Events in Music
Music Premiere
Dec 3 George M. Cohan's musical "Talk of the Town" premieres in NYC
Music History
Dec 9 Gustav Mahler departs Vienna for America
- Dec 31 Gustav Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera, in New York City
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 3 Connee Boswell, American jazz singer (The Boswell Sisters; Pete Kelly's Blues), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1976)
- Dec 3 Machito [Francisco "Frank" Grillo], Latin jazz musician and creator of Cu-bop and salsa music (Afro-Cubans), born in Havana, Cuba - NB: birth date and location disputed (d. 1984)
- Dec 8 Tony Aubin, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1981)
- Dec 9 Fried Walter [Schmidt], German light music and operetta composer, born in Ottendorf-Okrilla, Germany (d. 1996)
- Dec 11 Norbert Rosseau, Belgian composer, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1975)
- Dec 12 Fred Elizalde, Spanish Filipino composer, born in Manila (d. 1979)
- Dec 12 Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live-At Dawn We Die), born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent (d. 2015)
- Dec 20 Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist ("Love Is A Many Splendored Thing"; "The Shadow Of Your Smile"; "I Got It Bad, And That Ain't Good"), born in NYC, New York (d. 1984)
- Dec 22 Yoshio Hasegawa, Japanese composer, born in Tokyo, Japan (d. 1981)
Cab Calloway (1907-1994)
Dec 25 American singer, bandleader ("Minnie the Moocher"; "The Jumpin' Jive"), writer, radio host, and actor (The Blues Brothers), born in Rochester, New York
- Dec 27 Nils-Eric Ringbom, Finnish composer, born in Turku (d. 1978)
- Dec 27 Willem Van Otterloo, Dutch cellist, composer, and conductor (Residentie Orkest, 1949-73; Melbourne Symphony, 1967-70; Sydney Symphony, 1971-77), born in Winterswijk, Netherlands (d. 1978)
- Dec 28 Roman Palester, Polish composer (The Weichsel), born in Śniatyń, Poland (d. 1989)
- Dec 30 Christine Auwen, Dutch model, singer and actress (Haghezangers), born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (d. 1983)
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