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1922 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1922.

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Specific genres

Events

  • January 24 – Carl Nielsen conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No. 5 in Copenhagen.
  • May 28 – The Detroit News Orchestra, the world's first radio orchestra (a symphonic ensemble organized specifically to play on radio), begins broadcasting from radio station WWJ in Detroit, Michigan.
  • October 11 – Leila Megàne makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.
  • October 19 – Maurice Ravel's orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris.
  • December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel.
  • Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
  • Richard Tauber joins the Vienna State Opera.
  • Earliest known example of American gospel song "This Train (is Bound for Glory)", a recording by Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette, under the title "Dis Train".
  • The Central Band of the Royal Air Force becomes the first military band to make a radio broadcast with the British Broadcasting Company.
  • All musical compositions written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States. Recordings of those compositions, however are still protected by various state statutes and do not fully enter the nationwide public domain until February 15, 2067.

Publications

Classical music

  • Kurt Atterberg – Cello Concerto
  • Alfredo Barbirolli – Sensuel-tango
  • Arnold Bax – First Symphony
  • Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony
  • Julián Carrillo – Preludio a Colón, for soprano in fifths of a tone, flute, violin, and guitar in quarter tones, octavina in eighth tones, and harp in sixteenth tones
  • Gerald Finzi – By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2
  • Vittorio Giannini – Stabat Mater
  • Hamilton Harty – Piano Concerto
  • Paul Hindemith – String Quartet No. 3 in C, Op. 22
  • Jacques Ibert
    • Escales, for orchestra
    • Histoires, for piano
  • Manuel Infante – Sevillana "Impresiones de fiesta en Sevilla"
  • Manuel Jovés (es)– Patotero sentimental
  • Ernesto Nazareth
    • "1922" (tango)
    • "Desengonçado"
    • "Fóra dos eixos"
    • "Gaúcho"
    • "Jangadeiro"
    • "Mandinga"
    • "Meigo"
    • "O futurista"
    • "Por que sofre?..."
  • Carl Nielsen
    • Fynsk Foraar
    • Wind Quintet
  • Francis Poulenc – Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone (subsequently revised)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich
    • Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5, for piano
    • Suite in F-sharp minor, Op. 6, for two pianos
  • Vaughan Williams – Pastoral Symphony
  • William Walton – Façade (subsequently revised)

Opera

  • Jean Cras – Polyphème
  • Paul Hindemith – Sancta Susanna
  • Léo Manuel – Le fakir de Bénarès
  • Jules Massenet – Amadis
  • Ottorino Respighi – La bella dormente nel bosco
  • Igor Stravinsky – Mavra
  • Alexander Zemlinsky – Der Zwerg

Film

  • Hans Erdmann – Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

[[Jazz]]

Main article: 1922 in jazz

[[Musical theater]]

  • The Cabaret Girl (Music: Jerome Kern, Book and Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith, Jr.) London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19 and ran for 361 performances
  • The Hotel Mouse Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 13 and ran for 88 performances
  • Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances
  • Make It Snappy Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 13 and ran for 96 performances. Starring Eddie Cantor, Lew Hearn, J. Harold Murray, Nan Halperin, Georgie Hale and Tot Qualters.
  • The Music Box Revue of 1922 opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 23 and ran for 330 performances
  • Orange Blossoms (music Victor Herbert) opened at the Fulton Theatre on September 19 and ran for 95 performances
  • Phi-Phi London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre on August 16 and ran for 132 performances
  • Queen O' Hearts Broadway production opened at the Cohan Theatre on October 10 and ran for 40 performances
  • Whirled into Happiness London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on May 18 and ran for 246 performances

