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Overview of the events of 1901 in music
Overview of the events of 1901 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year
1901 .
Specific locations
Events
Jaroslav Kocián in 1901
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
"A German Minstrel" – George P. Watson on
Edison Records
"Good Evening Carrie" –
Dan W. Quinn
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" – William Baird
"Just As the Sun Went Down" – J.J. Fisher on Consolidated Phonograph
"Ma Tiger Lily" – Arthur Collins on a Victor Monarch Record
Classical music
Opera
George W. Chadwick –
Judith , premieres in a concert version at the Worcester, Massachusetts Music Festival, September 26
Cesar Cui –
A Feast in Time of Plague , one-act opera is performed for the first time in Moscow, November 24
Frederick Delius –
A Village Romeo and Juliet , premieres at Komische Oper Berlin on 21 February 1907
Antonín Dvořák –
Rusalka , premieres at the National Opera House in Prague, March 31
Enrique Granados –
Picarol , premieres at Teatre Líric Català de Barcelona, February 23
Pietro Mascagni –
Le maschere , premieres simultaneously in six different Italien cities, January 17
Jules Massenet –
Grisélidis , premieres at the Opera-Comique in Paris, November 20
Giacomo Orefice –
Chopin , premieres at Teatro Lirico, Milan, November 25
Ignace Jan Paderewski –
Manru , premieres at the Dresden Opera, May 29
Hans Pfitzner –
Die Rose vom Liebesgarten , premieres in Elberfeld, Germany, November 9
Camille Saint-Saens –
Les Barbares , produced at the Paris Opera, October 23
Charles Villiers Stanford –
Much Ado About Nothing , premieres at Covent Garden, London, May 30
Richard Strauss –
Feuersnot , premieres at the Konigliches Opernhouse in Dresden, November 21
Ballet
Births
January 22 –
Hans Erich Apostel , composer (d. 1972)
February 2 –
Jascha Heifetz , violinist (d. 1987)
February 9 –
Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar , Malayalam actor, singer and author (d. 1985)
February 15 –
Kokomo Arnold , blues musician (d. 1968)
March 21 –
Nikos Skalkottas ,
Greek composer (d. 1949)
March 27 –
Enrique Santos Discépolo , Argentinian tango musician, composer and writer (d. 1951)
April 9 –
Arthur Briggs , jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
May 7 –
Marcel Poot , Belgian composer (d. 1988)
May 12 –
Scrappy Lambert , US singer (d. 1987)
May 17 –
Werner Egk , composer (d. 1983)
May 21 –
Horace Heidt , US bandleader (d. 1986)
May 23 –
Edmund Rubbra , composer (d. 1986)
May 30 –
Frankie Trumbauer , US saxophonist, bandleader and singer (d. 1956)
June 6 –
Véra Korène , actress and singer (d. 1996)
June 10 –
Frederick Loewe , composer of musicals (d. 1988)
June 24 –
Harry Partch , composer (d. 1974)
June 29 –
Nelson Eddy , US singer and actor (d. 1967)
July 3 –
Ruth Crawford Seeger , composer (d. 1953)
July 14 –
Gerald Finzi , English composer (d. 1956)
July 16 –
Fritz Mahler , Austrian conductor, a nephew of Gustav Mahler (d. 1973)
July 28 –
Rudy Vallée , singer & bandleader (d. 1986)
August 4 –
Louis Armstrong , jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, singer (d. 1971)
August 11 –
Guido Agosti , Italian pianist and piano teacher (d. 1989)
August 16 –
Olav Kielland , Norwegian composer and conductor (d. 1985)
August 17 –
Henri Tomasi , French composer (d. 1971)
September 2 –
Phil Napoleon , jazz trumpeter (d. 1990)
September 9 –
James Blades , percussionist (d. 1999)
September 12 –
Ernst Pepping , composer (d. 1981)
September 26 –
Ted Weems , US bandleader (d. 1963)
October 2
October 7 –
Ralph Rainger , US composer and pianist (d. 1942)
October 8 –
Eivind Groven , composer (d. 1977)
October 18 –
Annette Hanshaw , US singer (d. 1985)
October 20
November 1 –
Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt German composer (d. 1988)
November 5 –
