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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1908.

Specific locations

  • 1908 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

  • 1908 in jazz

Events

  • January 26 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 receives its première.
  • March 15 – Maurice Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole receives its première in Paris.
  • April 11 – Spyridon Samaras's opera Rhea is premiered in Florence (Teatro Verdi)
  • September 19 – Première of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 7 in Prague.
  • November 18 – Release in France of the film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise with a score from Saint-Saëns.
  • December 3 – Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 1 receives its première in Manchester.
  • December 18 – Claude Debussy's Children's Corner receives its première in Paris.
  • Anthony Maggio publishes a dance band orchestration of early Blues "I Got The Blues" in New Orleans.
  • Opera singer Amelita Galli marries the Marchese Luigi Curci, and acquires the name by which she becomes best-known.
  • Claude Debussy marries Emma Bardac.
  • "The ABCs of the U.S.A." w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Yankee Prince
  • "All For Love Of You" w. Dave Reed m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "Any Old Port In A Storm" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Kerry Mills
  • "Black And White Rag" w.m. George Botsford
  • "Consolation" by Edward Madden
  • "Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
  • "Daisies Won't Tell" w.m. Anita Owen
  • "Down Among The Sugar Cane" w. Avery & Charles Hart m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
  • "Down In Jungle Town" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
  • "The Fairest Of The Fair" w.m. John Philip Sousa
  • "Feed The Kitty" w. Ed Moran m. J. Fred Helf
  • "Fig Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
  • "Golliwog's Cake Walk" m. Claude Debussy
  • "Good Evening, Caroline" by Albert Von Tilzer & Jack Norworth
  • "Ham And !" by Arthur Marshall
  • "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" w.m. C. W. Murphy & Will Letters. With new lyrics by William McKenna it was performed by Nora Bayes in the 1910 Broadway production of the musical The Jolly Bachelors
  • "I Hear You Calling Me" w. Harold Harford (actual name Harold Lake) m. Charles Marshall
  • "If I Had A Thousand Lives To Live" w. Sylvester Maguire m. Alfred Solman
  • "I'm A Yiddish Cowboy" w. Edgar Leslie m. Al Piantodosi & Halsey K. Mohr
  • "I'm Glad I'm Married" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "I'm Looking For The Man That Wrote "The Merry Widow Waltz"" w. Edgar Selden m. Seymour Furth
  • "In The Garden Of My Heart" w. Caro Roma m. Ernest R. Ball
  • "It's The Pretty Things You Say" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
  • "I've Taken Quite A Fancy To You" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
  • "Kerry Mills' Barn Dance" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
  • "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" w. Ren Shields m. Kerry Mills
  • "Love Is Like A Cigarette" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
  • "Love Me Like I Want To Be Loved" w. Earle C. Jones & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
  • "Love's Roundelay" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
  • "Make A Noise Like A Hoop And Roll Away" w. Ren Shields m. J. Fred Helf
  • "Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  • "Mother Hasn't Spoken To Father Since" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  • "My Brudda Sylvest'" w. Jesse Lasky m. Fred Fisher
  • "My Girl's A Yorkshire Girl" w.m. C. W. Murphy & Dan Lipton
  • "Now I Have To Call Him Father" w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Godfrey
  • "The Old Time Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore Morse
  • "Pine Apple Rag" by Scott Joplin
  • "Shine On Harvest Moon" w. Jack Norworth m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
  • "A Singer Sang A Song" w. Will Heelan m. Seymour Furth
  • "Smarty" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Sun Bird m. Kerry Mills
  • "Sweetest Gal In Town" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson
  • "Sweetest Maid Of All" w. Joseph Herbert m. Oscar Straus
  • "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "Up In A Balloon" w. Ren Shields m. Percy Wenrich
  • "When Highland Mary Danced The Highland Fling" w. Jack Mahoney m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "When It's Moonlight On The Prairie" w. Robert F. Roden m. S. R. Henry
  • "When We Are M-A-Double-R-I-E-D" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical Fifty Miles From Boston
  • "The Whitewash Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  • "The Yama Yama Man" w. Collin Davis m. Karl Hoschna
  • "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!" w. Will D. Cobb m. John H. Flynn
  • "You Will Have To Sing An Irish Song" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
  • "You're In The Right Church, But The Wrong Pew" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith

Hit recordings

  • " The Small Town Gal" – George M. Cohan
  • "All She Gets from the Iceman Is Ice" – Ada Jones

Classical music

  • Kurt Atterberg – Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
  • Béla Bartók – First Violin Concerto
  • Alban Berg – Piano Sonata, Op.1
  • York Bowen – Viola Concerto in C minor
  • Henry Walford Davies – Solemn Melody for organ
  • George Enescu –
    • Cantate pour la pose de la prèmiere pierre du pont à transbordeur de Bordeaux, for military band, two harps, string orchestra, solo cello, choir, baritone solo, and cannons
    • "Morgengebet", for voice and piano
    • Sept chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15
  • Gabriel Fauré –
    • Nocturne No. 9 in B minor, Op. 97
    • Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, Op. 99
    • Serenade for cello and piano, Op. 98
  • Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 8
  • Reinhold Glière – Second Symphony, Op. 25
  • Hamilton Harty – Violin Concerto
  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Symphony No. 1
  • John Ireland – Phantasy Piano Trio
  • Charles Ives –
    • Prelude on Eventide
    • The Unanswered Question
  • Paul von Klenau – Symphony No. 1
  • Toivo Kuula – Piano Trio
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero – Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte
  • Erkki Melartin – Third String Quartet
  • Carl Nielsen – Saga-Drøm (tone poem)
  • Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit
  • Max Reger –
    • Auferstanden, auferstanden, cantata for SATB soloists, SATB choir, and organ
    • Sonatinas for two pianos (4), Op. 89
    • Suite, for violin and piano, in E minor
    • Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 102
    • Violin Concerto, in A major, Op. 101
    • Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, Op. 108
    • Weihegesang, for alto solo, SATB choir, and winds
    • Zwei geistliche Lieder, for choir
  • Xaver Scharwenka – Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor
  • Arnold Schoenberg –
    • Lieder (2), Op. 14
    • String Quartet No. 2 – premiered in Vienna
  • Alexander Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy
  • Igor Stravinsky – Feu d'artifice
  • May Summerbelle 'Beaux Yeux' Waltz for solo piano
  • Anton Webern – Passacaglia for orchestra, Op. 1

Opera

  • Paul Le Flem – Aucassin et Nicolette

Film

  • Camille Saint-Saëns - La Mort du duc de Guise

Musical theater

  • Algeria Broadway production opened at The Broadway Theatre on August 31 and ran for 48 performances
  • The Belle of Brittany opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 24 October 1908 with music by Howard Talbot to a book by Leedham Bantock and lyrics by Percy Greenbank
  • The Dollar Princess Manchester production
  • Fifty Miles from Boston Broadway production opened on February 3 at the Garrick Theatre and ran for 40 performances
  • The King of Cadonia London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on September 3 and ran for 333 performances
  • Mr. Hamlet of Broadway Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on December 23 and ran for 54 performances
  • My Mimosa Maid London production opened at the Prince Of Wales Theatre on April 21 and ran for 83 performances
  • Der Tapfere Soldat (The Chocolate Soldier) (Rudolf Friml) Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on November 14 and ran for 62 performances
  • The Three Twins opened at the Herald Square Theatre on June 15 and moved to the Majestic Theatre on January 18, 1909, for a total run of 289 performances
  • A Waltz Dream London production opened at the Hicks Theatre on March 7 and ran for 146 performances.
  • A Waltz Dream Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 27 and ran for 111 performances
  • The Yankee Prince Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 20 and ran for 112 performances
  • Ziegfeld Follies Broadway revue opened at the Jardin de Paris on June 15 and ran for 120 performances

