1910 in Music

Events in Music

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 110

Jan 8 Galina Ulanova, ballerina (Bolshoi), born in St Petersburg, Russia
Jan 9 Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
Jan 10 Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor/composer
Jan 11 Izler Solomon, conductor, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Jan 14 Renier van der Velden, composer
Jan 20 Ennio Porrino, composer
Jan 20 Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher
Jan 21 Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)

Django Reinhardt

Jan 23 Django Reinhardt, Belgium born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer considered the most significant European Jazz musician, born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium (d. 1953)

Jan 25 Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, composer
Jan 26 Marijan Lipovsek, composer
Feb 3 Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
Feb 4 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer
Feb 16 Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer
Feb 22 Al Sears, jazz performer
Feb 28 Roman Maciejewski, Polish composer (Requiem - Missa pro defunctis), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1988)

Samuel Barber

Mar 9 Samuel Barber, American composer (School for Scandal), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1981)

Mar 13 Sammy Kaye, American orchestra leader (Swing and Sway With Sammy Kaye), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1987)
Mar 24 Jacques Chailley, composer
Mar 25 Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
Mar 25 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
Apr 10 Abu-Bakr Khairat, Egyptian composer, born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1963)
Apr 14 Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
Apr 18 Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
Apr 26 Erland von Koch, composer
Apr 26 Ernst Tittel, Austrian organist and composer, born in Sternberg, Moravia (d. 1969)
May 3 Alceo Galliera, Italian composer, born in Milan (d. 1996)
May 8 Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
May 11 Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Portuguese composer (d. 1974)
May 12 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
May 15 Constance Cummings, American soprano and actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 2005)
May 23 Artie Shaw [Arthur Arshawsky], American bandleader, jazz clarinetist and actor (Begin the Beguine), born in NYC, New York (d. 2004)
May 23 Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], American actor, singer, dancer and musician (Chico and the Man, The Shining), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1986)
May 24 Marģeris Zariņš, Latvian composer and writer, born in Jaunpiebalga, Russian Empire (d. 1993)
May 24 Nils-Eric Fougstedt, Finnish composer (Angoscia, Trittico sinfonico), born in Raisio, Finland (d. 1961)

T-Bone Walker

May 28 T-Bone Walker, American blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), born in Linden, Texas (d. 1975)

