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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Musical theater
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

January 26 - Sergei Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2 is premiered
March 15 - Maurice Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole is premiered in Paris
September 19 - Premiere of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7 in Prague
December 3 - Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 is premiered in Manchester
December 18 - Claude Debussy's Children's Corner is premiered in Paris
Anthony Maggio publishes a dance band orchestration of early Blues "I Got The Blues" in New Orleans

Published popular music

"All For Love Of You" w. Dave Reed m. Ernest R. Ball

"Any Old Port In A Storm" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Kerry Mills
"Black And White Rag" w.m. George Botsford
"Call Round Any Old Time" w.m. Charles Moore & E. W. Rogers
"Consolation" by Edward Madden
"Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
"Daisies Won't Tell" w.m. Anita Owen
"Down Among The Sugar Cane" w. Avery & Charles Hart m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
"Down In Jungle Town" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
"Dusty Rag" m. May Aufderhelde
"The Fairest Of The Fair" w.m. John Philip Sousa
"Feed The Kitty" w. Ed Moran m. J. Fred Helf
"Fig Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
"Gee But There's Class To A Girl Like You" w.m. W. R. Williams
"Golliwog's Cake Walk" m. Claude Debussy
"Good Evening, Caroline" by Albert Von Tilzer & Jack Norworth
"Ham And !" by Arthur Marshall
"Hoo-oo Ain't You Calling Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
"I Hear You Calling Me" w.m. Harold Herford & Charles Marshall
"I Want To Be Loved Like A Leading Lady" w. Paul West m. Herman Avery Wade
"If I Had A Thousand Lives To Live" w. Sylvester Maguire m. Alfred Solman
"If You Cared for" Me by E. Rose
"I'm A Yiddish Cowboy" w. Edgar Leslie m. Al Piantodosi & Halsey K. Mohr
"I'm Glad I'm Married" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
"I'm Looking For The Man That Wrote "The Merry Widow Waltz"" w. Edgar Selden m. Seymour Furth
"In The Garden Of My Heart" w. Caro Roma m. Ernest R. Ball
"It's Moonlight All The Time On Broadway" Wenrich
"It's The Pretty Things You Say" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
"I've Taken Quite A Fancy To You" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
"Kerry Mills' Barn Dance" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
"The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" w. Ren Shields m. Kerry Mills
"Love Is Like A Cigarette" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
"Love Me Like I Want To Be Loved" w. Earle C. Jones & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
"Love's Roundelay" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
"Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" w. Ren Shields m. J. Fred Helf
"Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
"Mephisto Rag" by Anthony J. Stasny
"Mother Hasn't Spoken To Father Since" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
"My Brudda Sylvest'" w. Jesse Lasky m. Fred Fisher
"My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl" w.m. C. W. Murphy & Dan Lipton
"Now I Have To Call Him Father" w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Godfrey
"The Old Time Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore Morse
"Pineapple Rag" by Scott Joplin
"Roses Bring Dreams Of You" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
"She Sells Sea-Shells" w. Terry Sullivan m. Harry Gifford
"Shine On Harvest Moon" w. Jack Norworth m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
"A Singer Sang A Song" w. Will Heelan m. Seymour Furth
"Smarty" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
"Somebody Lied" w.m. Jeff T. Branen & Evans Lloyd
"Sweetest Gal In Town" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson
"Sweetest Maid Of All" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
"Take Me Out To The Ballgame" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
"Up In A Balloon" w. Ren Shields m. Percy Wenrich
"A Vision Of Salome" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
"When Highland Mary Danced The Highland Fling" w. Jack Mahoney m. Harry Von Tilzer
"When It's Moonlight On The Prairie" w. Robert F. Roden m. S. R. Henry
"When We Are M-A-Double-R-I-E-D" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical Fifty Miles From Boston
"The Whitewash Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
"The Yama Yama Man" w. George Collin Davis m. Karl Hoschna
"Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!" w. Will D. Cobb m. John H. Flynn
"You Tell Me Your Dream" w. Seymour A. Rice & Albert H. Brown m. Neil Moret
"You Will Have To Sing An Irish Song" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
"You're In The Right Church, But The Wrong Pew" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith

Classical music

Kurt Atterberg - Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 2 - premiered in Vienna
Alexander Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy
Igor Stravinsky - Fireworks

Opera

Musical theater

The Dollar Princess Manchester production

Fifty Miles from Boston Broadway production opened February 3
Rudolph Friml - Der Tapfere Soldat (The Chocolate Soldier) Vienna production
A Waltz Dream London and Broadway productions

Births

January 7 - Red Allen, jazz musician (d. 1967)
January 14 - Rus Columbo, singer, bandleader, composer
January 27 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)
February 20 - Ruby Elzy, US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess, 1935
April 2 - Buddy Ebsen, US actor and singer
April 5 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
April 7 - Percy Faith, composer, musician (d. 1976)
April 15 - Eden Ahbez, hermit, musician
April 20 - Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)
May 8 - Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer
May 27 - Harold Rome, US songwriter
June 14 - John Scott Trotter, US arranger and conductor
June 29 - Leroy Anderson, US composer and conductor
July 1 - Alvino Rey, US bandleader and guitarist
July 8 - Louis Jordan
August 4 - Kurt Eichhorn, conductor
September 30 - David Oistrakh, violinist
October 14 - Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
October 20 - Stuart Hamblen, US singer, actor and songwriter
December 10 - Olivier Messiaen, composer
December 16 - Frances Day, US actress and singer

Deaths

June 21 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
August 26 ÃÂ Tony Pastor, vaudeville founder & theater impresario
September 20 - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist