1932 in music

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1932 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1932.

Specific locations[]

Specific genres[]

Events[]

  • January 14 – Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is premièred in Paris.
  • February 3–9 – Duke Ellington and his Orchestra record 2 medleys for Victor at 33⅓ rpm. Over half a century later it is discovered that 2 microphone-to-cutting table chains were used, and that the session exists in "accidental stereo."
  • May 1 – The music to John Alden Carpenter's ballet Skyscrapers is recorded by the Victor Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Nathaniel Shilkret; in addition to be being issued as six sides on 78 rpm discs, the recording is made available as one Victor's early 33⅓ rpm LP releases.
  • July 1 – The very young Eddie Duchin and his Central Park Casino Orchestra, and the Three X Sisters aka, Hamilton Sisters & Fordyce record The Clouds Will Soon Roll By for Columbia records.
  • July 7 – Benny Carter's orchestra first records. Crown Records rejects all but one title, "Tell All You Daydreams to Me."
  • August 15 – First successful electrical re-recording, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, of an orchestral accompaniment of a Victor recording by Enrico Caruso.
  • October 2 – Charles Seeger is divorced from his first wife, Constance de Clyver Edson. He subsequently marries composer Ruth Crawford.[1]
  • October 7 – The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham, gives its first public concert.
  • October 13 – Isham Jones and the Three X Sisters record at New York Studio No.1. Several songs utilized for RCA Victor were labeled "experimental" as this blues era band-leader was fusing new arrangements, and an idea that would later influence part of the Swing era.
  • October 19 – Frankie Laine and set the all-time dance marathon record of 3,501 hours (145 days) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey
  • October 31 – Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 is premiered in Berlin
  • December 13 – Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra make their last record date for Victor. It becomes a singular example of early swing music.
  • Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
  • Sydney Symphony comes into existence.

Published popular music[]

