1912 in music

1912 in music

Events

* February 28 - In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his "Symphony No. 3" (the "Sinfonia espansiva") and his "Violin Concerto"
* March - Hart A. Wand published "Dallas Blues", a jazz standard and an early published blues song.
* June 26 - Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 9" is premiered in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter
* Arnold Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" debuted in Vienna
* W.C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues", one of the first blues songs to become a hit.
* Aino Ackté founds an opera festival in Savonlinna; after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland
* The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time.

Published popular music

* "After All That I've Been To You" w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith
* "Alexander's Bag-Pipe Band" w.m. Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
* "All Night Long" w.m. Shelton Brooks
* "And The Green Grass Grew All Around" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "At The Devil's Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Bagdad" w. Anne Caldwell m. Victor Herbert
* "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
* "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith
* "Becky's Got A Job In A Musical Show" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Come Back To Me, My Melody" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
* "Come Back To Playland With Me" w.m. Maude Lambert
* "Cuddle Up And Cling To Me" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry L. Marshall
* "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
* " A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
* "Do It Again" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Down In Dear Old New Orleans" w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden
* "Dreams Of Long Ago" w. Earl Carroll m. Enrico Caruso
* "The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Everybody Loves A Chicken" w.m. Bobby Jones
* "Everybody Two-Step" w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer
* "Florida Rag" V. Lowry
* "The Funny Little Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Giannina Mia" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
* "Goodnight, Nurse" w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker
* "He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee" w.m.Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin
* "Hitchy-Koo" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
* "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "In My Harem" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "In the Garden" w.m. C. Austin Miles
* "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" w.m. Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams
* "Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Kentucky Sue" by Lew Brown
* "The Land Of Golden Dreams" w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry
* "Last Night Was The End Of The World" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "The Last Shot Got Him" w.m. Cecil Mack & Cecil Smith
* "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Irving Berlin from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels'
* "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu
* "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
* "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes
* "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. William Christopher Handy
* "The Million Dollar Ball" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz
* "My Melancholy Baby" w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett
* "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
* "On The Mississippi" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll & Arthur Fields
* "Parisienne" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "Pick, Pick, Pick Pick On The Mandolin, Antonio" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Ragging The Baby To Sleep" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
* "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" w. Grant Clarke m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
* "The Ragtime Drummer" James I. Lent
* "The Ragtime Jockey Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Ragtime Mocking Bird" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Ragtime Soldier Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Roll Dem Roly Boly Eyes" w.m. Eddie Leonard
* "The Rose of Tralee" w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover
* "Row Row Row" w. William Jerome m. James V. Monaco
* "She Pushed Me Into The Parlour" w. Alf Ellerton m. Will Mayne
* "Slippery Elm Rag" m. Clarence Woods
* "Sly Musette" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
* "The Society Bear" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Some Boy" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
* "Somebody's Coming To Town From Dixie" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Henry Clay Smith
* "The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" w. Byron D. Stokes m. F. Dudleigh Vernor
* "Sympathy" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
* "Take A Little Tip From Father" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
* "Take Me Back" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Take Me To That Swanee Shore" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
* "Take Me To The Cabaret" w.m. Will Dillon
* "Teasing Moon" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry Marshall
* "That Dixie Dip Rag" m. Dippy Dip
* "That Eccentric Rag" m. J. Russel Robinson
* "That Kentucky Rag" w. Boyle Woolfolk m. Hampton Durand
* "That Old Girl Of Mine" w. Earle C. Jones m. Egbert van Alstyne
* "That Syncopated Boogie Boo" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
* "That's How I Need You" w. Joe McCarthy & Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
* "There's One In A Million Like You" w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz
* "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
* "'Way Down South" w.m. George Fairman
* "The Wedding Glide" w.m. Louis Hirsch
* "A Wee Hoose 'Mang The Heather" w.m Gilbert Wells, Fred Elton & Harry Lauder
* "When I Get You Alone Tonight" w.m. Joseph McCarthy, Joe Goodwin & Fred Fisher
* "When I Lost You" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" w. Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
* "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor
* "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo" w.m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Yiddisha Professor" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "You're My Baby" w. A Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
*"Nicole Loves Travis" by Theodore Roosevelt