Jun 6 Toshitsugu Ogiwara, Japanese composer, born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1992)
Jun 9 Vbilmos Demian, composer
Jun 10 Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
Jun 10 Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
Jun 11 Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (The Godfather II, Apocalypse Now), born in NYC, New York (d. 1991)
Jun 14 Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
Jun 15 Berend Giltay, composer
Jun 15 David Rose, orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show, Stripper), born in London, England
Jun 16 Ilona Massey, actress and singer (Ilona Massey Show), born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1974)
Jun 17 Herbert Owen Reed, composer
Jun 17 Red Foley, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), born in Blue Lick, Kentucky (d.1968)
Jun 18 Ray McKinley, American orchestra leader and jazz drummer (Glenn Miller Time), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 1995)
Jun 21 Bela Tardos, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 1966)
Jun 21 Charles Jones, composer, born in Tamworth, Ontario, Canada (d. 1997)
Jun 22 Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor (Death in Venice)
Jun 23 Milt Hinton, American jazz bassist (d. 2000)
Jun 24 Denis Dowling, baritone
Jun 27 Karel Reiner, Czech composer, born in Žatec, Bohemia (d. 1979)
Jun 29 Frank Loesser, American songwriter and composer (Guys And Dolls, Baby It's Cold Outside), born in NYC, New York (d. 1969)
Jul 2 Earl Hawley Robinson, composer
Jul 2 William Douglas Denny, composer
Jul 4 Champion Jack [William Thomas] Dupree, American boxer and pianist, born in Irish Channel, New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1992)
Jul 6 Dorothy Kirsten, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show), born in Montclair, New Jersey
Jul 9 Harold Fox, American fashion designer and musician (d. 1996)
Jul 14 Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic
Jul 15 Ronald Binge, British composer (Elizabethan Serenade, Sailing By), born in Derby, England (d. 1979)
Jul 20 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (d. 2004)
Aug 1 Walter Scharf, American film composer, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2003)
Aug 4 William Schuman, American composer (Amer Festival Overture, Juilliard), born in NYC, New York (d. 1992)
Aug 6 Friedrich Schroder, composer
Aug 12 Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (Romeo & Juliet)
Aug 14 Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer
Aug 15 Hugo Winterhalter, composer
Aug 17 Eric Aaltonen, composer
Aug 18 Herman Berlinski, composer
Aug 24 Bernhard Heiden, German-American composer, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 2000)
Aug 29 Robert Pineda-Duque, composer, born in El Santuario, Colombia (d. 1977)
Sep 2 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
Sep 3 Dorothy Maynor, American soprano and founder (Harlem School of Arts), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 1996)
Sep 14 Lehman Engel, American conductor and composer (Streetcar Named Desire), born in Jackson, Mississippi (d. 1982)
Sep 18 Josef Tal, Israeli composer (Israeli art music), born in Pinne, German Poland (d. 2008)
Sep 18 Leon Stein, American composer, born in Chicago (d. 2002)
Sep 19 Arthur Mullard, English actor, comedian and singer (Romany Jones), born in London (d. 1995)
Sep 22 Klement Slavicky, composer
Sep 23 Soulima Stravinsky, Swiss-American pianist and composer (Igor Stravinsky's son), born in Lausanne, Switzerland (d. 1994)
Sep 24 Frank Pelleg, Czech-Israeli composer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (d. 1968)
Oct 9 Phil Hanna, singer (Once Upon a Tune), born in River Forest, Illinois (d. 1957)
Oct 10 Alan Frank, English composer and music publisher, born in London (d. 1994)
Oct 10 Milt Larkin, American jazz trumpeter and band leader, born in Navasota, Texas (d. 1996)
Oct 11 Eugene John Weigel, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1998)
Oct 13 Art Tatum [Arthur Tatum Jr], American jazz pianist and composer, born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1956)
Oct 13 Otto Joachim, German-Canadian composer, born in Düsseldorf, Germany (d. 2010)
Oct 16 William Leonard Reed, composer
Oct 18 Vojislav Vuckovic, composer
Oct 28 Arthur Altman, American songwriter (All or Nothing at All), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1994)
Nov 6 Arthur Cohn, American composer and writer on music, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1998)
Nov 11 Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist
Nov 27 Rudolf Holzmann, composer
Nov 29 Louis Levy Jr, music publisher
Dec 1 Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina and choreographer (Diaghilev's Ballet Russe 1925-32), born in London, England
Dec 4 Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata)
Dec 7 Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader
Dec 7 Richard Franko Goldman, composer
Dec 7 Louis Prima, New Orleans Luisiana, American musician (That Old Black Magic)

Deaths in Music

Jan 28 Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74
Feb 15 Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51
Feb 16 Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75
Mar 10 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85
Mar 17 Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
Mar 27 David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
Mar 28 Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor, dies at 71
May 18 Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66
May 18 Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer, dies at 88
May 20 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, French composer, dies at 88
May 29 Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist and composer (Islamej, Tamara), dies at 73
Jun 16 Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
Jun 28 Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
Jul 1 Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies
Jul 4 Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
Jul 21 Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
Aug 5 Wojciech Gawronski, Polish composer, dies at 42
Aug 16 Charles Lenepveu, French composer, dies at 69
Aug 20 Arthur Coquard, French composer, dies at 64
Aug 31 Emils Darzins, composer, dies at 34
Sep 5 Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
Sep 5 Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54
Sep 24 Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
Oct 17 Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
Oct 25 Hermann Kipper, German music teacher and composer, dies at 84
Dec 10 Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76

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