  • "After You, Who?" w.m. Cole Porter
  • "Alone Together" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
  • "And Love Was Born" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "And So To Bed" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
  • "April in Paris" w. E. Y. Harburg m. Vernon Duke
  • "As You Desire Me" w.m. Allie Wrubel
  • "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear" w.m. Al Hoffman, Ed G. Nelson, Al Goodhart & Milton Ager
  • "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
  • "Chinese Laundry Blues" Cottrell
  • "The Clouds Will Soon Roll By" w.m. Billy Hill & Harry Woods
  • "Dance Of The Cuckoos" w.m. T. Marvin Hatley & Harry Steinberg
  • "Darkness On The Delta" w. Marty Symes & Al Neiburg m. Jerry Livingston
  • "Eadie Was A Lady" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Richard Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown
  • "The Echo Of A Song" Peter Mendoza
  • "" Miguel Sandoval
  • "Fit As A Fiddle" w.m. Arthur Freed, Al Hoffman & Al Goodhart
  • "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis
  • "Give Her A Kiss" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "" w.m. Gus Arnheim, Harry Tobias & Jules Lemare
  • "Goodnight Vienna" w.m. Holt Marvell & George Posford
  • "Got The South In My Soul" w.m. Ned Washington, Victor Young & Lee Wiley
  • "Happy-Go-Lucky You (And Broken-Hearted Me)" w.m. Al Goodhart, Al Hoffman & J. F. Murray
  • "Have You Ever Been Lonely?" w. Billy Hill (as George Brown) m. Peter De Rose
  • "Here Lies Love" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
  • "How Deep Is The Ocean?" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You" w. Bing Crosby & Ned Washington m. Victor Young
  • "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
  • "If It Ain't Love" w.m. Andy Razaf, Don Redman & Fats Waller
  • "I'll Do My Best To Make You Happy" w.m. Ray Noble
  • "I'll Never Be The Same" w. Gus Kahn m. Matty Malneck & Frank Signorelli from the revue After Dinner
  • "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" w. Ned Washington m. George Bassman
  • "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" w. Joe Young m. Ira Schuster & Jack Little
  • "In Egern On The Tegern Sea" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Ivy Scott in the musical Music in the Air
  • "Isn't It Romantic?" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" w. Irving Mills m. Duke Ellington
  • "It Was So Beautiful" w. Arthur Freed m. Harry Barris
  • "I've Got You On My Mind" w.m. Cole Porter
  • "I've Told Every Little Star" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "Just An Echo In The Valley" w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
  • "Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
  • "Lawd, You Made The Night Too Long" w. Sam M. Lewis m. Isham Jones
  • "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing" w. Robert Hargreaves & Stanley J. Damerell m. Tolchard Evans & H. Tilsley
  • "Let's Call It A Day" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
  • "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep" w.m. Herman Hupfeld
  • "A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet" w. Gus Kahn m. Harry Woods
  • "Look What You've Done" w. Bert Kalmar & Irving Caesar m. Harry Ruby & Harry Akst
  • "Looking On The Bright Side" w.m. Howard Flynn
  • "Louisiana Hayride" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
  • "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble
  • "Love Me Tonight" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Love Me Tonight" w.m. Bing Crosby, Ned Washington & Victor Young (not to be confused with the Rodgers & Hart song listed above)
  • "Lover" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Lullaby of the Leaves" w. Joe Young m. Bernice Petkere
  • "Mad About The Boy" w.m. Noël Coward
  • "A Million Dreams" w. Gus Kahn m. J. C. Lewis Jr
  • "Mimi" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Mine" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
  • "Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day" w. Ted Koehler m. Harold Arlen
  • "My Cousin in Milwaukee" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by Lyda Roberti in the musical Pardon My English
  • "My Silent Love" w. Edward Heyman m. Dana Suesse
  • "My Sweet Virginia" w.m. Vincent Rose
  • "Night And Day" w.m. Cole Porter introduced by Fred Astaire in Gay Divorce
  • "Oh! That Mitzi" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film One Hour with You.
  • "Old Yazoo" w. Andy Razaf m. Fats Waller
  • "One Hour With You" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. From the film of the same name
  • "Papirosn" w.m. Herman Yablokoff (written 1922)
  • "The Party's Over Now" w.m. Noël Coward
  • "Pink Elephants" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Woods
  • "Play, Fiddle, Play" w. Jack Lawrence m. Emery Deutsch & Arthur Altman
  • "Please" w. Leo Robin m. Ralph Rainger
  • "The Poor Apache" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "Precious Lord Take My Hand" by Thomas A. Dorsey, first major gospel music hit
  • "Pu-leeze! Mr Hemingway" w. Walter Kent & Milton Drake m. Abner Silver
  • "Say It Isn't So" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia" w. Mitchell Parish m. Frank Perkins
  • "Sleep, Come On And Take Me" w.m. Joe Young & Boyd Bunch
  • "Smoke Rings" w. Ned Washington m. Gene Gifford
  • "Snuggled On Your Shoulder" w. Joe Young m. Carmen Lombardo
  • "So Do I" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Vincent Youmans
  • "Soft Lights And Sweet Music" w.m. Irving Berlin
  • "Somebody Loves You" w. Charlie Tobias m. Peter DeRose
  • "The Song is You" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
  • "Street of Dreams" w. Sam M. Lewis m. Victor Young
  • "The Sun Has Got His Hat On" w.m. Ralph Butler & Noel Gay
  • "Three's a Crowd" w. Al Dubin & Irving Kahal m. Harry Warren
  • "Too Many Tears" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
  • "Try a Little Tenderness" w.m. Harry Woods, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
  • "Underneath The Harlem Moon" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel
  • "Waltzing in a Dream" w. Ned Washington, Bing Crosby m. Victor Young
  • "Wanderer" w.m. Bud Flanagan
  • "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" w.m. Harry Woods
  • "We've Got The Moon And Sixpence" Oscar Levant, Clifford Grey
  • "We've Got To Put That Sun Back In The Sky" Kahal, Meyer
  • "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble
  • "What Would You Do?" w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting. Introduced by Maurice Chevalier in the film One Hour with You
  • "Why Don't Women Like Me?" Cottrell, Bennett, Formby
  • "Willow Weep for Me" w.m. Ann Ronell
  • "Wintergreen For President" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
  • "You Are Too Beautiful" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
  • "The Younger Generation" w.m. Noël Coward
  • "You're An Old Smoothie" w.m. B. G. De Sylva, Richard A. Whiting & Nacio Herb Brown
  • "You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren
  • "You've Got What Gets Me" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin

