1911 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911.

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1911 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

1911 in jazz

Events

January 26 â PremiÃ¨re of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, in Dresden; the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the director is Max Reinhardt.
February 21 â Gustav Mahler, who has contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic, of which he has been principal conductor since 1909.
April 3 â Jean Sibelius conducts the world premiÃ¨re of his Symphony No. 4 in Helsinki.
April 8 â Gustav Mahler embarks from New York for France; he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later.
May 19 â Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole is premiered at the OpÃ©ra-Comique in Paris, in a double bill with Jules Massenet's 1907 opera ThÃ©rÃ¨se.
May 24 â Edward Elgar conducts the premiÃ¨re of his Symphony No. 2 in London.
June 13 â Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premiered in Paris; the lead dancer is Vaslav Nijinsky.
July â Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, while staying at Eastbourne.^[1]
November 20 â Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde is premiÃ¨red in Munich, after the composer's death, with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter conducting at the request of Alma Mahler.^[2]
November 26 - Nicholas Laucella's symphonic poem Consalvo is premiered under the direction of Josef StrÃ¡nskÃ½.^[3]
date unknown
- Aino AcktÃ© and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland.
- "ElsÃ¤ssisches Fahnenlied" is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
- 16-year-old Carl Orff publishes his first compositions.
- The Society of Women Musicians is co-founded by Marion Scott and others.^[4]

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
"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
"Core 'ngrato" w. Riccardo Cordiferro, m. Salvatore Cardillo^[5]
"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 Firebird" m. Igor Stravinsky
"The Floral Dance" w.m. Katie Moss
"The Gaby Glide" w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis Hirsch
"Honey Love" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
"Honeysuckle Rag" m. George Botsford
"I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)" 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
"Jimmy Valentine" w. Edward Madden m. Gus Edwards
"The Little Grey Home In The West" w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m. Hermann LÃ¶hr
"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

"Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
"The Oceana Roll" w. Roger Lewis m. Lucien Denni
"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
"Roamin' In The Gloamin'" w.m. Harry Lauder
"Run Home And Tell Your Mother" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Sarnia Cherie" (anthem of Guernsey) w. George Deighton, m. Domenico Santangelo
"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
"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 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

"Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me" â Billy Murray
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" - the Peerless Quartet
"Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man" â Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth

Classical music

Joseph Achron â Hebrew Melody
Lili Boulanger â Les SirÃ¨nes
Frank Bridge â The Sea
George Butterworth â Two English Idylls
George Whitefield Chadwick â Suite Symphonique
Eric Coates â Miniature Suite
Frederick Delius â Summer Night on the River
George Enescu â
- Sonata for violin and piano, in A minor (first-movement "Torso")
- Suite chÃ¢telaine, for orchestra (unfinished)
Carl Engel â Sea-Shell
Reinhold GliÃ¨re â Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
Enrique Granados â Goyescas
Reynaldo Hahn â Aubade athÃ©nienne
Gustav Holst
- Invocation for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 19/2
- Second Suite in F, for military band
- 2 Eastern Pictures, H. 112
Charles Ives â Requiem S. 333
Paul von Klenau â String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
Nikolai Medtner â Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
Nikolai Myaskovsky
- Sinfonietta in A
- Symphony No. 2
- Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945).
Carl Nielsen â Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg â Sechs kleine KlavierstÃ¼cke
Alexander Scriabin
- Piano Sonata No. 6
- Piano Sonata No. 7
Cyril Scott
- An Old Song Ended
- Water-Wagtail, Op.71 No.3
- Tallahassee, Op.73 No.4
Ethel Smyth â The March of the Women
John Philip Sousa â Tales of a Traveler
Charles Villiers Stanford
- Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126
Igor Stravinsky
- The Firebird Suite No. 1
- Petrushka
- Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano
Amy Woodforde-Finden â "Stars of the Desert"

Opera

BÃ©la BartÃ³k â Bluebeard's Castle (first version composed; revised 1912 and 1917; not staged until 1918)
Scott Joplin â Treemonisha (composed; not staged until 1972)
Maurice Ravel â L'Heure Espagnole
Richard Strauss â Der Rosenkavalier, Dresden

Operetta

LeÃ¡nyvÃ¡sÃ¡r (The Marriage Market) â Victor Jacobi

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 (Lilac Domino) â Leipzig production
Madame Sherry New York
Marriage a la Carte Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
Peggy, by Leslie Stuart, with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and lyrics by C. H. Bovill,^[6] London production opens at the Gaiety Theatre under the management of George Edwardes, on 4 March, and runs for 270 performances, starring Grossmith, Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray
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, Ernie Hare and Frank Tinney.
Die Sirene by Leo Fall, based on a text by Leo Stein and A. M. Willner, first performed in Vienna on 5 January.
The Siren, a Broadway musical adaptation of Die Sirene is produced in New York by Charles Frohman and runs at the Knickerbocker Theatre from 28 August 1911 to 16 December (116 performances).

