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"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
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
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)
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)
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.
Johnson Publishing Company (January 26, 2004). Jet . Johnson Publishing Company. p. 12.
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.