf sur le toit (ballet),
 * Francis Poulenc – Five Impromptus for Piano, Suite in C Major for Piano
 * Sergei Prokofiev – Five Songs without Words (for voice and piano)
 * Maurice Ravel – La Valse
 * Sonata for violin and cello
 * Camille Saint-Saëns - Odelette in D major Op. 162
 * Erik Satie – La Belle excentrique
 * Dmitri Shostakovich – Five Preludes for piano
 * Igor Stravinsky – Concertino for string quartet,
 * Pulcinella
 * Symphonies of Wind Instruments
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
 * Mass in G minor
 * Heitor Villa-Lobos – Symphony No. 5, "A paz" (Peace)

Opera

 * Vincent D'Indy – The Legend of St. Christoper
 * Clemens Freiherr von Franckenstein – Li-Tai-Pe
 * Henry Hadley – Cleopatra's Night
 * Leoš Janáček – The Excursions of Mr. Broucek on the Moon and in the 15th Century
 * Erich Korngold – Die tote Stadt
 * Ruggiero Leoncavallo – Edipo Re

Musical theatre

 * Afgar Broadway production opened at the Central Theatre on November 8 and ran for 168 performances
 * As You Were Broadway revue by Arthur Wimperis opened at the Central Theatre on January 27 and ran for 143 performances. Starring Sam Bernard, Irene Bordoni, Clifton Webb and Hugh Cameron.
 * The Beggar's Opera London production opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on June 5 and ran for 1,463 performances
 * Die Blaue Mazur (The Blue Mazurka) (Music by Franz Lehár), Vienna
 * George White's Scandals Of 1920 Broadway revue opened at the Globe Theatre on June 7 and ran for 134 performances
 * The Gingham Girl Broadway production (music by Albert Von Tilzer) at the Central Theatre ran for 322 performances
 * Irene London production opened at the Empire Theatre on April 7 and ran for 399 performances
 * Johnny Jones London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on June 1 and ran for 349 performances
 * Jumble Sale London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 16 and ran for 176 performances
 * Just Fancy London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on March 26 and ran for 332 performances
 * Der letzte Walzer (The Last Waltz) (Music by Oscar Straus), Berlin
 * A Little Dutch Girl opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 1 and ran for 207 performances
 * The Night Boat Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on February 2 and ran for 318 performances. Jeanette MacDonald made her first Broadway appearance as a member of the chorus.
 * A Night Out London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 18 and ran for 309 performances
 * Sally Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 21 and ran for 570 performances
 * The Shop Girl London revival opened at the Gaiety Theatre on March 25 and ran for 327 performances
 * Tickle Me ( Music: Herbert P. Stothart) Broadway production opened at the Selwyn Theatre on August 17 and ran for 207 performances. Starring Louise Allen, Allen Kearns and Frank Tinney.
 * Tip Top Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 5 and ran for 241 performances
 * Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 22 and ran for 123 performances, but ran most years until 1927.

Births

 * January 1
 * José Antonio Bottiroli, Argentine composer and poet (d. 1990)
 * Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2009)
 * Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Iranian-American violinist (d. 2013)
 * January 3 – Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
 * January 5 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist (d. 1995)
 * January 8 – Josef Josephi, Polish-born singer and actor (b. 1852)
 * January 14
 * Cris Alexander, American actor, singer, dancer, designer, and photographer (d. 2012)
 * Salvador Flores Rivera, Mexican composer and singer (d. 1987)
 * January 16 – Claude Abadie, French jazz clarinetist (died 2020)
 * January 18 – Jan Van Halen, musician, father of Eddie and Alex Van Halen (d. 1986)
 * February 2
 * Heikki Suolahti, Finnish composer (d. 1936)
 * Yuriko Amemiya, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2022)
 * February 7 – Oscar Brand, Canadian-born American folk singer, songwriter and author (d. 2016)
 * February 12 – Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Chinese-Japanese actress and singer (d. 2014)
 * February 13
 * Boudleaux Bryant, American songwriter (d. 1987)
 * Eileen Farrell, American soprano (d. 2002)
 * February 14 – Albert J. McNeil, American choral conductor, ethnomusicologist and author (d. 2022)
 * February 18 – Rolande Falcinelli, organist, pianist and composer (d. 2006)
 * February 23 – Hall Overton, composer, jazz pianist and music teacher (d. 1972)
 * February 26 – Henri Crolla, jazz guitarist and film composer (d. 1960)
 * February 28 – Albert Elms, light music composer (d. 2009)
 * March 10 – Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer and musician (d. 1959)
 * March 16 – John Addison, British film composer (d. 1998)
 * March 17 – John La Montaine, American composer (d. 2013)
 * March 22 – Fanny Waterman, pianist and music educator (d. 2020)
 * March 23 – Geoffrey Bush, British composer, writer and broadcaster (d. 1998)
 * April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitarist (d. 2012)
 * April 12
 * The Cox Twins, music hall entertainers (Frank, d. 2007; Fred, d. 2013)
 * Anita Ellis, Canadian-American singer and actress (d. 2015)
 * April 21 – Bruno Maderna, conductor and composer (d. 1973)
 * April 23 – Louis Barron, film composer (d. 1989)
 * April 27 – Guido Cantelli, Italian conductor (d. 1956)
 * April 29 – Harold Shapero, composer (d. 2013)
 * May 2 – Jean-Marie Auberson, violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
 * May 4 – Ronald Chesney, harmonica player and comedy scriptwriter (d. 2018)
 * May 13 – Gareth Morris, flautist (d. 2007)
 * May 18 – Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 2012)
 * May 20 – Betty Driver, British singer and actress (d. 2011)
 * May 21 – Bill Barber, jazz musician (d. 2007)
 * May 23 – Helen O'Connell, American big band singer (d. 1993)
 * May 26 – Peggy Lee, singer and songwriter (d. 2002)
 * June 6
 * Dino Asciolla, violinist (d. 1994)
 * Jan Rubeš, Czech-Canadian bass opera singer, actor (d. 2009)
 * Robert Turner, composer (d. 2012)
 * June 10 – Bonnie Davis, R&B singer (d. 1976)
 * June 11 – Hazel Scott, jazz/classical pianist and singer (d. 1981)
 * June 19 – Johnny Douglas, film composer and conductor (d. 2003)
 * June 20 – Danny Cedrone, American guitarist and bandleader (d. 1954)
 * June 25 – Ozan Marsh, American concert pianist (d. 1992)
 * June 26 – Leonid Hambro, pianist (d. 2006)
 * July 1 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (d. 1999)
 * July 13
 * Anna Halprin, American dancer (d. 2021)
 * Don Ralke, American music arranger (d. 2000)
 * July 14 – Marijohn Wilkin, American country and gospel songwriter (d. 2006)
 * July 19 – Robert Mann, American violinist (d. 2018)
 * July 20
 * Carmen Carrozza, Italian-born American accordionist (d. 2013)
 * Thanga Darlong, Indian folk musician (d. 2023)
 * July 21
 * Isaac Stern, Ukrainian-born violinist (d. 2001)
 * Manuel Valls, Spanish composer (d. 1984)
 * July 23 – Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese fado singer and actress (d. 1999)
 * July 31 – Walter Arlen, Austrian-born American composer (d. 2023)
 * August 7 – Françoise Adret, French ballet dancer, choreographer (d. 2018)
 * August 8
 * Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist (d. 2006)
 * Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer (d. 1997)
 * August 26 – Emil Cadkin, film composer (d. 2020)
 * August 29 – Charlie Parker, jazz musician (d. 1955)
 * September 3 – Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (d. 1983)
 * September 7 – Al Caiola, American guitarist, composer, arranger (d. 2016)
 * September 14 – Cascarita [a.k.a. Orlando Guerra], Cuban music singer (d. 1975)
 * September 17 – Jean Perrin, composer (d. 1989)
 * September 23
 * Alexander Arutiunian, Armenian composer (d. 2012)
 * Mickey Rooney, actor and entertainer (d. 2014)
 * September 25 – Anne Triola, American actress, singer and musician (d. 2012)
 * September 28 – Irma Baltuttis, singer and entertainer (d. 1958)
 * October 5 – Vincent DeRosa, American musician (d. 2022)
 * October 9 – Yusef Lateef, American jazz musician and composer (d. 2013)
 * October 13 – Albert Hague, songwriter (d. 2001)
 * October 24 – Steve Conway, British singer (d. 1952)
 * October 27 – Nanette Fabray, actress and singer (d. 2018)
 * October 31 – Joseph Gelineau, French composer (d. 2008)
 * November 23 – Enrico De Angelis, Italian singer and entrepreneur (d. 2018)
 * December 6 – Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist (d. 2012)
 * December 13 – Teo Usuelli, Italian film composer (d. 2009)
 * December 14 – Clark Terry, American jazz musician and composer (d. 2015)
 * December 19 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
 * December 31 – Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (d. 1999)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Maud Powell, violinist (b. 1867; heart attack)
 * January 16 – Reginald De Koven, US music critic and composer (b. 1859)
 * January 18 – Giovanni Capurro, poet, co-writer of "O Sole Mio" (b. 1859)
 * January 21 – John Henry Maunder, composer (b. 1858)
 * January 24 – William Percy French, songwriter (b. 1854; pneumonia)
 * February 2 – Theo Marzials, singer and composer (b. 1850)
 * February 11 – Gaby Deslys, dancer and actress (b. 1881; Spanish flu)
 * February 12 – Émile Sauret, violinist and composer (b. 1852)
 * February 23 – Alexander Ilyinsky, music teacher and composer (b. 1859)
 * March 20 – Eva Mylott, operatic contralto (b. 1875; domestic accident)
 * April 4 – Carl Bohm, pianist and composer (b. 1844)
 * April 8 – Charles Griffes, composer (b. 1884; Spanish flu)
 * April 19 – Mathilde Mallinger, lyric soprano (b. 1847)
 * May 6 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (b. 1833)
 * May 25 – Georg Jarno, composer of operettas (b. 1868)
 * May 28 – Hardwicke Rawnsley, hymn-writer (b. 1851; heart attack)
 * June 27 – Adolphe-Basile Routhier, lyricist (b. 1839)
 * June 28 – Pauline Rita, singer and actress (b. c.1842; long illness)
 * July 17 – Dorothy Goetz, first wife of Irving Berlin (b. 1892; typhoid)
 * July 26 – Carlos Troyer, composer (b. 1837)
 * August 13 – Carlos Hartling, German-born composer of the Honduras national anthem (b. 1869)
 * August 29 – Gustav Jenner, composer and conductor (b. 1865)
 * October 1 – Vladimir Rebikov, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1866)
 * October 2 – Max Bruch, composer (b. 1838)
 * October 16 – Alberto Nepomuceno, composer and conductor (b. 1864)
 * November 6 – Maria Waldmann, operatic mezzo-soprano associated with Verdi (b. 1844)
 * December 14 – George J. Gaskin, singer (b. 1863)
 * December 31 – Paloke Kurti, Albanian composer (b. 1860)