Births

January 10 â Sidney Griller, violinist and founder of the Griller Quartet (d. 1993)
January 18
- GÃ¡bor Darvas, composer (d. 1985)
- Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
January 20
- Roy Eldridge, jazz trumpeter (d. 1989)
- Wendell J. Westcott, American carillon player and educator (d. 2010)
January 24
- Evelyn Barbirolli, English oboist (d. 2008)
- Muir Mathieson, Scottish conductor and composer (d. 1975)
February 3 â Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
February 5 â Jussi BjÃ¶rling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
February 10 â Victor Guillermo Ramos Rangel, Venezuelan classical musician (b. 1911)
February 11 â Wesley Rose, American record producer (d. 1990)
February 17 â Orrin Tucker, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2011)
February 20 â Robert McBride, American composer (d. 2007)
March 7 â Stefan Kisielewski, Polish composer (d. 1991)
March 8 â Alan Hovhaness, composer (d. 2000)
March 9 â Clara Rockmore, born Clara Reisenberg, thereminist and violinist (d. 1998)
March 16 â Harper Goff, Disney special effects man and Dixieland musician (d. 1993)
March 18 â Smiley Burnette, singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
April 6 â Guillermo Portabales, singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
April 8 â IchirÅ Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
May 8
- Robert Johnson, American blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
- Blanche Winogron, American harpsichordist (d. 2002)
May 13 â Maxine Sullivan, American singer (d. 1987)
May 14 â Hans Vogt, German composer and conductor (d. 1992)
May 18 â Big Joe Turner, American blues shouter (d. 1985)
May 20 â Vet Boswell of the American Boswell Sisters singing group (d. 1988)
June 4 â Faustino Oramas, Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer (d. 2007)
June 9 â Frederick May, Irish composer (d. 1985)
June 24 â Portia White, contralto singer (d. 1968)
June 29 â Bernard Herrmann, film composer (d. 1975)
July 4 â Mitch Miller, arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player (d. 2010)
July 7 â Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (d. 2007)
July 8 â Gertrude Niesen, American singer, actress, comedian and songwriter (d. 1975)
July 16 â Ginger Rogers, dancer, actress and singer (d. 1995)
July 26 â Buddy Clark, singer (d. 1949)
July 29 â JÃ¡n Cikker, composer (d. 1989)
July 31 â George Liberace, violinist and elder brother of Liberace (d. 1983)
August 5 â Roger Roger, film composer and bandleader (d. 2007)
August 6 â Lucille Ball, actress and singer (d. 1989)
August 26 â Deva Dassy, French opera singer (d. 2016)
August 27 â Kay Walsh, dancer and actress (d. 2005)
September 2 â Floyd Council, blues musician (d. 1976)
September 11 â Bola de Nieve, singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1971)
September 19 â Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer (d. 1980)
September 24 â Marie Kraja, Albanian operatic and folk singer (d. 1999)
October 1 â Irwin Kostal, arranger (d. 1994)
October 7
- Shura Cherkassky, pianist (d. 1995)
- Vaughn Monroe, singer and bandleader (d. 1973)
October 24 â Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)
October 26 â Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
October 29 â Nelson Cavaquinho, samba singer and composer (d. 1986)
November 5 â Roy Rogers, American singer, actor (d. 1998)
November 24 â Erik Bergman, Finnish composer (d. 2006)
November 30 â Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)^[7]
December 3 â Nino Rota, composer (d. 1979)^[8]
December 14 â Spike Jones, bandleader (d. 1965)
December 15 â Stan Kenton, bandleader (d. 1979)^[9]
December 25 â Eric Gilder, musicologist (d. 2000)
December 27 â Anna Russell, singer and comedian (d. 2006)
December 28 â Max Jaffa, violinist and bandleader (d. 1991)

Deaths

January 7 â William Hall Sherwood, pianist and music educator (b. 1854)
January 8 â Pietro Gori, anarchist poet and songwriter (b. 1865)
January 9 â Edwin Arthur Jones, composer (b. 1853)
January 16 â Wilhelm Berger, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1861)
January 28 â Wilhelmina Fundin, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1819)
February 1 â Ãngel Mislan, composer (b. 1862)
February 20 â Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (b. 1854)
March 29 â Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (b. 1837)
April 7 â Wilhelm Thern, pianist (b. 1847)
April 10 â Mikalojus Konstantinas Äiurlionis, painter and composer (b. 1875)^[10]
April 15 â Wilma Neruda, violinist (b. 1838)
May 4 â Ronald Richardson Potter, organist and composer (b. 1879)
May 5 â James A. Bland, musician and songwriter (b. 1854)
May 18 â Gustav Mahler, composer (b. 1860)^[11]
May 29 â W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1836)
June 7 â Carlos FernÃ¡ndez Shaw, librettist (b. 1865)
June 13 â Patrick Heeney, composer (b. 1881)
June 14 â Johan Svendsen, conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1840)
June 16 â Frank Peabody Atherton, composer and educator (b. 1868)
June 18 â Franjo KuhaÄ, piano teacher, conductor and musicologist (b. 1834)
June 21 â Robert Radecke, composer (b. 1830)
June 22 â Bruno Klein, organist and composer (b. 1858)
July 2 â Felix Mottl, conductor and composer (b. 1856)
July 3 â Madeline Schiller, pianist (b. c. 1845)
July 7 â Samuel de Lange, composer, organist, pianist, conductor and music teacher, director of the Stuttgart music conservatory (b. 1841)^[12]
July 25 â Filippo Capocci, Italian organist and composer (b. 1840)
August 10 â Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
August 29 â Hildegard Werner, Swedish musician, conductor and journalist (b. 1834)
October 3 â Paul Sarebresole, ragtime composer (b. 1875)
October 13 â Harry Rickards, comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
November 23 â Catalina Berroa, Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer (b. 1849)^[13]
December 29 â Rosamund Marriott Watson, lyricist (born 1860)

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Specific genres

Events

Published popular music

Hit recordings

Classical music

Opera

Operetta

Musical theater

Births

Deaths

References

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