1912 in music

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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.

Specific locations[]

Specific genres[]

Events[]

  • February 28 – In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 3 (the Sinfonia espansiva) and his Violin Concerto.
  • March – Hart A. Wand publishes "Dallas Blues", a jazz standard and an early published blues song.
  • June 26 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter.
  • September – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues", one of the first blues songs to become a hit.
  • October 16 – Arnold Schoenberg's 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.[1]
  • William Henry Bell becomes director of the South African College of Music in Cape Town.

Published popular music[]

  • "After All That I've Been To You" w. m. Chris Smith
  • "Alexander's 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 Devil's 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. Marshall
  • "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith
  • "Becky's 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. Maude Lambert
  • "Cuddle Up And Cling To Me" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry L. Marshall
  • "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
  • "A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
  • "Do It Again" 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
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  • "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. 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
  • "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I'm 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
  • "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" w.m. Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams
  • "" 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. Cecil Mack & Cecil Smith
  • "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Irving Berlin from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels'
  • "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu
  • "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
  • "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes
  • "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. W. C. Handy
  • "The Million Dollar Ball" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz
  • "My Melancholy Baby" w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett
  • "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
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  • "On The Mississippi" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll & Arthur Fields
  • "Parisienne" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Pick, Pick, Pick Pick On The Mandolin, Antonio" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Ragging The Baby To Sleep" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
  • "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" w. Grant Clarke m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
  • "The Ragtime Drummer" James I. Lent
  • "The Ragtime Jockey Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Ragtime Mocking Bird" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "The Ragtime Soldier Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Roll Dem Roly Boly Eyes" w.m. Eddie Leonard
  • "The Rose of Tralee" w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover
  • "Row Row Row" w. William Jerome m. James V. Monaco
  • "She Pushed Me Into The Parlour" w. Alf Ellerton m. Will Mayne
  • "Slippery Elm Rag" m. Clarence Woods
  • "Sly Musette" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
  • "The Society Bear" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Some Boy" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
  • "Somebody's Coming To Town From Dixie" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Henry Clay Smith
  • "The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" w. Byron D. Stokes m. F. Dudleigh Vernor
  • "Sympathy" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
  • "Take A Little Tip From Father" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
  • "Take Me Back" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Take Me To That Swanee Shore" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
  • "Take Me To The Cabaret" w.m. William Dillon
  • "Teasing Moon" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry Marshall
  • "That Dixie Dip Rag" m. Dippy Dip
  • "That Eccentric Rag" m. J. Russel Robinson
  • "That Kentucky Rag" w. Boyle Woolfolk m. Hampton Durand
  • "That Old Girl Of Mine" w. Earle C. Jones m. Egbert van Alstyne
  • "That Syncopated Boogie Boo" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
  • "That's How I Need You" w. Joe McCarthy & Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
  • "There's One In A Million Like You" w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz
  • "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
  • "'Way Down South" w.m. George Fairman
  • "The Wedding Glide" w.m. Louis Hirsch
  • "A Wee Hoose 'Mang The Heather" w.m Gilbert Wells, Fred Elton & Harry Lauder
  • "When I Get You Alone Tonight" w.m. Joseph McCarthy, Joe Goodwin & Fred Fisher
  • "When I Lost You" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" w. Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor
  • "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo" w.m. Theodore F. Morse
  • "Yiddisha Professor" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "You're My Baby" w. A Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer

Popular recordings[]

Classical music[]

