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1911 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911. January 26 - Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, in Dresden, the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal, april 8 - Gustav Mahler embarks from New York to France, he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later. May 19 - Maurice Ravels opera, Lheure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra-Comique, may 24 - Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Symphony No.2 in London. June 15 - Igor Stravinskys ballet Petrushka is premiered in Paris, june 29 - Bernard Herrmann born in New York. July - Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, while staying at Eastbourne, november 20 - Gustav Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, after the composers death, with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter conducting at the request of Alma Mahler. Date unknown 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, the Society of Women Musicians is co-founded by Marion Scott and others. Gustav Holst wrote the Second Suite in F for concert band, after That I Want A Little More w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher After The Honeymoon w. m, Irving Berlin Alexanders Ragtime Band w. m. Irving Berlin All Alone w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer Any Old Iron w. m, Charles Collins & Terry Sheppard Archibald, Certainly Not w. m. Alfred Glover & John St John Baby Rose by Louis Weslyn Billy w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley Bring Back My Lovin Man w. m, Irving Berlin Cant You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy. w. m. Thurland Chattaway Core ngrato w. Riccardo Cordiferro, m, salvatore Cardillo Dalys Reel m. Joseph M. Daly Down Home Rag m. Wilbur Sweatman Down The Field w. Caleb OConnor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman El Choclo w. Francice Luban m, angel G. Villoldo Everybodys Doing it Now w. m. Irving Berlin The Fire Bird m, katie Moss The Gaby Glide w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis Hirsch Hello. Gus Edwards The Little Grey Home In The West w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m, hermann Löhr Love Is Mine w. Edward Teschemacher m. Clarence G. Gartner Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher Mary OHoolihan Berlin Moonlight Bay w. Edward Madden m, percy Wenrich Movin Man Dont Take My Baby Grand w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder My Beautiful Lady w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll My Hula Hula Love w. Edward Madden m, percy Wenrich My Rosary Of Dreams w. m. E. F. Dusenberg & C. M. Denison Naughty, Naughty, Naughty w. Harry Williams m, egbert Van Alstyne The Oceana Roll w. Roger Lewis m
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1912 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1912. February 28 – In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No.3, march – Hart A. Wand publishes Dallas Blues, a jazz standard and an early published blues song. June 26 – Gustav Mahlers Symphony No.9 is premiered in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter, handy publishes The Memphis Blues, one of the first blues songs to become a hit. October 16 – Arnold Schoenbergs Pierrot Lunaire debuts at the Berlin Choralion-Saal, aino Ackté founds an opera festival in Savonlinna, after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland. The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time, William Henry Bell becomes director of the South African College of Music in Cape Town. After All That Ive Been To You w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith Alexanders Ragtime Band w. m, Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane All Night Long w. m. Shelton Brooks And The Green Grass Grew All Around w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer At The Devils Ball w. m, Irving Berlin Baby Seals Blues m. Artie Matthews Bagdad w. Anne Caldwell m, victor Herbert Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. W. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith Beckys Got A Job In A Musical Show w. m, Irving Berlin Come Back To Me, My Melody Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder Come Back To Playland With Me w. m. Irving Berlin Down In Dear Old New Orleans w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden Dreams Of Long Ago w. Earl Carroll m, enrico Caruso The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up. w. m. Irving Berlin Everybody Loves A Chicken w. m, bobby Jones Everybody Two-Step w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer Florida Rag V. Lowry The Funny Little Melody w. m, Irving Berlin Giannina Mia w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml Goodnight, Nurse w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee w. m. E. Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin Hitchy-Koo w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams Im Afraid, Pretty Maid, Im Afraid w. m. Irving Berlin Im The Lonesomest Gal In Town w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer In My Harem w. m, Irving Berlin In the Garden w. m. C. Austin Miles Its A Long Way To Tipperary w. m, Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile w. m. Irving Berlin Kentucky Sue by Lew Brown The Land Of Golden Dreams w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry Last Night Was The End Of The World w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer The Last Shot Got Him w. m, Leo Silesu Love Is Like A Firefly w. Otto Harbach m
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1913 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1913. March 9 – The second performance of Francesco Balilla Pratellas Musica Futurista in Rome becomes the first of several pieces this year of music with an unruly audience response. April 1 – Manuel de Fallas opera La vida breve is given its world première in Nice, the audience includes Gabriele DAnnunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel. Police are called during the interval, september 5 – Sergei Prokofievs performance of the first version of his Piano Concerto No.2 at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, is met with hisses and catcalls. September 10 – Jean Sibeliuss tone poem Luonnotar is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté, october – Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced. The term Jazz first appears in print, louis Armstrong begins playing the cornet, in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs. Lili Boulanger becomes the first woman to win the Musical Composition section of the Prix de Rome, the Aeolian Company introduces the Duo-Art piano technology. Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster. Abie Sings An Irish Song, words & music by Irving Berlin All Aboard For Dixieland, words Jack Yellen, music George L. Cobb And Then, w. Alfred Bryan, m. Herman Paley The Angelus, w. Robert B. Victor Herbert Cross The Great Divide w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer The Curse Of An Aching Heart w. Henry Fink m, Al Piantadosi Daddy, Come Home w. m. Irving Berlin Danny Boy w. Frederick Weatherly m. trad Dont Blame It All On Broadway w. Joe Young & Harry Williams m, bert Grant Down In Chattanooga w. m. Irving Berlin El Cóndor Pasa by Daniel Alomía Robles Fat Lil Feller Wid His Mammys Eyes w. m. Sheridan Gordon & F. L. Stanton Fifteen Cents by Chris Smith Gasoline w. J, will Callahan, m. Paul Pratt Goodbye Boys w. Andrew B. Sterling & William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer Happy Little Country Girl w. m. Irving Berlin Hed Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under w. Grant Clark & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams Hello, introduced by Elizabeth Brice in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 Hungarian Rag m. Julius Lenzberg I Can Live Without You w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper I Miss You Most Of All w. m. Joseph McCarthy Sr. & James V. Monaco If I Had My Way w. Lou Klein m. James Kendis Ill Change The Shadows To Sunshine w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball Ill Get You w. Gus Edwards Im On My Way To Mandalay w. Al Bryan m, fred Fisher The Incandescent Rag m. George Botsford The International Rag w. m. Irving Berlin Isle DAmour w. Earl Carroll m, leo Edwards Its Nice To Get Up In The Morning w. m
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1914 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1914. January 1 - The copyright on Parsifal expires allowing it to be staged outside of Bayreuth, performances take place in Barcelona, Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bologna, Rome and Wrocław. In the next few weeks it is staged in St. Petersburg, Paris, Brussels, Vienna and Londons Covent Garden. January 24 - First public performance of Leoš Janáčeks piano cycle In the Mists at the concert of the Organ School in Brno by pianist Marie Dvořáková. January - First Finnish performance of Jean Sibeliuss tone poem Luonnotar, with soprano Aino Ackté, august 26 - Rutland Boughtons fairy opera The Immortal Hour is first performed in Glastonbury Assembly Rooms at the inaugural Glastonbury Festival co-founded by the English socialist composer. October - Adelina Patti gives her last public performance, in a Red Cross concert at Londons Royal Albert Hall, october 15 - In Rovigo, Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchiellis La Gioconda. The first recorded music is made in Trinidad and Tobago. First publication of Orchestration, the book by Cecil Forsyth. Performed in the 1951 film Two Weeks with Love by Debbie Reynolds, Irving Berlin Always Treat Her Like A Baby w. m. Irving Berlin Back To The Carolina You Love w. Grant Clarke m, Jean Schwartz Burlington Bertie From Bow w. m. William Hargreaves By Heck w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. S. R. Henry By The Beautiful Sea w. Harold R. Atteridge m. Harry Carroll By The Waters Of Minnetonka w. J. M. Cavanass m. Thurlow Lieurance California And You w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Puck Cant You Hear Me Callin Caroline, william H. Gardner & Caro Roma Cecile Waltz by Frank McKee Colonel Bogey - March m. Kenneth J. Alford Come Over To Dover Murphy, Botsford La Cucaracha w. Stanley Adams m. arr, dLorah The Darktown Poker Club w. Jean C. Bert Williams & Will H. Vodery The Day Is Done w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Herman Lohr Desecration Rag Felix Arndt Down Among The Sheltering Palms w. James Brockman m. Irving Berlin Gilbert, The Filbert w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herman Finck Goodbye Girls Im Through w. John Golden m. Ivan Caryll Hes A Devil In His Own Home Town w. Grant Clarke & Irving Berlin m. Irving Berlin Hes A Rag Picker w. m. Irving Berlin Hot House Rag m. Paul Pratt I Love the Ladies by Grant Clarke I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm w. m. Irving Berlin I Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You w. Clifford Harris m. James W. Tate If I Had You w. m, Irving Berlin If Thats Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home w. m
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1915 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915. March–December - The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, may 15 - Tom Browns band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a Jass Band. April 21 - Sibelius sees sixteen swans over Lake Tuusula which immediately inspires him to write the theme becomes the finalé to his Symphony No.5. Summer - Claude Debussy composes at Pourville on the French Channel coast, october 28 - Richard Strausss symphonic poem An Alpine Symphony is premiered by the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin under the composers baton. November 13 - First concert devoted to the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, December 8 - Jean Sibeliuss Symphony No.5 is premiered by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra at a birthday concert for him. December - Claude Debussy becomes one of the first people to receive a colostomy, composer Alban Berg enters service with the Austro-Hungarian Army. Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment, William Penfro Rowlandss hymn tune Blaenwern is first published in Henry H. Jones Cân a Moliant. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb All For You w. Henry Blossom m, victor Herbert Along The Rocky Road To Dublin w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant America, I Love You w. Edgar Leslie m, irving Berlin Are You From Dixie. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb Are You The OReilly, rooney, Emmett The Army Of Todays All Right w. m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh Auf Wiedersehen w. Herbert Reynolds m, Sigmund Romberg, from the musical The Blue Paradise Babes In The Wood w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern Baby Shoes w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do w. m, Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser w. m. Mark Sheridan Blame It On The Blues Doc Cooke Canadian Capers w. Earl Burnett m, Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan Close To My Heart by A. B. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus Gay, spencer Williams The Girl On The Magazine Cover w. m. Hirsch Hello, Hawaii, How Are You, W. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz The Hesitating Blues w. m, handy I Can Beat You Doing What Youre Doing Me w. m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron I Didnt Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi I Love a Piano w. m, irving Berlin I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls w. Henry Blossom m. Jean Schwartz In a Monastery Garden m. Albert William Ketèlbey Ireland Is Ireland To Me w. Fiske OHara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball Its Tulip Time In Holland w. Dave Radford m
