Overview of the events of 1911 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events January 26 – Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss , in Dresden ; the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the director is Max Reinhardt .February 21 – Gustav Mahler , who has contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic , of which he has been principal conductor since 1909.April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 4 in Helsinki .April 8 – Gustav Mahler embarks from New York for France; he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later.May 19 – Maurice Ravel 's opera L'heure espagnole Opéra-Comique in Paris, in a double bill with Jules Massenet 's 1907 opera Thérèse May 24 – Edward Elgar conducts the première of his Symphony No. 2 in London .June 15 – Igor Stravinsky 's ballet Petrushka Vaslav Nijinsky .July – Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea [ 1]
November 20 – Gustav Mahler 's Das Lied von der Erde 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
Hit recordings
Classical music Joseph Achron – Hebrew Melody Lili Boulanger – Les Sirènes Frank Bridge – The Sea George Butterworth – Two English Idylls George Whitefield Chadwick – Suite SymphoniqueEric Coates – Miniature Suite Frederick Delius – Summer Night on the River George Enescu –
Sonata for violin and piano, in A minor (first-movement "Torso")
Suite châtelaine , for orchestra (unfinished)Carl Engel – Sea-ShellReinhold Glière – Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)Enrique Granados – Goyescas Reynaldo Hahn – Aubade athénienne Gustav Holst
Invocation for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 19/2
Second Suite in F, for military band
2 Eastern Pictures, H. 112 Charles Ives – Requiem S. 333Paul von Klenau – String Quartet No. 1 in E minorNikolai Medtner – Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"Nikolai Myaskovsky
Sinfonietta in A
Symphony No. 2
Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945). Carl Nielsen – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Arnold Schoenberg – Sechs kleine Klavierstücke Alexander Scriabin
Cyril Scott
An Old Song Ended
Water-Wagtail, Op.71 No.3
Tallahassee, Op.73 No.4 Ethel Smyth – The March of the Women John Philip Sousa – Tales of a Traveler Charles Villiers Stanford
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126 Igor Stravinsky
Amy Woodforde-Finden – "Stars of the Desert"
Opera
Operetta
Musical theater The Count of Luxembourg London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performancesThe Fascinating Widow 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 Globe Theatre on October 17 and ran for 31 performancesDer Lila Domino (Lilac Domino Madame Sherry New York Marriage a la Carte Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performancesPeggy Leslie Stuart , with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and lyrics by C. H. Bovill ,[ 5] 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 performancesThe Quaker Girl Park Theatre on October 23 and ran for 240 performancesThe Revue of Revues 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 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
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
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 , contralto 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 8 – Gertrude Niesen , American singer, actress, comedian and songwriter (d. 1975 )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 26 – Deva Dassy , French opera singer (d. 2016 )August 27 – Kay Walsh , dancer and actress (d. 2005)September 2 – Floyd Council , blues musician (d. 1976)September 11 – Bola de Nieve , singer-songwriter and pianist (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)November 30 – Jorge Negrete , Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953 )[ 6] December 3 – Nino Rota , composer (d. 1979 )[ 7] December 14 – Spike Jones , bandleader (d. 1965)December 15 – Stan Kenton , bandleader (d. 1979 )[ 8] 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 )
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 )[ 9] 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 )[ 10] 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 16 – Frank Peabody Atherton , composer and educator (b. 1868)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 )[ 11] July 25 – Filippo Capocci , Italian organist and composer (b. 1840 )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 )[ 12] December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson , lyricist (born 1860)
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