31 July:GEORGE LIBERACE = American violinist and elder brother of Liberace = [died: 1983]
5 August:ROGER ROGER = French film composer and bandleader = [died: 2007]
6 August:LUCILLE BALL = American actress and singer = [died: 1989]
27 August:KAY WALSH = English dancer and actress = [died: 2005]
2 September:FLOYD COUNCIL = American blues musician = [died: 1976]
11 September:BOLA DE NIEVE = Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter = [died: 1971]
19 September:ALLAN PETTERSSON = Swedish composer = [died: 1980]
7 October:
VAUGHN MONROE = American singer and bandleader = [died: 1973]
SHURA CHERKASSKY = American pianist = [died: 1995]
24 October:SONNY TERRY = American blues musician = [died: 1986]
26 October:MAHALIA JACKSON = American gospel singer = [died: 1972]
5 November:ROY ROGERS = American singer, actor = [died: 1998]
3 December:NINO ROTA = Italian composer = [died: 1979]
14 December:SPIKE JONES = American bandleader = [died: 1965]
15 December:STAN KENTON = American pianist, composer, and arranger = [died: 1979]
17 December:ANDRÉ CLAVEAU = French singer = [died: 2003]
25 December:ERIC GILDER = English musicologist = [died: 2000]
27 December:ANNA RUSSELL = English-Canadian singer and comedienne = [died: 2006]
date unknown:
BLANCHE WINOGRON = American harpsichordist, pianist, and teacher = [died: 2002]
Timeline of Musical Events
9 January:EDWIN ARTHUR JONES dies in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
26 January: Premiere of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by RICHARD STRAUSS, in Dresden; the librettist is HUGO VON HOFFMANSTHAL and the director is MAX REINHARDT.
21 February:GUSTAV MAHLER, who had contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic, of which he had been principal conductor since 1909.
8 April:GUSTAV MAHLER embarks from New York to France; he enters a clinic in Paris.
19 May:
GUSTAV MAHLER dies in Vienna.
MAURICE RAVEL's opera, L'heure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra Comique, in a double bill with JULES MASSENET's 1907 opera Thérèse
24 May:EDWARD ELGAR conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in London
15 June:IGOR STRAVINSKY's ballet Petrushka premieres in Paris; the lead dancer is VASLAV NIJINSKY
20 November: GUSTAV MAHLER's Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, with his friend and former assistant BRUNO WALTER conducting.
Also in 1911:-
SCOTT JOPLIN publishes his opera, Treemonisha
IRVING BERLIN publishes his first number-one hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band
AINO ACKTÉ and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland.
"Elsässisches Fahnenlied" is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
16-year-old CARL ORFF publishes his first compositions.
Published Popular Music
"After That I Want A Little More" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by FRED FISHER
"After The Honeymoon" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"All Alone" = lyrics by WILLIAM DILLON; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"Any Old Iron" = lyrics & music by CHARLES COLLINS & TERRY SHEPPARD
"Archibald, Certainly Not" = lyrics & music by ALFRED GLOVER & JOHN ST JOHN
"Baby Rose" = by LOUIS WESLYN
"Billy" = lyrics by JOE GOODWIN; music by JAMES KENDIS & HERMAN PALEY
"Bring Back My Lovin' Man" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" = lyrics & music by THURLAND CHATTAWAY
"Daly's Reel" = music by JOSEPH M. DALY
"Down Home Rag" = music by WILBUR SWEATMAN
"Down The Field" = lyrics by CALEB O'CONNOR; music by STANLEIGH P. FRIEDMAN
"El Choclo" = lyrics by FRANCICE LUBAN; music by ANGEL G. VILLOLDO
"Everybody's Doing it Now" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"The Fire Bird" = music by IGOR STRAVINSKY
"Floral Dance" = lyrics & music by KATIE MOSS
"The Gaby Glide" = lyrics by HARRY PILCER; music by LOUIS A. HIRSCH
"Hello! Susie Green" = lyrics by LESTER BARRETT; music by HERMAN DAREWSKI
"Honey Love" = lyrics by JACK DRISLANE; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"Honeysuckle Rag" = music by GEORGE BOTSFORD
"I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl)" = lyrics by WILLIAM DILLON; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as "I'm Going Back To Dixie") = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN & TED SNYDER
"If Every Hour Were A Day" = lyrics by ANNA DRIVER; music by ALFRED BRYAN
"In The Land Of Harmony" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by TED SNYDER
"It's A Long Lane That Has No Turning" = lyrics by ARTHUR PENN; music by MANUEL KLEIN
"Jimmy Valentine" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by GUS EDWARDS
"The Little Grey Home In The West" = lyrics by D. EARDLEY-WILMOT; music by HERMANN LÖHR
"Love Is Mine" = lyrics by EDWARD TESCHEMACHER; music by CLARENCE G. GARTNER
"Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by FRED FISHER
"Mary O'Hoolihan" = by BERLIN
"(On) Moonlight Bay" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by PERCY WENRICH
"Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by TED SNYDER
"My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" = lyrics by C. M. S. McLELLAN; music by IVAN CARYLL
"My Hula Hula Love" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by PERCY WENRICH
