1913 in music

Events

*April 1 - Manuel de Falla's opera "La vida breve" is given its world premiere in Nice
*May 29 - there is a near-riot at the premiere of the Igor Stravinsky-scored ballet "The Rite of Spring" in Paris
*October - Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced
*Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster.

Published popular music

* "Abie Sings An Irish Song": words & music by Irving Berlin
* "All Aboard For Dixieland": words Jack Yellen, music George L. Cobb
* "Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee), by H.M. Queen Liliuokalani
* "And Then", w. Alfred Bryan, m. Herman Paley
* "The Angelus", w. Robert B. Smith, w. Victor Herbert
* "Asia" by E. Ray Goetz
* "At The Ball, That's All" by J. Leubrie Hill
* "Ay, Ay, Ay!" by Osman Perez Freire
* "Ballin' The Jack", w. James Henry Burris, m. Chris Smith
* "Brighten The Corner Where You Are" w. Ina Duley Ogdon m. Charles H. Gabriel
* "The Bubble" by Otto Harbach
* "Crazy Bone Rag" m. Charles L. Johnson
* "The Cricket On The Hearth" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "'Cross The Great Divide" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
* "The Curse Of An Aching Heart" w. Henry Fink m. Al Piantadosi
* "Daddy, Come Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Danny Boy" w. Frederick Weatherly m. trad
* "Don't Blame It All On Broadway" w. Joe Young & Harry Williams m. Bert Grant
* "Down In Chattanooga" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Fat Li'l' Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes" w.m. Sheridan Gordon & F. L. Stanton
* "Fifteen Cents" by Chris Smith
* "Gasoline" w. J. Will Callahan (1874–1946), m. Paul Pratt (1890–1948)
* "Goodbye Boys" w. Andrew B. Sterling & William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Happy Little Country Girl" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" w. Grant Clark & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams
* "Hungarian Rag" m. Julius Lenzberg
* "I Can Live Without You" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
* "I Miss You Most Of All" w.m. Joseph McCarthy Sr. & James V. Monaco
* "If I Had My Way" w. Lou Klein m. James Kendis
* "I'll Change The Shadows To Sunshine" w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
* "I'll Get You" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
* "I'm On My Way To Mandalay" w. Al Bryan m. Fred Fisher
* "The Incandescent Rag" m. George Botsford
* "The International Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Isle D'Amour" w. Earl Carroll m. Leo Edwards
* "It's Nice To Get Up In The Morning" w.m. Harry Lauder
* "Just For Tonight" w.m. George L. Cobb
* "Keep On Walking" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Lion Tamer Rag" m. Mark Janza
* "Look In Her Eyes" w. M. E. Rourke m. Jerome Kern
* "Marcheta" by Victor Schertzinger
* "Melinda's Wedding Day" Berlin
* "My Little Moonlight Maid" w. W. R. Williams m. Spencer Williams
* "Never Mind" w.m. Harry Dent & Tom Goldburn
* "The Old Maids' Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "On The Old Fall River Line" w. William Jerome & Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Panama" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell
* "Peg O' My Heart" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
* "The Pullman Porters On Parade" w. Ren G. May m. Maurice Abrahams
* "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Albert Gumble
* "Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay" George Botsford & Jean C. Harvez
* "San Francisco Bound" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Snookey Ookums" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Somebody's Coming To My House" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Something Seems Tingle-Ingling" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
* "The Sunshine Of Your Smile" w. Leonard Cooke m. Lilian Ray
* "Sweethearts" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "Take Me to Roseland, My Beautiful Rose" w. Jack Strouse & Ed Johnson, m. Nat Osbrone
* "There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
* "There's A Long Long Trail" w. Stoddard King m. Zo Elliott
* "They've Got Me Doin' It Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Looral" w.m. James R. Shannon
* "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
* "Tra-La, La, La!" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "We Have Much To Be Thankful For" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Welcome Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "When You Play In The Game Of Love" w. Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
* "When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
* "Where Did You Get That Girl?" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Puck
* "You Made Me Love You" w. Joseph McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
* "You're Here And I'm Here" w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
* "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" w.m. Irving Berlin

Popular recordings

* "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" by Al Jolson
* "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" by Alan Turner
* "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" by Collins & Harlan
* "Cohen on the Telephone" - Ethnic humor
* "It's Nicer To Be In Bed" by Harry Lauder

Classical music

*George Butterworth - "Banks of Green Willow"
*John Alden Carpenter - "Violin Sonata"
*Claude Debussy - "La boîte à joujoux" (ballet); "Trois poèmes de Mallarmé"
*Gustav Holst - "St Paul's Suite"
*Igor Stravinsky - "The Rite of Spring"
*Louis Vierne - "Messe basse", Op. 30

Opera

*Manuel de Falla - "La vida breve"
*Gabriel Fauré - "Penelope"
*Jules Massenet - "Panurge"
*Italo Montemezzi - "L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings)"
*Modest Mussorgsky - "Sorochintzy Fair (Sorochinskaya yarmarka)" (incomplete)

