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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911.
Events
- January 26 - Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, in Dresden; the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the director is Max Reinhardt.
- February 21 - Gustav Mahler, who had contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic, of which he had been principal conductor since 1909.
- April 8 - Gustav Mahler embarks from New York to France; he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later.
- May 19 - Maurice Ravel's opera, L'heure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra-Comique, in a double bill with Jules Massenet's 1907 opera Thérèse.
- May 24 - Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in London.
- June 15 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premiered in Paris; the lead dancer is Vaslav Nijinsky.
- June 29 - Bernard Herrmann born in New York.
- July - Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, while staying at Eastbourne.[1]
- November 20 - Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, after the composer's death, with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter conducting at the request of Alma Mahler.[2]
- date unknown
- "Elsässisches Fahnenlied" is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
Published popular music
Cover of sheet music for Naughty, Naughty, Naughty
- "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
- "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
- "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" 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
Classical music
Opera
Operetta
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) - 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,[5] 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 18 - Gábor Darvas, composer (d. 1985)
- January 20
- January 24
- February 3 - Jehan Alain, organist and composer (d. 1940)
- February 5 - Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
- February 11 - Wesley Rose, record producer (d. 1990)
- February 17 - Orrin Tucker, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2011)
- February 20 - Robert McBride, composer (d. 2007)
- March 7 - Stefan Kisielewski, Polish composer (d. 1991)
- March 8 - Alan Hovhaness, composer (d. 2000)
- March 9 - Clara Rockmore, born Clara Reisenberg, thereminist and violinist (d. 1998)
- 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)
- April 8 - Ichirō Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
- May 8 - Robert Johnson, blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
- May 13 - Maxine Sullivan, singer (d. 1987)
- May 14 - Hans Vogt, composer and conductor (d. 1992)
- May 18 - Big Joe Turner, blues shouter (d. 1985)
- May 20 - Vet Boswell of the Boswell Sisters singing group (d. 1988)
- June 4 - Faustino Oramas, Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer (d. 2007)
- June 9 - Frederick May, Irish composer (d. 1985)
- 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 (d. 2010)
- 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 29 - Ján Cikker, composer (d. 1989)
- July 31 - George Liberace, violinist and elder brother of Liberace (d. 1983)
- August 5 - Roger Roger, film composer and bandleader (d. 2007)
- 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
- October 24 - Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)
- October 26 - Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
- October 29 - Nelson Cavaquinho, samba singer and composer (d. 1986)
- 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, French singer and Eurovision winner (d. 2003)
- December 25 - Eric Gilder, musicologist (d. 2000)
- December 27 - Anna Russell, singer and comedienne (d. 2006)
- December 28 - Max Jaffa, violinist and bandleader (d. 1991)
- date unknown - Blanche Winogron, harpsichordist (d. 2002)
Deaths
- January 7 - William Hall Sherwood, pianist and music educator (b. 1854)
- January 8 - Pietro Gori, anarchist poet and songwriter (b. 1865)
- January 9 - Edwin Arthur Jones, composer (b. 1853)
- January 16 - Wilhelm Berger, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1861)
- February 1 - Ángel Mislan, composer (b. 1862)
- February 20 - Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (b. 1854)
- March 20 - Jean-Théodore Radoux, bassoonist and composer (b. 1835)
- March 29 - Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (b. 1837)
- April 7 - Wilhelm Thern, pianist (b. 1847)
- April 10 - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, painter and composer (b. 1875)
- April 15 - Wilma Neruda, violinist (b. 1838)
- May 4 - Ronald Richardson Potter, organist and composer (b. 1879)
- May 5 - James A. Bland, musician and songwriter (b. 1854)
- 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 13 - Patrick Heeney, composer (b. 1881)
- June 14 - Johan Svendsen, conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1840)
- June 18 - Franjo Kuhač, piano teacher, conductor and musicologist (b. 1834)
- June 21 - Robert Radecke, composer (b. 1830)
- June 22 - Bruno Klein, organist and composer (b. 1858)
- July 2 - Felix Mottl, conductor and composer (b. 1856)
- July 3 - Madeline Schiller, pianist (b. c. 1845)
- July 7 - Samuel de Lange, composer, organist, pianist, conductor and music teacher, director of the Stuttgart music conservatory (b. 1841)[6]
- August 2
- August 10 - Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
- August 29 - Hildegard Werner, Swedish musician, conductor and journalist (b. 1834)
- October 3 - Paul Sarebresole, ragtime composer (b. 1875)
- October 13 - Harry Rickards, comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
- November 23 - Catalina Berroa, Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer (b. 1849)
References
- ↑ Musical Toronto; Retrieved 3 September 2013
- ↑ Ryding, Erik; Pechefsky, Rebecca (2006). Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08713-0.
- ↑ Sophie Fuller. "Society of Women Musicians", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 12, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
- ↑ Kati's Story: Recollections of Two Worlds - Page 84 Catherine Veres - 2009 "Core 'ngrato, a Neapolitan song written in 1911 for Enrico Caruso by Salvatore Cardillo (1874 - 1947)"
- ↑ Culme, John. "Footlight Notes, no. 277". 4 January 2002, accessed 11 August 2010
- ↑ Biography at the Stichting DE LANGE website
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