2 January:MICHAEL TIPPETT = English composer = [died: 1998]
8 January:GIACINTO SCELSI = Italian composer = [died: 1988]
12 January:TEX RITTER = American actor, singer = [died: 1974]
24 January:ELENA NICOLAI = Bulgarian opera singer = [died: 1993]
26 January:MARIA VON TRAPP = Austrian singer = [died: 1987]
11 February:WILLIAM HENRY "CHICK" WEBB = American drummer = [died: 1939]
15 February:HAROLD ARLEN = American composer of popular music = [died: 1986]
6 March:BOB WILLS = American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader = [died: 1975]
11 March:MICHAEL CARR = British composer and songwriter = [died: 1968]
15 March:HAROLD LOEFFELMACHER = American musician and bandleader, (Six Fat Dutchmen) = [died: 1987]
23 March:LALE ANDERSEN = German singer and cabaretist = [died: 1972]
2 May:ALAN RAWSTHORNE = British composer = [died: 1971]
8 May:RED NICHOLS = American bandleader and cornettist = [died: 1965]
13 June:DOC CHEATHAM = American jazz trumpeter = [died: 1997]
18 June:EDUARD TUBIN = Estonian composer = [died: 1982]
10 July:IVIE ANDERSON = American jazz singer = [died: 1949]
15 July:DOROTHY FIELDS = American lyricist and librettist = [died: 1974]
2 August:KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN = German composer = [died: 1963]
8 August:ANDRÉ JOLIVET = French composer = [died: 1974]
23 August:CONSTANT LAMBERT = British composer and conductor = [died: 1951]
29 August:JACK TEAGARDEN = American jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer = [died: 1964]
7 November:WILLIAM ALWYN = English composer, conductor, and music teacher = [died: 1985]
15 November:ANNUNZIO MANTOVANI = Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer = [died: 1980]
19 November:TOMMY DORSEY = American jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey = [died: 1956]
21 November:TED RAY = English comedian and violinist = [died: 1977]
24 November:HARRY BARRIS = American singer, composer and pianist = [died: 1962]
31 December:JULE STYNE = British-born American composer = [died: 1994]
Timeline of Musical Events
26 January:ARNOLD SCHOENBERG's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premiered in Vienna.
29 January:GUSTAV MAHLER'sKindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna.
15 October:CLAUDE DEBUSSY'sLa Mer is premiered in Paris.
September: The lyrics of RABINDRANATH TAGORE's song "Amar Shonar Bangla" are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
28 December: Premiere of The Merry Widow by FRANZ LEHÁR.
Also in 1905:-
OTTO KLEMPERER meets MAHLER for the first time, while conducting one of his works.
Published Popular Music
"Amoureuse Waltz" = by BERGER
"And The World Goes On Just The Same" = lyrics by JEAN LENOX; music by HARRY O. SUTTON
"Bandana Land" = by GLEN MacDONOUGH
"Birth of the Flowers" = music by CHARLES E. ROAT
"Bunker Hill" = lyrics by SAM ERLICH; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Can't You See That I'm Lonely" = lyrics by FELIX FEIST; music by HARRY ARMSTRONG
"Carrisima" = by ARTHUR PENN
"Caw-Caw-Caw" = lyrics & music by MAURICE STONEHILL & JOE NATHAN
"College Life" = music by HERY FRANTZEN
"Come Clean" = by PAUL SAREBRESOLE
"Daddy's Little Girl" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
"Dearie" = lyrics & music by CLARE KUMMER
"Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" = lyrics by MONROE ROSENFELD; music by JOHN HEINZMAN & OTTO HEINZMAN
"Everybody Works But Father" = lyrics & music by JEAN HAVEZ
"Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" from the musical of the same name = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
"Friends That Are Good And True" = by EYSLER
"G. O. P." = by BRYAN, HOFFMAN
"Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" = by GASTON
"The Girl Who Cares For Me" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
"Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" = by SCHWARTZ
"Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" lyrics by ARTHUR J. LAMB; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"Happy Heine" = music by J. BODEWALT LAMPE
"He's Me Pal" = lyrics by VINCENT P. BRYAN; music by GUS EDWARDS
"Hiram Green, Good-bye" = lyrics by HENRY GILLESPIE; music by CLARENCE M. CHAPEL
"How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" = lyrics by EDWARD LASKA; music by JEROME KERN
"I Don't Care" = lyrics by JEAN LENOX; music by HARRY O. SUTTON
"I Love A Lassie" = lyrics by HARRY LAUDER & GEORGE GRAFTON; music by HARRY LAUDER
"I Want What I Want When I Want It" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"I Would Like To Marry You" = lyrics & music by EDWARD LASKA
"If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" = lyrics & music by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
"I'm Getting Sleepy" = lyrics by WILBUR U. GUMM; music by JOE HOLLANDER
"I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" = lyrics by JEAN LENOX; music by HENRY O. SUTTON
"In Dear Old Georgia" = lyrics by HARRY WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" = lyrics by VINCENT P. BRYAN; music by GUS EDWARDS
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" = lyrics by HARRY H. WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
"The Irish Girl I Love" = lyrics by GEORGE V. HOBART; music by MAX HOFFMANN
"Is Everybody Happy ?" = lyrics by FRANK WILLIAMS; music by ERNEST HOGAN & TOM LEMONIER
"It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" = lyrics & music by FRED MURRAY & GEORGE EVERARD
"It's Allus De Same In Dixie" = by COOK
"I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" = by FARRELL, SILVER
"I've Sweethearts In Every Port" = KEITH
"Jolly Pickaninnies" = music by ERNST RUEFFE
"Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" = lyrics by BERT FITZGIBBON & JACK DRISLANE; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
"Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" = lyrics by JACK DRISLANE; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
"Kiss Me Again" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"The Leader Of The German Band" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
"Little Girl, You'll Do" = lyrics by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT; music by ALFRED SOLMAN
"Mary's A Grand Old Name" from the musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
"Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" = by BRADY, JOHNSTON, FRANTZEN
"The Moon Has His Eyes On You" = by BILLY JOHNSON; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Moonlight" = lyrics by JAMES O'DEA; music by NEIL MORET
"My Dusky Rose" = lyrics & music by THOMAS S. ALLEN
"My Gal Sal" = lyrics & music by PAUL DRESSER
"My Irish Maid" = by HOFFMAN
"My Irish Molly O" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Nellie Dean" = by HENRY W. ARMSTRONG
"Nobody" = lyrics by ALEX ROGERS; music by BERT A. WILLIAMS
"On An Automobile Honeymoon" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" = lyrics by WILLIAM CAHILL; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
"Paddy's Day" = by FOGARTY, MULLEN
"Parade Of The Tin Soldiers" later known as "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers" = music by LEON JESSEL
"Peaches And Cream" = music by PERCY WENRICH
"A Picnic For Two" = lyrics by ARTHUR J. LAMB; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Pretty Desdamone" = lyrics & music by F. COLLINS WILDMAN
"Put Me In My Little Cell" = lyrics by P.G. WODEHOUSE; music by FREDERICK ROSSE
"Ramblin' Sam" = lyrics by HARRY H. WILLIAMS; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Robinson Crusoe's Isle" = lyrics & music by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT
"Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"Say Yes, Honey, Do" = by SARA E. POSEY
"She Is My Daisy" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER & J. D. HARPER
"Silence And Fun" = by MULLEN
"Since Nellie Went Away" = lyrics & music by HERBERT H. TAYLOR
"So Long Mary" = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
"Tammany" = lyrics by VINCENT P. BRYAN; music by GUS EDWARDS
"To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" = by IRVING J. SCHLOSS
"The Umpire Is A Most Unhappy Man" = lyrics by WILL M. HOUGH & FRANK R. ADAMS; music by JOSEPH E. HOWARD
"Violette" = lyrics by DOLLY JARDON; music by J. B. MULLEN
"Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"Waiting At The Church" = lyrics by FRED W. LEIGH; music by HENRY E. PETHER
"Waltzing With The Girl You Love" = lyrics & music by GEORGE EVANS & REN SHIELDS
"When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" = lyrics by ARTHUR J. LAMB; music by ALFRED SOLMAN
"Where The River Shannon Flows" = lyrics & music by JAMES J. RUSSELL
"The Whistler And His Dog" = music by ARTHUR PRYOR
"The Whole Damm Family" = by SMITH, VON TILZER
"Why Don't You Try?" = lyrics by HARRY H. WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
"Will You Love Me In December" = lyrics by JAMES J. WALKER; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
Recorded Popular Music
"I Love A Lassie"
recorded by HARRY LAUDER
Classical Music
HUGO ALFVÉN
Symphony No. 3 in E major
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
La mer
EDWARD ELGAR
Introduction and Allegro for Strings
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
CARL NIELSEN
Søvnen (The Sleep)
VÍTEZSLAV NOVÁK
Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
MAURICE RAVEL
Introduction et Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 in D minor.
ANTON WEBERN
Langsamer Satz, String Quartet in one movement
HAYDN WOOD
Phantasy String Quartet
Opera
FREDERICK CONVERSE
The Pipe of Desire
LEO FALL
Irrlicht
MANUEL DE FALLA
La Vida breve (Libretto by Fernández Shaw)
FRANZ LEHÁR
Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, after the play L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac)
JULES MASSENET
Chérubin (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
LEOPOLDO MUGNONE
Vita Bretone
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde)
Musical Theatre
THE BABES AND THE BARON
Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
THE CATCH OF THE SEASON
Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
THE EARL AND THE GIRL
Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
FANTANA
Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
LIFTING THE LID
Broadway production opened at the Aerial Gardens Theatre on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
DIE LUSTIGE WITWE (THE MERRY WIDOW)
Vienna production
MISS DOLLY DOLLARS
Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 4 and moved to the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
MLLE. MODISTE
Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
THE ROGERS BROTHERS IN IRELAND
Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
THE ROLLICKING GIRL
Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre on April 16, 1906 for a total run of 199 performances
SERGEANT BRUE
Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
THE SPRING CHICKEN
London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
WHEN WE WERE FORTY-ONE
Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
WONDERLAND
Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 24 and ran for 73 performances
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 11th May 2011
Last edited: 12th November 2023