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Talk:Colliers Wood

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Is it Collier's Wood, Colliers Wood, or Colliers' Wood? -- Zoe

The tube map has no apostrophe. -- Tarquin 23:23 Jan 1, 2003 (UTC)

Having lived there (for my sins), no apostrophe. It was a wood full of colliers and not a wood belonging to colliers. --Jm butler 16:02, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Is The sainsburys in Colliers Wood still "one of the largest supermarkets in Europe? colin

-- I would recommend removing that bit about 'largest supermarket in Europe' as no source has been provided Thecyberwasp 22:36, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

-- Removed sainsburys reference as no source provided and cannot find one on google. infact http://www.tpexpress.co.uk/destinations/City/destinationInfo.asp?selCRS=MHS quotes that the largest one is in Meadowhill. Thecyberwasp (talk) 15:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Just asking, but what's the difference between "a wood full of colliers", and "a wood belonging to colliers", with regard to an apostrophe? I see what Jm butler is getting at above, but I think either would indicate an apostrophe. Contemporary usage is another matter though, and I'm sure it's true that there's no apostrophe now. But! My point is that those colliers need mentioning in the article, regarding the etymology of the name. Or, does "Colliers" actually derive from some notable person, local or otherwise? Curious minds need to know - so they can put it in the article! ;o) Nortonius (talk) 11:45, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The colliers would have been charcoal burners, presumably living in huts in the wood and coppicing (but not that I have a reference for that). Man vyi (talk) 12:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Great! I was scratching my head a bit over those colliers - charcolliers seem obvious, now you mention them! There will be a ref somewhere I suppose - I've got a copy of Ekwall's English Place-Names, but Colliers Wood isn't listed. Presumably it's listed in the English Place-Name Society's Surrey volume, but I can't get sight of it for annoying, personal reasons - hey ho! Cheers. Nortonius (talk) 12:50, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I have lived in Colliers Wood since 1988, and I used to religiously include the apostrophe (just like I used religiously to avoid splitting infinitives...) but now I don't bother. The A-Z map (as seen on streetmap.co.uk) shows the suburb as Collier's Wood and the Tube station as Colliers Wood.  I've also heard that "Colliers" is about charcoal-making; I've never heard of a person with that name.  And as for the supermarket, which opened as a Savacentre soon after I moved here, it was claimed to be the largest in Europe at the time but certainly isn't now, as half of it's been converted into a Marks and Spencer.  Anyway, hope you like my new pic! Schmeditator (talk) 00:38, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

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1919 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919.

Specific locations

 * 1919 in British music
 * 1919 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1919 in country music
 * 1919 in jazz

Events

 * January 18 – The pianist Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of Poland.
 * April 7 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band brings Dixieland jazz to England, opening a 15-month tour at the Hippodrome, London.
 * May 3 – The National Association of Negro Musicians is established in Washington, D.C. under the leadership of Nora Holt and Henry Grant.
 * July 22 – The Ballets Russes gives the world premiere of Manuel de Falla's ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) in London.
 * August – Josef Matthias Hauer devises his own twelve-tone technique of composition.
 * August 19 – The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, visiting the UK, perform for the future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. Ernest Ansermet subsequently writes an enthusiastic review of the orchestra's performances in London, singling out Sidney Bechet – one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism.
 * October 27 – Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto is premiered in London with Felix Salmond as soloist; the performance is a disaster because Elgar (as conductor) is given inadequate rehearsal time with the London Symphony Orchestra.
 * The Louisiana Five are advertised as playing "Modern Jazz".
 * Johan Wagenaar becomes director of the Royal Conservatory at the Hague.
 * Elsie Griffin joins the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
 * Gustav Kobbé's guide The Complete Opera Book is first published (posthumously), in the United States.

Published popular music

 * "Abie My Boy" w.m. L.Silberman, A. Grock, Herbert Rule & Tom McGhee
 * "Alcoholic Blues" w. Edward Laska, m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
 * "Alice Blue Gown" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
 * "All The Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers Down In Quaker Town" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Pete Wendling
 * "And He'd Say, "Oo-La-La! Wee-Wee!"" w. George Jessel, m. Harry Ruby
 * "Any Old Place With You" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
 * "Ask the Stars" by Frank M. Stammers
 * "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams
 * "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" w.m. Charles McCarron, Casey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom
 * "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)" w.m. Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley
 * "The Boys Who Won't Come Home" w. Harry Hamilton m. Ed. Thomas
 * "Camp Meeting Blues" by Dabney's Band
 * "Cielito Lindo" w.m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez
 * "Daddy Long Legs" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young
 * "Dardanella" w. Fred Fisher m. Felix Bernard & Johnny S. Black
 * "Don't Dilly Dally on the Way" w.m. Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins
 * "Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar" w.m. Ed Rose, Billy Baskette & Lew Pollack
 * "Grönnens Laid", w. Geert Teis Pzn., m. G.R. Jager
 * "Hold Me" w.m. Art Hickman & Ben Black
 * "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll" w. Spencer Williams m. Clarence Williams
 * "I Gave Her That" w. m. B. G. De Sylva & Al Jolson
 * "I Lost My Heart In Dixieland" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "I Might be Your "Once-In-A-While"" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
 * "I Never Realized" w.m. Cole Porter
 * "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" w.m. Armand J. Piron

 * "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" w. John W. Kellette m. Jaan Kenbrovin (pseudonym of James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent)
 * "I'm Going Back To Yarrawonga" by Corporal Neil McBeath
 * "Indian Summer" w. Al Dubin m. Victor Herbert Words 1939.
 * "Irene" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney. Introduced by Edith Day in the musical Irene
 * "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Jazz Baby" w. Blanche Merrill & William Jerome m. William Jerome
 * "Just Like a Gipsy" w.m. Seymour Simons & Nora Bayes
 * "The Lamplit Hour" m. Arthur A. Penn, w. Thomas Burke
 * "Let The Rest Of The World Go By" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Letter Song" by William LeBaron
 * "Little Girls, Goodbye" w. William LeBaron m. Victor Jacobi
 * "Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses" w. Leslie Cooke m. John Openshaw
 * "Mah Lindy Lou" w.m. Lily Strickland
 * "Mammy O' Mine" w. William Tracey m. Maceo Pinkard
 * "Mandy" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Mirandy" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
 * "The Moon Shines On The Moonshine" w. Frank De Witt m. Robin Hood Bowers. Introduced by Harry Williams in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
 * "My Baby's Arms" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
 * "My Isle Of Golden Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Blaufuss
 * "Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems To Care)" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "O (Oh!)" w. Byron Gay m. Arnold Johnson
 * "Oh By Jingo! (Oh By Gee, You're The Only Girl For Me)" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You" w. Roy Turk & George Jessel, m. Willy White
 * "Oh! What A Pal Was Mary" w. Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar m. Pete Wendling
 * "Old-Fashioned Garden" w.m. Cole Porter
 * "On Miami Shore" w. William LeBaron m. Victor Jacobi
 * "On Patrol In No Man's Land" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
 * "Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixieland And Let Me Into Paradise" w. Jack Yellen m. Gus Van & Joe Schenck
 * "Peggy" w. Harry Williams m. Neil Moret
 * "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Prohibition Blues" w. Ring Lardner m. Nora Bayes
 * "Royal Garden Blues" w.m. Clarence Williams & Spencer Williams
 * "Sahara (We'll Soon Be Dry Like You)" w. Alfred Bryan m. Jean Schwartz. Introduced in the musical Monte Cristo, Jr.

