1915 in music

none 1915 1915 music film radio This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915. Specific locations 1915 in British music 1915 in Norwegian music Specific genres 1915 in jazz Events March–December – The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.https://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/news/how-san-franciscos-panama-pacific-international-expo-of-1915-sparked-the-first-uke-craze The Spark that Started the First Ukulele Craze February 19, 2015 Ukulele magazine July 24, 2021 May 15 – Tom Brown's band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band".Tom Brown's Band from Dixie Land https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202853/http://www.redhotjazz.com/browns.html 2016-03-03 . Accessed 17 April 2013. May 23 – Japanese composer Kōsaku Yamada conducts the premiere of his Overture in D major at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Society ja 東京フィルハーモニー会.Toshisaburō Miura 1931 ja:本邦洋楽変遷史 https://books.google.com/books?id=6iNf7e3w3xYC History of changes in Japanese and Western music Japanese Tokyo, Japan 日東書院 807 April 21 – Sibelius sees sixteen swans over Lake Tuusula which immediately inspires him to write the theme that becomes the finalé to his Symphony No. 5. Summer – Claude Debussy composes at Pourville on the French Channel coast. October 28 – Richard Strauss's symphonic poem An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie) is premiered by the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin under the composer's baton. November 13 – First concert devoted to the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.April 2017 December 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 5 in Helsinki at a birthday concert for him.Jon Paxman Classical Music 1600–2000: A Chronology London Omnibus 2014 978-1-84449-773-7 December – Claude Debussy becomes one of the first people to receive a colostomy. Composer Alban Berg enters service with the Austro-Hungarian Army. Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).Paul Spicer 1998 Herbert Howells Seren Bridgend 1-85411-233-3 44 William Penfro Rowlands's hymn tune "Blaenwern" is first published in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant. Marie and Edward M. Zimmerman's suffrage anthem "Votes for Woman, Suffrage Rallying Song" is published.Suffragist Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the Women's Rights and Suffrage Movement in America, 1795-1921, with Complete Lyrics Danny O. Crew 2015 McFarland & Company 9781476607443 337 Published popular music right|thumb|200px|"The Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton "Agitation Rag" by Robert Hampton "Alabama Jubilee" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb "All For You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant "America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler "Araby" w.m. Irving Berlin "Are You From Dixie?" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg, from the musical The Blue Paradise "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" w.m. Mark Sheridan "Blame It On The Blues" Doc Cooke "Canadian Capers" w. Earl Burnett m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan "Close To My Heart" by Andrew B. Sterling "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer "Don't Take My Darling Boy Away" w. Will Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. Irving Berlin "Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz "The Hesitating Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi "I Love a Piano" w.m. Irving Berlin "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Herman Darewski "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m. James V. Monaco "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz "In a Monastery Garden" m. Albert William Ketèlbey "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. Richard A. Whiting "I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River" w. Bert Kalmar m. Joe Cooper "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" Irving Berlin "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w. William Jerome m. Walter Donaldson "Keep the Home Fires Burning" w. Lena Guilbert Ford m. Ivor Novello (2nd edition, first under this title) "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. Raymond Hubbell "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck "Love Is The Best Of All" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert "Love, Here Is My Heart" w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern "Memories" w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson m. Theodore F. Morse "My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer "My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer "My Sweet Adair" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland "Neapolitan Love Song" w. Henry Blossom Jr m. Victor Herbert "Nola" m. Felix Arndt "Norway" by Joe McCarthy "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag" w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell "Paper Doll" w.m. Johnny