Biggest hit songs[]

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1932.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1 Fred Astaire & Leo Reisman "Night & Day" 1932 United States US Billboard 1 – 1932 (18 weeks), US BB 1 of 1932, POP 1 of 1932, RYM 4 of 1932, Music Imprint 14 of 1930s, Brazil 21 of 1933, nuTsie 34 of 1930s, DMDB 52 (1932), RIAA 195, Acclaimed 1369 (1932)
2 Louis Armstrong "All of Me" 1932 United States US Billboard 1 – 1932 (18 weeks), Grammy Hall of Fame in 2005 (1932), RYM 5 of 1932, US BB 8 of 1932, POP 8 of 1932, Brazil 19 of 1932, nuTsie 42 of 1930s
3 Duke Ellington "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" 1932 United States Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008 (1932), RYM 1 of 1932, US Billboard 6 – 1932 (6 weeks), Scrobulate 31 of swing, nuTsie 32 of 1930s, Song of 1932
4 Rudy Vallee "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" 1932 United States US Billboard 1 – 1932 (8 weeks), POP 4 of 1932, RYM 6 of 1932, Music Imprint 15 of 1930s, Brazil 60 of 1933, RIAA 196
5 Bing Crosby & The Mills Brothers "Dinah" 1932 United States US Billboard 1 – 1932 (9 weeks), US BB 5 of 1932, POP 5 of 1932, Brazil 27 of 1932, Europe 47 of the 1930s (1931)

Top hit records[]

  • "All of Me" by Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra; also version by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra, vocal; Mildred Bailey
  • "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" – Bing Crosby; also version by Rudy Vallee
  • "Delishious" by Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra, vocal Paul Small
  • "The Flies Crawled Up the Window" by Jack Hulbert
  • "Got The South In My Soul" by Paul Robeson; also version by Leo Reisman & His Orchestra, vocal; Lee Wiley
  • "How Deep Is the Ocean?" by Ethel Merman, accompanied Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra
  • "I Can't Get Mississippi Off My Mind" by Billy Cotton Band
  • "In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town" by Ted Lewis & His Band
  • "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" by Ray Noble. vocal; Al Bowlly
  • "Love Me Tonight" by Jeanette MacDonald
  • "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" by Noël Coward
  • "Mah Lindy Lou" by Paul Robeson
  • "Ooh That Kiss" by Frances Day
  • "Please" by Bing Crosby
  • "Say It Isn't So" by George Olsen & His Music
  • "The Thrill Is Gone" by Rudy Vallee
  • "Was That the Human Thing To Do?" by The Boswell Sisters
  • "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" by Bing Crosby
  • "The Younger Generation" by Ray Noble and Al Bowlly

Top blues recordings[]

  • "Worrying You Off My Mind" – Big Bill Broonzy
  • "Mistreatin Mama" – Big Bill Broonzy
  • "How You Want It Done" – Big Bill Broonzy
  • "Searching the Desert For the Blues" – Blind Willie McTell
  • "Winnie The Wailer" – Lonnie Johnson

Classical music[]