Etta Moten Barnett , US contralto singer and actress (d. 2004)
[13]
November 21 –
Giacomo Vaghi , Italian opera singer (d. 1978)
November 22 –
Joaquin Rodrigo , Spanish composer (d. 1999)
December 22 –
André Kostelanetz , conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
December 26 –
Victor Hely-Hutchinson , composer (d. 1947)
December 27 –
Marlene Dietrich , German-American actress (d. 1992)
Deaths
January 11 –
Vasily Kalinnikov , composer (b. 1866)
January 27 –
Giuseppe Verdi , composer (b. 1813)
February 11 –
Henry Willis , organ builder (b. 1821)
February 17 –
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin , pianist and composer (b. 1862)
March 19 –
Philippe Gille , librettist (b. 1831)
March 31 – Sir
John Stainer , composer and organist (b. 1840)
[14]
April 3 –
Richard D'Oyly Carte , producer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1844)
April 14 –
Alice Barnett , singer and actress (b. 1846)
[15]
May 2 –
Franz Rummel , pianist (b. 1853)
May 9 –
Gottfried von Preyer , conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1807)
May 20 –
Betty Fibichová operatic contralto (b. 1846)
June 17 –
Cornelius Gurlitt , composer (b. 1820)
June 23 –
Charles Kensington Salaman , composer (b. 1814)
[16]
July 18 –
Carlo Alfredo Piatti , cellist (b. 1822)
August 17 –
Edmond Audran , composer (b. 1842)
August 24 –
Gunnar Wennerberg , poet, politician and composer (b. 1817)
September 3 –
Friedrich Chrysander , music historian and critic (b. 1826)
September 29 –
Adelaide Borghi-Mamo , mezzo-soprano (b. 1826)
October 22 –
Frederic Archer , organist, conductor and composer (b. 1838)
[17]
November 25 –
Josef Rheinberger , Liechtensteinian organist and composer (b. 1839)
December 15 –
Elias Álvares Lobo , composer (b. 1834)
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^ "Concert-Room Impressions", The Musical Standard (December 14, 1901): 368.
^ George B. Bryan; Wolfgang Mieder (2005).
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . Peter Lang. p. 393.
ISBN
978-0-8204-7947-7 .
^ Joshua Polster (October 16, 2015).
Stages of Engagement: U.S. Theatre and Performance 1898–1949 . Routledge. p. 82.
ISBN
978-1-317-35873-2 .
^ Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner (1988).
Popular Music, 1900–1919: An Annotated Guide to American Popular Songs . Gale Research International, Limited. p. 94.
ISBN
978-0-8103-2595-1 .
^ Mark Twain; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1973).
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ISBN
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^
The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . J.T. White. 1971. p. 172.
^ Vic Hobson (March 19, 2014).
Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues . Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 92.
ISBN
978-1-62674-096-9 .
^ Smith, Harry B; Levi, Maurice (1901).
The Wedding of the Reuben and the Maid . New York: Rogers Brothers. Retrieved September 21, 2014 .
^ Williams & Walker (1902).
When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in . New York: Jos. W. Stern and Co. Retrieved September 21, 2014 .
^ Jerome, William (1901).
When Mr. Shakespeare comes to town . New York: Howley, Haviland and Dresser. Retrieved September 21, 2014 .
^ Johnson Publishing Company (January 26, 2004).
Jet . Johnson Publishing Company. p. 12.
^
Dibble, Jeremy (2007).
John Stainer: A life in music . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. p. 308.
ISBN
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^ Stone, David.
Alice Barnett at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte , Retrieved 14 June 2010
^ Devonshire, (1901-08-01). "Charles Salaman". The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular , 42 :702. pp. 530–533.
^
"Pittsburg Organist's Life Ended" . The Pittsburg Press . October 22, 1901. p. 1.