S. Black "The Perfect Song" w. Clarence Lucas m. Joseph Carl Breil "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. Elsa Maxwell "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. ClaypoleEdward A. Berlin Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History https://books.google.com/books?id=GwmVWcTQiDgC&pg=PA148 1984 University of California Press 978-0-520-05219-2 148 "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w. Harold J. Atteridge m. Sigmund Romberg from the revue A World of Pleasure "Railroad Jim" by Nat H. Vincent "Ritual Fire Dance" m. Manuel de Falla "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. Ernest R. Ball "Siam" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein. Introduced by Roy Atwell in the musical Alone at Last. "Some Sort Of Somebody" w. Elsie Janis m. Jerome KernKen Bloom American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=Yj7jAAAAMAAJ 1985 Facts on File 978-0-87196-924-8 495 "Song Of The Islands" w.m. Charles E. King "That Hula Hula" w.m. Irving BerlinBerlin (Irving) Music Corporation, New York The Songs of Irving Berlin, Arr. Alphabetically, Chronologically, Categorically, Stage, Screen https://books.google.com/books?id=5SgKAQAAMAAJ 1957 43 "There Must Be Little Cupids in The Briny" Jack Foley "There's a Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher "There's a Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer "Underneath the Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer "We'll Have a Jubilee in My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. Walter Donaldson "Weary Blues" m. Artie Matthews "When I Get Back to the USA" w.m. Irving Berlin "When I Leave the World Behind" w.m. Irving Berlin "When You're in Love with Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi "You Can't Mend a Broken Heart" by Shelton Brooks "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern "You'll Always Be the Same Sweet Girl" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer Hit recordings "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" by Alma Gluck "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by John McCormack "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey "Keep the Home Fires Burning" by James F. Harrison Classical music Béla Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Sonatina Alban Berg – Three Pieces for Orchestra (Drei Orchesterstücke; first performed 1923/30) Frank Bridge Novelletten, H.44 (first published, composed 1904) String Quartet No.2, H.115 Lament, H.117 Harry Thacker Burleigh 5 Songs of Laurence Hope Ethiopia Saluting the Colors John Alden Carpenter Adventures in a Perambulator (first performed)David Ewen American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=TZsYAAAAIAAJ 1987 H.W. Wilson 978-0-8242-0744-1 32 Concertino for piano and orchestra Impromptu for piano Polonaise Américaine for piano Claude Debussy En blanc et noir for two pianos Études for solo piano (two books of 6) Sonata for cello and piano in D minor Sonata for flute, viola and harp (first performed 1916) George Enescu – Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major, Op. 20 Edward Elgar – Polonia, op.76 (Overture) Manuel de Falla El amor brujo (gitanería version for cante flamenco, actors and chamber orchestra) Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Noches en los jardines de España; first performed 1916) Enrique Granados – 2 Danzas Españolas, Op.37 Jesús Guridi – Así cantan los chicos Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (first published 1919) String Quartet No. 2 (first performed 1946) Zoltán Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 Egon Kornauth – Phantasie Op.10 Federico Mompou – L'Hora Gris ("Grey Hour") Manuel Ponce – Balada Mexicana Sergei Prokofiev – Scythian Suite (first performed 1916) Sergei Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil (Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye) Max Reger Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Beethoven, Op. 86 3 Cello Suites, Op. 131c 3 Viola Suites, Op. 131d Violin Sonata No.9, Op.139 String Trio No. 2 in D minor, Op. 141b Requiem, Op. 144b Camille Saint-Saëns – Cavatine, Op. 144 Jean Sibelius Impromptu, Op. 78 Jäger March (Jääkärien marssi), Op. 91a, for male chorus and symphony orchestra Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82 Charles Villiers Stanford – Piano Concerto No.2, Op.126, premiered June 3 in Norfolk, Connecticut Wilhelm Stenhammar – Symphony No. 2 in G minor Richard Strauss – An Alpine Symphony Karol Szymanowski Métopes, for piano Mythes, for violin and piano Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess, for voice and piano 3 Songs on Words by Dmitri Davydov, for voice and piano Gabriel Verdalle – Impromptu No.2 Heitor Villa-Lobos Cello Concerto no. 1 Danças Características Africanas for piano Desesperança – Sonata Phantastica e Capricciosa No. 1 for violin and piano Elégie for orchestra Suíte graciosa (revised in 1946 as String Quartet No. 1) String Quartet No. 2 Trio for piano and strings No. 2 Siegfried Wagner – Violin Concerto Heinrich Weinreis – Es kommt ein Schiff geladen Géza Zichy – Liebestraum Opera Rutland Boughton – Bethlehem Umberto Giordano – Madame Sans-Gene Emmerich Kálmán – Die Csárdásfürstin premiered November 17 in Vienna Jazz 1915 in jazz Musical theater Alone at Last Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 14 and ran for 180 performances Betty London production opened at Daly's Theatre on April 24 and ran for 391 performances The Blue Paradise Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5 and ran for 356 performances. Bric-A-Brac London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 18. 