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1915 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915.

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Events

  • March–December – The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
  • May 15 – Tom Brown's band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band".
  • May 23 – Japanese composer Kōsaku Yamada conducts the premiere of his Overture in D major at the Imperial Theatre in Tokyo, performed by the .
  • April 21 – Sibelius sees sixteen swans over Lake Tuusula which immediately inspires him to write the theme that becomes the finalé to his Symphony No. 5.
  • Summer – Claude Debussy composes at Pourville on the French Channel coast.
  • October 28 – Richard Strauss's symphonic poem An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie) is premiered by the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin under the composer's baton.
  • November 13 – First concert devoted to the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.
  • December 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 5 in Helsinki at a birthday concert for him.
  • December – Claude Debussy becomes one of the first people to receive a colostomy.
  • Composer Alban Berg enters service with the Austro-Hungarian Army.
  • Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).
  • William Penfro Rowlands's hymn tune "Blaenwern" is first published in Henry H. Jones'* Cân a Moliant*.
  • Marie and Edward M. Zimmerman's suffrage anthem "Votes for Woman, Suffrage Rallying Song" is published.

Hit recordings

  • "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" by Alma Gluck
  • "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" by John McCormack
  • "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey
  • "Keep the Home Fires Burning" by James F. Harrison

Classical music

  • Béla Bartók
    • Romanian Folk Dances
    • Sonatina
  • Alban Berg – Three Pieces for Orchestra (Drei Orchesterstücke; first performed 1923/30)
  • Frank Bridge
    • Novelletten, H.44 (first published, composed 1904)
    • String Quartet No.2, H.115
    • Lament, H.117
  • Harry Thacker Burleigh
    • 5 Songs of Laurence Hope
    • Ethiopia Saluting the Colors
  • John Alden Carpenter
    • Adventures in a Perambulator (first performed)
    • Concertino for piano and orchestra
    • Impromptu for piano
    • Polonaise Américaine for piano
  • Claude Debussy
    • En blanc et noir for two pianos
    • Études for solo piano (two books of 6)
    • Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
    • Sonata for flute, viola and harp (first performed 1916)
  • George Enescu – Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major, Op. 20
  • Edward Elgar – Polonia, op.76 (Overture)
  • Manuel de Falla
    • El amor brujo (gitanería version for cante flamenco, actors and chamber orchestra)
    • Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Noches en los jardines de España; first performed 1916)
  • Enrique Granados – 2 Danzas Españolas, Op.37
  • Jesús Guridi – Así cantan los chicos
  • Charles Ives
    • Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (first published 1919)
    • String Quartet No. 2 (first performed 1946)
  • Zoltán Kodály – Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8
  • Egon Kornauth – Phantasie Op.10
  • Federico Mompou – L'Hora Gris ("Grey Hour")
  • Manuel Ponce – Balada Mexicana
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Scythian Suite (first performed 1916)
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil (Всенощное бдѣніе, Vsénoshchnoye bdéniye)
  • Max Reger
    • Variationen und Fuge über ein Thema von Beethoven, Op. 86
    • 3 Cello Suites, Op. 131c
    • 3 Viola Suites, Op. 131d
    • Violin Sonata No.9, Op.139
    • String Trio No. 2 in D minor, Op. 141b
    • Requiem, Op. 144b
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Cavatine, Op. 144
  • Jean Sibelius
    • Impromptu, Op. 78
    • Jäger March (Jääkärien marssi), Op. 91a, for male chorus and symphony orchestra
    • Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – Piano Concerto No.2, Op.126, premiered June 3 in Norfolk, Connecticut
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar – Symphony No. 2 in G minor
  • Richard Strauss – An Alpine Symphony
  • Karol Szymanowski
    • Métopes, for piano
    • Mythes, for violin and piano
    • Songs of a Fairy-Tale Princess, for voice and piano
    • 3 Songs on Words by Dmitri Davydov, for voice and piano
  • Gabriel Verdalle – Impromptu No.2
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
    • Cello Concerto no. 1
    • Danças Características Africanas for piano
    • Desesperança – Sonata Phantastica e Capricciosa No. 1 for violin and piano
    • Elégie for orchestra
    • Suíte graciosa (revised in 1946 as String Quartet No. 1)
    • String Quartet No. 2
    • Trio for piano and strings No. 2
  • Siegfried Wagner – Violin Concerto
  • Heinrich Weinreis – Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
  • Géza Zichy – Liebestraum

