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Overview of the events of 1919 in music
Overview of the events of 1919 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
Published popular music
- "Abie My Boy" w.m. L.Silberman, A. Grock, Herbert Rule & Tom McGhee
- "Alcoholic Blues" w. Edward Laska, m.
Albert Von Tilzer
- "Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland" w.
Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
- "
Alice Blue Gown" w.
Joseph McCarthy m.
Harry Tierney
- "All The Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers Down In Quaker Town" w.
Bert Kalmar &
Edgar Leslie m.
Pete Wendling
- "
And He'd Say, "Oo-La-La! Wee-Wee!"" w.
George Jessel, m.
Harry Ruby
- "Any Old Place With You" w.
Lorenz Hart m.
Richard Rodgers
- "Ask the Stars" by
Frank M. Stammers
- "
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" w.m. Charles Warfield &
Clarence Williams
- "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" w.m.
Charles McCarron, Casey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom
- "Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)" w.m. Ballard MacDonald, Joe Goodwin & James F. Hanley
- "
The Boys Who Won't Come Home" w. Harry Hamilton m. Ed. Thomas
- "Camp Meeting Blues" by
Dabney's Band
- "
Cielito Lindo" w.m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez
- "Daddy Long Legs" w.
Sam M. Lewis &
Joe Young
- "
Dardanella" w.
Fred Fisher m.
Felix Bernard &
Johnny S. Black
- "
Don't Dilly Dally on the Way" w.m. Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins
- "Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar" w.m.
Ed Rose, Billy Baskette & Lew Pollack
- "
Grönnens Laid", w. Geert Teis Pzn., m. G.R. Jager
- "Hold Me" w.m.
Art Hickman &
Ben Black
- "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll" w.
Spencer Williams m.
Clarence Williams
- "I Gave Her That" w. m.
B. G. De Sylva &
Al Jolson
- "I Lost My Heart In Dixieland" w.m.
Irving Berlin
- "I Might be Your "Once-In-A-While"" w.
Robert B. Smith m.
Victor Herbert
- "I Never Realized" w.m.
Cole Porter
- "
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" w.m.
Armand J. Piron
Hit recordings
Classical music
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Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 39, "Från havsbandet"
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Granville Bantock - Hamabdil for cello, harp and strings
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Arnold Bax –
Tintagel
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Ernest Bloch – Suite for Viola and Orchestra
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Rebecca Clarke – Sonata for Viola and Piano
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Edward Elgar -
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
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Gabriel Fauré –
Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
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Robert Fuchs – Twelve Waltzes, Op. 110, for piano
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Louis Glass – Symphony No. 5 in C major, Op. 57, "Svastika"
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Peder Gram – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes – The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
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Alois Hába - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
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Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
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Paul Hindemith
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Gustav Holst -
Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38
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Dorothy Howell – Lamia
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Ernst Krenek - Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 2
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Darius Milhaud
- Poèmes de Francis Thompson, Op. 54
- Les soirées de Pétrograd, Op. 55
- Machines agricoles, 6 Pastorales for voice and chamber ensemble, Op. 56
- Suite symphonique No. 2, Op. 57
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Le bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (ballet)
- Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 58b
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Carl Nielsen –
Aladdin (for theatre)
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Gabriel Pierné – Sonata for Cello and Piano
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Maurice Ravel -
Le Tombeau de Couperin, M68a (orchestration of 4 pieces from M 68)
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Dane Rudhyar – Syntony
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Jean Sibelius -
Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
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Leo Sowerby – Concerto for Harp
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Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt
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Igor Stravinsky
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Joaquín Turina
- Niñerías, Series 1 Op. 21, for piano
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Danzas fantásticas Op. 22, two versions: piano solo, and orchestra
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Heitor Villa-Lobos
Opera
Jazz
Musical theater
Births
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January 1 –
Yoshio Tabata, singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
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January 14 –
Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi songwriter (d. 2002)
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January 18 –
Juan Orrego-Salas, Chilean-American composer (d.
2019
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January 22 –
Sid Ramin, arranger (d. 2019)
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January 25 –
Eula Beal, operatic contralto (d. 2008)
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January 27 –
Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville), of
The Chipmunks (d. 1972)
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February 1 –
Artie Singer, American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d.
2008)
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February 2 –
Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (d. 2012)
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February 13 –
Tennessee Ernie Ford, country musician (d. 1991)
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March 10 –
Marion Hutton, big band singer (d. 1987)
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March 15 –
George Avakian, jazz record producer (d. 2017)
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March 17 –
Nat King Cole, singer and pianist (d. 1965)
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March 19 –
Alfred Apaka, Hawaiian singer (d. 1960)
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March 28 –
D. K. Pattammal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
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April 3 –
Ervin Drake, songwriter (d. 2015)
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April 14 –
Karel Berman, opera singer and composer (d. 1995)
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April 16 –
Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer (d. 2009)
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April 21
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April 29 –
Stephen Wilkinson, English conductor and composer (d. 2021)
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May 3 –
Pete Seeger, American folk singer (d. 2014)
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May 7 –
La Esterella, Flemish singer (d.
