1911 in music
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[edit] Events
- February - Gustav Mahler falls seriously ill with a streptococcal blood infection during the New York concert season. He dies three months later.
- May 19 - Maurice Ravel's opera, L'heure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra Comique, in a double bill with Jules Massenet's 1907 opera Thérèse.
- May 24 - Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in London
- November 20 - Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, with his friendBruno Walter conducting.
- Scott Joplin publishes his opera, Treemonisha.
- Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland
[edit] Published popular music
- "After That I Want A Little More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
- "After The Honeymoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Alexander's Ragtime Band" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "All Alone" w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "Any Old Iron" w.m. Charles Collins & Terry Sheppard
- "Archibald, Certainly Not" w.m. Alfred Glover & John St John
- "Baby Rose" by Louis Weslyn
- "Billy" w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
- "Bring Back My Lovin' Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
- "Daly's Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly
- "Down Home Rag" m. Wilbur Sweatman
- "Down The Field" w. Caleb O'Connor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman
- "El Choclo" w. Francice Luban m. Angel G. Villoldo
- "Everybody's Doing it Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "The Fire Bird" m. Igor Stravinsky
- "Floral Dance" w.m. Katie Moss
- "The Gaby Glide" w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis A. Hirsch
- "Hello! Susie Green" w. Lester Barrett m. Herman Darewski
- "Honey Love" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
- "Honeysuckle Rag" m. George Botsford
- "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl)" w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as ""I'm Going Back To Dixie") w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
- "If Every Hour Were A Day" w. Anna Driver m. Alfred Bryan
- "In The Land Of Harmony" w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder
- "It's A Long Lane That Has No Turning" w. Arthur Penn m. Manuel Klein
- "Jimmy Valentine" w. Edward Madden m. Gus Edwards
- "The Little Grey Home In The West" w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m. Hermann Löhr
- "Love Is Mine" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Clarence G. Gartner
- "Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
- "Mary O'Hoolihan" Berlin
- "(On) Moonlight Bay" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
- "Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder
- "My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
- "My Hula Hula Love" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
- "My Rosary Of Dreams" w.m. E. F. Dusenberg & C. M. Denison
- "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne
- "The Oceana Roll" w. Roger Lewis m. Lucien Denni
- "Oh Baby Mine" w.m. Cecille Boucher
- "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
- "One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Ragtime Violin!" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Red Rose Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
- "A Ring On The Finger Is Worth Two On The Phone" w. Jack Mahoney m. George W. Meyer
- "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" w.m. Harry Lauder
- "Run Home And Tell Your Mother" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Somewhere A Voice Is Calling" w. Eileen Newton m. Arthur F. Tate
- "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" w.m. Billy Merson
- "Spanish Love" Irving Berlin, Vincent Bryan, Ted Snyder
- "Texas Tommy Swing" Sid Brown & Val Harris
- "That Baboon Baby Dance" w. Dave Oppenheim m. Joe Cooper
- "That Hypnotizing Man" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "That Mysterious Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
- "That Was Before I Met You" w. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
- "There's A Girl In Havana" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
- "They Always Pick On Me" by Harry Von Tilzer and Stanley Murphy
- "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
- "To The Land Of My Own Romance" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
- "Too Much Mustard" m. Cecil Macklin
- "Virginia Lou" Irving Berlin, Earl Taylor
- "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" w.m. Gerald Grafton & Harry Lauder
- "When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
- "When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
- "When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" w. Edgar Leslie m. Lewis F. Muir
- "When You Kiss An Italian Girl" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "When You're Away" w. A. Seymour Brown & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
- "When You're In Town" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "The Whistling Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" w.m. Irving Berlin & Vincent Bryan
- "Yiddisha Nightingale" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "You've Got Me Hypnotized" w.m. Irving Berlin
[edit] Hit Recordings
- "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me" - Billy Murray
- "Turn Your Light Off Mister Moon Man" - Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
[edit] Classical music
- Joseph Achron - Hebrew Melody
- Frank Bridge - The Sea
- George Butterworth - Two English Idylls
- Frederick Delius - Summer Night on the River
- Reinhold Glière - Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz finished
- Gustav Holst - Second Suite for Military Band in F
- Charles Ives - Requiem S. 333
- Nikolai Medtner - Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
- Nikolai Myaskovsky - Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed, Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945) written.
