Events in Music
Music Premiere
May 5 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Berlin
Dmitri Shostakovich
- May 14 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the singles chart by Ben Bernie
Birthdays in Music
- May 1 Billy Byers, American jazz trombonist and arranger, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1996)
- May 5 Charles Rosen, American pianist and musicologist (Sonata Forms), born in NYC, New York (d. 2012)
- May 20 David Frederick Barlow, composer
- May 20 Walter Aschaffenburg, German-American composer, born in Essen, Germany (d. 2005)
- May 28 Bernhard Lewkovitch, Danish organist and composer, born in Copenhagen
- May 31 Red Holloway [James], Helena, Arkansas, jazz tenor saxophonist, (d. 2012)