This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1913.
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February 5 – Claudio Monteverdi 's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea is performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years, in Paris.[1]
March 9 – The second performance of Francesco Balilla Pratella 's Musica Futurista in Rome becomes the first of several pieces this year of classical music with an unruly audience response .[2] [3]
March 31 – Skandalkonzert : A concert at the Musikverein in Vienna with Arnold Schoenberg conducting music by himself and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern , particularly Berg's Altenberg Lieder , provokes fisticuffs and is abandoned.[4]
April 1 – Manuel de Falla 's opera La vida breve is given its world première in Nice .
May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring , with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris , its modernism provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history.[5] The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio , Coco Chanel , Marcel Duchamp , Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel . Police are called during the interval.
September 5 – Sergei Prokofiev 's performance of the first version of his Piano Concerto No. 2 at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg , is met with hisses and catcalls.[6]
September 10 – Jean Sibelius 's tone poem Luonnotar is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral , England, with soprano Aino Ackté and orchestra conducted by Herbert Brewer .[7]
October – Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced.
The term "Jazz " first appears in print (in the San Francisco Bulletin ).
Louis Armstrong begins playing the cornet , in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs.
Lili Boulanger becomes the first woman to win the Musical Composition section of the Prix de Rome , with her cantata Faust et Hélène .
The Aeolian Company introduces the Duo-Art piano technology.
Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster .
"Abie Sings An Irish Song": words & music by Irving Berlin
"All Aboard For Dixieland": words Jack Yellen , music George L. Cobb
"And Then", w. Alfred Bryan , m. Herman Paley
"The Angelus", w. Robert B. Smith , w. Victor Herbert
"Asia" by E. Ray Goetz
"At The Ball, That's All" by J. Leubrie Hill
"Ay, Ay, Ay!" by Osmán Pérez Freire
"Ballin' the Jack ", w. James Henry Burris , m. Chris Smith
"Brighten The Corner Where You Are" w. Ina Duley Ogdon m. Charles H. Gabriel
"The Bubble" by Otto Harbach
"Crazy Bone Rag" m. Charles L. Johnson
"The Cricket On The Hearth" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
"'Cross The Great Divide" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
"The Curse Of An Aching Heart" w. Henry Fink m. Al Piantadosi
"Daddy, Come Home " w.m. Irving Berlin
"Danny Boy " w. Frederick Weatherly m. trad
"Don't Blame It All On Broadway" w. Joe Young & Harry Williams m. Bert Grant
"Down In Chattanooga" w.m. Irving Berlin
"El Cóndor Pasa " by Daniel Alomía Robles
"Fat Li'l' Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes" w.m. Sheridan Gordon & F. L. Stanton
"Fifteen Cents" by Chris Smith
"Gasoline " w. J. Will Callahan (1874–1946), m. Paul Pratt (1890–1948)
"Goodbye Boys" w. Andrew B. Sterling & William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
"Happy Little Country Girl" w.m. Irving Berlin
"He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile) " w. Grant Clark & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams
"Hello, Honey" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell . Introduced by Elizabeth Brice in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1913
"Hungarian Rag" m. Julius Lenzberg
"I Can Live Without You" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
"I Miss You Most Of All" w.m. Joseph McCarthy Sr. & James V. Monaco
"If I Had My Way" w. Lou Klein m. James Kendis
"I'll Change The Shadows To Sunshine" w. George Graff Jr. m. Ernest R. Ball
"I'll Get You" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
"I'm On My Way To Mandalay" w. Al Bryan m. Fred Fisher
"The Incandescent Rag" m. George Botsford
"The International Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Isle D'Amour" w. Earl Carroll m. Leo Edwards
"It's Nice To Get Up In The Morning" w.m. Harry Lauder
"Just For Tonight" w.m. George L. Cobb
"Keep On Walking" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Lion Tamer Rag" m. Mark Janza
"Look In Her Eyes" w. M. E. Rourke m. Jerome Kern
"Marcheta" by Victor Schertzinger
