- 1911 in music
Events
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May 24 -Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his "Symphony No. 2" inLondon
*20 November -Gustav Mahler 's "Das Lied von der Erde " is debuted inMunich , withBruno Walter conducting.
*Scott Joplin publishes hisopera , "Treemonisha ".
*Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers found theDomestic Opera inFinland 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" byLouis 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" byHarry Von Tilzer andStanley 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 Hit Recordings
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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 andJack Norworth Classical music
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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"Opera *
Béla Bartók - "Bluebeard's Castle"
*Frederick Delius - "Fenimore and Gerda"
*Scott Joplin - "Treemonisha "
*Maurice Ravel - "L'Heure Espagnole"
*Richard Strauss - "Der Rosenkavalier "Operetta * "
Leányvásár (The Marriage Market)" -Victor Jacobi Musical theater * "
The Count Of Luxembourg " London production opened atDaly's Theatre onMay 20 and ran for 340 performances
* "The Fascinating Widow " Broadway production opened at theLiberty Theatre onSeptember 11 and transferred to theGrand Opera House onNovember 13 for a total run of 65 performances. StarringJulian Eltinge ,Winona Winter ,Natalia Ault andEddie Garvie .
* "Gypsy Love " ("Zigeunerliebe ") opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at theGlobe Theatre onOctober 17 and ran for 31 performances
* "Der Lila Domino" ("The Lilac Domino ") - Leipzig production
* "Marriage À La Carte " Broadway production opened at theCasino Theatre onJanuary 2 and ran for 64 performances
* "The Pink Lady" Broadway production opened at theNew Amsterdam Theatre onMarch 13 and ran for 312 performances
* "The Quaker Girl " Broadway production opened at the Park Theatre onOctober 23 and ran for 240 performances
* "The Revue of Revues " Broadwayrevue opened at theWinter Garden Theatre onSeptember 27 and ran for 55 performances. StarringGaby Deslys ,Harry Jolson ,Ernest Hare andFrank Tinney .Births
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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)
*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 theBoswell 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 31 -George Liberace , violinist and elder brother ofLiberace (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)Deaths
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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)
*August 10 -Carl Christian Lumbye , Danish composer, son ofHans Christian Lumbye
*October 3 -Paul Sarebresole , ragtime composer (b.
*October 13 -Harry Rickards , comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
*"date unknown" -José Joaquín Palma , lyricist of the national anthem of Guatemala (b. 1844)
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