1910 in Music

• Jan 22 Opera "Germania" premieres in NYC
• Mar 18 Frederick Converse's opera "The Pipe of Desire" is the first American opera to be performed at the Metropolitian Opera, NYC
• Mar 27 Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312

• Sep 12 Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
• Dec 28 Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 110

• Jan 8 Galina Ulanova, ballerina (Bolshoi), born in St Petersburg, Russia
• Jan 9 Dick Henry Jurgen, American swing music bandleader, born in Sacramento, California (d. 1995)
• Jan 10 Jean Martinon, French conductor & composer, born in Lyon, France (d. 1976)
• Jan 11 Izler Solomon, conductor, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Jan 14 Renier van der Velden, Belgian composer, born in Borgerhout, Belgium (d. 1993)
• Jan 20 Ennio Porrino, Italian composer, born in Cagliari, Italy (d. 1959)
• Jan 20 Nina Verchinina, Russian-Brazilian dancer & choreographer, born in Russia (d. 1995)
• Jan 21 Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)

• Jan 25 Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, Dutch 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)

• 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)

• Jun 6 Toshitsugu Ogiwara, Japanese composer, born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1992)
• Jun 9 Vbilmos Demian, composer
• Jun 10 Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], American blues musician (Smokestack Lightnin', Killing Floor), born in White Station, Mississippi (d. 1976)
• 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 [Isadore Soifer], American composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata), born in Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
• Dec 7 Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian-Venezuelan musician and arranger, born in Port of Spain, Trinidad (d. 2011)
• Dec 7 Richard Franko Goldman, American educator and composer, born in NYC, New York (d. 1980)
• Dec 7 Louis Prima, American musician (That Old Black Magic), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1978)

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• 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, American 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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