 * "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" w.m. Carey Morgan & Lee David
 * "Smilin' Through" w.m. Arthur A. Penn
 * "Someday Sweetheart" w.m. John Spikes & Benjamin Spikes
 * "Sugar Blues" w. Lucy Fletcher m. Clarence Williams
 * "Swanee" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
 * "Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight" w. Harold G. Frost m. F. H. Klickmann
 * "Sweet Kisses That Came In The Night" w. Lew Brown & Eddie Buzzell m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Take Me To The Land Of Jazz" m. Pete Wendling
 * "Take Your Girlie To The Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home)" w. Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar m. Pete Wendling
 * "Tell Me" w. J. Will Callahan m. Max Kortlander
 * "That Naughty Waltz" w. Edwin Stanley m. Sol P. Levy
 * "There's More To The Kiss Than the X-X-X" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
 * "Tulip Time" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
 * "The Vamp" w.m. Byron Gay
 * "Wait Till You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys" w. Lew Brown m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "What'll We Do On A Saturday Night When The Town Goes Dry" w.m. Harry Ruby
 * "When Honey Sings An Old Time Song" w.m. Joseph B. Carey
 * "When They're Old Enough To Know Better, It's Better To Leave Them Alone" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Ruby
 * "Who Played Poker With Pocahontas When John Smith Went Away?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Fred Ahlert
 * "Winnie The Window Cleaner" w.m. Herman Darewski
 * "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" w. Eugene Lockhart m. Ernest Seitz
 * "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" w.m. Al Jolson, Gus Kahn & B. G. DeSylva
 * "You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake On Tea" w. Rennold Wolf m. Irving Berlin
 * "You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me" w. Benee Russell & Bernie Grossman m. George J. Bennett
 * "You'd Be Surprised" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Your Eyes Have Told Me So" w. Gus Kahn & Egbert Van Alstyne m. Walter Blaufuss
 * "You're A Million Miles From Nowhere When You're One Little Mile From Home" w. Sam Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson

Hit recordings

 * "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
 * "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" by Al Jolson
 * "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" by Nora Bayes
 * "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" by John Steel
 * "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
 * "The Moon Shines on the Moonshine" by Bert Williams
 * "O" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
 * "Alcoholic Blues" by Billy Murray
 * "Saxophobia" by Rudy Wiedoeft
 * "Jazz Baby" by Marion Harris
 * "You'd Be Surprised" by Eddie Cantor
 * "The Alcoholic Blues" by the Louisiana Five
 * "Weary Blues" by Yellow Nunez and the Louisiana Five

Classical music

 * Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 39, "Från havsbandet"
 * Granville Bantock - Hamabdil for cello, harp and strings
 * Arnold Bax – Tintagel
 * Ernest Bloch – Suite for Viola and Orchestra
 * Rebecca Clarke – Sonata for Viola and Piano
 * Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
 * Gabriel Fauré – Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
 * Robert Fuchs – Twelve Waltzes, Op. 110, for piano
 * Louis Glass – Symphony No. 5 in C major, Op. 57, "Svastika"
 * Peder Gram – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
 * Charles Tomlinson Griffes – The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
 * Alois Hába - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
 * Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
 * Paul Hindemith
 * Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 11, No. 3
 * Viola Sonata No.1 in F major, Op. 11, No. 4
 * Sonata for Solo Viola No. 1, Op. 11, No. 5
 * Gustav Holst - Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38
 * Dorothy Howell – Lamia
 * Ernst Krenek - Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 2
 * Darius Milhaud
 * Poèmes de Francis Thompson, Op. 54
 * Les soirées de Pétrograd, Op. 55
 * Machines agricoles, 6 Pastorales for voice and chamber ensemble, Op. 56
 * Suite symphonique No. 2, Op. 57
 * Le bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (ballet)
 * Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 58b
 * Carl Nielsen – Aladdin (for theatre)
 * Gabriel Pierné – Sonata for Cello and Piano
 * Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, M68a (orchestration of 4 pieces from M 68)
 * Dane Rudhyar – Syntony
 * Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
 * Leo Sowerby – Concerto for Harp
 * Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * The Firebird Suite No. 2
 * Piano-Rag-Music
 * Symphony in E-flat (revised version)
 * Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
 * Joaquín Turina
 * Niñerías, Series 1 Op. 21, for piano
 * Danzas fantásticas Op. 22, two versions: piano solo, and orchestra
 * Heitor Villa-Lobos
 * Symphony No. 3, "A guerra" (War)
 * Symphony No. 4, "A vitória" (Victory)

Opera

 * Abesalom da Eteri, by Zacharia Paliashvili
 * Fennimore and Gerda, by Frederick Delius
 * Die Frau ohne Schatten, opera by Richard Strauss (staged)
 * Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin (Her Highness, the Dancer), operetta by Walter Goetze
 * Keto da Kote, by Victor Dolidze
 * The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33, by Sergei Prokofiev
 * The Moon Maiden by Rutland Boughton
 * The Royal Guest by Hakon Børresen

Musical theater

 * Afgar (lyrics by Douglas Furber, music by Charles Cuvillier and book by Fred Thompson and Worton David). London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre on September 17
 * Apple Blossoms Broadway production
 * Eastward, Ho! London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on September 9
 * George White's Scandals Broadway revue opened at the Liberty Theatre on June 2 and ran for 128 performances
 * Irene Broadway production opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 18 and ran for 670 performances
 * Joy-Bells London production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on March 25 and ran for 723 performances
 * Kissing Time (music by Ivan Caryll book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse) London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on 20 May and ran for 430 performances.
 * The Kiss Call Broadway production
 * Linger Longer Letty (Music: Alfred Goodman Lyrics: Bernard Grosman Book: Anne Nichols. Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on November 20 and ran for 69 performances.  Starring Charlotte Greenwood.
 * Monsieur Beaucaire London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on April 19, transferred to the Palace Theatre on July 29 and ran for 221 performances
 * Monsieur Beaucaire Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 11 and ran for 143 performances
 * Monte Cristo, Jr. Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 12 and ran for 254 performances
 * Oh, Boy! (musical) London production opened on January 27 at the Kingsway Theatre and ran for 167 performances
 * The Red Mill London production opened at the Empire Theatre on December 26 and ran for 64 performances
 * Sybil Vienna production
 * Take It From Me Broadway production opened on March 31 at the 44th Street Theatre and ran for 96 performances
 * The Whirligig opened at the Palace Theatre on December 23

Births

 * January 1 – Yoshio Tabata, singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
 * January 14 – Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi songwriter (d. 2002)
 * January 18 – Juan Orrego-Salas, Chilean-American composer (d. 2019
 * January 22 – Sid Ramin, arranger (d. 2019)
 * January 25 – Eula Beal, operatic contralto (d. 2008)
 * January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville), of The Chipmunks (d. 1972)
 * February 1 – Artie Singer, American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d. 2008)
 * February 2 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (d. 2012)
 * February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, country musician (d. 1991)
 * March 10 – Marion Hutton, big band singer (d. 1987)
 * March 15 – George Avakian, jazz record producer (d. 2017)
 * March 17 – Nat King Cole, singer and pianist (d. 1965)
 * March 19 – Alfred Apaka, Hawaiian singer (d. 1960)
 * March 28 – D. K. Pattammal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
 * April 3 – Ervin Drake, songwriter (d. 2015)
 * April 14 – Karel Berman, opera singer and composer (d. 1995)
 * April 16 – Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer (d. 2009)
 * April 21
 * Don Cornell, singer (d. 2004)
 * Roger Doucet, tenor, regular performer of the Canadian national anthem (d. 1981)
 * April 29 – Stephen Wilkinson, English conductor and composer (d. 2021)
 * May 3 – Pete Seeger, American folk singer (d. 2014)
 * May 7 – La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
 * May 12 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002)
 * May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
 * May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor and producer (d. 2007)
 * May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham, English ballerina (d. 1991)
 * May 19 – Georgie Auld, jazz musician (d. 1990)
 * May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress and dancer (d. 2011)
 * May 30 – Joe McQueen, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
 * June 11 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, composer (d. 2010)
 * June 17 – Gene de Paul, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
 * June 22 – Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1980)
 * July 8 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
 * July 10 – Ian Wallace, Scottish bass-baritone opera singer (d. 2009)
 * July 27 – Jonathan Sternberg, American conductor, musical director and professor of music (d. 2018)
 * July 31 – Norman Del Mar, conductor and music writer (d. 1994)
 * August 2 – Carlo Savina, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2002)
 * August 11 – Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso (d. 1949)
 * August 13 – George Shearing, English jazz pianist and composer (d. 2011)
 * August 17 – Irv Williams, African American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
 * August 21 – Tommy Reilly, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2000)
 * August 24 – Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer (d. 2000)
 * September 2 – Marge Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)
 * September 3 – Natalia Clare, ballerina (d. 2007)
 * September 4 – Teddy Johnson, popular singer (d. 2018)
 * September 16
 * Sven-Erik Bäck, composer (d. 1994)
 * Andy Russell, singer (d. 1992)
 * September 21 – Virgilio Savona, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 2009)
 * September 24 – Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (d. 2018)
 * September 30 – Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (d. 2012)
 * October 9 – Irmgard Seefried, operatic soprano (d. 1988)
 * October 11 – Art Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
 * October 18 – Anita O'Day, singer (d. 2006)
 * October 20 – Lia Origoni, singer (d. 2022)
 * October 23 – Katie Lee, American folk singer (d. 2017)
 * October 26 – James E. Myers, songwriter (d. 2001)
 * November 5 – Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
 * November 12 – Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
 * November 15 – Carol Bruce, singer and actress (d. 2007)
 * November 23 – Cláudio Santoro, composer (d. 1989)
 * December 6 – Blaž Lenger, folk singer (d. 2006)
 * December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (d. 1996)
 * December 10 – Sesto Bruscantini, operatic bass-baritone (d. 2003)
 * December 21 – Nelson Cooke, Australian cellist (d. 2018)
 * December 25
 * Naushad Ali, film score composer (d. 2006)
 * Curly Seckler, American bluegrass musician (d. 2017)
 * December 30 – David Willcocks, British choral conductor, organist and composer (d. 2015)

Deaths

 * January 28 – Charles McCarron, songwriter (b. 1891)
 * February 4 – Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1845)
 * February 18 – Henry Ragas, jazz pianist (b. 1891)
 * March 6 – Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
 * March 8 – Auguste Tolbeque, cellist and composer (b. 1830)
 * March 13 – Amy Woodforde-Finden, composer (b. 1860)
 * March 23 – Henry Blossom, lyricist (b. 1866)
 * April 9 – James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader (b. 1881) (stabbed in fight)
 * April 24 – Camille Erlanger, opera composer (b. 1863)
 * April 25 – Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
 * June 2 – Ernest Ford, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
 * June 22 – Julian Scriabin, musical prodigy, pianist and composer (b. 1908) (drowned)
 * August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario (b. 1847)
 * August 4 – Ferdinand Thieriot, composer (b. 1838)
 * August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (b. 1857)
 * August 18 – Anna Deinet, operatic soprano (b. 1843)
 * September 11 – Géza Csáth, writer and musician (b. 1887)
 * September 27 – Adelina Patti, opera singer (b. 1843)
 * October 17 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (b. 1842)
 * November 19 – Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor (b. 1869)
 * December 16 – Luigi Illica, librettist (b. 1857)
 * December 21 – Louis Diémer, pianist and composer (b. 1843)
 * December 27 – Achilles Alferaki, statesman, artist and composer (b. 1846)
 * December 31 – Marie van Zandt, operatic soprano (b. 1858)

title: 1919 in music


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1918 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918.