Births

  • January 7 – Red Allen, jazz musician (d. 1967)
  • January 14 – Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, composer (d. 1934)
  • January 16 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (d. 1984)
  • January 26
    • Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (d. 1997)[1]
    • Ernst Oster, pianist, musicologist, and music theorist (d. 1977)
  • January 27 – Hot Lips Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)
  • February 20 – Ruby Elzy, US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess (d. 1943)
  • February 29 – A. L. Lloyd, folk song collector (d. 1982)
  • March 14 – Nikolai Rakov, Soviet composer (d. 1990)
  • March 18 – Ivor Moreton, British singer, composer and pianist (d. 1984)
  • April 2 – Buddy Ebsen, US actor and singer (d. 2003)
  • April 5 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
  • April 7 – Percy Faith, composer, musician (d. 1976)
  • April 8 – Tito Guízar, Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999)
  • April 15 – eden ahbez, hermit, musician (d. 1995)
  • April 20 – Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)
  • May 6 – Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish composer (d. 1999)
  • May 8 – Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1985)
  • May 15 – Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer (d. 1986)
  • May 27 – Harold Rome, US songwriter (d. 1993)
  • June 24 – Hugo Distler, organist and composer (d. 1942)
  • June 29 – Leroy Anderson, US composer and conductor (d. 1975)
  • July 8 – Louis Jordan, bandleader (d. 1975)
  • July 22 – Ljerko Spiller, Croat-Argentine violinist (d. 2008)
  • July 25 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Carnatic vocalist (d. 2003)
  • August 1 – Miloslav Kabeláč, composer (d. 1979)
  • August 4 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (d. 1994)
  • August 12 – Nina Makarova, composer (d. 1976)
  • August 29 – Orestes López, Cuban bassist, cellist, pianist and composer (d. 1991)
  • September 5 - Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer
  • September 6 – Maria Grinberg, pianist (d. 1978)
  • September 7 – Max Kaminsky, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
  • September 10 – Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
  • September 13 – Mae Questel, US singer (d. 1998)
  • September 16 – Chick Bullock, US singer (d. 1981)
  • September 25 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (d. 1993)
  • September 30 – David Oistrakh, violinist (d. 1974)
  • October 1 – Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)
  • October 14 – Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
  • October 19 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
  • October 20 – Stuart Hamblen, US singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1989)
  • October 21
    • Harry Stewart, comedian, singer, and songwriter (d. 1956)
    • Howard Ferguson, British composer and musicologist (d. 1999)
  • November 19
    • Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, French organist and composer (d. 2002)
    • Keg Johnson, US jazz trombonist (d. 1967)
  • December 10 – Olivier Messiaen, composer (d. 1992)
  • December 11 – Elliott Carter, composer (d. 2012)
  • December 16 – Frances Day, US actress and singer (d. 1984)
  • December 17 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)
  • December 21 – Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer (died 1988)[2]

Deaths

  • January 22 – August Wilhelmj, German violinist, 62[3]
  • January 23 – Edward MacDowell, American composer (b. 1860)
  • February 28 – Pauline Lucca, operatic soprano (b. 1842)
  • March 2 – Walter Slaughter, conductor and composer (b. 1860)
  • March 12 – Clara Novello, soprano (b. 1818)
  • March 26 – Louis Chauvin, ragtime musician (b. 1881)
  • April 29 – Auguste Götze, German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (b. 1840)
  • May 7 – Ludovic Halévy, lyricist (b. 1834)
  • May 12 – Melisio Morales, composer (b. 1838)
  • June 5 – Josef Wagner, composer (b. 1856)
  • June 20 – Federico Chueca, zarzuela composer (b. 1846)
  • June 21 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
  • July 10 – Phoebe Knapp, composer of hymns (b. 1839)
  • July 14 – William Mason, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
  • July 18 – Jaime Nunó, composer of Mexico's national anthem (b. 1824)
  • August 13 – Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (b. 1840)
  • August 20 – Louisa Bassano, opera singer (b. 1818)
  • August 26 – Tony Pastor, vaudeville founder & theater impresario (b. 1837)
  • September 20 – Pablo de Sarasate, violinist (b. 1844)
  • September 21 – Atanas Badev, composer and music teacher (b. 1860)
  • November 15 – Katti Lanner, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1829)
  • November 20 – Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (b. 1829)[4]
  • date unknown – Alois Kaiser, cantor and composer (b. 1840)

References

  1. ↑ Raymond Horricks (21 August 1985). Stephane Grappelli. Da Capo Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-306-80257-7.
  2. ↑ "LOC Authorities". Retrieved October 30, 2011. "MusicSack (Old Style Date)". Retrieved October 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ Duncan Druce. "August Wilhelmj". CHASE: Collection of Historical Annotated String Editions. University of Leeds School of Music. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Clive, H. P. (2006). Brahms and His World: a Biographical Dictionary. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 105. ISBN 9781461722809.
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