1911 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911.

Specific locations[]

Specific genres[]

Events[]

  • January 26 – Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, in Dresden; the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the director is Max Reinhardt.
  • February 21 – Gustav Mahler, who had contracted bacterial endocarditis and was running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic, of which he had been principal conductor since 1909.
  • April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 4 in Helsinki.
  • 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 Ravel's opera, L'heure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra-Comique, in a double bill with Jules Massenet's 1907 opera Thérèse.
  • May 24 – Edward Elgar conducts the première of his Symphony No. 2 in London.
  • June 15 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premiered in Paris; the lead dancer is Vaslav Nijinsky.
  • July – Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, while staying at Eastbourne.[1]
  • November 20 – Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, after the composer's death, with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter conducting at the request of Alma Mahler.[2]
  • date unknown
    • Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers found the 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.[3]
    • Gustav Holst wrote the Second Suite in F for concert band.
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Published popular music[]

  • "After That I Want A Little More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
  • "After The Honeymoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Alexander's 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
  • "Billy" w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
  • "Bring Back My Lovin' Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
  • "Core 'ngrato" w. Riccardo Cordiferro, m. Salvatore Cardillo[4]
  • "Daly's Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly
  • "Down Home Rag" m. Wilbur Sweatman
  • "Down The Field" w. Caleb O'Connor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman
  • "El Choclo" w. Francice Luban m. Angel G. Villoldo
  • "Everybody's Doing it Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "The Firebird" m. Igor Stravinsky
  • "The Floral Dance" w.m. Katie Moss
  • "" w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis Hirsch
  • "Hello! Susie Green" w. Lester Barrett m. Herman Darewski
  • "Honey Love" w. m. George W. Meyer
  • "Honeysuckle Rag" m. George Botsford
  • "I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)" w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as ""I'm Going Back To Dixie") w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
  • "If Every Hour Were A Day" w. m. Alfred Bryan
  • "In The Land Of Harmony" w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder
  • "It's A Long Lane That Has No Turning" w. Arthur Penn m. Manuel Klein
  • "Jimmy Valentine" w. Edward Madden m. 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 O'Hoolihan" Berlin
  • "(On) Moonlight Bay" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
  • "Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder
  • "My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" 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
Cover of sheet music for Naughty, Naughty, Naughty
  • "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
  • "The Oceana Roll" w. Roger Lewis m.
  • "Oh Baby Mine" w.m. Cecille Boucher
  • "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
  • "One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Ragtime Violin!" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Red Rose Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
  • "A Ring On The Finger Is Worth Two On The Phone" w. Jack Mahoney m. George W. Meyer
  • "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" w.m. Harry Lauder
  • "Run Home And Tell Your Mother" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Sarnia Cherie" (anthem of Guernsey) w. George Deighton, m. Domenico Santangelo
  • "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" w. Eileen Newton m. Arthur F. Tate
  • "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" w.m. Billy Merson
  • "Spanish Love" Irving Berlin, Vincent Bryan, Ted Snyder
  • "Texas Tommy Swing" Sid Brown & Val Harris
  • "That Baboon Baby Dance" w. Dave Oppenheim m. Joe Cooper
  • "That Hypnotizing Man" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "That Mysterious Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
  • "That Was Before I Met You" w. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
  • "There's A Girl In Havana" 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" w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "To The Land Of My Own Romance" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  • "Too Much Mustard" m. Cecil Macklin
  • "Virginia Lou" Irving Berlin, Earl Taylor
  • "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" w.m. Gerald Grafton & Harry Lauder
  • "When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
  • "When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
  • "When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" w. Edgar Leslie m. Lewis F. Muir
  • "When You Kiss An Italian Girl" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "When You're Away" w. & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
  • "When You're In Town" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "The Whistling Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" w.m. Irving Berlin & Vincent Bryan
  • "Yiddisha Nightingale" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "You've Got Me Hypnotized" w.m. Irving Berlin

Hit recordings[]

Classical music[]

  • Joseph Achron – Hebrew Melody
  • Lili Boulanger – Les Sirènes
  • Frank Bridge – The Sea
  • George Butterworth – Two English Idylls
  • Eric Coates – Miniature Suite
  • Frederick Delius – Summer Night on the River
  • George Enescu –
    • Sonata for violin and piano, in A minor (first-movement "Torso")
    • Suite châtelaine, for orchestra (unfinished)
  • Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
  • Enrique Granados – Goyescas
  • Reynaldo Hahn – Aubade athénienne
  • Gustav Holst
    • Invocation for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 19/2
    • Second Suite in F, for military band
    • 2 Eastern Pictures, H. 112
  • Charles Ives – Requiem S. 333
  • Paul von Klenau – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
  • Nikolai Medtner – Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky
    • Sinfonietta in A
    • Symphony No. 2
    • Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945).
  • Carl Nielsen – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
  • Arnold Schoenberg – Sechs kleine Klavierstücke
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Ethel Smyth – The March of the Women
  • John Philip Sousa – Tales of a Traveler
  • Charles Villiers Stanford
    • Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124
    • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126
  • Igor Stravinsky
    • The Firebird Suite No. 1
    • Petrushka
    • Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano

Opera[]

Operetta[]

Musical theater[]