Popular Recordings

* "The Herd Girl's Dream" by George Stehl, Marshall P. Lufsky, & Paul Surth, Columbia
* "Everybody Two Step" by Billy Murray, Edison
* "Roamin' in the Gloamin'" by Harry Lauder, Victor

Classical music

*Ferruccio Busoni - Sonatina No. 2
*George Butterworth - "A Shropshire Lad"
*Claude Debussy - "Khamma" (ballet)
*Paul Dukas - "La Peri" (ballet)
*Victor Ewald - Brass Quintet No. 1
*Alexander Glazunov - "Finnish Sketches"
*Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 1 in Db Major
*Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
*Cyril Scott - Two Passacaglias
*Louis Vierne - Symphony for Organ No. 3 in F# minor

Opera

*Walter Damrosch - "The Dove of Peace"
*Richard Strauss - "Ariadne auf Naxos"
*Franz Schreker - "Der ferne Klang", libretto by the composer

Musical theater

* "The Count Of Luxembourg" Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 120 performances.
* "The Firefly", Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2 and ran for 120 performances
* "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" Broadway revival opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on March 14 and ran for 36 performances.
* "Gypsy Love" London production opened at Daly's Theatre on June 1 and ran for 299 performances.
* "Hullo, Ragtime" Opened at the London Hippodrome on December 23 and ran for 451 performances.
* "The Lady of the Slipper" Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 28 and ran for 232 performances. Starring Elsie Janis, Montgomery and Stone, James Reaney, Peggy Wood and Vernon Castle.
* "Der Lila Domino" ("The Lilac Domino") - Vienna production
* "Mama's Baby Boy" (Music: Hans Linne Book & Lyrics: Junie McCree) Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 25 and ran for 9 performances
* "Oh! Oh! Delphine!" Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30 and ran for 248 performances
* "Over the River" (Words & Music: John Golden) Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on January 8 and ran for 120 performances. Starring Eddie Foy, Lillian Lorraine, Mae Busch, Peggy Wood and Maurice and Walton.
* "The Pink Lady" London production opened at the Globe Theatre on April 11 and ran for 124 performances
* "Under Many Flags" Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome on August 31 and ran for 445 performances
* "The Wall Street Girl" Broadway production opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on April 15 and ran for 56 performances
* "The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1912", Broadway revue opened at the Moulin Rouge Theatre on October 21 and ran for 88 performances

