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" Edison Records
"Good Evening Carrie" Dan W. Quinn
"In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"
"Just As the Sun Went Down"
"Ma Tiger Lily"
Classical music
Opera
George W. Chadwick – Judith Cesar Cui – A Feast in Time of Plague Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet Antonín Dvořák – Rusalka Enrique Granados – Picarol Pietro Mascagni – Le maschere Jules Massenet – Grisélidis Giacomo Orefice – Chopin Ignace Jan Paderewski – Manru Hans Pfitzner – Die Rose vom Liebesgarten Camille Saint-Saens – Les Barbares Charles Villiers Stanford – Much Ado About Nothing Richard Strauss – Feuersnot
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 14 – Ralph E. Hudson , American hymnwriter (b. 1843)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)
References
^ Grainger, Geoff "Abe Holzmann (1874–1939)" Composers of Recorder Music , retrieved on 25 April 2009.^ Burbank, Richard (1984). Twentieth Century Music . New York City, USA: Facts on File Publication, New York City, NY. p. 10. ISBN 0-87196-464-3 ^ "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 ISBN 978-0-8204-7947-7 ^ Joshua Polster (October 16, 2015). Stages of Engagement: U.S. Theatre and Performance 1898–1949 ISBN 978-1-317-35873-2 ^ Barbara Naomi Cohen-Stratyner (1988). Popular Music, 1900–1919: An Annotated Guide to American Popular Songs ISBN 978-0-8103-2595-1 ^ Mark Twain; Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1973). What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings ISBN 978-0-520-01621-7 ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography ^ Vic Hobson (March 19, 2014). Creating Jazz Counterpoint: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues ISBN 978-1-62674-096-9 ^ Smith, Harry B; Levi, Maurice (1901). The Wedding of the Reuben and the Maid . Retrieved September 21, 2014 . ^ Williams & Walker (1902). When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in . Retrieved September 21, 2014 . ^ Jerome, William (1901). When Mr. Shakespeare comes to town . Retrieved September 21, 2014 . ^ Johnson Publishing Company (January 26, 2004). Jet ^ Dibble, Jeremy (2007). John Stainer: A life in music ISBN 978-1-84383-297-3 the original on October 27, 2014. Retrieved August 23, 2021 .^ 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.