  • The Count of Luxembourg London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performances
  • The Fascinating Widow 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. Starring Julian Eltinge, Winona Winter, and Eddie Garvie.
  • (Zigeunerliebe) opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
  • Der Lila Domino (Lilac Domino) – Leipzig production
  • Madame Sherry New York
  • Marriage a la Carte Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
  • Peggy, by Leslie Stuart, with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and lyrics by C. H. Bovill,[5] London production opens at the Gaiety Theatre under the management of George Edwardes, on 4 March, and runs for 270 performances, starring Grossmith, Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray
  • 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
  • Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 27 and ran for 55 performances. Starring Gaby Deslys, , Ernie Hare and Frank Tinney.
  • Die Sirene by Leo Fall, based on a text by Leo Stein and A. M. Willner, first performed in Vienna on 5 January.
  • The Siren, a Broadway musical adaptation of Die Sirene is produced in New York by Charles Frohman and runs at the Knickerbocker Theatre from 28 August 1911 to 16 December (116 performances).

Births[]

  • January 10 – Sidney Griller, violinist and founder of the Griller Quartet (d. 1993)
  • January 18
    • Gábor Darvas, composer (d. 1985)
    • Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
  • January 20
    • Roy Eldridge, jazz musician (d. 1989)
    • Wendell J. Westcott, American carillon player and educator (d. 2010)
  • January 24
    • Evelyn Barbirolli, English oboist (d. 2008)
    • Muir Mathieson, Scottish conductor and composer (d. 1975)
  • February 3 – Jehan Alain, organist and composer (d. 1940)
  • February 5 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
  • February 11 – Wesley Rose, record producer (d. 1990)
  • February 17 – Orrin Tucker, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2011)
  • February 20 – Robert McBride, composer (d. 2007)
  • March 7 – Stefan Kisielewski, Polish composer (d. 1991)
  • March 8 – Alan Hovhaness, composer (d. 2000)
  • March 9 – Clara Rockmore, born Clara Reisenberg, thereminist and violinist (d. 1998)
  • March 16 – Harper Goff, Disney special effects man and Dixieland musician (d. 1993)
  • March 18 – Smiley Burnette, singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
  • April 6 – Guillermo Portabales, singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
  • April 8 – Ichirō Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
  • May 8 – Robert Johnson, blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
  • May 13 – Maxine Sullivan, singer (d. 1987)
  • May 14 – Hans Vogt, composer and conductor (d. 1992)
  • May 18 – Big Joe Turner, blues shouter (d. 1985)
  • May 20 – Vet Boswell of the Boswell Sisters singing group (d. 1988)
  • June 4 – Faustino Oramas, Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer (d. 2007)
  • June 9 – Frederick May, Irish composer (d. 1985)
  • June 24 – Portia White, contralto singer (d. 1968)
  • June 29 – Bernard Herrmann, film composer (d. 1975)
  • July 4 – Mitch Miller, arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player (d. 2010)
  • July 7 – Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (d. 2007)
  • July 16 – Ginger Rogers, dancer, actress and singer (d. 1995)
  • July 26 – Buddy Clark, singer (d. 1949)
  • July 29 – Ján Cikker, composer (d. 1989)
  • July 31 – George Liberace, violinist and elder brother of Liberace (d. 1983)
  • August 5 – Roger Roger, film composer and bandleader (d. 2007)
  • August 6 – Lucille Ball, actress and singer (d. 1989)
  • August 27 – Kay Walsh, dancer and actress (d. 2005)
  • September 2 – Floyd Council, blues musician (d. 1976)
  • September 11 – Bola de Nieve, singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1971)
  • September 19 – Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer (d. 1980)
  • September 24 – Marie Kraja, Albanian operatic and folk singer (d. 1999)
  • October 1 – Irwin Kostal, arranger (d. 1994)
  • October 7
    • Shura Cherkassky, pianist (d. 1995)
    • Vaughn Monroe, singer and bandleader (d. 1973)
  • October 24 – Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)
  • October 26 – Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
  • October 29 – Nelson Cavaquinho, samba singer and composer (d. 1986)
  • November 5 – Roy Rogers, singer, actor (d. 1998)
  • December 3 – Nino Rota, composer (d. 1979)
  • December 14 – Spike Jones, bandleader (d. 1965)
  • December 15 – Stan Kenton, bandleader (d. 1979)
  • December 17 – André Claveau, French singer and Eurovision winner (d. 2003)
  • December 25 – Eric Gilder, musicologist (d. 2000)
  • December 27 – Anna Russell, singer and comedian (d. 2006)
  • December 28 – Max Jaffa, violinist and bandleader (d. 1991)
  • date unknown – Blanche Winogron, harpsichordist (d. 2002)

Deaths[]

References[]

  1. ^ Musical Toronto; Retrieved 3 September 2013
  2. ^ Ryding, Erik; Pechefsky, Rebecca (2006). Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08713-0.
  3. ^ Sophie Fuller. "Society of Women Musicians", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 12, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
  4. ^ Kati's Story: Recollections of Two Worlds – Page 84 Catherine Veres – 2009 "Core 'ngrato, a Neapolitan song written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso by Salvatore Cardillo (1874–1947)"[clarification needed]
  5. ^ Culme, John. "Footlight Notes, no. 277" Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. 4 January 2002, accessed 11 August 2010
  6. ^ Biography at the Stichting DE LANGE website
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