1914 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1914.

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Geraldine Farrar in a 1914 Victrola advertisement
  • 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 London's Covent Garden.
  • January 24 – First public performance of Leoš Janáček's piano cycle In the Mists at the third concert of the Organ School in Brno by pianist Marie Dvořáková, teacher of the school.
  • January – First Finnish performance of Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar, with soprano Aino Ackté and conductor Georg Schnéevoigt.[1]
  • August 26 – Rutland Boughton's fairy opera The Immortal Hour is first performed in Glastonbury Assembly Rooms at the inaugural Glastonbury Festival co-founded by the English socialist composer.[2]
  • October – Adelina Patti gives her last public performance, in a Red Cross concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
  • October 15 – In Rovigo, Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
  • The first recorded calypso music is made in Trinidad and Tobago.
  • First publication of Orchestration, the classic book by Cecil Forsyth.

Published popular music[]

  • "The Aba Daba Honeymoon" w.m. Arthur Fields & Walter Donovan. Performed in the 1951 film Two Weeks with Love by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter
  • "After The Roses Have Faded Away" w. Bessie Buchanan m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "Along Came Ruth" w.m. 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
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  • "California And You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Puck
  • "Can't You Hear Me Callin' Caroline?" w.m. 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. (Eng) Stanley Adams m. arr. Juan Y. D'Lorah
  • "The Darktown Poker Club" w. Jean C. Havez m. Bert Williams & Will H. Vodery
  • "The Day Is Done" w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m.
  • "Desecration Rag" m. Felix Arndt
  • "Down Among The Sheltering Palms" w. James Brockman m. Abe Olman
  • "Emblem of Peace" m. George A. Reeg
  • "La Estrellita" m. Manuel Ponce Also known as "Little Star".
  • "Everybody Rag With Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Grace Leboy
  • "Fido Is A Hot Dog Now" w. Charles McCarron & Thomas J. Gray m. Raymond Walker
  • "Follow The Crowd" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Gilbert, The Filbert" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herman Finck
  • "Goodbye Girls I'm Through" w. John Golden m. Ivan Caryll
  • "He's A Devil In His Own Home Town" w. Grant Clarke & Irving Berlin m. Irving Berlin
  • "He's A Rag Picker" w.m. Irving Berlin
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  • "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 That's Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "If You Don't Want My Peaches" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I'll Make A Man Of You" w.m. Arthur Wimperis & Herman Finck
  • "I'm Goin' Back To Louisiana (Where The Bright Moon Shines)" E. Clinton Keithley
  • "In An Old-Fashioned Town" w.m. Squire
  • "In Siam" Manuel Klein
  • "In The Candlelight" w.m. Fleta Jan Brown
  • "Katyusha's song" composed by Nakayama Shimpei is the first big kayōkyoku (pop music) hit in Japan
  • "Keep the Home Fires Burning" w. Lena Guilbert Ford m. Ivor Novello
  • "Land" by Irving Berlin
  • "A Little Bit Of Heaven Sure They Call It Ireland" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by Byron Gay &
  • "Love's Own Sweet Song" w. C. C. S. Cushing & E. P. Heath m. Emmerich Kalman
  • "The Minstrel Parade" Irving Berlin
  • "Missouri Waltz" w. James Royce Shannon m. Frederick Knight Logan
  • "Mrs. Sippi, You're A Grand Old Girl" Belle Ashlyn
  • "Music Box Rag" Charles Luckeyth Roberts
  • "My Bird Of Paradise" Irving Berlin
  • "My Croony Melody" w.m. Joe Goodwin & E. Ray Goetz
  • "On the 5:15" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
  • "On The Good Ship Mary Ann" w. Gus Kahn m. Grace Leboy
  • "On The Shores Of Italy" w.m. Al Piantadosi, Dave Oppenheim & Jack Glogau
  • "Pigeon Walk" m. James V. Monaco
  • "Play a Simple Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Poor Pauline" w. Charles McCarron m. Raymond Walker
  • "Revival Day" Berlin
  • "Roll Them Cotton Bales" w. James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  • "Rufus Johnson's Harmony Band" w.m. Shelton Brooks & Maurice Abrahams
  • "Same Sort Of Girl" w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
  • "Settle Down In A One-Horse Town" Irving Berlin
  • "Shadowland" w. Blanche Merrill m. Gus Edwards
  • "She's Dancing Her Heart Away" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Kerry Mills
  • "Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers" w. R. P. Weston m. Herman E. Darewski
  • "The Springtime Of Life" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  • "St. Louis Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
  • "Stay Down Here Where You Belong" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Sylvia" w. Clinton Scollard m. Oley Speaks
  • "Syncopated Walk" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "That's a Plenty" m. Lew Pollack w. Ray Gilbert
  • "There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning" w. Joe McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
  • "They Didn't Believe Me" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Jerome Kern
  • "They're On Their Way To Mexico" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "This Is The Life" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "'Twas In September" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
  • "Twelfth Street Rag" m. Euday L. Bowman
  • "Vienna, City of My Dreams" w. (Austrian) Rudolf Sieczynski m. Rudolf Sieczynski
  • "Way Out Yonder In The Golden West" w.m. Percy Wenrich
  • "What Is Love" Irving Berlin
  • "When It's Night Time In Dixieland" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "When Mother Backed The Winner Of The Derby" Williams & Godfrey
  • "When The Angelus Is Ringing" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
  • "When The Grown-up Ladies Act Like Babies" w. Joe Young & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams
  • "When You Wore A Tulip" w. Jack Mahoney m. Percy Wenrich
  • "When You're A Long, Long Way From Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
  • "When You're Away" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
  • "Who Paid the Rent for Mrs Rip Van Winkle?" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fischer
  • "The Yellow Dog Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
  • "You Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Love" w. J. Will Callahan m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "Your King and Country Need You (1)" w. Paul Pelham m. W. H. Wallis and Fred Elton
  • "Your King and Country Need You (2)" w. Huntley Trevor m. Henry E. Pether
  • "Your King and Country Want You" w. and m. Paul Rubens

