1905 in music

Events

*January 26 - Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem "Pelleas und Melisande" is premiered in Vienna.
*January 29 - Gustav Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" is premiered in Vienna.
*October 15 - Claude Debussy's "La Mer" is premiered in Paris.
*December 28 - Premiere of "The Merry Widow" by Franz Lehár.
*Otto Klemperer meets Mahler for the first time, while conducting one of his works.

Published popular music

* "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
* "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
* "Bandana Land" by Glen MacDonough
* "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
* "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
* "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
* "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
* "College Life" m. Hery Frantzen
* "Come Clean" by Paul Sarebresole
* "Daddy's Little Girl" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Dearie" w.m. Clare Kummer
* "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John Heinzman & Otto Heinzman
* "Everybody Works But Father" w.m. Jean Havez
* "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
* "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical of the same name.
* "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
* "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
* "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
* "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
* "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" Schwartz
* "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
* "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer
* "Happy Heine" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
* "He's Me Pal" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
* "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
* "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska m. Jerome Kern
* "I Don't Care" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
* "I Love A Lassie" w. Harry Lauder & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder
* "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
* "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
* "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
* "I'm Getting Sleepy" w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander
* "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
* "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
* "In Dear Old Georgia" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne
* "In My Merry Oldsmobile" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
* "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
* "The Irish Girl I Love" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
* "Is Everybody Happy ?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
* "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
* "It's Allus De Same In Dixie" Cook
* "I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" Farrell, Silver
* "I've Sweethearts In Every Port" Keith
* "Jolly Pickaninnies" m. Ernst Rueffe
* "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Kiss Me Again" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
* "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
* "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. George M. Cohan. From the musical "Forty-five Minutes from Broadway".
* "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" Brady, Johnston, Frantzen
* "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "Moonlight" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
* "My Dusky Rose" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
* "My Gal Sal" w.m. Paul Dresser
* "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
* "My Irish Molly O" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
* "Nobody" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert A. Williams
* "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
* "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
* "One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" w. William Cahill m. Theodore F. Morse
* "Paddy's Day" Fogarty, Mullen
* "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Léon Jessel
* "Peaches And Cream" m. Percy Wenrich
* "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "Pretty Desdamone" w.m. F. Collins Wildman
* "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
*"Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry Williams m. Jean Schwartz
* "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
* "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Say Yes, Honey, Do" by Sara E. Posey
* "She Is My Daisy" w.m. Harry Lauder & J. D. Harper
* "Silence And Fun" Mullen
* "Since Nellie Went Away" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
* "So Long Mary" w.m. George M. Cohan
* "Tammany" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
* "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
* "The Umpire Is A Most Unhappy Man" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
* "Violette" w. Dolly Jardon m. J. B. Mullen
* "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Waiting At The Church" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
* "Waltzing With The Girl You Love" w.m. George Evans & Ren Shields
* "When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
* "Where The River Shannon Flows" w.m. James J. Russell
* "The Whistler And His Dog" m. Arthur Pryor
* "The Whole Damm Family" Smith, Von Tilzer
* "Why Don't You Try?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne
* "Will You Love Me In December" w. James J. Walker m. Ernest R. Ball
* "A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert

Recorded popular music

* "I Love A Lassie" by Harry Lauder

Classical music

*Hugo Alfvén - "Symphony No. 3 in E major"
*Claude Debussy - "La Mer"
*Edward Elgar - "Introduction and Allegro for Strings"
*Nikolai Medtner - "Fairy Tales for Piano" (opp. 8, 9)
*Vítězslav Novák - "Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major"
*Maurice Ravel - "Introduction et Allegro", for "harp" with the accompaniment of "string quartet", "flute" and "clarinet"
*Arnold Schönberg - String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 in D minor.
*Anton Webern - "Langsamer Satz", "String Quartet" in one movement
*Haydn Wood - "Phantasy String Quartet"

Opera

*Frederick Converse - "The Pipe of Desire"
*Leo Fall - "Irrlicht"
*Manuel de Falla - "La Vida breve" (Libretto by Fernández Shaw)
*Franz Lehár - "Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)" (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, after the play "L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché") by Henri Meilhac)
*Jules Massenet - "Chérubin" (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
*Leopoldo Mugnone - "Vita Bretone"
*Richard Strauss - "Salome" (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde)

Musical theater

*"The Babes and the Baron" Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
*"The Catch of the Season" Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
* "The Earl and the Girl" Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
* "Fantana" Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
* "Lifting the Lid" Broadway production opened at the Aerial Gardens Theatre on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
* "Die Lustige Witwe" ("The Merry Widow") Vienna production
* "Miss Dolly Dollars" Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 4 and moved to the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
* "Mlle. Modiste" Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
* "The Rogers Brothers in Ireland" Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
* "The Rollicking Girl" Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre on April 16, 1906 for a total run of 199 performances
* "Sergeant Brue" Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
* "The Spring Chicken" London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
*"When We Were Forty-One" Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
*"Wonderland" Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 24 and ran for 73 performances

Births

*January 2 - Michael Tippett, composer
*January 8 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
*January 12 - Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
*January 24 - Elena Nicolai, opera singer
*January 26 - Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
*February 11 - William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)
*February 15 - Harold Arlen, popular composer
*February 17 - Orville "Hoppy" Jones, The Ink Spots singer
*March 6 - Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
*March 23 - Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
*May 2 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
*May 8 - Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist
*June 13 - Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter
*June 18 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
*July 10 - Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer
*July 15 - Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist
*August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
*August 8 - André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)
*August 23 - Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
*August 29 - Jack Teagarden
*October 4 - Leon Orthel, composer (d. 1985)
*November 7 - William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985)
*November 15 - Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer
*November 19 - Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey
*November 21 - Ted Ray, comedian and violinist
*November 24 - Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist
*December 31 - Jule Styne, composer

Deaths

*January 4 - Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
*January 10 - Kārlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
*February 12 - Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)
*April 29 - Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (b. 1847)
*May 13 - Sam S. Shubert, Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
*May 14 - Jessie Bartlett Davis, operatic contralto (b. 1859)
*May 15 - Andrey Schulz-Evler, composer and arranger (b. 1852)
*May 31 - Franz Strauss, musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss (b. 1822)
*July 8 - Walter Kittredge, self-taught musician (b. 1834)
*August 31 - Francesco Tamagno, operatic tenor (b. 1850)
*September 2 - Célestine Marié, mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1840)
*"date unknown"
**Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)
**Luigi Manzotti, choreographer (b. 1835)
**Ernst Pauer, pianist (b. 1826)