1953 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1953.

1953 in music
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By genre
By topic
  • List of albums released
List of years in music (table)
Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong in 1953.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Albums released

Biggest hit singles

The following singles achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1953.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart entries
1Dean MartinThat's Amore1953US BB 1 of 1953, POP 1 of 1953, UK 2 – Jan 1954, US 1940s 2 – Nov 1953, RYM 2 of 1953, Scrobulate 47 of Italian, DDD 73 of 1953, Party 101 of 2007
2Les Paul & Mary FordVaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)1953US 1940s 1 – Jun 1953, US 1 for 11 weeks Aug 1953, Italy 2 of 1954, US BB 3 of 1953, POP 3 of 1953, UK 7 – Nov 1953, RYM 24 of 1953, Europe 97 of the 1950s
3Perry ComoDon't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes1953UK 1 – Jan 1953, US 1940s 1 – Dec 1952, US 1 for 5 weeks Jan 1953, US BB 20 of 1953, POP 20 of 1953, RYM 31 of 1953
4Eddie FisherI'm Walking Behind You1953UK 1 – May 1953, US 1940s 1 – May 1953, US 1 for 2 weeks Jul 1953, US BB 16 of 1953, POP 23 of 1953, RYM 119 of 1953
5Hank WilliamsYour Cheatin' Heart1953RYM 1 of 1953, DDD 2 of 1953, US BB 4 of 1953, POP 4 of 1953, RIAA 34, Scrobulate 87 of country, Rolling Stone 213, Acclaimed 286

US No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of US Billboard magazine's charts in 1953.

First weekNumber of weeksTitleArtist
January 10, 19535"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes"Perry Como
February 14, 19535"Till I Waltz Again With You"Teresa Brewer
March 21, 19538"The Doggie in the Window"Patti Page
May 16, 195310"The Song from Moulin Rouge"Percy Faith & his Orchestra
July 25, 19532"I'm Walking Behind You"Eddie Fisher
August 8, 19539"Vaya con Dios"Les Paul & Mary Ford
October 10, 19534"St. George and the Dragonet"Stan Freberg
November 7, 19532"Vaya con Dios"Les Paul & Mary Ford
November 21, 19536"Rags to Riches"Tony Bennett

Top hits on record

Top R&B and country hits on record

Classical music

Premieres
Sortable table
ComposerCompositionDateLocationPerformers
Bloch, ErnestSuite hébraïque for Viola and Orchestra1953-01-01 ChicagoPreves / Chicago Symphony – Kubelik [1]
Boulez, PierreStructures book 1, for two pianos1953-05-04 CologneGrimaud, Loriod[2]
Carter, ElliottString Quartet No. 11953-02-26 New YorkWalden Quartet[3]
Chávez, CarlosSinfonía romántica (Symphony No. 4)1953-02-11 Louisville, KYLouisville Orchestra – Chávez[4]
Chávez, CarlosSymphony for Strings (Symphony No. 5)1953-12-01 Los AngelesLos Angeles Chamber Orchestra – Chávez[5]
Goldschmidt, BertholdString Quartet No. 21953-07-14 LondonLondon String Quartet [6]
Hartmann, Karl AmadeusConcerto for piano, winds and percussion1953-10-10 Donaueschingen (Musiktage)Bergmann / SWF Symphony – Rosbaud[7]
Holmboe, VagnSinfonia boreale (Symphony No. 8)1953-03-05 CopenhagueDanish Radio Symphony – Kletzki[8]
Honegger, ArthurA Christmas Cantata1953-12-18 BaselBasel Chamber Choir – Sacher[9]
Imbrie, AndrewString Quartet No. 21953-12-05 New York CityKroll Quartet[10]
Kabalevsky, DmitriPiano Concerto No. 31953-??-?? MoscowAshkenazy / Moscow Philharmonic – ?[11]
Martinů, BohuslavRhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra1953-02-19 ClevelandVeissi / Cleveland Orchestra – Szell[12]
Milhaud, DariusSymphony No. 51953-10-16 TurinRAI National Symphony – Milhaud[13]
Montsalvatge, XavierConcierto breve for piano and orchestra1953-12-20 Barcelonade Larrocha / Barcelona Philharmonic – de Froment[14]
Montsalvatge, XavierPoema Concertante for violin and orchestra1953-05-25 BarcelonaSzeryng / Barcelona Municipal Orchestra – Toldrà[15]
Racine Fricker, PeterViola Concerto1953-09-03 Edinburgh (Festival)Primrose / London Philharmonia – Boult[16]
Rubbra, EdmundViola Concerto1953-04-15 LondonBBC Symphony – Sargent[17]
Shostakovich, DmitriString Quartet No. 51953-11-13 MoscowBeethoven Quartet[18]
Shostakovich, DmitriSymphony No. 101953-12-17 LeningradLeningrad Philharmonic – Mravinsky[19]
Karlheinz StockhausenKontra-Punkte1953-05-26 Cologne (ISCM World Music Days)members of the WDR Symphony – Scherchen[20]
Stockhausen, KarlheinzSchlagquartett1953-03-23 Munich (Musica Viva)Porth, Gschwendner, Peinkofer, Kaul[21]
Vaughan Williams, RalphSinfonia antartica (Symphony No. 7)1953-01-14 ManchesterRitchie / Hallé Orchestra – John Barbirolli[22]
Villa-Lobos, HeitorAlvorada na Floresta Tropical for orchestra1953-??-?? Louisville, KYLouisville Orchestra – Whitney[23]
Villa-Lobos, HeitorPiano Concerto No. 41953-01-09 Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh, PASegall / Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra – Villa-Lobos[24]

