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 was 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.
- 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
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
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] 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 – Sidney Griller, violinist and founder of the Griller Quartet (d. 1993)
- 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)
- September 24 – Marie Kraja, Albanian operatic and folk singer (d. 1999)
- October 1 – Irwin Kostal, arranger (d. 1994)
- 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 comedian (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)
- January 28 – Wilhelmina Fundin, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1819)
- 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" Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine.. 4 January 2002, accessed 11 August 2010
- ↑ Biography at the Stichting DE LANGE website