  • Henk Badings
    • Symphony for 16 soloists
    • Symphony No. 2
  • Arnold Bax
    • Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
    • Sinfonietta
    • Sonata No. 4, for piano
    • Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version)
    • Symphony No. 5
    • "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
  • Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto
  • Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony
  • Marc Blitzstein
    • The Condemned, choral opera in one act
    • Serenade, for string quartet
  • John Cage – Greek Ode, for voice and piano (text from Aeschylus' The Persians)
  • Carlos Chávez
    • Antígona (incidental music for the adaptation by Jean Cocteau of the tragedy by Sophocles)
    • Caballos de vapor (H.P., sinfonía de baile)
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Tierra mojada (for mixed choir, oboe, and cor anglais (text by R. López Velarde)
    • "Todo", for voice and piano (text by R. López Velarde)
  • Henry Cowell
    • Expressivo, for piano
    • Four Continuations, for string orchestra
    • Reel (Lilt of the Reel), for small orchestra
    • Rhythm Study, for piano
    • Two Appositions, for piano
    • Two Appositions: One Movement for Orchestra
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger
    • Ricercari (2), for voice and piano (text by H. T. Tsiang)
    • Songs (3), for alto voice, oboe, percussion, piano, and optional orchestra (texts by Carl Sandburg)
  • Jean Françaix – Piano Concerto
  • Gunnar de Frumerie – Variations and Fugue
  • George Gershwin – Cuban Overture, for orchestra
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks
    • Fantasy, for solo violin
    • "He Reproves the Curlew", for voice and piano (text by William Butler Yeats)
    • Prelude for a Pensive Pupil, for piano
    • "Sheiling Song", for voice and piano (text by F. MacLeod)
    • "They Are Not Long", for voice and piano (text by Ernest Dowson)
    • "To the Moon", for voice and piano (text by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
    • "A Widow Bird", for voice and piano (text by Percy Bysshe Shelley)
  • Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
  • Camargo Guarnieri – String Quartet No. 1
  • Alois Hába
    • Children's Choruses (5), in quarter tones, Op. 42 (texts by V. Nezval)
    • Children's Choruses, in quarter tones, Op. 43
    • Fantazie No. 2, for nonet, Op. 41
    • Pracující den, for male choir, in quarter tones, Op. 45 (text by J. Hora)
  • Jascha Heifetz – arrangement of Grigoraş Dinicu's Hora staccato
  • Gustav Holst
    • "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187
    • Jazz-Band Piece
    • Jig, for piano, H179
  • John Ireland – A Downland Suite
  • Dmitri Kabalevsky – Symphony No. 1
  • Ernst Krenek – Kantate von der Vergänglichkeit des Irdischen, for soprano, mixed choir, and piano, Op. 72 (texts by P. Fleming, A. Gryphius, and other 17th-century German writers)
  • László Lajtha – Cello Sonata
  • Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No. 11
  • Harry Partch – "The Lord Is My Shepherd" (Psalm XXIII), for voice and adapted viola
  • Paul Pisk
    • Campanella, cantata for voice and orchestra, Op. 28 (text after 11 poems of the Monk [Luitpold])
    • Little Suite, for chamber orchestra, Op. 11a
  • Sergei Prokofiev –
  • Ottorino Respighi – Huntingtower, for large wind band, P. 173
  • Silvestre Revueltas
  • Miklós Rózsa – Bagatelles for Piano, Op. 12
  • Arnold Schoenberg
    • Mirror Canon, for string quartet
    • Mirror Canon in four parts, for Carl Moll
    • Moses und Aron, opera in 3 acts (Act 3 not composed)
  • William Schuman
    • "God's World", for voice and piano (text by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    • Potpourri, for orchestra
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Hamlet (incidental music for the play by William Shakespeare), Op. 32
    • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, opera in four acts, Op. 29
    • Six Romances, for tenor and orchestra, Op. 21
    • Twenty-Four Preludes, for piano, Op. 34
    • Vstrechnïy (music for the film directed by F. Ermler and Yutkevich), Op. 33
  • Igor Stravinsky
    • Chants du rossignol et Marche chinoise, for violin and piano (arranged from The Nightingale)
    • Danse russe, for violin and piano
    • Duo concertant, for violin and piano
    • Scherzo, for violin and piano [arr. from The Firebird]
    • Suite italienne, for cello and piano (arranged from Pulcinella)
    • Suite italienne, for violin and piano (arranged from Pulcinella)
    • Simvol verï, for SATB choir
  • Virgil Thomson
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Symphony No. 2 (arrangement for piano, four hands)
  • Joaquín Turina
    • Homenaje a Tárrega, Op. 69, for guitar
    • Silhouettes, Op. 70, for piano
    • Mujeres españolas, Series 2 Op. 73, for piano
    • Vocalizaciones, Op. 74, for soprano and piano
  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky – Prelude and Fugue, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, Op. 21

