Events in Music
Music Premiere
Aug 24 PAul Rubens and Sidney Green's musical (with additional songs by Jerome Kern and Herbert Reynolds) "The Girl from Utah" premieres at the Knickerbocker Theatre, NYC
Birthdays in Music
- Aug 1 Jack Delano [Jacob Ovcharov], Russian-born American composer and photographer, born in Voroshilovka, Russian Empire (d. 1997)
- Aug 2 Félix Leclerc, French Canadian singer and composer (Moi, mes souliers), born in La Tuque, Québec, Canada (d. 1988)
- Aug 5 Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist and composer (Coriolan), born in Zagreb, Croatia (d. 1986)
- Aug 9 Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian-Austrian conductor, born in Budapest (d. 1963)
- Aug 12 Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer ("I'll Never Smile Again"), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1981)
- Aug 13 Ivon De Bie, Belgian jazz pianist (Django Reinhardt), and band leader, born in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium (d. 1989)
- Aug 13 Luis Mariano, Basque operetta singer, born in Irun, Spain (d. 1970)
- Aug 16 Edythe Wright, American big band era singer (Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, 1935-39), born in Bayonne, New Jersey (d. 1965) [1]
- Aug 19 Fumio Hayasaka, Japanese film score composer (Rashomon; Seven Samurai), born in Sendai, Honshū, Japan (d. 1955)
- Aug 25 Alexei Haieff, Russian-American composer (Princess Zondilda), born in Biagoveschensk, Siberia (d. 1994)
- Aug 28 (Abraham) "Glenn" Osser, American arranger and orchestra leader (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue; Miss America Pageant), born in Munising, Michigan (d. 2014)
Deaths in Music
- Aug 2 Gabriel Édouard Xavier Dupont, French composer, dies of tuberculosis at 36
- Aug 7 Boleslaw Dembinski, Polish composer, dies at 81
- Aug 15 Anatoly Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59
- Aug 28 Anatoly Lyadov, Russian composer (From the Apocalypse; Bewitched Lake), conductor, and pedagogue (St. Petersburg Conservatory, 1878-1914), dies at 59
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