Specific locations

 * 1918 in British music
 * 1918 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1918 in country music
 * 1918 in jazz

Events

 * January 18 – The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers at the Konzerthaus, Vienna.
 * February 13 – May Mukle and Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall in New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge, and Clarke herself. It includes the premiėre of Morpheus, written by Clarke under the pen-name "Anthony Trent".
 * March 3 – Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premièred in Budapest.
 * April 30 – May 1 – Composer Toivo Kuula is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War.
 * August – King Oliver leaves New Orleans for Chicago.
 * September 28 – First performance of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 * September 29 – First performance of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets, before an invited audience at the Queen's Hall in London, conducted by Adrian Boult.
 * November 15 – Rosa Ponselle makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, opposite Enrico Caruso.
 * November 30 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army (United Kingdom).
 * First documented racially integrated jazz recording session.
 * Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year.

Bands formed

 * Goldman Band founded by Edwin Franko Goldman

Published popular music

 * "After You've Gone" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
 * "All Aboard for Home Sweet Home" w.m. Addison Burkhardt. Al Piantadosi and Jack Glogau
 * "Bagdad" w. Harold Atteridge m. Al Jolson
 * "Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
 * "Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
 * "Dallas Blues" w. Lloyd Garrett m. Hart A. Wand
 * "Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
 * "Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
 * "The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter Donaldson
 * "Dear Little Boy of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Dear Old Pal of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
 * "Ding Dong" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Don't Let Us Sing Anymore About War, Just Let Us Sing of Love (Peace Song)" w.m. Harry Lauder
 * "Every Day" by Shelton Brooks
 * "Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
 * "Everybody's Happy Now" m. James Kendis & James Brockman & Nat Vincent
 * "Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
 * "Fidgety Feet" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
 * "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
 * "Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!" w.m. Robert Lloyd
 * "Goodbye, France" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
 * "Hike! Hike! Hike! (Along the Old Turn Pike)" w.m. Nat Vincent
 * "How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn
 * "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
 * "I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy
 * "I Want To Shimmy" by Shelton Brooks
 * "If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany!" w. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer
 * "I'll Be There, Laddie Boy, I'll Be There" w. Jack Frost m. E. Clinton Keithley
 * "I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson
 * "In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
 * "Ja-Da" w.m. Bob Carleton
 * "K-K-K-Katy" w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara
 * "Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
 * "Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
 * "Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
 * "Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
 * "My Baby Boy" w. William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Back Home" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Pete Wendling
 * "Oh! Frenchy" w. Sam Ehrlich m. Con Conrad
 * "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Oh, Susie, Behave" w. Ed Rose and m. Abe Olman
 * "On the Road to Calais" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Jolson
 * "Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. Joe Jordan (musician), Nick LaRocca & J. Russell Robinson
 * "Oui, Oui, Marie" w. Alfred Bryan & Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
 * "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
 * "The Rose of No Man's Land" w. Jack Caddigan m. James A. Brennan
 * "Russian Rag" m. George L. Cobb
 * "Somebody Stole My Gal" w.m. Leo Wood
 * "Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young
 * "Tell That to the Marines" w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson m. Jean Schwartz
 * "That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
 * "That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
 * "There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. Con Conrad
 * "They Were All Out of Step But Jim" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Those Draftin' Blues" w.m. Maceo Pinkard
 * "Till We Meet Again" w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
 * "Tishomingo Blues" Spencer Williams
 * "Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
 * "We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
 * "When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France" w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
 * "When Tony Goes Over The Top" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
 * "When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
 * "Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Without You" w. Nora Bayes m. Irving Fisher
 * "Would You Rather Be a Colonel with an Eagle on Your Shoulder or a Private with a Chicken On Your Knee?" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
 * "You Can't Stop the Yanks (Till They Go Right Thru)" w.m. Jack Caddigan & Chick Story
 * "You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
 * "You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, Gus Kahn & Egbert van Alstyne

Top hit recordings

 * "Tiger Rag/Skeleton Jangle" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
 * "Over There" by Enrico Caruso
 * "After You've Gone" by Marion Harris
 * "Smiles" by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
 * "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles W. Harrison
 * "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" by Al Jolson
 * "Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" by Al Jolson
 * "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by Henry Burr

Classical music

 * Joseph Achron – Violin Sonata No.2
 * Agustín Barrios – Un sueño en la foresta
 * Arnold Bax
 * String Quartet No. 1 in G major, GP. 199
 * Symphonic Variations, GP. 210
 * Emile-Robert Blanchet – 2 Barcarolles for piano, Op.24
 * Lili Boulanger
 * D'un matin de printemps
 * D'un soir triste
 * Carl Busch – Indian Tribal Melodies
 * John Alden Carpenter – Little Indian
 * Frederick Delius – A Song Before Sunrise
 * Edward Elgar – Violin Sonata
 * George Enescu – Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 21
 * Gabriel Fauré – Fantaisie, Op. 111
 * Gustav Holst – The Planets
 * Alexander Glazunov – Romance of Nina
 * Paul Hindemith – Violin Sonatas, Op. 11
 * Jan Ingenhoven – Trio for violin, cello and harp
 * Leoš Janáček – Taras Bulba
 * Sigfrid Karg-Elert – 30 Caprices for Flute Solo, Op. 107
 * Charles Koechlin – Sonata (for bassoon and piano) Op. 71
 * Leevi Madetoja – Symphony No. 2, Op. 35
 * Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 1, H. 117
 * Darius Milhaud – Symphonie de chambre No.2, Op. 49
 * Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No.5, Op. 18
 * Carl Nielsen – Pan and Syrinx (tone poem)
 * Preston Ware Orem – American Indian Rhapsody
 * Francis Poulenc
 * Sonata for Two Clarinets, FP 7
 * Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8
 * Toréador, FP 11
 * Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14
 * Ottorino Respighi – La boutique fantasque. Balletto su musiche di G. Rossini
 * Emil Reznicek – Symphony No.3 in D major (composer on April 5, premiered the following year)
 * Camille Saint-Saens – Vers la victoire, Op.152
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Histoire du Soldat
 * Ragtime
 * Karol Szymanowski
 * Songs of an infatuated Muezzin, for soprano and orchestra
 * 3 Caprices de Paganini, for voice and piano
 * 4 Songs to Lyrics by Rabindranath Tagore, for voice and piano
 * Felix Weingartner – Freiheitsgesang, Op.67

Opera

 * Béla Bartók – Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911), Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest, 24 May
 * Charles Wakefield Cadman – Shanewis, libretto by Nelle Richmond Eberhart
 * Giacomo Puccini – Il trittico (consisting of Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi)
 * Franz Schreker – Die Gezeichneten
 * Gabriel von Wayditch – Jesus Before Herod
 * Felix Weingartner – Die Dorfschule

Musical theatre

 * As You Were London production opened at the Pavilion on August 3
 * The Better 'Ole Broadway production opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on October 19, transferred to the Cort Theatre on November 18 and transferred to the Booth Theatre on June 16, 1919, for a total run of 353 performances
 * Buzz-Buzz London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 20 and ran for 612 performances
 * The Canary Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 4 and ran for 152 performances
 * Fiddlers Three Broadway production opened at the Cort Theatre on September 3 and ran for 87 performances
 * The Girl Behind the Gun Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 160 performances
 * Hullo, America London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 25
 * Ladies First Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 24
 * The Lilac Domino London production opened at the Empire Theatre on February 21 and ran for 747 performances
 * Listen Lester (Music: Harold Orlob Book and Lyrics: Harry L. Cort & George E. Stoddard. Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 23 and ran for 272 performances.  Starring Mary Milburn, Eddie Garvie, Johnny Dooley, Clifton Webb, Ada Mae Weeks, Ada Lewis and Gertrude Vanderbilt.
 * Oh, Lady! Lady!! Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on February 1, transferred to the Casino Theatre on June 17 and ran for a total of 219 performances.
 * The Passing Show of 1918 Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on July 25 and ran for 142 performances
 * Phi-Phi Paris operetta opened at the Bouffes-Parisiens on November 12
 * Sinbad Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 14 and ran for 164 performances
 * Sometime (Music: Rudolf Friml Book: Rida Johnson Young Lyrics: Rida Johnson Young ) Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 4 and transferred to the Casino Theatre on November 11 for a total run of 283 performances.  Featuring Mae West and Ed Wynn
 * Toot-Toot! Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on March 11 and ran for 40 performances
 * Very Good Eddie London production opened at the Palace Theatre on May 18 and ran for 341 performances
 * Where the Lark Sings by Franz Lehár

