1919 in music

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1919 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919.

Specific locations[]

Specific genres[]

Events[]

  • January 18 – The pianist Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of Poland.
  • April 7 – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band brings Dixieland jazz to England, opening a 15-month tour at the Hippodrome, London.
  • May 3 – The National Association of Negro Musicians is established in Washington, D.C. under the leadership of Nora Holt and Henry Grant.[1]
  • July 22 – The Ballets Russes gives the world premiere of Manuel de Falla's ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) in London.
  • August – Josef Matthias Hauer devises his own twelve-tone technique of composition.
  • August 19 – The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, visiting the UK, perform for the future King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom.[2] Ernest Ansermet subsequently writes an enthusiastic review of the orchestra's performances in London, singling out Sidney Bechet – one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism.
  • October 27 – Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto is premiered in London with Felix Salmond as soloist; the performance is a disaster because Elgar (as conductor) is given inadequate rehearsal time with the London Symphony Orchestra.[3]
  • The Louisiana Five are advertised as playing "Modern Jazz".
  • Johan Wagenaar becomes director of the Royal Conservatory at the Hague.
  • Elsie Griffin joins the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
  • Gustav Kobbé's guide The Complete Opera Book is first published (posthumously), in the United States.

Published popular music[]

Cover of sheet music "Dardanella", 1919
  • "Abie My Boy" w.m. L.Silberman, A. Grock, Herbert Rule & Tom McGhee
  • "Alcoholic Blues" w. Edward Laska, m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
  • "Alice Blue Gown" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
  • "All The Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers Down In Quaker Town" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Pete Wendling
  • "And He'd Say, "Oo-La-La! Wee-Wee!"" w. George Jessel, m. Harry Ruby
  • "Any Old Place With You" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Ask the Stars" by Frank M. Stammers
  • "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams
  • "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" w.m. Charles McCarron, Casey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom
  • "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)" w.m. Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley
  • "" w. Harry Hamilton m. Ed. Thomas
  • "Camp Meeting Blues" by Dabney's Band
  • "Cielito Lindo" w.m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez
  • "Daddy Long Legs" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young
  • "Dardanella" w. Fred Fisher m. Felix Bernard &
  • "Don't Dilly Dally on the Way" w.m. Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins
  • "Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar" w.m. Ed Rose, Billy Baskette & Lew Pollack
  • "Grönnens Laid", w. Geert Teis Pzn., m. G.R. Jager
  • "Hold Me" w.m. Art Hickman &
  • "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll" w. Spencer Williams m. Clarence Williams
  • "I Gave Her That" w. m. B. G. De Sylva & Al Jolson
  • "I Lost My Heart In Dixieland" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I Might be Your "Once-In-A-While"" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  • "I Never Realized" w.m. Cole Porter
  • "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" w.m. Armand J. Piron
Sheet music cover for "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
  • "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" w. John W. Kellette m. Jaan Kenbrovin (pseudonym of James Kendis, James Brockman and Nat Vincent)
  • "I'm Going Back To Yarrawonga" by Corporal Neil McBeath[4]
  • "Indian Summer" w. Al Dubin m. Victor Herbert Words 1939.
  • "Irene" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney. Introduced by Edith Day in the musical Irene
  • "I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Jazz Baby" w. Blanche Merrill & William Jerome m. William Jerome
  • "Just Like a Gipsy" w.m. Seymour Simons & Nora Bayes
  • "The Lamplit Hour" m. Arthur A. Penn, w. Thomas Burke
  • "Let The Rest Of The World Go By" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "Letter Song" by William LeBaron
  • "Little Girls, Goodbye" w. William LeBaron m. Victor Jacobi
  • "Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses" w. Leslie Cooke m. John Openshaw
  • "Mah Lindy Lou" w.m. Lily Strickland
  • "Mammy O' Mine" w. William Tracey m. Maceo Pinkard
  • "Mandy" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Mirandy" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
  • "The Moon Shines On The Moonshine" w. Frank De Witt m. Robin Hood Bowers. Introduced by in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1919
  • "My Baby's Arms" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney
  • "My Isle Of Golden Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Blaufuss
  • "Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems To Care)" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "O (Oh!)" w. Byron Gay m. Arnold Johnson
  • "Oh By Jingo! (Oh By Gee, You're The Only Girl For Me)" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You" w. Roy Turk & George Jessel, m. Willy White
  • "Oh! What A Pal Was Mary" w. Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar m. Pete Wendling
  • "Old-Fashioned Garden" w.m. Cole Porter
  • "On Miami Shore" w. William LeBaron m. Victor Jacobi
  • "On Patrol In No Man's Land" w.m. James Reese Europe, Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake
  • "Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixieland And Let Me Into Paradise" w. Jack Yellen m. Gus Van & Joe Schenck
  • "Peggy" w. Harry Williams m. Neil Moret
  • "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Prohibition Blues" w. Ring Lardner m. Nora Bayes
  • "Royal Garden Blues" w.m. Clarence Williams & Spencer Williams
  • "Sahara (We'll Soon Be Dry Like You)" w. Alfred Bryan m. Jean Schwartz. Introduced in the musical Monte Cristo, Jr.
Sheet music cover for "Sipping Cider Through A Straw"
  • "Sipping Cider Through A Straw" w.m. Carey Morgan & Lee David
  • "Smilin' Through" w.m. Arthur A. Penn
  • "Someday Sweetheart" w.m. John Spikes & Benjamin Spikes
  • "Sugar Blues" w. Lucy Fletcher m. Clarence Williams
  • "Swanee" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
  • "Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight" w. Harold G. Frost m. F. H. Klickmann
  • "Sweet Kisses That Came In The Night" w. Lew Brown & Eddie Buzzell m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Take Me To The Land Of Jazz" m. Pete Wendling
  • "Take Your Girlie To The Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home)" w. Edgar Leslie & Bert Kalmar m. Pete Wendling
  • "Tell Me" w. J. Will Callahan m. Max Kortlander
  • "That Naughty Waltz" w. Edwin Stanley m. Sol P. Levy
  • "There's More To The Kiss Than the X-X-X" w. Irving Caesar m. George Gershwin
  • "Tulip Time" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
  • "The Vamp" w.m. Byron Gay
  • "" w. Lew Brown m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "What'll We Do On A Saturday Night When The Town Goes Dry" w.m. Harry Ruby
  • "When Honey Sings An Old Time Song" w.m. Joseph B. Carey
  • "When They're Old Enough To Know Better, It's Better To Leave Them Alone" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Ruby
  • "Who Played Poker With Pocahontas When John Smith Went Away?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Fred Ahlert
  • "Winnie The Window Cleaner" w.m. Herman Darewski
  • "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" w. Eugene Lockhart m. Ernest Seitz
  • "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" w.m. Al Jolson, Gus Kahn & B. G. DeSylva
  • "You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake On Tea" w. Rennold Wolf m. Irving Berlin
  • "You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me" w. Benee Russell & Bernie Grossman m. George J. Bennett
  • "You'd Be Surprised" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Your Eyes Have Told Me So" w. Gus Kahn & Egbert Van Alstyne m. Walter Blaufuss
  • "You're A Million Miles From Nowhere When You're One Little Mile From Home" w. Sam Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson

