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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
![]() Cover of sheet music "Dardanella", 1919
- "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
 Sheet music cover for "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
 Sheet music cover for "Sipping Cider Through A Straw"
Hit recordings
Classical music
 Rebecca Clarke holding her viola in 1919
- Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 39, "Från havsbandet"
- Granville Bantock - Hamabdil for cello, harp and strings
- Arnold Bax – Tintagel
- Ernest Bloch – Suite for Viola and Orchestra
- Rebecca Clarke – Sonata for Viola and Piano
- Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
- Gabriel Fauré – Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
- Robert Fuchs – Twelve Waltzes, Op. 110, for piano
- Louis Glass – Symphony No. 5 in C major, Op. 57, "Svastika"
- Peder Gram – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
- Charles Tomlinson Griffes – The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
- Alois Hába - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
- Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
- Paul Hindemith
- Gustav Holst - Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38
- Dorothy Howell – Lamia
- Ernst Krenek - Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 2
- 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
- Le bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (ballet)
- Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 58b
- Carl Nielsen – Aladdin (for theatre)
- Gabriel Pierné – Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, M68a (orchestration of 4 pieces from M 68)
- Dane Rudhyar – Syntony
- Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
- Leo Sowerby – Concerto for Harp
- Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt
- Igor Stravinsky
- Joaquín Turina
- Niñerías, Series 1 Op. 21, for piano
- Danzas fantásticas Op. 22, two versions: piano solo, and orchestra
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
Opera
Jazz
Musical theater
Births
- January 1 – Yoshio Tabata, singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
- January 14 – Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi songwriter (d. 2002)
- January 18 – Juan Orrego-Salas, Chilean-American composer (d. 2019[5]
- January 22 – Sid Ramin, arranger (d. 2019)
- January 25 – Eula Beal, operatic contralto (d. 2008)
- January 27 – Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville), of The Chipmunks (d. 1972)
- February 1 – Artie Singer, American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d. 2008)
- February 2 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (d. 2012)
- February 13 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, country musician (d. 1991)
- March 10 – Marion Hutton, big band singer (d. 1987)
- March 15 – George Avakian, jazz record producer (d. 2017)
- March 17 – Nat King Cole, singer and pianist (d. 1965)
- March 19 – Alfred Apaka, Hawaiian singer (d. 1960)
- March 28 – D. K. Pattammal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
- April 3 – Ervin Drake, songwriter (d. 2015)
- April 14 – Karel Berman, opera singer and composer (d. 1995)
- April 16 – Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer (d. 2009)
- April 21
- April 29 – Stephen Wilkinson, English conductor and composer (d. 2021)
- May 3 – Pete Seeger, American folk singer (d. 2014)
- May 7 – La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
- May 12 – Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002)
- May 16 – Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- May 17 – Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor and producer (d. 2007)
- May 18 – Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham, English ballerina (d. 1991)
- May 19 – Georgie Auld, jazz musician (d. 1990)
- May 23 – Betty Garrett, actress and dancer (d. 2011)
- May 30 – Joe McQueen, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
- June 11 – Helen Tobias-Duesberg, composer (d. 2010)
- June 17 – Gene de Paul, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
- June 22 – Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1980)
- July 8 – Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
- July 10 – Ian Wallace, Scottish bass-baritone opera singer (d. 2009)
- July 27 – Jonathan Sternberg, American conductor, musical director and professor of music (d. 2018)
- July 31 – Norman Del Mar, conductor and music writer (d. 1994)
- August 2 – Carlo Savina, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2002)
- August 11 – Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso (d. 1949)
- August 13 – George Shearing, English jazz pianist and composer (d. 2011)
- August 17 – Irv Williams, African American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
- August 21 – Tommy Reilly, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2000)
- August 24 – Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer (d. 2000)
- September 2 – Marge Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)
- September 3 – Natalia Clare, ballerina (d. 2007)
- September 4 – Teddy Johnson, popular singer (d. 2018)
- September 16
- September 21 – Virgilio Savona, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 2009)
- September 24 – Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (d. 2018)
- September 30 – Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (d. 2012)
- October 9 – Irmgard Seefried, operatic soprano (d. 1988)
- October 11 – Art Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
- October 18 – Anita O'Day, singer (d. 2006)
- October 20 – Lia Origoni, singer (d. 2022)
- October 23 – Katie Lee, American folk singer (d. 2017)
- October 26 – James E. Myers, songwriter (d. 2001)
- November 5 – Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
- November 12 – Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
- November 15 – Carol Bruce, singer and actress (d. 2007)
- November 23 – Cláudio Santoro, composer (d. 1989)
- December 6 – Blaž Lenger, folk singer (d. 2006)
- December 8 – Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (d. 1996)
- December 10 – Sesto Bruscantini, operatic bass-baritone (d. 2003)
- December 21 – Nelson Cooke, Australian cellist (d. 2018)
- December 25
- December 30 – David Willcocks, British choral conductor, organist and composer (d. 2015)
Deaths
- January 28 – Charles McCarron, songwriter (b. 1891)
- February 4 – Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1845)
- February 18 – Henry Ragas, jazz pianist (b. 1891)
- March 6 – Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- March 8 – Auguste Tolbeque, cellist and composer (b. 1830)
- March 13 – Amy Woodforde-Finden, composer (b. 1860)
- March 23 – Henry Blossom, lyricist (b. 1866)
- April 9 – James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader (b. 1881) (stabbed in fight)
- April 24 – Camille Erlanger, opera composer (b. 1863)
- April 25 – Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
- June 2 – Ernest Ford, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
- June 22 – Julian Scriabin, musical prodigy, pianist and composer (b. 1908) (drowned)
- August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario (b. 1847)
- August 4 – Ferdinand Thieriot, composer (b. 1838)
- August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (b. 1857)[6]
- August 18 – Anna Deinet, operatic soprano (b. 1843)
- September 11 – Géza Csáth, writer and musician (b. 1887)
- September 27 – Adelina Patti, opera singer (b. 1843)[7]
- October 17 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (b. 1842)
- November 19 – Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor (b. 1869)
- December 16 – Luigi Illica, librettist (b. 1857)
- December 21 – Louis Diémer, pianist and composer (b. 1843)
- December 27 – Achilles Alferaki, statesman, artist and composer (b. 1846)
- December 31 – Marie van Zandt, operatic soprano (b. 1858)
References
- ^ Jones, Jae (2018-09-15). "Nora Douglas Holt: Co-founder of the National Association of Negro Musicians". Black Then. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
- ^ "London's jazz legends". History Features. London: BBC. 2014-09-24. Retrieved 2019-06-24.
- ^ Newman, Ernest (1919-11-02). "Music of the Week". The Observer. London.
- ^ McBeath, Neil; McGlynn, Claude, Yarrawonga [music] / written & composed by Neil McBeath ; arranged by Claude McGlynn, Francis Day & Hunter ; J. Albert & Son
- ^ Ricardo Lorenz, "Juan Orrego-Salas: 1919–2019", Indiana University Bloomington, Jacobs School of Music, Latin American Music Center website (accessed January 17, 2020).
- ^ Patrick Kavanaugh (1996). Music of the Great Composers: A Listener's Guide to the Best of Classical Music. Zondervan. p. 254. ISBN 9780310208075.
- ^ Nicolas Slonimsky (1938). Music Since 1900. W.W. Norton, Incorporated. p. 197.
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