"Melinda's Wedding Day" Berlin
"My Little Moonlight Maid" w. W. R. Williams m. Spencer Williams
"Never Mind" w.m. Harry Dent & Tom Goldburn
"The Old Maids' Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
"On the Old Fall River Line " w. William Jerome & Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
"Panama" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell
"Peg O' My Heart " w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
"The Pullman Porters On Parade" w. Ren G. May m. Maurice Abrahams
"Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Albert Gumble
"Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay" George Botsford & Jean C. Harvez
"San Francisco Bound " w.m. Irving Berlin
"Snookey Ookums" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Somebody's Coming To My House" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Something Seems Tingle-Ingling" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
"The Sunshine of Your Smile " w. Leonard Cooke m. Lilian Ray
"Sweethearts" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
"Take Me to Roseland, My Beautiful Rose" w. Jack Strouse & Ed Johnson m. Nat Osbrone
"There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
"There's a Long, Long Trail " w. Stoddard King m. Alonzo Elliot
"There Is Power in a Union " w. Joe Hill m. Lewis E. Jones
"They've Got Me Doin' It Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby) " w.m. James Royce Shannon
"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine " w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
"Tra-La, La, La!" w.m. Irving Berlin
"We Have Much To Be Thankful For" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Welcome Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
"When You Play In The Game Of Love" w. Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
"When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
"Where Did You Get That Girl?" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Puck
"You Made Me Love You " w. Joseph McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
"You're Here And I'm Here" w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
"You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" w.m. Irving Berlin
Alban Berg – 4 Stücke, Op. 5
George Butterworth – Banks of Green Willow
John Alden Carpenter – Violin Sonata
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Questo fu il carro della morte , Op. 2
Claude Debussy
La boîte à joujoux (ballet)
Syrinx
Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Frederick Delius – I-Brasil, RT V/28
Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
Paul von Klenau
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4 (Dante-Symphony )
Paolo und Francesca (symphonic fantasy)
Fritz Kreisler – Allegretto in the Style of Porpora
Nikolai Medtner – 4 Fairy Tales, Op.26
Morfydd Owen – Nocturne
Sergey Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No.2, Op.16 (original version, lost in the Russian Revolution)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Bells (Choral symphony), premiered November 30 in St. Petersburg.
Piano Sonata No.2, Op.36 (first version)
Maurice Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2, M. 57b
À la manière de Borodine , M. 63
À la manière de Chabrier , M. 63
Prélude in A minor, M.65
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Max Reger
Introduction, Passacaglia und Fuge, Op.127
4 Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin, Op.128
9 Stücke, Op.129
Ottorino Respighi – Ouverture carnevalesca
Erik Satie
F. Xaver Scharwenka – Eglantine waltz
Arnold Schoenberg – Gurre-Lieder (first performed/published; composed 1900–1911)[8]
Jean Sibelius – The Bard
Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
Germaine Tailleferre – Berceuse for violin and piano in E major
Ralph Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
Louis Vierne – Messe basse , Op. 30
Anton Webern
Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, for string quartet
Five Pieces for orchestra
Three Pieces for string quartet and mezzo-soprano
January 22 – Sid Bass , songwriter (d. 1993)
January 24 – Norman Dello Joio , American composer (d. 2008)
January 25 – Witold Lutosławski , composer (d. 1994)
January 26 – Jimmy Van Heusen , American composer (d. 1990)
January 27
January 31 – Pedro Jústiz "Peruchín ", Cuban pianist (d. 1977)
February 4 – Yam Kim-fai , Cantonese opera singer (d. 1989)
March 2 – Celedonio Romero , guitarist, composer and poet (d. 1996)
March 4 – Willie Johnson , guitarist (d. 1995)
March 5 – Gangubai Hangal , Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
March 13