Hit recordings[]

  • "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
  • "You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" by Al Jolson
  • "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" by Nora Bayes
  • "A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" by John Steel
  • "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" by Ben Selvin's Novelty Orchestra
  • "The Moon Shines on the Moonshine" by Bert Williams
  • "O" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
  • "Alcoholic Blues" by Billy Murray
  • "Saxophobia" by Rudy Wiedoeft
  • "Jazz Baby" by Marion Harris
  • "You'd Be Surprised" by Eddie Cantor
  • "The Alcoholic Blues" by the Louisiana Five
  • "Weary Blues" by Yellow Nunez and the Louisiana Five

Classical music[]

Rebecca Clarke holding her viola in 1919
  • Arnold Bax – Tintagel
  • Ernest Bloch – Suite for Viola and Orchestra
  • Rebecca Clarke – Sonata for Viola and Piano
  • Gabriel Fauré – Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
  • Robert Fuchs – Twelve Waltzes, Op. 110, for piano
  • Louis Glass – Symphony No. 5 in C major, Op. 57, "Svastika"
  • Peder Gram – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
  • Charles Tomlinson Griffes – The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
  • Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
  • Paul Hindemith – Sonata for viola and piano in F major, Op. 11, No. 4
  • Dorothy Howell – Lamia
  • Darius Milhaud
    • Poèmes de Francis Thompson, Op. 54
    • Les soirées de Pétrograd, Op. 55
    • Machines agricoles, 6 Pastorales for voice and chamber ensemble, Op. 56
    • Suite symphonique No. 2, Op. 57
    • Le bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (ballet)
    • Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 58b
  • Carl Nielsen – Aladdin (for theatre)
  • Gabriel Pierné – Sonata for Cello and Piano
  • Dane Rudhyar – Syntony
  • Leo Sowerby – Concerto for Harp
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt
  • Igor Stravinsky
  • Joaquín Turina
    • Niñerías, Series 1 Op. 21, for piano
    • Danzas fantásticas Op. 22, two versions: piano solo, and orchestra
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos

Opera[]

Jazz[]

Main article: 1919 in jazz

Musical theater[]

Births[]