5064 Gerrard London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on March 19. Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway revue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 30 and ran for 425 performances. Maid in America Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 18 and ran for 108 performances. The Only Girl London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 25 and ran for 107 performances. The Passing Show Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on May 29 and ran for 145 performances. Shell Out London production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24 and ran for 315 performances. Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on December 25 and ran for 105 performances. Tonight's The Night London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 18 and ran for 460 performances. Very Good Eddie Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on December 23 and ran for 341 performances A World of Pleasure Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14 and ran for 116 performances. Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 21 and ran for 104 performances Births January 1 – Fulgencio Aquino, Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994) January 6 – Bob Copper, English folk singer (d. 2004) January 25 – Ewan MacColl, English folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)Nick Talevski The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ 1999 Omnibus 978-0-7119-7548-4 260 January 27 – Jack Brymer, English clarinettist (d. 2003)Gramophone https://books.google.com/books?id=IBIKAQAAMAAJ 2003 General Gramophone Publications Limited 16 January 29 – John Serry, Sr., US concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003) January 30 – Dorothy Dell, actress and singer (d. 1934) January 31 – Alan Lomax, US folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002)Guy A. Marco Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States https://books.google.com/books?id=Lvj0AAAAMAAJ 1993 Garland Pub. 978-0-8240-4782-5 396 February 4 – Ray Evans, US songwriter (d. 2007) February 18 – Marcel Landowski, French composer, biographer and arts administrator (d. 1999) March 4 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997) March 10 – Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992) March 14 – Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. International Service Thirty-four Biographies of Canadian Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=OxcXAQAAIAAJ 1972 Scholarly Press 978-0-403-01351-7 21 March 20 Sviatoslav Richter, pianist (d. 1997)Recorded Sound https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJLkAAAAMAAJ 1983 British Institute of Recorded Sound 72 Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer (d. 1973)Black Women in America https://books.google.com/books?id=TJIbAQAAMAAJ 1999 Macmillan Library Reference USA 978-0-02-865363-1 266 March 25 – Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer (d. 1998)Edmond Grant The Motion Picture Guide: 1999 Annual (The Films of 1998) https://books.google.com/books?id=WVAOAQAAMAAJ 1999 CineBooks 978-0-933997-43-1 524 March 27 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., US Delta blues guitarist (d. 2006) March 28 – Jay Livingston, songwriter (d. 2001) March 29 – George Chisholm, Scottish-born jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)Sinclair Traill Play that Music: A Guide to Playing Jazz https://books.google.com/books?id=rOM3AQAAIAAJ 1956 Faber & Faber 12 April 4 – Muddy Waters (born McKinley Morganfield), African American blues musician (d. 1983) April 7 – Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan), African American blues singer (d. 1959)Ken Vail Lady Day's Diary: The Life of Billie Holiday, 1937-1959 https://books.google.com/books?id=1ksIAQAAMAAJ 1996 Castle Communications 978-1-86074-131-9 4 April 12 – Hound Dog Taylor, African American blues guitarist (d. 1975) April 29 – Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999) May 5 – Alice Faye, US actress and singer (d. 1998)Barry Rivadue Alice Faye: A Bio-bibliography https://books.google.com/books?id=ydIgIyw6FSoC&pg=PA1 1990 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-26525-9 1 May 8 – Nan Wynn, US singer (d. 1971) May 25 – Ginny Simms, US singer (d. 1994) May 27 Esther Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996) Midge Williams, African American jazz singer (d. 1952) June 1 – Bart Howard, composer and pianist (d. 