Opera[]

  • Amy Beach – Cabildo (not performed until 1947)
  • Ottorino Respighi – Maria egiziaca
  • Pietro Mascagni – Pinotta
  • Arnold Schoenberg – Moses und Aron (first staged in 1957)
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Flammen
  • Kurt Weill – Die Bürgschaft

Jazz[]

Main article: 1932 in jazz

Musical theater[]

  • After Dinner London revue opened at the Gaiety Theatre on October 21
  • Paris production
  • Ball im Savoy (music by Paul Abraham, libretto by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda). Berlin production
  • (Music: William Waller Lyrics: Robert Nesbitt) London revue opened at the Comedy Theatre on December 22
  • London production
  • The Cat and the Fiddle London production opened at the Palace Theatre on March 4 and ran for 329 performances
  • The Dubarry
  • Face the Music Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on February 17 and ran for 165 performances
  • Gay Divorce Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 29 and transferred to the Shubert Theatre on January 16, 1933, for a total run of 248 performances
  • Men Ken Lebn Nor Men Lost Nisht (I Would If I Could) New York City production at the Parkway Theatre in Brooklyn (includes the song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein")
  • Music in the Air Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 8 and ran for 342 performances
  • London production opened at the Hippodrome on June 11 and ran for 109 performances
  • Over She Goes London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on August 27.
  • Show Boat Broadway revival opened at the Casino Theatre on 50th Street [1] on May 19 and ran for 180 performances
  • Take a Chance Broadway production opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 26 and ran for 243 performances
  • London production opened at the Saville Theatre on June 14 and ran for 234 performances
  • opened at the Theatre Royal on October 31 and ran for 291 performances
  • Words and Music London revue (Noël Coward) opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 16.

Musical films[]

Births[]

  • January 26 – Coxsone Dodd, record producer (d. 2004)
  • January 31 – Rick Hall, record producer (d. 2018)
  • February 8 – John Williams, film music composer (Jaws)
  • February 16 – Harry Goz, musical theatre star (d. 2003)
  • February 24 – Michel Legrand, composer (d. 2019)
  • February 26 – Johnny Cash, country singer (d. 2003)
  • March 4 – Miriam Makeba, singer (d. 2008)
  • March 15 – Arif Mardin, record producer (d. 2006)
  • March 21 – Joseph Silverstein, violinist (d. 2015)
  • April 1 – Debbie Reynolds, actress and singer (d. 2016)
  • April 8 – John Kinsella, Irish composer
  • April 9 – Carl Perkins, rockabilly singer (d. 1998)
  • April 10 – Kishori Amonkar, Hindustani classical singer (d. 2017)
  • April 12 – Tiny Tim, singer and ukulele player (d. 1996)
  • April 14 – Loretta Lynn, country singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
  • April 26 – Francis Lai, songwriter and film composer (d. 2018)
  • April 27 – Maxine Brown, country singer (The Browns) (d. 2019)
  • May 19 – Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
  • May 30 – Pauline Oliveros, American electronic music composer (d. 2016)
  • June 7 – Tina Brooks, saxophonist (d. 1974)
  • June 19 – Ernest Ranglin, Jamaican guitarist
  • June 21 – Lalo Schifrin, film composer
  • June 27
    • Anna Moffo, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
    • Hugh Wood, composer (d. 2021)
  • July 11 – Roquel Billy Davis, singer, songwriter and record producer (d. 2004)
  • July 12 – Eddy Wally (Eduard Van De Walle), Flemish Schlager music singer (d. 2016)
  • July 13 – Per Nørgård, Danish composer
  • July 16 – John Chilton, English jazz trumpeter (d. 2016)
  • July 19 – Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
  • August 2 – John Cohen, folk musician and photographer (d. 2019)
  • August 23 – Sinn Sisamouth, singer-songwriter, "the King of Khmer music" (d. 1976)
  • September 8 – Patsy Cline, country singer (d. 1963)
  • September 25 – Glenn Gould, classical pianist (d. 1982)
  • September 28 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter (k. 1973)
  • October 9 – Alfons Kontarsky, pianist (d. 2010)
  • November 10 – Paul Bley, jazz pianist (d. 2016)
  • November 15 – Clyde McPhatter, (The Drifters) (d. 1972)
  • November 21 – Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, Danish composer (d. 2016)
  • November 28 – Ethel Ennis, jazz singer (d. 2019)
  • November 30 – Bob Moore, bassist (Elvis, Roy Orbison)
  • December 5 – Little Richard (Penniman), rock singer, songwriter, pianist and actor (d. 2020)
  • December 9 – Donald Byrd, jazz trumpeter (d. 2013)
  • December 12 – Charlie Rich, country singer (d. 1995)
  • December 15 – Jesse Belvin, singer, pianist and songwriter (d. 1960)
  • December 20 – Leslie Adams, American composer and educator
  • December 28 – Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979)