Musical theater

* "Adele" Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28 and ran for 196 performances
* "The American Maid" Broadway production
* "The Girl from Utah" London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 18 and ran for 195 performances
* "The Girl on the Film" London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 5 and ran for 232 performances
* "The Girl on the Film" Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre on December 29 and ran for 64 performances
* "The Honeymoon Express" Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 6 and ran for 156 performances
* "Hullo, Tango" London production opened at the Hippodrome on December 23
* "The Isle o' Dreams" Broadway production opened at the Grand Opera House on January 27 and ran for 32 performances
* "The Laughing Husband" London production opened at the New Theatre on October 2.
* "The Little Café" Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 10 and ran for 144 performances
* "The Madcap Duchess" (Music: Victor Herbert) Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 11 and ran for 71 performances. Starring Ann Swinburne, Peggy Wood and Glenn Hall
* "Der Mädchenmarkt" Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on May 7
* "The Marriage Market" London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 17 and ran for 423 performances
* "The Pearl Girl" London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on September 25 and ran for 254 performances
* "The Pleasure Seekers" Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 3 and ran for 72 performances
* "The Sunshine Girl" Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on February 3 and ran for 160 performances
* "Sweethearts" Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 8 and transferred to the Liberty Theatre on November 10 for a total run of 272 performances
* "Ziegfeld Follies of 1913" Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 16 and ran for 108 performances

Births

*January 18 - Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
*January 22 - Sid Bass, songwriter (d. 1993)
*January 25 - Witold Lutosławski, composer (d. 1994)
*January 27 - Milton Adolphus, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
*March 2 - Celedonio Romero, guitarist, composer and poet (d. 1996)
*March 4 - Willie Johnson, guitarist (d. 1995)
*March 6 - Ella Logan, actress and singer (d. 1969)
*March 13 - Libero de Luca, operatic tenor
*March 30 - Frankie Laine, singer (d. 2007)
*March 31 - Etta Baker, blues guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
*April 4 - Gene Ramey, jazz musician (d. 1984)
*May 6
** Carmen Cavallaro, pianist (d. 1989)
** Gyula Dávid, composer (d. 1977)
*May 12 - Jamelão, samba singer
*May 16 - Woody Herman, US jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1987)
*May 21 - Gina Bachauer, pianist (d. 1976)
*May 18 - Charles Trenet, French singer, actor and songwriter (d. 2001)
*June 12 - Nina Mae McKinney, dancer and actress (d. 1967)
*June 18 - Sammy Cahn, songwriter (d. 1993)
*June 23 - Helen Humes, US singer (d. 1981)
*June 28 - George Lloyd, composer (d. 1998)
*July 12 - Reino Helismaa, singer-songwriter (d. 1965)
*July 15 - Cowboy Copas, country singer (d. 1963)
*July 22
** Licia Albanese, operatic soprano
** Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
*August 2
** Hal Block, songwriter (d. 1981)
** Edric Connor, calypso singer (d. 1968)
*August 28 - Robert Irving, conductor (d. 1991)
*August 29 - Sylvia Fine, songwriter (d. 1991)
*September 26 - Dorothy Sloop, jazz musician (d. 1998)
*October 15 - David Carroll, songwriter and conductor
*October 16 - Gino Bechi, operatic bass-baritone (d. 1993)
*October 19 - John Blackburn, lyricist (d. 2006)
*October 24 - Tito Gobbi, operatic baritone (d. 1984)
*October 26 - Charlie Barnet, US bandleader (d. 1991)
*November 2 - Harry Babbitt, US singer with Kay Kyser & his orchestra (d. 2004)
*November 3 - Marika Rökk, singer, dancer and actress (d. 2004)
*November 8 - June Havoc, vaudeville performer and film star
*November 15 - Gus Johnson, jazz drummer (d. 2000)
*November 19 - Blue Barron, orchestra leader (d. 2005)
*November 22 - Benjamin Britten, composer (d. 1976)
*December 1 - Mary Martin, US singer and actress (d. 1990)
*December 30 - Lucio Agostini, conductor and composer (d. 1996)
*"date unknown" - John Collins, jazz guitarist (d. 2001)

Deaths

*February 26 - Felix Draeseke, composer (b. 1835)
*March 19 - John Thomas, harpist and composer (b. 1826)
*April 4 - Alessandro Parisotti, composer and music writer (b. 1853)
*May 5 - Helen Carte, theatre impresario (b. 1852)
*July 4 - Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, operatic soprano (b. 1868)
*July 16 - Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (b. 1841)
*July 17 - Armes Beaumont, singer (b. 1842)
*September 17 - Alfred Sormann, pianist and composer (b. 1861)
*October 20
** Charles Brookfield, theatre writer (b. 1857)
** Polk Miller, banjo player and folk musician (b. 1844)
*November 3 - Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
*December 6 - Alexander Hurley, music hall performer (b. 1871)
*"date unknown" - Ludwig Milde, composer of bassoon music (b. 1849)