Births

*January 11 - Emiliano Zuleta, vallenato composer, accordion player and singer (d. 2005)
*February 2 - Burton Lane, US composer (d. 1997)
*February 3 - Mary Carlisle, actress and singer
*February 11 - Rudolf Firkusny, pianist (d. 1994)
*February 19 - Saul Chaplin, film score composer and arranger (d. 1997)
*February 27 - Eliška Kleinová, pianist and music teacher (d. 1999)
*March 11 - Xavier Montsalvatge, composer and music critic (d. 2002)
*May 13 - Gil Evans, jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1988)
*March 14 - Les Brown, US bandleader (d. 2001)
*March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician (d. 1982)
*March 24 - Sari Biro, pianist (d. 1990)
*April 2 - Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers singing quartet (d. 1989)
*April 5 - Carlos Guastavino, composer (d. 2000)
*April 17 - Marta Eggerth, singer and actress
*April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (d. 1953)
*May 10 - Adrian Aeschbacher, pianist (d. 2002)
*May 18 - Perry Como, singer (d. 2001)
*May 23 - Jean Françaix, composer (d. 1997)
*May 31 - Alfred Deller, singer (d. 1979)
*June 6 - Robert Levin, pianist (d. 1996)
*June 9 - Edgar Evans, operatic tenor (d. 2007)
*June 17 - Don Gillis, conductor and composer (d. 1978))
*June 28 - Eleazar de Carvalho, conductor and composer (d. 1996)
*July 4 - Fritz Schulz-Reichel, jazz pianist (d. 1990)
*July 5
** Mack David, songwriter (d. 1993)
** Ilona Massey, actress and singer (d. 1974)
*July 14 - Woody Guthrie, folk singer (d. 1967)
*July 17 - Irene Manning, actress and singer (d. 2004)
*July 27 - Igor Markevitch, composer (d. 1983)
*August 9 - Anne Brown, US soprano, first Bess in "Porgy and Bess" (1935)
*August 13 - Francesco Albanese, operatic tenor (d. 2005)
*August 21 - Natalia Dudinskaya, ballerina (d. 2003)
*August 23 - Gene Kelly, dancer, singer and actor (d. 1996)
*September 5 - John Cage, composer (d. 1992)
*September 19 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
*September 26 - René Hall, guitarist and arranger (d. 1988)
*September 30 - Kenny Baker, singer and actor (d. 1985)
*October 7 - Joseph Cooper, pianist and broadcaster (d. 2001)
*October 15 - Nellie Lutcher, jazz singer and pianist (d. 2007)
*October 21
** Don Byas, jazz musician (d. 1972)
** Sir Georg Solti, conductor (d. 1997)
*October 24 - Peter Gellhorn, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 2004)
*October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer (d. 1997)
*November 6 - King Kolax, jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
*November 11 - Larry LaPrise, creator of the "Hokey-Pokey" or "Hokey-Cokey" song and dance (d. 1996)
*November 18 - Jimmy Swan, country musician (d. 1995)
*November 21 - Eleanor Powell, dancer (d. 1982)
*November 22 - Chick Henderson, singer (d. 1944)
*November 30 - Hugo del Carril, actor and tango singer (d. 1989)
*December 7 - Daniel Jones, composer (d. 1993)
*December 10 - Irving Fazola, jazz clarinetist (d. 1949)
*December 13 - Luiz Gonzaga, folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
*December 23 - Josef Greindl, operatic bass (d. 1993)
*December 25 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer (d. 1969)
*December 30 - Rosina Lawrence, actress, singer and dancer (d. 1997)
*"date unknown"
**Renato Cellini, conductor (d. 1967)
**Buddy Feyne, lyricist and composer (d. 1998)
**Arkady Filippenko, composer (d. 1983)
**Toots Mondello, jazz musician (d. 1993)
**Niyazi, conductor and composer (d. 1984)
**William Vacchiano, trumpeter (d. 2005)
*"probable" - Merline Johnson, blues singer

Deaths

*January 30 - Florence St. John, singer and actress (b. 1855)
*March 1 - George Grossmith, Operetta comic singer
*March 17 - Domenico Mustafà, "castrato" singer and composer (b. 1829)
*March 30 - Lina Ramann, biographer of Liszt (b. 18833)
*April 15 - Wallace Hartley, violinist who was leading the band on the RMS Titanic when it sank
*April 30 - František Kmoch, conductor and composer (b. 1848)
*June 6 - Giulio Ricordi, music publisher (b. 1840)
*August 13 - Jules Massenet, composer (b. 1842)
*August 14 - Marion Hood, singer (b. 1854)
*September 1 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (b. 1875)
*October 1 - Frances Allitsen, composer (b. 1848)
*October 15 - Max Spicker, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
*October 19 - Richard Temple, opera singer (b. 1847)
*October 24 - Mykola Lysenko, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1842)
*October 30 - Jan Gall, composer and music teacher (b. 1856)
*November 10 - Riccardo Antoniazzi, violin maker (b. 1853)
*December 15 - Franz Simandl, double bassist
*"date unknown" - Eduardo Corrochio, tap dancer (b. 1869)


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