2011)
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May 12 –
Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002)
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May 16 –
Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
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May 17 –
Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor and producer (d. 2007)
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May 18 –
Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham, English ballerina (d. 1991)
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May 19 –
Georgie Auld, jazz musician (d. 1990)
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May 23 –
Betty Garrett, actress and dancer (d. 2011)
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May 30 –
Joe McQueen, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
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June 11 –
Helen Tobias-Duesberg, composer (d. 2010)
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June 17 –
Gene de Paul, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
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June 22 –
Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1980)
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July 8 –
Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d.
2007)
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July 10 –
Ian Wallace, Scottish bass-baritone opera singer (d.
2009)
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July 27 –
Jonathan Sternberg, American conductor, musical director and professor of music (d.
2018)
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July 31 –
Norman Del Mar, conductor and music writer (d. 1994)
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August 2 –
Carlo Savina, Italian composer and conductor (d.
2002)
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August 11 –
Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso (d. 1949)
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August 13 –
George Shearing, English jazz pianist and composer (d. 2011)
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August 17 –
Irv Williams, African American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
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August 21 –
Tommy Reilly, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2000)
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August 24 –
Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer (d. 2000)
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September 2 –
Marge Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)
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September 3 –
Natalia Clare, ballerina (d. 2007)
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September 4 –
Teddy Johnson, popular singer (d. 2018)
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September 16
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September 21 –
Virgilio Savona, Italian singer, songwriter (d.
2009)
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September 24 –
Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (d.
2018)
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September 30 –
Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (d.
2012)
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October 9 –
Irmgard Seefried, operatic soprano (d. 1988)
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October 11 –
Art Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
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October 18 –
Anita O'Day, singer (d. 2006)
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October 20 –
Lia Origoni, singer (d.
2022)
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October 23 –
Katie Lee, American folk singer (d.
2017)
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October 26 –
James E. Myers, songwriter (d. 2001)
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November 5 –
Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
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November 12 –
Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d.
2009)
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November 15 –
Carol Bruce, singer and actress (d. 2007)
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November 23 –
Cláudio Santoro, composer (d. 1989)
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December 6 –
Blaž Lenger, folk singer (d. 2006)
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December 8 –
Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (d. 1996)
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December 10 –
Sesto Bruscantini, operatic bass-baritone (d. 2003)
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December 21 –
Nelson Cooke, Australian cellist (d.
2018)
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December 25
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December 30 –
David Willcocks, British choral conductor, organist and composer (d.
2015)
Deaths
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January 28 –
Charles McCarron, songwriter (b. 1891)
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February 4 –
Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1845)
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February 18 –
Henry Ragas, jazz pianist (b. 1891)
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March 6 –
Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
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March 8 –
Auguste Tolbeque, cellist and composer (b. 1830)
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March 13 –
Amy Woodforde-Finden, composer (b. 1860)
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March 23 –
Henry Blossom, lyricist (b. 1866)
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April 9 –
James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader (b. 1881) (stabbed in fight)
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April 24 –
Camille Erlanger, opera composer (b. 1863)
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April 25 –
Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
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June 2 –
Ernest Ford, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
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June 22 –
Julian Scriabin, musical prodigy, pianist and composer (b. 1908) (drowned)
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August 1 –
Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario (b. 1847)
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August 4 –
Ferdinand Thieriot, composer (b. 1838)
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August 9 –
Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (b.
1857)
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August 18 –
Anna Deinet, operatic soprano (b. 1843)
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September 11 –
Géza Csáth, writer and musician (b. 1887)
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September 27 –
Adelina Patti, opera singer (b.
1843)
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October 17 –
Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (b. 1842)
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November 19 –
Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor (b. 1869)
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December 16 –
Luigi Illica, librettist (b. 1857)
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December 21 –
Louis Diémer, pianist and composer (b. 1843)
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December 27 –
Achilles Alferaki, statesman, artist and composer (b. 1846)
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December 31 –
Marie van Zandt, operatic soprano (b. 1858)
References
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^ Jones, Jae (2018-09-15).
"Nora Douglas Holt: Co-founder of the National Association of Negro Musicians". Black Then. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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"London's jazz legends". History Features. London:
BBC. 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
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Newman, Ernest (1919-11-02). "Music of the Week".
The Observer. London.
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^ McBeath, Neil, -1980; McGlynn, Claude,
Yarrawonga [music] / written & composed by Neil McBeath ; arranged by Claude McGlynn, Francis Day & Hunter ; J. Albert & Son
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^
Ricardo Lorenz, "
Juan Orrego-Salas: 1919–2019", Indiana University Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music, Latin American Music Center website (accessed January 17, 2020).
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^ Patrick Kavanaugh (1996). Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music. Zondervan. p. 254.
ISBN
9780310208075.
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^ Nicolas Slonimsky (1938).
Music Since 1900. W.W. Norton, Incorporated. p. 197.