  • January – Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi songwriter (d. 2002)
  • January 1 – Yoshio Tabata, singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
  • January 18 – Juan Orrego-Salas, Chilean-American composer
  • January 22 – Sid Ramin, arranger
  • January 25 – Eula Beal, operatic contralto (d. 2008)
  • January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville), of The Chipmunks (d. 1972)
  • February 1 – Artie Singer, American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d. 2008)
  • February 2 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (d. 2012)
  • February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, country musician (d. 1991)
  • March 10 – Marion Hutton, big band singer (d. 1987)
  • March 15 – George Avakian, jazz record producer (d. 2017)
  • March 17 – Nat King Cole, singer and pianist (d. 1965)
  • March 19 – Alfred Apaka, Hawaiian singer (d. 1960)
  • March 28 – D. K. Pattammal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
  • April 3 – Ervin Drake, songwriter (d. 2015)
  • April 14 – Karel Berman, opera singer and composer (d. 1995)
  • April 16 – Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer (d. 2009)
  • April 21
    • Don Cornell, singer (d. 2004)
    • Roger Doucet, tenor, regular performer of the Canadian national anthem (d. 1981)
  • April 29 – Stephen Wilkinson, English conductor and composer
  • May 3 – Pete Seeger, American folk singer (d. 2014)
  • May 7 – La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
  • May 12 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002)
  • May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
  • May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor and producer (d. 2007)
  • May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham, English ballerina (d. 1991)
  • May 19 – Georgie Auld, jazz musician (d. 1990)
  • May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress and dancer (d. 2011)
  • May 30 – Joe McQueen, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
  • June 11 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, composer (d. 2010)
  • June 17 – Gene de Paul, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
  • June 22 – Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1980)
  • July 8 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
  • July 10 – Ian Wallace, Scottish bass-baritone opera singer (d. 2009)
  • July 27 – Jonathan Sternberg, American conductor, musical director and professor of music (d. 2018)
  • July 31 – Norman Del Mar, conductor and music writer (d. 1994)
  • August 11 – Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso (d. 1949)
  • August 13 – George Shearing, English jazz pianist and composer (d. 2011)
  • August 17 – Irv Williams, African American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
  • August 21 – Tommy Reilly, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2000)
  • August 24 – Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer (d. 2000)
  • September 2 – Marge Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)
  • September 3 – Natalia Clare, ballerina (d. 2007)
  • September 4 – Teddy Johnson, popular singer (d. 2018)
  • September 16
  • September 21 – Virgilio Savona, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 2009)
  • September 24 – Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (d. 2018)
  • September 30 – Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (d. 2012)
  • October 9 – Irmgard Seefried, operatic soprano (d. 1988)
  • October 11 – Art Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
  • October 18 – Anita O'Day, singer (d. 2006)
  • October 23 – Katie Lee, American folk singer (d. 2017)
  • October 26 – James E. Myers, songwriter (d. 2001)
  • November 5 – Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
  • November 12 – Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
  • November 15 – Carol Bruce, singer and actress (d. 2007)
  • November 23 – Cláudio Santoro, composer (d. 1989)
  • December 6 – Blaž Lenger, folk singer (d. 2006)
  • December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (d. 1996)
  • December 10 – Sesto Bruscantini, operatic bass-baritone (d. 2003)
  • December 21 – Nelson Cooke, Australian cellist (d. 2018)
  • December 25
    • Naushad Ali, film score composer (d. 2006)
    • Curly Seckler, American bluegrass musician (d. 2017)
  • December 30 – David Willcocks, British choral conductor, organist and composer (d. 2015)

Deaths[]

  • February 4 – Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1845)
  • February 18 – Henry Ragas, jazz pianist (b. 1891)
  • March 6 – Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
  • March 8 – Auguste Tolbeque, cellist and composer (b. 1830)
  • March 13 – Amy Woodforde-Finden, composer (b. 1860)
  • March 23 – Henry Blossom, lyricist (b. 1866)
  • April 9 – James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader (b. 1881) (stabbed in fight)
  • April 24 – Camille Erlanger, opera composer (b. 1863)
  • April 25 – Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
  • June 2 – Ernest Ford, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
  • June 22 – Julian Scriabin, musical prodigy, pianist and composer (b. 1908) (drowned)
  • August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario (b. 1847)
  • August 4 – Ferdinand Thieriot, composer (b. 1838)
  • August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (b. 1857)
  • August 18 – Anna Deinet, operatic soprano (b. 1843)
  • September 11 – Géza Csáth, writer and musician (b. 1887)
  • September 27 – Adelina Patti, opera singer (b. 1843)
  • October 17 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (b. 1842)
  • November 19 – Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor (b. 1869)
  • December 16 – Luigi Illica, librettist (b. 1857)
  • December 21 – Louis Diémer, pianist and composer (b. 1843)
  • December 27 – Achilles Alferaki, statesman, artist and composer (b. 1846)
  • December 31 – Marie van Zandt, operatic soprano (b. 1858)
  • date unknown – Charles McCarron, songwriter (b. 1891)

References[]

  1. ^ Jones, Jae (2018-09-15). "Nora Douglas Holt: Co-founder of the National Association of Negro Musicians". Black Then. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  2. ^ "London's jazz legends". History Features. London: BBC. 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  3. ^ Newman, Ernest (1919-11-02). "Music of the Week". The Observer. London.
  4. ^ McBeath, Neil, -1980; McGlynn, Claude, Yarrawonga [music] / written & composed by Neil McBeath ; arranged by Claude McGlynn, Francis Day & Hunter ; J. Albert & Son{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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