Births

 * January 9 – Ruthilde Boesch, Austrian soprano (d. 2012)
 * January 12 – Julio Gutiérrez, Cuban pianist, conductor and songwriter (d. 1990)
 * January 20 – Juan García Esquivel, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
 * January 24 – Gottfried von Einem, composer (d. 1996)
 * January 27
 * Skitch Henderson, bandleader (d. 2005)
 * Elmore James, blues musician (d. 1963)
 * February 3 – Joey Bishop, all-round entertainer (d. 2007)
 * February 15 – Hank Locklin, singer (d. 2009)
 * February 16 – Patty Andrews of The Andrews Sisters singing group (d. 2013)
 * March 20 – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (d. 1970)
 * March 20 – Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist (d. 2013)
 * March 23 – Alberto Caracciolo, tango musician (d. 1994)
 * March 29 – Pearl Bailey, singer (d. 1990)
 * April 3 – Sixten Ehrling, conductor (d. 2005)
 * April 25 – Astrid Varnay, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
 * May 15 – Eddy Arnold, country singer (d. 2008)
 * May 17 – Birgit Nilsson, operatic soprano (d. 2005)
 * June 4 – Noel Estrada, composer (d. 1979)
 * June 8 – Robert Preston, star of musicals (d. 1987)
 * June 10 – Patachou, French singer (d. 2015)
 * June 26 – Roger Voisin, trumpeter (d. 2008)
 * July 5 – George Rochberg, composer (d. 2005)
 * July 6 – Eugene List, classical pianist (d. 1985)
 * July 24 – Ruggiero Ricci, violinist (d. 2012)
 * July 27 – Leonard Rose, cellist (d. 1984)
 * August 18 – Cisco Houston, folk singer (d. 1961)
 * August 25 – Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor (d. 1990)
 * August 29 – Mrs Mills, born Gladys Jordan, honky-tonk pianist (d. 1978)
 * August 31 – Alan Jay Lerner, US lyricist (d. 1986)
 * September 13 – Dick Haymes, Argentinian-born US singer and actor (d. 1980)
 * September 14 – Israel López "Cachao", Cuban bassist and composer (d. 2008)
 * September 22 – Henryk Szeryng, violinist (d. 1988)
 * September 23 – Lola Graham, pianist (d. 1992)
 * September 26 – John Zacherle, actor and singer (d. 2016)
 * October 9 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban pianist (d. 2013)
 * October 11 – Jerome Robbins, choreographer (d. 1998)
 * October 14 – Ellen Faull, operatic soprano (d. 2008)
 * October 16 – Géori Boué, operatic soprano (d. 2017)
 * October 17 – Rita Hayworth, actress, dancer and singer (d. 1987)
 * October 26 – Eric Ericson, Swedish choral conductor and choral teacher (d. 2013)
 * November 20 – Tibor Frešo, composer (d. 1987)
 * December 12 – Joe Williams, jazz singer (d. 1999)
 * December 19 – Professor Longhair, blues singer and pianist (d. 1980)
 * December 23 – José Greco, flamenco dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)
 * December 24 – Dave Bartholomew, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019)

Deaths

 * January 10 – Alphonse Mailly, French composer (born 1833)
 * January 19 – Juan José Cañas, co-writer of the El Salvador national anthem (b. 1826)
 * February 7 – Alexander Taneyev, composer (b. 1850)
 * February 15 – Miguel Marqués – Spanish composer and violinist (b. 1843)
 * February 23 – Sophie Menter – German composer and pianist (b. 1846)
 * February 27 – Vasily Safonov, pianist (born 1852)
 * March 1 – Emil Sjögren, lieder composer (b. 1853)
 * March 2 – Theobald Rehbaum, violinist (born 1835)
 * March (12–15) – José White Lafitte, violinist and composer (b. 1836)
 * March 13 – César Cui, music critic and composer (b. 1835)
 * March 15 – Lili Boulanger, composer (b. 1893)
 * March 23 – Théo Ysaÿe, pianist and composer (b. 1865)
 * March 25 – Claude Debussy, composer (b. 1862)
 * March 26 – Charles Clairville, librettist (born 1855)
 * April 8 – Lucjan Rydel, Polish lyricist and playwright (b. 1870)
 * April 13 – David Ffrangcon Davies, operatic baritone (b. 1855)
 * April 21 – Antonio Pini-Corsi, operatic baritone (b. 1859)
 * May 5 – Bertha Palmer, writer, musician, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (b. 1849)
 * May 18 – Toivo Kuula, conductor and composer (b. 1883) (accidentally shot)
 * May 22 – Fritz Seitz, violinist and composer (b. 1848)
 * June 9 – Jozsef Angster, master organ maker (b. 1834)
 * June 10 – Arrigo Boito, writer and composer (b. 1842)
 * July 27 – Gustav Kobbé, American music critic and author (b. 1857) (killed in sailing accident)
 * August 12 – Anna Held, singer (b. 1872)
 * August 15 – Heinrich Köselitz, author and composer (b. 1854)
 * August 26 – Cecil Coles, composer (b. 1888) (killed in action)
 * September 7 – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, singer, pianist and composer (b. 1891) (complications from surgery for appendicitis)
 * September 18 – Ernest Farrar, composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
 * September 19
 * Nikolay Ladukhin, music theorist and composer (born 1860)
 * Liza Lehmann, operatic soprano and composer (b. 1862)
 * October 7 – Hubert Parry, composer (b. 1848)
 * October 15 – Antonio Cotogni, operatic baritone (b. 1831)
 * October 16 – Felix Arndt, pianist and composer (b. 1889)
 * October 22 – Charles Peccatte, archetier (b. 1850)
 * October 24
 * Charles Lecocq, composer (b. 1832)
 * Marianne Scharwenka, violinist (b. 1856)
 * October 29 – Rudolf Tobias, organist and composer (b. 1873)
 * November 4 – Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán, zarzuela composer (b. 1875)
 * December 13 – Nikolay Figner, Russian-Ukrainian lyric tenor (b. 1857)
 * date unknown – King Watzke, violinist and bandleader (b. c. 1880)

title: 1918 in music


text:
1917 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917.

Specific locations

 * 1917 in British music
 * 1917 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1917 in country music
 * 1917 in jazz

Events

 * March 7 – "Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (a white 5-piece group from New Orleans led by cornetist Nick LaRocca) for the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released (described as a "foxtrot"). On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag"
 * May 12 – Béla Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince is premiered in Budapest
 * First African American jazz recordings made by Wilbur Sweatman's Band
 * Eddie Cantor makes his first recordings
 * Songs of the First World War become popular in the U.S.