Maurice Ravel in 1912
  • Hugo Alfvén –
    • Mostellaria, for flute (incidental music for the play by Plautus)
    • Julsång, for voice and piano
    • Spåmannen (incidental music for the play by Verner von Heidenstam), for chorus and small orchestra
    • Unge Herr Sten Sture, Op. 30, for baritone, male choir, and orchestra
  • Granville Bantock – In the Far West, serenade for string orchestra
  • Alban Berg – Five Orchestral Songs on Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg
  • Frank Bridge – Piano Quintet
  • Max Bruch – Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra
  • Ferruccio Busoni
    • Nocturne symphonique, Op. 43, BV 262
    • Sonatina No. 2
  • George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad
  • John Alden Carpenter –
    • The Cock Shall Crow, for voice and piano
    • Poems by Paul Verlaine (Four), for voice and piano
    • Songs (Eight), for medium voice and piano
  • Carlos Chávez –
    • Miniatura for piano
    • Valsas I y II for piano
  • Claude Debussy
  • Frederick Delius
  • Paul Dukas – La Peri (ballet)
  • Edward Elgar – The Music Makers
  • George Enescu – Sonatensatz in F♯ minor, for piano
  • Victor Ewald – Brass Quintet No. 1
  • Alexander Glazunov – Finnish Sketches
  • Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
  • Joseph Holbrooke – Nocturne: "Fairyland", Op. 57, for oboe, clarinet (or viola), and piano
  • Arthur Honegger – Sonata in D minor, for violin and piano
  • Charles Ives –
  • Leoš Janáček
  • Manolis Kalomiris –
    • Iamvoi ke anapaestoi II: Mayovotana, for voice and orchestra
    • Quintet, for piano and strings, with voice
  • Sigfrid Karg-Elert –
    • Chorale Improvisations (Four), for organ
    • Funerale, for harmonium
    • Prae- und Postludien (20), Op. 78, for organ
    • Triumph, Op. 79, for unaccompanied chorus
    • Vom Himmel hoch, chorale canzona, Op. 82, No. 2, for chorus, violin, and organ
  • Anatoly Lyadov – Iz Apokalipsisa, Op. 66, for orchestra
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero –
    • Arione, symphonic poem for cello and orchestra
    • Danze e canzoni, for orchestra
  • Bohuslav Martinů –
    • Andante, for string quartet
    • Ave Maria, for soprano and organ
    • Niponari, for soprano and orchestra
    • Nocturnes (Two), for string quartet
    • Offertorium, for soprano and organ
    • Phantasie, for violin and piano
    • String Quartet
  • Arnold Mendelssohn –
    • Auf meinen lieben Gott, Op. 61, for solo voices, chorus, organ, and orchestra
    • Aus tiefer Not, Op. 54, for soprano, chorus, organ, and orchestra
  • Carl Neilsen –
    • Paraphrase over ‘Naermere Gud til dig’, for wind orchestra
    • Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, for violin and piano
  • Leo Ornstein – A Paris Street Scene at Night, Op. 4, No. 3, for piano
  • Otakar Ostrčil –
    • Česká legenda vánoční, Op. 15, for male chorus
    • Suite in C minor, Op. 14, for orchestra
  • Gabriel Pierné – Saint François d'Assise, oratorio
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti –
    • Il clefta prigione, for voice and piano
    • San Basilio, for voice and piano
  • Sergei Prokofiev
  • Roger Quilter –
    • Moonlight on the Lake, for piano
    • Where the Rainbow Ends: Suite, for piano
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff – Songs (14), Op. 34
  • Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé
  • Max Reger –
    • "An die Hoffnung", Op. 124, for contralto (or mezzo-soprano) and orchestra (or piano)
    • Aus meinem Tagebuch, Op. 85, 35 little pieces for piano
    • Geistliche Gesänge, Op. 110, for chorus
    • Konzert im alten Stil in F major, Op. 123, for orchestra
    • Preludes and Fugues, Op. 117, for violin solo
    • Eine romantische Suite, Op. 125, for orchestra
    • Römischer Triumphgesang, Op. 126, for male voices and orchestra
  • Erik Satie –
    • Aperçus désagréables, for piano duet
    • Préludes flasques (pour un chien), for piano
    • Préludes pour un chien (2), for piano
    • Véritables préludes flasques (pour un chien), for piano
  • Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire
  • Cyril Scott – Two Passacaglias
  • Alexander Scriabin – 3 Études, Op. 65
  • Richard Strauss – Der Bürger als Edelmann (first version, as incidental music for Hugo von Hofmannsthal's translation of Molière's play)
  • Igor Stravinsky – Le roi des étoiles
  • Marcel Tournier – Promenade a l'automne
  • Louis Vierne – Symphony for Organ No. 3 in F♯ minor
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos –
    • Brinquedo de Roda, for piano
    • Petizada, for piano
    • Suite infantil No. 1, for piano
    • Suite popular brasileira, for guitar
  • Charles-Marie Widor – Suite for cello and piano
  • Alberto Williams – Danzas argentinas–milongas (5), for orchestra

Opera[]

  • Eugen d'Albert –
    • Die verschenkte Frau (Vienna, 6 February)
    • Liebesketten (Vienna, 12 November)
  • Walter Damrosch – The Dove of Peace
  • Joseph Holbrooke – The Children of Don, Op. 56 (London, 12 June)
  • Otakar Ostrčil – Poupě (The Bud), Op. 12 (Prague, National Theatre, 25 January)
  • Guy Ropartz – Le Pays
  • Richard Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos
  • Franz Schreker – Der ferne Klang
  • Ferruccio Busoni – Die Brautwahl

Ballet[]

  • Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé premieres at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes

Musical theater[]

Promotional artwork for 1912 Ziegfeld Follies
  • The Count of Luxembourg Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 120 performances.
  • The Firefly, Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2 and ran for 120 performances
  • Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway Broadway revival opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on March 14 and ran for 36 performances.
  • London production opened at Daly's Theatre on June 1 and ran for 299 performances.
  • Opened at the London Hippodrome on December 23 and ran for 451 performances.
  • Broadway production opened at the on October 28 and ran for 232 performances. Starring Elsie Janis, , James Reaney, Peggy Wood and Vernon Castle.
  • Der Lila Domino (The Lilac Domino) – Vienna production
  • (Music: Book & Lyrics: ) Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 25 and ran for 9 performances
  • Oh! Oh! Delphine! Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30 and ran for 248 performances
  • (Words & Music: John Golden) Broadway production opened at the on January 8 and ran for 120 performances. Starring Eddie Foy, Lillian Lorraine, Mae Busch, Peggy Wood and .
  • The Pink Lady London production opened at the on April 11 and ran for 124 performances
  • Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome on August 31 and ran for 445 performances
  • Broadway production opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on April 15 and ran for 56 performances
  • The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1912, Broadway revue opened at the on October 21 and ran for 88 performances

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References[]

  1. ^ "Birmingham Musical Festival". Arts and Humanities Research Council. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
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