December 1926 in Music

Events in Music

Dec 12 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert premieres in Leningrad

Dec 3 Hans Otte, German composer/pianist (The Book of Sounds, Book of Hours)
Dec 7 Wolfgang Ludewig, German composer, born in Marburg, Germany
Dec 10 Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, Norwegian composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2013)
Dec 10 Guitar Slim [Eddie Jones], blues guitarist ("The Things That I Used to Do"), born in Greenwood, Mississippi (d. 1959)
Dec 11 Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter (Hound Dog, Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt), born in Ariton, Alabama (d. 1984)
Dec 16 Alfred Koerppen, composer
Dec 16 James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
Dec 21 John Herbert McDowell, American composer for ballet, TV and the stage, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1985)
Dec 25 Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and musician (d. 1987)
Dec 26 Earle Brown, American composer (open form), born in Lunenburg, Massachusetts (d. 2002)
Dec 26 Zlatko Pibernik, Croatian composer and music teacher, born in Zagreb, Croatia (d. 2010)
Dec 30 Stanley Tracey, Denmark Hill, London, jazz composer, (d. 2013)