Opera

  • Rutland Boughton – Bethlehem
  • Umberto Giordano – Madame Sans-Gene
  • Emmerich Kálmán – Die Csárdásfürstin premiered November 17 in Vienna

[[Jazz]]

Main article: 1915 in jazz

[[Musical theater]]

  • Alone at Last Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 14 and ran for 180 performances
  • Betty London production opened at Daly's Theatre on April 24 and ran for 391 performances
  • The Blue Paradise Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5 and ran for 356 performances.
  • Bric-A-Brac London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 18.
  • 5064 Gerrard London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on March 19.
  • Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway revue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 30 and ran for 425 performances.
  • Maid in America Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
  • The Only Girl London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 25 and ran for 107 performances.
  • The Passing Show Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on May 29 and ran for 145 performances.
  • Shell Out London production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24 and ran for 315 performances.
  • Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on December 25 and ran for 105 performances.
  • Tonight's The Night London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 18 and ran for 460 performances.
  • Very Good Eddie Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on December 23 and ran for 341 performances
  • A World of Pleasure Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
  • Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 21 and ran for 104 performances

Births

  • January 1 – Fulgencio Aquino, Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994)
  • January 6 – Bob Copper, English folk singer (d. 2004)
  • January 25 – Ewan MacColl, English folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
  • January 27 – Jack Brymer, English clarinettist (d. 2003)
  • January 29 – John Serry, Sr., US concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003)
  • January 30 – Dorothy Dell, actress and singer (d. 1934)
  • January 31 – Alan Lomax, US folklorist and musicologist (d. 2002)
  • February 4 – Ray Evans, US songwriter (d. 2007)
  • February 18 – Marcel Landowski, French composer, biographer and arts administrator (d. 1999)
  • March 4 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
  • March 10 – Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992)
  • March 14 – Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
  • March 20
    • Sviatoslav Richter, pianist (d. 1997)
    • Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer (d. 1973)
  • March 25 – Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer (d. 1998)
  • March 27 – Robert Lockwood, Jr., US Delta blues guitarist (d. 2006)
  • March 28 – Jay Livingston, songwriter (d. 2001)
  • March 29 – George Chisholm, Scottish-born jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)
  • April 4 – Muddy Waters (born McKinley Morganfield), African American blues musician (d. 1983)
  • April 7 – Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan), African American blues singer (d. 1959)
  • April 12 – Hound Dog Taylor, African American blues guitarist (d. 1975)
  • April 29 – Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
  • May 5 – Alice Faye, US actress and singer (d. 1998)
  • May 8 – Nan Wynn, US singer (d. 1971)
  • May 25 – Ginny Simms, US singer (d. 1994)
  • May 27
    • Esther Soré, Chilean musician (d. 1996)
    • Midge Williams, African American jazz singer (d. 1952)
  • June 1 – Bart Howard, composer and pianist (d. 2004)
  • June 9 – Les Paul, US musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar (d. 2009)
  • June 12 – Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress (d. 1995)
  • June 17 – David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician (d. 1973)
  • June 18 – Vic Legley, Dutch composer (d. 1994)
  • June 22 – Randolph Henning Hokanson, pianist (died 2018)
  • June 28 – David Honeyboy Edwards, US blues musician (d. 2011)
  • July 1 – Willie Dixon, US blues musician (d. 1992)
  • July 9 – David Diamond, classical composer (d. 2005)
  • July 15 – Frankie Yankovic, polka musician (d. 1998)
  • July 22 – Armando Renzi (it), composer (died 1985)
  • July 23 – Emmett Berry, jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
  • July 28 – Frankie Yankovic, accordionist and polka musician (d. 1998)
  • July 31 – George Forrest, musical theatre writer (d. 1999)
  • August 6 – Jacques Abram, pianist (d. 1998)
  • August 9 – Haim Alexander, Israeli composer (d. 2012)
  • August 24 – Wynonie Harris, US singer (d. 1969)
  • August 26 – Humphrey Searle, English composer (d. 1982)
  • August 30 – Robert Strassburg, US classical composer (d. 2003)
  • September 3
    • Knut Nystedt, Norwegian classical composer (d. 2014)
    • Memphis Slim (born John Chatman), African American blues musician (d. 1988)
  • September 5 – Florencio Morales Ramos, singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989)
  • September 12 – Billy Daniels, US singer (d. 1988)
  • September 23 – Julius Baker, flautist (d. 2003)
  • September 24 – Ettore Gracis, conductor (d. 1992)
  • October 10 – Sweets Edison, jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
  • October 31 – Jane Jarvis, jazz pianist and composer (d. 2010)
  • November 5 – Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
  • November 9 – Hanka Bielicka, Polish singer and actress (d. 2006)
  • November 14 – Billy Bauer, cool jazz guitarist (d. 2005)
  • November 26 – Earl Wild, pianist (d. 2010)
  • November 29 – Billy Strayhorn, jazz composer, pianist, arranger, lyricist and collaborator with Duke Ellington (d. 1967)
  • November 30 – Brownie McGhee, US Piedmont blues musician (d. 1996)
  • December 12 – Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor (d. 1998)
  • December 14 – Dan Dailey, US singer and actor (d. 1978)
  • December 16 – Georgy Sviridov, Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998)
  • December 17 – André Claveau, singer (d. 2003)
  • December 19 – Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
  • December 25 – Pete Rugolo, Italian-born US pianist and bandleader (d 2011)