Popular recordings[]

Classical music[]

  • Lili Boulanger – Trois morceaux pour piano
  • John Alden Carpenter – Adventures in a Perambulator (ballet)
  • Arthur De Greef – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor
  • Frederick Delius – Violin Sonata No. 1
  • Ernő Dohnányi – Variations on a Nursery Song
  • Marcel Dupré – Psyche (cantata)
  • George Enescu – Symphony No. 2 in A, Op. 17
  • Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Charles Ives – Violin Sonata No. 3
  • Zoltán Kodály – Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7
  • Nikolai Medtner – Sonate-Ballade op. 27
  • Carl Nielsen – Serenata in vano
  • Sergei Prokofiev
    • Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
    • Sarcasms, for piano
    • The Ugly Duckling, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
  • Roger Quilter – A Children's Overture
  • Maurice Ravel – Piano Trio in A Minor
  • Max Reger – Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart (orchestral version)
  • Ottorino Respighi
    • Sinfonia Drammatica
    • La Sensitiva, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
    • Il Tramonto, for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (or string orchestra)
  • Jean Sibelius – The Oceanides
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony
    • The Lark Ascending (original version completed)
  • Anton Webern – Cello Sonata
  • Érik Satie – Sports et divertissements

Opera[]

Jazz[]

Main article: 1914 in jazz

Musical theatre[]

  • Adele London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30
  • Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 30 and ran for 48 performances
  • London production opened at the Hippodrome on November 16
  • Broadway production opened at the on October 20 and ran for 295 performances[3]
  • The Earl and the Girl London revival opened at the Aldwych Theatre on November 4
  • The Girl from Utah Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 24 and ran for 120 performances
  • The Lilac Domino (libretto by and Bela Jenbach; music by Charles Cuvillier) Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre on October 28 and ran for 109 performances
  • Broadway production
  • Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on September 21 and ran for 48 performances
  • Szibill by Victor Jacobi, with libretto by Martos Ferenc and Miklós Bródy. First performed on February 27 in Budapest.
  • Tonight's The Night Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on December 24 and ran for 112 performances
  • Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 5 and ran for 229 performances
  • Watch Your Step Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 8 and ran for 175 performances
  • Broadway production opened at the 39th Street Theatre on February 2 and moved to the Lyric Theatre on February 23 for a total run of 112 performances

Births[]

Deaths[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature)". Jean Sibelius – The Music. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
  2. ^ Hurd, Michael (1983). "Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour". Hyperion. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
  3. ^ Thomas S. Hischak (22 April 2009). Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007. McFarland. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-7864-5309-2.
  4. ^ Barry Kernfeld, ed. (2002). "Adler, Larry". The new Grove dictionary of jazz. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 16. ISBN 1-56159-284-6.
  5. ^ "Tex Beneke, 86, A Leader of Glenn Miller's Band". The New York Times. May 31, 2000. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  6. ^ Daniel Jaffé (8 March 2012). Historical Dictionary of Russian Music. Scarecrow Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-8108-7980-5.
  7. ^ The Strad. Orpheus. 1991. p. 201.
  8. ^ Henry Townsend; Bill Greensmith (1999). A Blues Life. University of Illinois Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-252-02526-6.
  9. ^ Gramophone. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 2005. p. 19.
  10. ^ PETER KRAMPERT (23 March 2016). The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica. Mel Bay Publications. p. 164. ISBN 978-1-61911-577-4.
  11. ^ Atanas Bozhkov (1991). Boris Christoff: An Authorized Biography. Robson. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-86051-731-3.
  12. ^ Guy A. Marco (1993). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States. Garland Pub. p. 377. ISBN 978-0-8240-4782-5.
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  14. ^ Portraits of Prominent USSR Personalities. Scarecrow Press. 1969. p. 168.
  15. ^ Everett Jenkins (1996). Pan-African Chronology: 1914-1929. McFarland & Company. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7864-0835-1.
  16. ^ Steven Suskin (1992). Show Tunes, 1905-1991: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers : Revised and Expanded. Limelight Editions. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-87910-146-6.
  17. ^ B. M. Maciejewski (1976). Twelve Polish Composers. Allegro Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-9505619-0-5.
  18. ^ Murray Polner (1982). American Jewish Biographies. Facts on File, Incorporated. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-87196-462-5.
  19. ^ Scott Baron (1998). They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans. MIE Publishing. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-877639-37-1.
  20. ^ The Bay View Magazine. J. M. Hall. 1914. p. 467.
  21. ^ The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras. Music Academy. 2001. p. 180.
  22. ^ Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists: Opera and oratorio excerpts. University Society. 1918. p. 653.
  23. ^ New Zealand Slavonic Journal. Department of Russian, Victoria University of Wellington. 1978. p. 7.
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