"My Rosary Of Dreams" = lyrics & music by E. F. DUSENBERG & C. M. DENISON
"Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" = lyrics by HARRY WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
"The Oceana Roll" = lyrics by ROGER LEWIS; music by LUCIEN DENNI
"Oh Baby Mine" = lyrics & music by CECILLE BOUCHER
"Oh, You Beautiful Doll" = lyrics by A. SEYMOUR BROWN; music by NAT D. AYER
"One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Ragtime Violin!" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Red Rose Rag" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by PERCY WENRICH
"A Ring On The Finger Is Worth Two On The Phone" = lyrics by JACK MAHONEY; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"Roamin' In The Gloamin'" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
"Run Home And Tell Your Mother" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Somewhere A Voice Is Calling" = lyrics by EILEEN NEWTON; music by ARTHUR F. TATE
"The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" = lyrics & music by BILLY MERSON
"Spanish Love" = by IRVING BERLIN, VINCENT BRYAN, TED SNYDER
"Texas Tommy Swing" = by SID BROWN & VAL HARRIS
"That Baboon Baby Dance" = lyrics by DAVE OPPENHEIM; music by JOE COOPER
"That Hypnotizing Man" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"That Mysterious Rag" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN, TED SNYDER
"That Was Before I Met You" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"There's A Girl In Havana" = by IRVING BERLIN, E. RAY GOETZ, A. BALDWIN SLOANE
"They Always Pick On Me" = by HARRY VON TILZER AND STANLEY MURPHY
"Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" = lyrics by GEORGE GRAFF Jr; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"To The Land Of My Own Romance" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"Too Much Mustard" = music by CECIL MACKLIN
"Virginia Lou" = by IRVING BERLIN, EARL TAYLOR
"A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" = lyrics & music by GERALD GRAFTON & HARRY LAUDER
"When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" = lyrics by HARRY WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
"When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN & TED SNYDER
"When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" = lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE; music by LEWIS F. MUIR
"When You Kiss An Italian Girl" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"When You're Away" = lyrics by A. SEYMOUR BROWN & JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
"When You're In Town" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"The Whistling Rag" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN & VINCENT BRYAN
"Yiddisha Nightingale" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"You've Got Me Hypnotized" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
Hit Recordings
"Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me"
recorded by BILLY MURRAY
"Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man"
recorded by NORA BAYES AND JACK NORWORTH
Classical Music
JOSEPH ACHRON
Hebrew Melody
FRANK BRIDGE
The Sea
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
Two English Idylls
FREDERICK DELIUS
Summer Night on the River
REINHOLD GLIÈRE
Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Goyescas
GUSTAV HOLST
Second Suite for Military Band in F
CHARLES IVES
Requiem S. 333
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Sonata for Piano in E minor
Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed
Cello Sonata No. 1 written (later revised in 1945)
CARL NIELSEN
Concerto for violin and orchestra
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
ALEKSANDR SCRIABIN
Piano Sonata No. 6
Piano Sonata No. 7 written
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Petrushka
ETHEL SMYTH
The March of the Women
Opera
BÉLA BARTÓK
Bluebeard's Castle
FREDERICK DELIUS
Fenimore and Gerda
SCOTT JOPLIN
Treemonisha
MAURICE RAVEL
L'Heure Espagnole
RICHARD STRAUSS
Der Rosenkavalier
Operetta
VICTOR JACOBI
Leányvásár (The Marriage Market)
Musical Theatre
MADAME SHERRY
New York
THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG
London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performances
THE FASCINATING WIDOW Starring Julian Eltinge, Winona Winter, Natalia Ault and Eddie Garvie.
Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 11 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on November 13 for a total run of 65 performances.
GYPSY LOVE (ZIGEUNERLIEBE)
Opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
DER LILA DOMINO (THE LILAC DOMINO)
Leipzig production
MARRIAGE À LA CARTE
Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
THE PINK LADY
Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 13 and ran for 312 performances
THE QUAKER GIRL
Broadway production opened at the Park Theatre on October 23 and ran for 240 performances
THE REVUE OF REVUES Starring Gaby Deslys, Harry Jolson, Ernie Hare and Frank Tinney.
Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 27 and ran for 55 performances.
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 15th May 2011
Last edited: 15th December 2023