Deaths

  • January 2
    • Karl Goldmark, Hungarian composer (b. 1830)
    • Bertha Tammelin, Swedish mezzo-soprano singer and actress (b. 1836)
  • January 5 – Jeanne Gerville-Réache, French operatic contralto (b. 1882)
  • January 21 – Louis Gregh, French composer and publisher (b. 1843)
  • January 22 – Anna Bartlett Warner, songwriter (b. 1827)
  • January 25 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847)
  • February 5 – Paul Collin, translator and lyricist (born 1843)
  • February 12
    • Fanny Crosby, hymn-writer (b. 1820)
    • Emile Waldteufel, composer (b. 1837)
  • March 12 – Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen, composer (b. 1838)
  • March 19 – Franz Xaver Neruda, cellist and composer (b. 1843)
  • April 27 – Alexander Scriabin, composer (b. 1872) (sepsis)
  • May 7 – Charles Frohman, Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in sinking of the RMS Lusitania)
  • June 2 – Botho Sigwart, composer (born 1884)
  • June 9 – Enrico Rocca, violin maker (b. 1847)
  • June 10 – William Hayman Cummings, organist and singer (b. 1831)
  • June 19 – Sergei Taneyev, pianist and composer (b. 1856)
  • June 25 – Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer (b. 1852)
  • June 30 – Billy Kersands, African American dancer (b. c. 1842)
  • September 15 – Isidor Bajić, composer (b. 1878)
  • September 29 – Rudi Stephan, composer (b. 1887) (killed in action)
  • October 2 – Russell Alexander, entertainer and composer (b. 1877)
  • October 5
    • Otto Malling, organist and composer (b. 1848)
    • José María Usandizaga, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1887) (tuberculosis)
  • October 22 – Adèle Isaac, operatic soprano (b. 1854)
  • October 26 – August Bungert, German composer and poet (b. 1845)
  • November 12 – Jean-Charles Delioux, French composer (born 1825)
  • November 14 – Teodor Leszetycki, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
  • November 27 – Sigismund Zaremba, Russian composer (b. 1861)
  • c. December 1 – Henry Hart, African American entertainer and composer (b. 1839)
  • December 3 – Lewis F. Muir, American composer of ragtime (born 1883)
  • December 4 – Gustav Hollaender, German composer (b. 1855)
  • December 10 – David Jenkins, Welsh choral composer (b. 1848)

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