March 29 – Pappukutty Bhagavathar , Indian actor and singer (d. 2020)
March 30 – Frankie Laine , singer (d. 2007)
March 31 – Etta Baker , blues guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
April 4 – Gene Ramey , jazz musician (d. 1984)
April 14 – Jean Fournet , French conductor (d. 2008)
May 1 – Walter Susskind , Czech conductor (d. 1980)
May 6
May 12 – Jamelão , samba singer (d. 2008)
May 16 – Woody Herman , US jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1987)
May 21 – Gina Bachauer , pianist (d. 1976)
May 18 – Charles Trenet , French singer, actor and songwriter (d. 2001)
June 10 – Tikhon Khrennikov , Russian composer (d. 2007)
June 11 – Risë Stevens , American mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)
June 12 – Nina Mae McKinney , dancer and actress (d. 1967)
June 13 – Joy Boughton , English oboist (died 1963)
June 18 – Sammy Cahn , songwriter (d. 1993)
June 23 – Helen Humes , US singer (d. 1981)
June 28 – George Lloyd , composer (d. 1998)
July 12 – Reino Helismaa , singer-songwriter (d. 1965)
July 15 – Cowboy Copas , country singer (d. 1963)
July 22 – Gorni Kramer , Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
August 2
August 8 – Axel Stordahl , arranger, best known for his collaborations with Frank Sinatra (d. 1963 )
August 28 – Robert Irving , conductor (d. 1991)
August 29 – Sylvia Fine , songwriter (d. 1991)
September 6 – Julie Gibson , American actress and singer (d. 2019 )
September 17 – Jørgen Jersild , Danish composer and music educator (d. 2004)
September 20 – John Collins , jazz guitarist (d. 2001)
September 23 -Alexi Matchavariani, Georgian,(Soviet) Composer,(d.31/12/1995)
September 26 – Dorothy Sloop , jazz musician (d. 1998)
October 15 – David Carroll , songwriter and conductor (d. 2008)
October 16 – Gino Bechi , operatic bass-baritone (d. 1993)
October 19
October 24 – Tito Gobbi , operatic baritone (d. 1984)
October 26 – Charlie Barnet , US bandleader (d. 1991)
November 2 – Harry Babbitt , US singer with Kay Kyser & his orchestra (d. 2004)
November 3 – Marika Rökk , singer, dancer and actress (d. 2004)
November 8 – June Havoc , vaudeville performer and film star (d. 2010)
November 11 – Ivy Benson , bandleader (d. 1993)
November 15 – Gus Johnson , jazz drummer (d. 2000)
November 19 – Blue Barron , orchestra leader (d. 2005)
November 22 – Benjamin Britten , composer (d. 1976)
November 23 – Raymond Hanson , composer and teacher (d. 1976)
December 1 – Mary Martin , US singer and actress (d. 1990)
December 6 – Karl Haas , editor and musicologist (died 2005)
December 10 – Morton Gould , composer, conductor and arranger (d. 1996)
December 14 – Rosalyn Tureck , pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
December 30 – Lucio Agostini , conductor and composer (d. 1996)
January 24 – Gustav Carl Luders , composer (b. 1865)
February 10 – Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov , lyricist (born 1848)
February 26 – Felix Draeseke , composer (b. 1835)
March 19
March 20 – Christian Barnekow , Danish composer (b. 1837)
April 4 – Alessandro Parisotti , composer and music writer (b. 1853)
May 5 – Helen Carte , theatre impresario (b. 1852)
June 3 – Josef Richard Rozkošný , pianist and composer (b. 1833)
June 6 – Mary Seney Sheldon , first female president of the New York Philharmonic (b. 1863)
June 17 – Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf , Swedish-German composer (b. 1840)
July 4 – Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel , Ukrainian-Russian operatic soprano (b. 1868)
July 16 – Sigismund Bachrich , violinist and composer (b. 1841)
July 17 – Armes Beaumont , singer (b. 1842)
August 7 – David Popper , cellist and composer (b. 1843)
August 11 – Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha , lawyer, diplomat and composer
August 26 – Michael Maybrick , composer and singer (b. 1841)
September 13 – Alfred R. Gaul , conductor and composer (b. 1837)
September 17 – Alfred Sormann , pianist and composer (b. 1861)
September 22 – Eliakum Zunser , poet and songwriter (b. 1835)
October 20
November 3 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff , pianist and composer (b. 1830)
December 6 – Alexander Hurley , music hall performer (b. 1871)
date unknown – Ludwig Milde , composer of bassoon music (b. 1849)
Anon., "'Pleasure Seekers' a Spectacle Only: New Winter Garden Show Lacks Comedy, but Has a Big, Dazzling Chorus: Snowball Fight Exciting", The New York Times (4 November 1913): 9.
James M. Salem, A Guide to Critical Reviews: The Musical, 1909–1974 , second edition (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976): 389. ISBN 9780810809598 .