- Carl Nielsen - Concerto for violin and orchestra
- Arnold Schoenberg - Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
- Aleksandr Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 6, Piano Sonata No. 7 written
- Igor Stravinsky - Petrushka
- Ethel Smyth - March of the Women
[edit] Opera
- Béla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle
- Frederick Delius - Fenimore and Gerda
- Scott Joplin - Treemonisha
- Maurice Ravel - L'Heure Espagnole
- Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier
[edit] Operetta
- Leányvásár (The Marriage Market) - Victor Jacobi
[edit] Musical theater
- The Count of Luxembourg London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performances
- The Fascinating Widow Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 11 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on November 13 for a total run of 65 performances. Starring Julian Eltinge, Winona Winter, Natalia Ault and Eddie Garvie.
- Gypsy Love (Zigeunerliebe) opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
- Der Lila Domino (The Lilac Domino) - Leipzig production
- Marriage À La Carte Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
- The Pink Lady Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 13 and ran for 312 performances
- The Quaker Girl Broadway production opened at the Park Theatre on October 23 and ran for 240 performances
- The Revue of Revues Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 27 and ran for 55 performances. Starring Gaby Deslys, Harry Jolson, Ernest Hare and Frank Tinney.
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Gábor Darvas, composer (d. 1985)
- January 20 - Roy Eldridge, jazz musician (d. 1989)
- February 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
- February 11 - Wesley Rose, record producer (d. 1990)
- March 7 - Stefan Kisielewski, Polish composer (d. 1991)
- March 8 - Alan Hovhaness, composer (d. 2000)
- March 16 - Harper Goff, Disney special effects man and Dixieland musician (d. 1993)
- March 18 - Smiley Burnette, singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
- April 6 - Guillermo Portabales, singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
- April 8 - Ichiro Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
- May 8 - Robert Johnson, blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
- May 13 - Maxine Sullivan, singer (d. 1987)
- May 18 - Big Joe Turner, blues shouter (d. 1985)
- May 20 - Vet Boswell of the Boswell Sisters singing group (d. 1988)
- June 24 - Portia White, singer (d. 1968)
- June 29 - Bernard Herrmann, film composer (d. 1975)
- July 4 - Mitch Miller, arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player
- July 7 - Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (d. 2007)
- July 16 - Ginger Rogers, dancer, actress and singer (d. 1995)
- July 26 - Buddy Clark, singer (d. 1949)
- July 29 - Ján Cikker, composer (d. 1989)
- July 31 - George Liberace, violinist and elder brother of Liberace (d. 1983)
- August 6 - Lucille Ball, actress and singer (d. 1989)
- August 27 - Kay Walsh, dancer and actress (d. 2005)
- September 2 - Floyd Council, blues musician (d. 1976)
- September 11 - Bola de Nieve, singer, pianist, and songwriter (d. 1971)
- September 19 - Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer (d. 1980)
- October 7
- Vaughn Monroe, singer and bandleader (d. 1973)
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist (d. 1995)
- October 24 - Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)
- October 26 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
- November 5 - Roy Rogers, singer, actor (d. 1998)
- December 3 - Nino Rota, composer (d. 1979)
- December 14 - Spike Jones, bandleader (d. 1965)
- December 15 - Stan Kenton, bandleader (d. 1979)
- December 17 - André Claveau, singer (d. 2003)
- December 25 - Eric Gilder, musicologist (d. 2000)
- December 27 - Anna Russell, singer and comedienne (d. 2006)
- date unknown - Blanche Winogron, harpsichordist (d. 2002)
[edit] Deaths
- January 8 - Pietro Gori, anarchist poet and songwriter (b. 1865)
- January 16 Wilhelm Berger, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1861)
- February 1 - Angel Mislan, composer (b. 1862)
- February 20 - Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (b. 1854)
- March 29 - Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (b. 1837)
- April 10 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, painter and composer (b. 1875)
- May 18 - Gustav Mahler, composer (b. 1860)
- May 29 - W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1836)
- June 7 - Carlos Fernández Shaw, librettist (b. 1865)
- June 14 - Johan Svendsen, conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1840)
- June 18 - Franjo Kuhač, piano teacher, conductor and musicologist (b. 1834)
- July 2 - Felix Mottl, conductor and composer (b. 1856)
- July 3 - Madeline Schiller, pianist (b. c. 1845)
- August 2 - Bob Cole, composer (b. 1869)
- Jose Joaquin Palma, lyricist of the national anthem of Guatemala (b.1884)
- August 10 - Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
- October 3 - Paul Sarebresole, ragtime composer (b.
- October 13 - Harry Rickards, comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
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