2004) June 9 – Les Paul, US musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar (d. 2009) June 12 – Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress (d. 1995) June 17 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician (d. 1973) June 18 – Vic Legley, Dutch composer (d. 1994) June 19 – Mária Gyurkovics, Hungarian soprano (d. 1973)2014 Gyurkovics, Mária Grove Music Online Oxford University Press 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O007766 Péter P. Várnai June 22 – Randolph Henning Hokanson, pianist (died 2018) June 28 – David Honeyboy Edwards, US blues musician (d. 2011) July 1 – Willie Dixon, US blues musician (d. 1992) July 9 – David Diamond, classical composer (d. 2005) July 15 – Frankie Yankovic, polka musician (d. 1998) July 22 – Armando Renzi (it), composer (died 1985) July 23 – Emmett Berry, jazz trumpeter (d. 1993) July 28 – Frankie Yankovic, accordionist and polka musician (d. 1998) July 31 – George Forrest, musical theatre writer (d. 1999) August 6 – Jacques Abram, American pianist (d. 1998) August 9 – Haim Alexander, Israeli composer (d. 2012) August 24 – Wynonie Harris, American singer (d. 1969) August 25 – Walter Trampler, German-born American violist (d. 1997) August 26 – Humphrey Searle, English composer (d. 1982) August 30 – Robert Strassburg, American classical composer (d. 2003) September 3 Knut Nystedt, Norwegian classical composer (d. 2014) Memphis Slim (born John Chatman), African American blues musician (d. 1988) September 5 – Florencio Morales Ramos, singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989) September 12 – Billy Daniels, US singer (d. 1988) September 23 – Julius Baker, flautist (d. 2003) September 24 – Ettore Gracis, conductor (d. 1992) October 10 – Sweets Edison, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1999) October 12 – José Bragato, Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor and arranger (d. 2017) October 31 – Jane Jarvis, American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2010) November 2 – Kay Armen, American singer (d. 2011) November 5 – Myron Floren, American accordionist (d. 2005) November 9 – Hanka Bielicka, Polish singer and actress (d. 2006) November 14 – Billy Bauer, American cool jazz guitarist (d. 2005) November 26 – Earl Wild, American pianist (d. 2010) November 29 – Billy Strayhorn, American jazz composer, pianist, arranger, lyricist and collaborator with Duke Ellington (d. 1967) November 30 – Brownie McGhee, American Piedmont blues musician (d. 1996) December 12 – Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor (d. 1998) December 14 – Dan Dailey, US singer and actor (d. 1978) December 16 – Georgy Sviridov, Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998) December 17 – André Claveau, singer (d. 2003) December 19 – Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963) December 25 – Pete Rugolo, Italian-born US pianist and bandleader (d 2011) Deaths January 2 Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830) Bertha Tammelin, Swedish mezzo-soprano singer and actress (b. 1836) January 5 – Jeanne Gerville-Réache, French operatic contralto (b. 1882) January 21 – Louis Gregh, French composer and publisher (b. 1843) January 22 – Anna Bartlett Warner, songwriter (b. 1827) January 25 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847) February 5 – Paul Collin, translator and lyricist (born 1843) February 12 Fanny Crosby, hymn-writer (b. 1820) Emile Waldteufel, composer (b. 1837) March 12 – Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen, composer (b. 1838) March 19 – Franz Xaver Neruda, cellist and composer (b. 1843) April 27 – Alexander Scriabin, composer (b. 1872) (sepsis) May 7 – Charles Frohman, Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in sinking of the RMS Lusitania) June 2 – Botho Sigwart, composer (born 1884) June 9 – Enrico Rocca, violin maker (b. 1847) June 10 – William Hayman Cummings, organist and singer (b. 1831) June 19 – Sergei Taneyev, pianist and composer (b. 1856) June 25 – Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer (b. 1852) June 30 – Billy Kersands, African American dancer (b. c. 1842) September 15 – Isidor Bajić, composer (b. 1878) September 29 – Rudi Stephan, composer (b. 1887) (killed in action) October 2 – Russell Alexander, entertainer and composer (b. 1877) October 5 Otto Malling, organist and composer (b. 1848) José María Usandizaga, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1887) (tuberculosis) October 22 – Adèle Isaac, operatic soprano (b. 1854) October 26 – August Bungert, German composer and poet (b. 1845) November 12 – Jean-Charles Delioux, French composer (born 1825) November 14 – Teodor Leszetycki, pianist and composer (b. 1830) November 27 – Sigismund Zaremba, Russian composer (b. 1861) c. December 1 – Henry Hart, African American entertainer and composer (b. 1839) December 3 – Lewis F. Muir, American composer of ragtime (born 1883) December 4 – Gustav Hollaender, German composer (b. 1855) December 10 – David Jenkins, Welsh choral composer (b. 1848) References Category:20th century in music Category:Music by year