Bands formed

 * See Category:Musical groups established in 1917

Published popular music

 * "All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me" w. Al Dubin m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Any Time Is Kissing Time" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton from the musical Chu Chin Chow
 * "Are You From Heaven?" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
 * "At the Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
 * "A Bachelor Gay" w. Frank Clifford Harris & (Arthur) Valentine m. James W. Tate from the musical The Maid of the Mountains
 * "Barnyard Blues" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro & Larry Shields
 * "The Bells Of St Mary's" w. Douglas Furber m. A. Emmett Adams
 * "The Bombo-Shay" by Henry Creamer
 * "Bring Back My Daddy to Me" m. George W. Meyer w. William Tracey & Howard Johnson
 * "Bring Me A Rose" w.m. Charles Shisler
 * "Cheer Up, Liza" John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell
 * "Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band" w. Jack Coogan m. Jimmy Morgan
 * "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin
 * "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" w.m. Shelton Brooks
 * "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" Original Dixieland Jass Band
 * "Down in the Valley" trad US
 * "Eileen (Alanna Asthore)" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "For Me And My Gal" w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer
 * "For Your Country and My Country" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey O'Hara
 * "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Going Up" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
 * "Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Good Bye Broadway, Hello France" w. C. Francis Reisner & Benny Davis m. Billy Baskette
 * "Goodbye, Ma! Goodbye, Pa! Goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw!" w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker
 * "'Good-bye,' That Means You" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Arthur Lange
 * "Good-bye-ee" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
 * "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" w. D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Dolly Morse) m. Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan
 * "Have A Heart" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
 * "Hawaiian Butterfly" w. George A. Little m. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley
 * "Homeward Bound" m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz
 * "Homing" w. Arthur L. Salmon m. Teresa del Riego
 * "How Can I Forget When There's So Much To Remember" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Huckleberry Finn" by Cliff Hess
 * "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" w.m. George Fairman
 * "I Don't Want to Get Well" w. Howard Johnson & Harry Pease m. Harry Jentes
 * "I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "I Wish You All the Luck in the World" w. & m. by Abe Olman
 * "I'd Love To Be A Monkey In The Zoo" w. Bert Hanlon m. Willie White
 * "I'll Take You Back To Italy" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "I'm All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
 * "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Carroll (melody adapted from Chopin)
 * "If I Find The Guy Who Wrote "Poor Butterfly"" w. William Jerome m. Arthur Green
 * "Indiana" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
 * "Indianola" m. Henry R. Stern & Domenico Savino
 * "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" w. Alfred Bryan & Willie Weston m. Jack Wells
 * "Johnson Rag" m. Guy H. Hall & Henry Kleinhauf
 * "Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. M. K. Jerome
 * "Leave It to Jane" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
 * "Let's All Be Americans Now" w.m. Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & George W. Meyer
 * "Lily Of The Valley" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Anatole Friedland
 * "Little Mother of Mine" w. Walter H. Brown m. Harry T. Burleigh
 * "Little Sir Echo" w. Laura R. Smith m. J. S. Fearis
 * "Livery Stable Blues" Alcide Nunez & Ray Lopez
 * "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
 * "Love Will Find A Way" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson. Introduced by José Collins in the musical The Maid of the Mountains
 * "Mad'moiselle From Armentieres" w.m. anon
 * "McNamara's Band" w. John J. Stamford m. Shamus O'Connor
 * "The Modern Maiden's Prayer" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
 * "My Sunshine Jane" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "My Sweetie" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "'N' Everything" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva & Gus Kahn
 * "Napoleon" w. P.G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
 * "Nesting Time in Flatbush" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
 * "Oh It's a Lovely War" w.m. Maurice Scott
 * "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" w. Ed Rose m. Abe Olman
 * "Ole Miss Rag" w.m. W. C. Handy
 * "On the Road to Home Sweet Home" w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert van Alstyne
 * "Ostrich Walk" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
 * "Out Where the West Begins" w. Arthur Chapman m. Estelle Philleo
 * "Over There" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Paddy McGinty's Goat" w.m. R.P. Weston, Bert Lee & The Two Bobs
 * "A Paradise For Two" w. Frank Clifford Harris & Valentine m. James W. Tate
 * "Regretful Blues" w. Grant Clarke m. Cliff Hess
 * "Reflection Rag" m. Scott Joplin
 * "The Road to Paradise" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Sigmund Romberg from the musical Maytime
 * "Rockaway" by Howard Johnson
 * "Rolled Into One" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
 * "Rose Room" w. Harry Williams m. Art Hickman
 * "Sailin' Away on the Henry Clay" w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Say a Prayer for the Boys "Out There"" w. Bernie Grossman m. Alex Marr
 * "Send Me Away With A Smile" w.m. Louis Weslyn & Al Piantadosi
 * "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble" m. Spencer Williams
 * "Sing Me Love's Lullaby" w. Dorothy Terris m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "The Siren's Song" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
 * "Six Times Six Is Thirty-Six" w. Bert Hanlon m. William White
 * "Slippery Hank" Frank H. Losey
 * "Smile And Show Your Dimple" w.m. Irving Berlin (reworked 1933 as "Easter Parade")
 * "Smiles" w. J. Will Callahan m. Lee S. Roberts
 * "Some Sunday Morning" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
 * "Somewhere in France" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herbert Ivey
 * "Somewhere in France Is Daddy" w. m. Great Howard (Howard Miller)
 * "Somewhere In France (Is The Lily)" w. Philander Chase Johnson m. Joseph E. Howard
 * "Southern Gals" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
 * "The Story Book Ball" w.m. Billie Montgomery & George Perry
 * "Sweet Emalina My Gal" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
 * "That's The Kind Of Baby For Me" w.m. Jack Egan & Alfred Harrison
 * "There Are Fairies At The Bottom Of Our Garden" w.m. Liza Lehmann
 * "There's A Lump Of Sugar Down In Dixie" w. Alfred Bryan & Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
 * "There's Something Nice About The South" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
 * "They'll Be Whistling It All Over Town" w. E. Ray Goetz m.Jean Schwartz
 * "Thine Alone" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "The Tickle Toe" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis Hirsch
 * "Tiger Rag" w. Harry De Costa m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro, Henry Ragas & Larry Shields
 * "Till The Clouds Roll By" w. P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern
 * "Ugly Chile" w.m. Clarence Williams
 * "The Waggle O' The Kilt" w.m. Harry Lauder
 * "Wait Till The Cows Come Home" w. Anne Caldwell m. Ivan Caryll
 * "When the Boys Come Home" w. John Hay m. Oley Speaks
 * "When the Clouds of War Roll By" w. Nat Binns m. Earl Haubrich
 * "When Yankee Doodle Learns To Parlez Vous Francais" w. Will Hart m. Edward G. Nelson
 * "Where Do We Go from Here?" w. Howard Johnson m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Where The Morning Glories Grow" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
 * "Why Am I Always The Bridesmaid?" w.m. Fred Leigh, Charles Collins & Lily Morris
 * "Will You Remember?" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Sigmund Romberg
 * "Wonder Eyes" m. Percy E. Fletcher
 * "Yah-De-Dah" m. Mel B. Kaufman
 * "You Brought Ireland Right Over To Me" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "You Never Knew About Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern

Hit recordings

 * "Livery Stable Blues/Dixie Jass One Step" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
 * "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" by the American Quartet
 * "A Bachelor Gay" by Peter Dawson
 * "I Don't Want To Get Well" by Van & Schenck
 * "Joe Turner Blues" by Wilbur Sweatman
 * "Long Boy" by Byron G. Harlan With The Peerless Quartet
 * "Over There" recorded by
 * Billy Murray
 * Nora Bayes
 * "Poor Butterfly" by the Victor Military Band
 * "That's The Kind Of A Baby For Me" by Eddie Cantor
 * "The Waggle O' The Kilt" by Harry Lauder
 * "Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo" by Van & Schenck

Classical music

 * Arnold Bax – November Woods
 * Lili Boulanger – Psaume 130 (Du fond de l'abîme)
 * Frank Bridge – Cello Sonata in D minor
 * John Alden Carpenter
 * The Birthday of the Infanta, ballet
 * The Home Road for SATB mixed chorus or unison voices and piano
 * Symphony No. 1 ("Sermons in Stones")
 * Carlos Chávez – Sonata fantasia (Piano Sonata No. 1)
 * Nancy Dalberg – Symphony in C-sharp minor
 * Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata in G minor
 * Frederick Delius – Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)
 * Gabriel Fauré – Cello Sonata No. 1
 * Alexander Glazunov – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B, Op. 100
 * Launy Grøndahl – Violin Concerto in D Major
 * Charles Koechlin
 * La divine vesprée, ballet
 * Paysages et marines, Op. 63bis, version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
 * Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 66
 * Carl Nielsen – Chaconne, for piano
 * Willem Pijper
 * Symphony No. 1, Pan
 * Sonatina No. 1, for piano
 * De Lente Komt, choral
 * Sergei Prokofiev
 * Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 19
 * Igrok (The Gambler), opera, Op. 24
 * Mimoletnosti (Visions fugitives), 20 pieces for piano, Op. 22
 * Piano Sonata No. 3 ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 28
 * Piano Sonata No. 4 ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 29
 * Symphony No. 1 Classical, Op. 25
 * Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin, for piano
 * Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1
 * Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (string orchestra version)
 * Jean Sibelius – Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 and 89
 * Charles Villiers Stanford
 * Aviator's Hymn, for tenor, bass, choir, and organ
 * Irish Rhapsody No. 5, in G Minor, for orchestra
 * Night Thoughts, Op. 148, for piano
 * "On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong
 * Sailing Song, partsong, two soprano voices
 * "St George of England", song
 * Scènes de ballet, Op. 150, for piano
 * Sonata No. 1, in F major, Op. 149, for organ
 * Sonata No. 2 ("Eroica"), in G minor, Op. 151, for organ
 * Sonata No. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, Op. 152, for organ
 * Igor Stravinsky
 * Berceuse, for voice and piano
 * Le chant du rossignol, symphonic poem
 * Cinq pièces faciles, for piano 4 hands
 * "Ovsen’", No. 2 from Podblyudnïye (Saucers) (Four Russian Peasant Songs), for women's choir
 * Song of the Volga Boatmen, arrangement for winds and percussion
 * Study, for pianola
 * Valse pour les enfants, for piano (possibly 1916)
 * Karol Szymanowski
 * Sonata No. 3, for piano
 * String Quartet No. 1 in C major
 * Demeter, cantata
 * Agave, cantata
 * Heitor Villa-Lobos
 * String Quartet No. 4
 * Symphony No. 2 Ascenção (Ascension), revised or completed 1943/44
 * Eugène Ysaÿe – Exil, for string orchestra of only violins and violas, Op. 25

Opera

 * Armas Launis – Kullervo
 * Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler
 * Ignatz Waghalter – Jugend
 * Giacomo Puccini – La rondine, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 27 March
 * Richard Strauss – Die Frau ohne Schatten
 * Gabriel von Wayditch – The Caliph's Magician
 * Alexander Zemlinsky – Eine florentinische Tragödie

Film

 * Pietro Mascagni – Rapsodia Satanica

Musical theatre

 * The Beauty Spot West End production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on 22 December and ran for 152 performances
 * The Better 'Ole London production opened at the Oxford Theatre on August 4 and ran for 811 performances
 * The Boy London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 14 and ran for 801 performances
 * Cheep London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on April 26.
 * Chu Chin Chow Broadway production opened at the Manhattan Opera House on October 22 and ran for 208 performances
 * Eileen opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 19 and ran for 64 performances.
 * Hanky Panky London revue opened at the Empire Theatre on March 24
 * Jack O'Lantern Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 16 and ran for 265 performances
 * Leave It to Jane Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28 and ran for 167 performances
 * The Maid Of The Mountains London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 10 and ran for 1352 performances
 * Maytime Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on August 16 and ran for 492 performances
 * Miss 1917 Broadway revue opened at the Century Theatre on November 5 and ran for 72 performances
 * Oh, Boy! (musical) Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on February 20 and ran for 463 performances
 * The Riviera Girl Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 24 and ran for 78 performances
 * Arlette West End production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 6 September and ran for 280 performances