Deaths[]

  • January 16 – Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the steel guitar (born 1874)
  • January 27 – Mortimer Wilson, composer (born 1876)
  • February 22 – Johanna Gadski, opera singer (born 1872) (car accident)
  • March 1 – Frank Teschemacher, jazz musician (born 1905) (car accident)
  • March 3 – Eugen d'Albert, pianist and composer (born 1864)
  • March 6 – John Philip Sousa, composer (born 1854)
  • March 18 – Chauncey Olcott, songwriter (born 1858)
  • March 19 – Richard Specht, musicologist (born 1870)
  • April 2 – Hugo Kaun, composer and conductor (born 1863)
  • May 5 – Hilda Clark, music hall singer (born 1872)
  • May 6 – Roméo Beaudry, pianist, composer and record producer (born 1882)
  • May 9 – Emil Hertzka, music publisher (born 1869)
  • May 20 – Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (born 1903)
  • May 28 – Pascual Contursi, singer and guitarist (born 1888)
  • June 7 – Emil Paur, conductor (born 1855)
  • July 8 – Samuel Castriota, pianist, guitarist and composer (born 1885)
  • July 22
    • Hugh Blair, organist and composer (born 1864)
    • Florenz Ziegfeld, Broadway impresario (born 1867)
  • August 16 – Pietro Floridia, composer and conductor (born 1860)
  • September 13 – Julius Röntgen, composer (born 1855)
  • September 14 – Jean Cras, composer (born 1879)
  • September 26 – Pierre De Geyter, composer of The Internationale (born 1848)
  • October 19 – Arthur Friedheim, pianist (born 1859)
  • October 21 – Al Hopkins, country musician (born 1889)
  • October 31 – Hermine Finck, opera singer (born 1872)
  • November 23 – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor (born 1870)
  • November 27 – Evelyn Preer, actress and blues singer (born 1896)
  • November 28 – Hubert de Blanck, pianist and composer (born 1856)
  • December 1 – Amadeo Vives, composer (born 1871)
  • December 24 – Eyvind Alnæs, pianist, organist and composer (born 1872)
  • December 25 – Ernst Rolf, actor and singer (born 1891)
  • December 26 – Dina Barberini, operatic soprano (born 1862)
  • date unknown
    • Giulia Novelli, operatic mezzo-soprano (born 1859)
    • Emanuele Nutile, composer of Neapolitan songs (born 1862)

References[]

  1. ^ Ann M. Pescatello, Charles Seeger: A Life in American Music, p108
  2. ^ Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009. Page 272.
  3. ^ Mitchell, Charles P. The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002. McFarland, 2004. Page 172
  4. ^ Oliver Leaman (December 16, 2003). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. pp. 109–. ISBN 978-1-134-66252-4.
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