Compositions

Opera
  • The Decembrists (Yuri Shaporin) first staged 23 June 1953 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow.
  • The Dumb Wife (Joseph Horovitz), premiered 21 November 1953 at the Guildhall School, London, by the Intimate Opera Company.
  • Gloriana (Benjamin Britten) composed 1953, first performed on 8 July 1953 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the presence of Elizabeth II.
  • Irmelin (Frederick Delius) composed 1890–92; first produced Oxford, 4 May 1953.
  • Lenora 40/50 (Rolf Liebermann) first produced in Berlin on 12 February 1953 at the State Opera House in the British sector.
  • Man of Enterprise (Denis Bloodworth) first produced on 8 December 1953 at Tiffin School, Kingston, Surrey, by the school operatic society.
  • Menna (Arwel Hughes) premiered by the Welsh National Opera at the Pavilion in Cardiff on 9 November, with the composer conducting.
  • Nelson (Lennox Berkeley), premiered in a concert performance 14 February 1953 by the English Opera Group at Wigmore Hall, London.
  • Sevil (Fikrat Amirov)
  • Three's Company (Antony Hopkins), premiered 21 November 1953 at the Guildhall School, London, by the Intimate Opera Company.
  • The Tinners of Cornwall (Inglis Gundry), premiered 30 September 1953 at Rudolf Steiner Hall, conducted by Geoffrey Corbett.

Jazz
Main article: 1953 in jazz

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

References
  1. "BLOCH: America / Suite Hebraique".
  2. Martin Iddon, New Music at Darmstadt: Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez, Music since 1900 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press): 69. ISBN 9781107033290.
  3. Sitsky, Larry (1 January 2002). "Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook". Greenwood Publishing Group – via Google Books.
  4. Web(UK), Music on the. "CHAVEZ Complete Symphonies VOXBOX CDX5061 [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- June 2005 MusicWeb-International".
  5. "Music and History".
  6. "Berthold Goldschmidt – String Quartet No.2".
  7. Schott Music
  8. BIS Records
  9. "Une Cantate de Noël (Honegger) – from CDA67688 – Hyperion Records – MP3 and Lossless downloads".
  10. Forgotten Books
  11. "KABALEVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 3 / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Piano Concerto".
  12. "Martinů: Rhapsody-Concerto, Viola Sonata, Duo... – Bohuslav Martinu par Maxim Rysanov".
  13. "1953". 18 September 2009.
  14. Montsalvatgecompositor.com
  15. "Xavier Montsalvatge Compositor".
  16. Schott Music
  17. "Viola Concerto in A major, Op 75 (Rubbra) – from CDA67587 – Hyperion Records – MP3 and Lossless downloads".
  18. Kuhn, Judith (1 January 2010). "Shostakovich in Dialogue: Form, Imagery and Ideas in Quartets 1–7". Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. – via Google Books.
  19. Fay, Laurel E. (1 January 2005). "Shostakovich: A Life". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
  20. AG, Universal Edition. "Universal Edition: Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontra-Punkte".
  21. AG, Universal Edition. "Universal Edition: Karlheinz Stockhausen – Schlagtrio".
  22. "Sinfonia Antartica/Scott Of The Antarctic – CD41".
  23. David P. Appleby, Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography, Bio-Bibliographies in Music 9 (New York, Westport, London: Greenwood Press, 1988): 114. However, Lisa Peppercorn, "Villa-Lobos's Last Years", translated from the German by Robert L. Jacobs, The Music Review 40, no. 4 (November 1979): 285–99, reprinted with corrigenda/addenda in Villa-Lobos: Collected Studies (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1992): 89–105, gives the date of the first performance as 23 January 1954, by the Louisville Orchestra and Whitney, but for the recording later issued by First Edition Records and not in a public concert (pp. 293 / 97, respectively, and corrigenda 105).
  24. Villa-Lobos, sua obra, Version 1.0. (MinC / IBRAM, and the Museu Villa-Lobos, 2009, based on the third edition, 1989): 58.

Works cited

  • Anon. 1953. "Soprano Leaves New York Opera: Night Club Engagement". The Times, issue 52738 (27 September): 6.
  • Morawska-Büngeler, Marietta. 1988. Schwingende Elektronen: Eine Dokumentation über das Studio für Elektronische Musik des Westdeutschen Rundfunks in Köln 1951–1986. Cologne-Rodenkirchen: P. J. Tonger Verlag.
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