Births

 * January 2 – Vera Zorina, German dancer and actress (died 2003)
 * January 3 – Pierre Dervaux, French operatic conductor, composer and pedagogue (d. 1992)
 * January 10 – Jerry Wexler, music journalist and record producer (d. 2008)
 * January 12
 * Walter Hendl, American conductor, composer and pianist (d. 2007)
 * Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, major influence on The Beatles (d. 2008)
 * January 15 – Tiny Timbrell, guitarist (d. 1992)
 * January 19 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
 * February 11 – Arcesia, singer (d. 1983)
 * February 15 – Denise Scharley, French contralto (d. 2011)
 * February 18 – Dona Massin, choreographer (d. 2001)
 * February 25 – Anthony Burgess, composer (d. 1993)
 * February 27 – George Mitchell, founder of the Black and White Minstrels (d. 2002)
 * March 2
 * Desi Arnaz, musician, actor and producer (d. 1986)
 * John Gardner, composer (d. 2011)
 * March 7 – Janet Collins, dancer and choreographer (d. 2003)
 * March 12 – Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
 * March 17 – Brian Boydell, Irish composer (d. 2000)
 * March 18 – Riccardo Brengola, violinist (d. 2004)
 * March 19 – Dinu Lipatti, pianist (d. 1950)
 * March 20 – Vera Lynn, singer (d. 2020)
 * March 21 – Anton Coppola, opera conductor (d. 2020)
 * March 23
 * Josef Locke, tenor (d. 1999)
 * Oscar Shumsky, violinist (d. 2000)
 * March 26 – Rufus Thomas, singer (d. 2001)
 * March 30
 * Els Aarne, composer (d. 1995)
 * Rudolf Brucci, composer (d. 2002)
 * April 9 – Johannes Bobrowski, lyricist (d. 1965)
 * April 12 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
 * April 22 – Yvette Chauviré, ballerina (d. 2016)
 * April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (d. 1996)
 * April 30 – Bea Wain, US big band singer (d. 2017)
 * May 1
 * Danielle Darrieux, singer and actress (d. 2017)
 * Lily Lian, street singer (d. 2020)
 * May 14
 * Lou Harrison, US composer (d. 2003)
 * Norman Luboff, US choral director (d. 1987)
 * May 16 – Vera Rózsa, singer and voice teacher (d. 2010)
 * May 21 – Dennis Day, US singer (d. 1988)
 * May 22 – Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
 * May 28 – Papa John Creach, fiddler (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
 * June 4 – Robert Merrill, operatic baritone (d. 2004)
 * June 7 – Dean Martin, singer and actor (d. 1995)
 * June 19 – Dave Lambert, US singer and arranger (d. 1966)
 * June 29
 * Sylvia Olden Lee, vocal coach and accompanist (d. 2004)
 * Ulpio Minucci, songwriter and composer (d. 2007)
 * June 24 – Ramblin' Tommy Scott, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
 * June 30 – Lena Horne, singer (died 2010)
 * July 2 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer and manager (d. 1973)
 * July 14 – Roshan, Bollywood composer (d. 1967)
 * July 17 – Red Sovine, American country & folk singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
 * July 24
 * Henri Betti, French composer and pianist (d. 2005)
 * Robert Farnon, composer (d. 2005)
 * Leonor Orosa Goquinco, pianist and dancer (d. 2005)
 * August 3 – Antonio Lauro, guitarist and composer (d. 1986)
 * August 17 – Walter Brown, blues shouter (d. 1956)
 * August 22 – John Lee Hooker, blues musician (d. 2001)
 * August 23 – Tex Williams, American country singer (d. 1985)
 * September 5 – Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records (d. 2022)
 * September 11 – Myrta Silva, singer and composer (d. 1987)
 * September 13 – Robert Ward, composer (d. 2013)
 * September 15 – Richard Arnell, English composer (d. 2009)
 * September 30 – Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (d. 1987)
 * October 4 – Violeta Parra, Chilean folk musician (suicide 1967)
 * October 7 – June Allyson, American singer and actress (d. 2006)
 * October 10 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
 * October 13 – George Osmond, father of the Osmond brothers (d. 2007)
 * October 21
 * William Adam, trumpeter (d. 2013)
 * Dizzy Gillespie, jazz musician (d. 1993)
 * October 24 – Mike Pedicin, jazz bandleader (d. 2016)
 * October 31 – Anna Marly, French singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
 * November 12
 * Hedley Jones, Jamaican musician (d. 2017)
 * Jo Stafford, American pop singer (d. 2008)

Deaths

 * January – Friederike Grün, operatic soprano (born 1836)
 * January 13 – Albert Niemann, Wagnerian tenor (b. 1831)
 * February 10 – Emile Pessard, French composer (b. 1843)
 * February 25 – Paul Rubens, English songwriter (b. 1875)
 * March 1 – Antonina Miliukova, widow of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1848)
 * March 4 – Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer (b. 1843)
 * March 25 – Spyridon Samaras, composer (b. 1861)
 * April 1 – Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (b. 1868)
 * April 29 – Florence Farr, actress, singer and composer (b. 1860)
 * May 20 – Romilda Pantaleoni, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
 * May 25 – Edouard de Reszke, operatic bass (b. 1853)
 * June 12 – Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer and conductor (b. 1853)
 * July 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, composer (b. 1847)
 * August 7 – Basil Hood, librettist and lyricist (b. 1864)
 * August 12 – Pavel Gerdt, dancer (b. 1844)
 * September 5 – Marie Hanfstängl, operatic soprano (b. 1848)
 * September 8 – Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer (b. 1843)
 * September 11 – Evie Greene, actress and singer (b. 1875)
 * September 15 – Elias Oechsler, composer (b. 1850)
 * October 3 – Eduardo di Capua, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
 * December 7 – Ludwig Minkus, violinist and composer (b. 1826)
 * December 9 – Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1873)

title: 1917 in music


text:
1916 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1916.

Specific locations

 * 1916 in British music
 * 1916 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1916 in jazz

Events

 * February 1 – Carl Nielsen conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4, the Inextinguishable, in Copenhagen.
 * February 11 – Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
 * March 3 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band begin playing at Schiller's Cafe in Chicago, Illinois, under the name Stein's Dixie Jass Band.
 * March 10 – Sir Hubert Parry writes the choral setting of William Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time" which becomes known as "Jerusalem" (first performed 28 March at the Queen's Hall, London).
 * April 28 – Edison Records carry out the first public "comparison test" between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano Marie Rappold.
 * June 5 – Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
 * August 3 – The musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majesty's Theatre in London. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), a West End theatre record that will stand for nearly forty years.
 * December – Wilbur Sweatman records his hot ragtime for Emerson Records in New York City.
 * Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Op. 32, in England.
 * Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia accepts its first students.
 * Soprano Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann is awarded the Charlottenkreuz.
 * German soprano Vali von der Osten marries tenor Fritz Windgassen.

Published popular music

 * "Allah's Holiday" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
 * "And They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
 * "Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
 * "At Finnigan's Ball" w.m. Bert Lee
 * "Baby Shoes" by Joe Goodwin
 * "Beale Street Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
 * "A Broken Doll" w.m. James W. Tate & Frank Clifford Harris
 * "Bugle Call Rag" w.m. Eubie Blake & Carey Morgan
 * "Bull Frog Blues" Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley
 * "The Cobbler's Song" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton
 * "La Cumparsita" w. Carol Raven m. G. H. Matos Rodriguez (words written 1932)
 * "Don't Leave Me, Daddy" Joe Verges
 * "Down In Honky Tonky Town" w. Charles McCarron m. Chris Smith
 * "Down Where The Swanee River Flows" w. Charles McCarron and Charles S. Alberte m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "For Dixie And Uncle Sam" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * ""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" w. Darl MacBoyle m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "From Here To Shanghai" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Give Me All Of You" Schwartzwald
 * "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Green Hills Of Somerset" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
 * "Have A Heart" w. Gene Buck m. Jerome Kern
 * "Homesickness Blues" w.m. Cliff Hess
 * "The Honolulu Blues" w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco
 * "How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
 * "Hula Lou" w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward
 * "I Ain't Got Nobody" w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m. Spencer Williams
 * "I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden
 * "I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "I Want To Marry A Male Quartette" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
 * "If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
 * "If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)" w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer
 * "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" w.m. Nicholas J. Clesi
 * "Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" w. Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
 * "I've A Shooting Box In Scotland" w.m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs & Cole Porter
 * "Joe Turner Blues" w. Walter Hirsch m. W. C. Handy
 * "Katinka" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
 * "Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love" w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m. Ira Schuster
 * "The Laddies Who Fought And Won" w.m. Harry Lauder
 * "Li'l Liza Jane" w.m. Countess Ada De Lachau
 * "Love Me At Twilight" w. William Jerome & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
 * "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
 * "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" w, Bert Hanlon & Benny Ryan m. Harry Tierney
 * "Movie Trot" m. Harry H. Raymond
 * "The Moving Picture Hero Of My Heart" w. Roger Lewis m. Ernie Erdman
 * "My Hawaiian Sunrise" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Carey Morgan
 * "My Syncopated Melody Man" w.m. Blanche Merrill & Eddie Cox
 * "Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an" w.m. James Kendris
 * "Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" w. Joe Goodwin & William Tracey m. Nat Vincent
 * "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" w.m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
 * "O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian" w. Al Dubin m. Rennie Cormack
 * "Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo" w. Stanley Murphy & Charles McCarron m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Operatic Rag" J. Lensberg
 * "Poor Butterfly" w. John Golden m. Raymond Hubbell
 * "Pretty Baby" w. Gus Kahn m. Tony Jackson & Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Rackety Coo!" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
 * "Rolling Stones – All Come Rolling Home Again" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
 * "Roses of Picardy" w. Frederick Weatherly m. Haydn Wood
 * "Shamrock Rag" m. Euday L. Bowman
 * "She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
 * "Sierra Sue" w.m. Joseph Buell Carey
 * "Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine" w. Joe McCarthy m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" w.m. A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey & Bennett Scott
 * "That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland" w.m. Henry I. Marshal
 * "There's A Little Bit Of Bad In Every Good Little Girl" w. Grant Clarke m. Fred Fisher
 * "There's A Quaker Down In Quaker Town" w. David Berg m. Alfred Solman
 * "They Made It Twice As Nice as Paradise and They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
 * "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii" w. Joe Goodwin m. Halsey K. Mohr
 * "Throw Me A Rose" w. P. G. Wodehouse & Herbert Reynolds m. Emmerich Kallman
 * "Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "Walkin' The Dog" Shelton Brooks
 * "What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?" w. Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson m. James V. Monaco
 * "When John McCormack Sings A Song" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
 * "When You're Down In Louisville" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
 * "Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" w. Dave Radford m. Richard Whiting
 * "Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula" w.m. E. Ray Goetz, Joe Young & Pete Wendling
 * "You Belong To Me" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
 * "You Can't Get Along With 'Em Or Without 'Em" w. Grant Clarke m. Fred Fisher
 * "You're In Love" w. Otto Harbach & Edward Clark m. Rudolf Friml

