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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1912.
Events
Published popular music
- "After All That I've Been To You" w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith
- "Alexander's Ragtime Band" w.m. Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
- "All Night Long" w.m. Shelton Brooks
- "And The Green Grass Grew All Around" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "At The Devil's Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Bagdad" w. Anne Caldwell m. Victor Herbert
- "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
- "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith
- "Becky's Got A Job In A Musical Show" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Come Back To Me, My Melody" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
- "Come Back To Playland With Me" w.m. Maude Lambert
- "Cuddle Up And Cling To Me" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry L. Marshall
- "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
- " A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
- "Do It Again" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Down In Dear Old New Orleans" w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden
- "Dreams Of Long Ago" w. Earl Carroll m. Enrico Caruso
- "The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Everybody Loves A Chicken" w.m. Bobby Jones
- "Everybody Two-Step" w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer
- "Florida Rag" V. Lowry
- "The Funny Little Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Giannina Mia" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
- "Goodnight, Nurse" w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker
- "He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee" w.m. E. Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin
- "Hitchy-Koo" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
- "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "In My Harem" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "In the Garden" w.m. C. Austin Miles
- "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" w.m. Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams
- "Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Kentucky Sue" by Lew Brown
- "The Land Of Golden Dreams" w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry
- "Last Night Was The End Of The World" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "The Last Shot Got Him" w.m. Cecil Mack & Cecil Smith
- "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Irving Berlin from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels'
- "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu
- "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
- "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes
- "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. William Christopher Handy
- "The Million Dollar Ball" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz
- "My Melancholy Baby" w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett
- "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
Popular Recordings
Classical music
Opera
Births
- January 8 – Arkady Filippenko, composer (died 1983)
- January 11 – Emiliano Zuleta, vallenato composer, accordion player and singer (died 2005)
- February 2 – Burton Lane, US composer (died 1997)
- February 3 – Mary Carlisle, actress and singer
- February 11 – Rudolf Firkušný, pianist (died 1994)
- February 19 – Saul Chaplin, film score composer and arranger (died 1997)
- February 27 – Eliška Kleinová, pianist and music teacher (died 1999)
- March 11 – Xavier Montsalvatge, composer and music critic (died 2002)
- March 14 – Les Brown, US bandleader (died 2001)
- March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician (died 1982)
- March 24 – Sari Biro, pianist (died 1990)
- March 27 – Robert Hughes, composer (died 2007)
- April 2 – Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers singing quartet (died 1989)
- April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer (died 2009)
- April 5 – Carlos Guastavino, composer (died 2000)
- April 17 – Marta Eggerth, singer and actress (died 2013)
- April 22 – Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
- April 24 – Renato Cellini, conductor (died 1967)
- May 3 – Virgil Fox, organist (died 1980)
- May 10 – Adrian Aeschbacher, pianist (died 2002)
- May 13 – Gil Evans, jazz pianist and bandleader (died 1988)
- May 18 – Perry Como, singer (died 2001)
- May 23
- May 31 – Alfred Deller, singer (died 1979)
- June 6 – Robert Levin, pianist (died 1996)
- June 9
- June 17 – Don Gillis, conductor and composer (died 1978))
- June 28 – Eleazar de Carvalho, conductor and composer (died 1996)
- July 4 – Fritz Schulz-Reichel, jazz pianist (died 1990)
- July 5
- July 14 – Woody Guthrie, folk singer (died 1967)
- July 17 – Irene Manning, actress and singer (died 2004)
- July 27 – Igor Markevitch, composer (died 1983)
- August 9 – Anne Brown, US soprano, first Bess in Porgy and Bess (died 2009)
- August 13 – Francesco Albanese, operatic tenor (died 2005)
- August 20 - Niyazi, conductor and composer (d. 1984)
- August 21 – Natalia Dudinskaya, ballerina (died 2003)
- August 23 – Gene Kelly, dancer, singer and actor (died 1996)
- September 5 – John Cage, composer (died 1992)
- September 19 – Kurt Sanderling, conductor
- September 26 – René Hall, guitarist and arranger (died 1988)
- September 30 – Kenny Baker, singer and actor (died 1985)
- October 7 – Joseph Cooper, pianist and broadcaster (died 2001)
- October 15 – Nellie Lutcher, jazz singer and pianist (died 2007)
- October 21
- October 24 – Peter Gellhorn, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2004)
- October 27 – Conlon Nancarrow, composer (died 1997)
- November 4 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (died 1978)
- November 6 – King Kolax, jazz trumpeter (died 1991)
- November 11 – Larry LaPrise, creator of the "Hokey-Pokey" or "Hokey-Cokey" song and dance (died 1996)
- November 18 – Jimmy Swan, country musician (died 1995)
- November 21 – Eleanor Powell, dancer (died 1982)
- November 22 – Chick Henderson, singer (died 1944)
- November 30 – Hugo del Carril, actor and tango singer (died 1989)
- December 7 – Daniel Jones, composer (died 1993)
- December 10 – Irving Fazola, jazz clarinetist (died 1949)
- December 13 – Luiz Gonzaga, folk singer and songwriter (died 1989)
- December 23 – Josef Greindl, operatic bass (died 1993)
- December 25 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (died 1969)
- December 28 – Yuri Levitin, Ukrainian composer (died 1993)
- December 30 – Rosina Lawrence, actress, singer and dancer (died 1997)
- probable – Merline Johnson, blues singer
Deaths
- January 3 - Harald Scharff, ballet dancer, 75
- January 30 – Florence St. John, singer and actress, 56
- March 1 – George Grossmith, comic singer in operetta, 64
- March 17 – Domenico Mustafà, castrato singer and composer, 82
- March 30 – Lina Ramann, biographer of Liszt, 78
- April 15
- Wallace Hartley, violinist and leader of the band on RMS Titanic, 33 (drowned)
- John Law Hume, violinist on board Titanic, 21 (drowned)
- April 30 – František Kmoch, conductor and composer, 63)
- June 6 – Giulio Ricordi, music publisher, 71
- July 21 – Antonio Magini-Coletti, operatic baritone, 57
- August 13 – Jules Massenet, composer, 70
- August 14 – Marion Hood, singer, 58
- August 30 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano, 79
- September 1 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, 37 (pneumonia)
- October 1 – Frances Allitsen, composer, 63
- October 15 – Max Spicker, conductor and composer, 54
- October 19 – Richard Temple, opera singer, 66
- October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, pianist, composer and conductor, 70
- October 30 – Jan Gall, composer and music teacher, 56
- November 10 – Riccardo Antoniazzi, violin maker, 58
- November 11 - Józef Wieniawski, pianist, conductor and composer, 75
- December 15 – Franz Simandl, double bassist, 72
- date unknown
References
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