Hit recordings

 * "O Sole Mio" by Enrico Caruso
 * "Santa Lucia" by Enrico Caruso
 * "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" by John McCormack
 * "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" by Al Jolson
 * "I Love a Piano" by Billy Murray
 * "Pretty Baby" by Billy Murray
 * "I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" by Marion Harris
 * "Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)" by James F. Harrison
 * "There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding" by James F. Harrison
 * "Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" by Charles Harrison

Classical music

 * Kurt Atterberg – Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"
 * Béla Bartók – Suite for Piano
 * Ernest Bloch –
 * Israel Symphony
 * String Quartet No. 1
 * Lili Boulanger – Psaume 24
 * Claude Debussy – Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
 * Frederick Delius – Cello Sonata
 * George Enescu – Piano Trio in A minor
 * Alexander Glazunov – Karelian Legend
 * Jesus Guridi – Una aventura de Don Quijote
 * Paul Hindemith – Cello Concerto in E-flat, Op. 3
 * Ludvig Holm – Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
 * Charles Ives – Fourth Symphony
 * Scott Joplin
 * Symphony No. 1 (lost)
 * Piano Concerto (lost)
 * Erkki Melartin – Symphony no 5 in A minor, Op. 90 ("Sinfonia brevis")
 * Henrique Oswald – Sonata-Fantasia in E-flat major, Op. 44 (cello and piano)
 * Hubert Parry – "Jerusalem"
 * Siegfried Salomon – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G minor
 * Igor Stravinsky – Renard: Burlesque for 4 pantomimes and chamber orchestra
 * Heitor Villa-Lobos –
 * Second Cello Sonata
 * String Quartet No. 3
 * Symphony No. 1 "O imprevisto" (The Unforeseen)

Opera

 * Rutland Boughton – The Round Table
 * Enrique Granados – Goyescas, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 28 January
 * Erwin Lendvai – Elga
 * Manuel Penella – El Gato Montés
 * Felix Weingartner – Dame Kobold
 * Charles Villiers Stanford and Cairns James, The Critic, or An Opera Rehearsed

Film

 * Joseph Carl Breil – The Birth of a Nation
 * Victor Herbert – The Fall of a Nation

Musical theater

 * Betty Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 2 and ran for 63 performances
 * Broadway And Buttermilk Broadway production opened at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on August 15 and ran for 23 performances
 * Chu Chin Chow London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on August 31 and ran for a record 2238 performances.
 * Follow Me Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 29 and ran for 78 performances
 * Pell Mell London production opened at the Ambassadors Theatre on June 5 and ran for 298 performances
 * Robinson Crusoe Jr Broadway production opened on February 17 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 139 performances
 * So Long Letty Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 23 and ran for 96 performances
 * Sybil Broadway production opened on January 10 at the Liberty Theatre and ran for 168 performances. Starring Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorn.
 * We're All in It London revue opened at the Empire Theatre on July 13
 * Ziegfeld Follies Of 1916 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 12 and ran for 112 performances

Births

 * January 4 – Slim Gaillard, jazz musician (d. 1991)
 * January 9 – Vic Mizzy, television theme composer (d. 2009)
 * January 14 – Maxwell Davis, R&B musician (d. 1970)
 * January 15 – Artie Shapiro, jazz bassist (d. 2003)
 * January 16 – Rudolf Benesh, developer of the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing (d. 1975)
 * January 22 – Henri Dutilleux, French composer (d. 2013)
 * February 5 – Daniel Santos, singer (d. 1992)
 * February 8 – Jimmy Skidmore, jazz musician (d. 1998)
 * February 22 – Pedro Junco, composer (d. 1939)
 * February 29 – Dinah Shore, singer (d. 1994)
 * March 6 – Red Callender, jazz musician (d. 1992)
 * March 10 – Jan Håkan Åberg, organist and composer (d. 2012)
 * March 15 – Harry James, bandleader (d. 1983)
 * March 17 – Ray Ellington, singer and bandleader (d. 1985)
 * March 21 – Bismillah Khan, shehnai player (d. 2006)
 * March 26 – Harry Rabinowitz, screen music composer and conductor (d. 2016)
 * April 11 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian composer (d. 1983)
 * April 12 – Russell Garcia, film score composer (d. 2011)
 * April 14 – Denis ApIvor, composer (d. 2004)
 * April 15 – Lee Vincent, DJ and orchestra leader (d. 2007)
 * April 22 – Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (d. 1999)
 * April 30 – Robert Shaw, conductor (d. 1999)
 * May 6 – Adriana Caselotti, voice (and model) for Snow White (d. 1997)
 * May 9 – Bernard Rose, organist and composer (d. 1996)
 * May 10 – Milton Babbitt, composer (d. 2011)
 * May 17 – Paul Quinichette, jazz musician (d. 1983)
 * May 21 – Lydia Mendoza, guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
 * May 26 – Moondog, singer, percussionist, composer and inventor of musical instruments (d. 1999)
 * June 8 – Freddie Webster, jazz musician (d. 1947)
 * June 15 – Horacio Salgán, tango pianist, composer and orchestra leader (d. 2016)
 * June 17 – Einar Englund, Finnish composer (died 1999)
 * June 26 – Giuseppe Taddei, operatic baritone (d. 2010)
 * July 9
 * Dean Goffin, Salvation Army composer (d. 1984)
 * Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (d. 2005)
 * July 12 – Sam Taylor, jazz musician (d.1980)
 * July 16 – Miles Copeland, Jr., musician and CIA agent (d. 1991)
 * July 24 – Bob Eberly, American singer with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra (d. 1981)
 * July 28 – Rosina Raisbeck, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 2006)
 * July 29 – Charlie Christian, jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
 * August 3 – Claude Demetrius, songwriter (d. 1988)
 * August 18 – Moura Lympany, pianist (d. 2005)
 * August 21 – Bill Lee, singer (d. 1980)
 * August 22 – Paddy Fahey, Irish fiddler (d. 2019)
 * August 24 – Léo Ferré, singer, songwriter and composer (d. 1993)
 * August 27 – Martha Raye, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
 * September 8 – René Touzet, pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 2003)
 * September 16 – M. S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic vocalist (d. 2004)
 * October 3 – David Mann, songwriter (d. 2002)
 * October 19
 * Karl-Birger Blomdahl, composer and conductor (d. 1968)
 * Emil Gilels, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1985)
 * October 28 – Bill Harris, jazz trombonist (d. 1973)
 * October 29 – Hadda Brooks, pianist, singer and composer (d. 2002)
 * November 6 – Ray Conniff, trombonist and bandleader (d. 2002)
 * November 10 – Billy May, composer and arranger (d. 2004)
 * November 15 – Greta Gynt, singer, dancer and actress (d. 2000)
 * November 29 - Helen Clare, British singer (d. 2018)
 * December 11 – Perez Prado, Cuban bandleader and composer (d. 1989)
 * December 15 – Buddy Cole, jazz musician (d. 1964)
 * December 18 – Betty Grable, star of many Hollywood musicals (d. 1973)
 * December 25
 * Oscar Moore, jazz guitarist (d. 1981)
 * Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001)
 * December 27 – Johnny Frigo, American jazz violinist and bassist (d. 2007)

Deaths

 * January 16 – Charles A. Zimmerman, composer (b. 1861)
 * January 21 – George Musgrove, theatre and opera producer (b. 1854)
 * February 4 – Adolphe Biarent, cellist and composer (b. 1871)
 * February 5 – Francesco Marconi, operatic tenor (b. 1853/1855)
 * February 20 – Giovanni Sbriglia, operatic tenor and singing teacher (b. 1832)
 * March 7 – José Ferrer, guitarist (b. 1835)
 * March 24 – Enrique Granados, composer (b. 1867)
 * May 11 – Max Reger, composer (b. 1873)
 * May 13
 * Clara Louise Kellogg, singer (b. 1842)
 * Jessie MacLachlan, Gaelic singer (b. 1866)
 * May 28 – Albert Lavignac, musicologist and composer (b. 1846)
 * June 5 – Mildred J. Hill, songwriter (b. 1859)
 * June 10 – Max Vogrich, pianist and composer (b. 1852)
 * August 2 – Hamish MacCunn, composer (b. 1868)
 * August 5 – George Butterworth, composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
 * August 8 – Franz Eckert, composer (b. 1852)
 * September 10 – Friedrich Gernsheim, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
 * September 15 – Julius Fučík, composer (b. 1872)
 * November 2 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher and composer (b. 1832)
 * November 13 – Frederick Septimus Kelly, composer and Olympic rower (b. 1881) (killed in action)
 * November 23 – Eduard Nápravník, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
 * November 24 – John Francis Barnett, composer and music teacher (b. 1837)
 * November 26 – Charlie Case, vaudeville entertainer (b. c. 1860)
 * December 2 – Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer and music teacher (b. 1846)
 * December 5 – Hans Richter, conductor (b. 1843)
 * December 20 – William Gilchrist, composer (b. 1846)
 * December 28 – Eduard Strauss, composer (b. 1835)
 * December 31 – Ernst Rudorff, composer and music teacher (b. 1840)

title: 1916 in music