Births

  • January 4 – Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2013)
  • January 7 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, flautist (d. 2000)
  • January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
  • January 28 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founder of Anna Records (d. 2014)
  • February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, operatic soprano (d. 2004)
  • February 16 – Geraint Evans, operatic baritone (d. 1992)
  • February 17 – Tommy Edwards, singer (d. 1969)
  • February 19 – Fredell Lack, American violinist (d. 2017)
  • February 23 – Johnny Franz, English record producer (d. 1977)
  • March 28 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990)
  • April 3 – Doris Day, actress and singer (d. 2019)
  • April 4 – Elmer Bernstein, film composer (d. 2004)
  • April 5 – Gale Storm, singer and actress (d. 2009)
  • April 7 – Mongo Santamaría, percussionist (d. 2003)
  • April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian sarod player (d. 2009)
  • April 18 – Lord Kitchener, calypsonian (d. 2000)
  • April 22 – Charles Mingus, jazz musician (d. 1979)
  • April 29 – Toots Thielemans, Belgian musician (d. 2016)
  • May 18 – Kai Winding, Danish-born jazz musician (d. 1983)
  • May 25 – Kitty Kallen, American singer (d. 2016)
  • May 29 – Iannis Xenakis, composer (d. 2001)
  • June 1 – Bibi Ferreira, Brazilian singer and actress (d. 2019)
  • June 10 – Judy Garland, American singer and actress (d. 1969)
  • June 12 – Leif Thybo, Danish composer and organist (d. 2001)
  • June 17 – Jerry Fielding, American radio, film and television composer, arranger, conductor and musical director (d. 1980)
  • June 23 – Francis Thorne, American composer (d. 2017)
  • June 24 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
  • June 27 – George Walker, African American classical composer (d. 2018)
  • August 11 – Ron Grainer, television composer (d. 1981)
  • August 13 – T. K. Murthy, Indian mridangam player
  • August 31 – John Hanson, singer and actor (d. 1998)
  • September 3 – Salli Terri, singer and songwriter (d. 1996)
  • September 13 – Yma Sumac, Peruvian singer (d. 2008)
  • September 16 – Janis Paige, American singer and actress (d. 2024)
  • September 18 – Ray Steadman-Allen, English composer for Salvation Army bands (d. 2014)
  • September 20 – William Kapell, American pianist (d. 1953)
  • October 4 – Dudley Simpson, Australian composer and conductor (d. 2017)
  • October 17 – Luiz Bonfá, guitarist and composer (d. 2001)
  • November 15 – Doreen Carwithen, composer (d. 2003)
  • December 26 – Harry Choates, American Cajun fiddler (d. 1951)

Deaths

  • January 26 – Luigi Denza, composer (b. 1846)
  • March 4 – Bert Williams, star of the Ziegfeld Follies (b. 1875; pneumonia)
  • March 10 – Hans Sitt, violinist and composer (b. 1850)
  • March 15 – Ika Peyron, pianist and composer (b. 1845)
  • March 22 – Nikolay Sokolov, composer (b. 1859)
  • April 12 – František Ondříček, violinist and composer (b. 1857)
  • April 18 – Percy Hilder Miles, violinist, composer and teacher (b. 1878; pneumonia)
  • April 21 – Alessandro Moreschi, the last known castrato singer of the Vatican.(b. 1858; pneumonia)
  • April 29 – Kyrylo Stetsenko, conductor and composer (b. 1882; typhus)
  • May 2 – Ada Jones, US singer (b. 1873; kidney failure)
  • May 7 – Max Wagenknecht, composer for organ and piano (b. 1857)
  • May 15 – Harry Williams songwriter and music publisher (b. 1879)
  • May 18 – Eugenia Burzio, Italian operatic soprano (b. 1872; kidney failure)
  • May 22 – Carl Teike, composer (b. 1864)
  • May 31 – Rutland Barrington, baritone of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (b. 1873)
  • June 5 – Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (b. 1860)
  • June 20 – Vittorio Monti, composer (b. 1868)
  • July 24 – George Thorne, baritone of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (b. 1856)
  • August 5 – William Seidel, Band instrument manufacturer (b. 1848; suicide)
  • August 13 – Tom Turpin, ragtime composer (b. 1871; peritonitis)
  • August 18 – Dame Genevieve Ward, soprano (b. 1837; heart disease)
  • August 19 – Felipe Pedrell, composer (b. 1841)
  • August 22 – Sofia Scalchi, operatic contralto (b. 1850)
  • October 7 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (b. 1870; heart and kidney failure)
  • October 27 – Rita Fornia, US operatic soprano (b. 1878)
  • November 6 – William Baines, English composer and pianist (b. 1899)
  • November 14 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, composer and bandmaster (b. 1843; stroke)
  • December 18 – Marie Goetze, contralto (b. 1865)
  • December 30 – Richard Zeckwer, composer and music teacher (b. 1850)
  • date unknown – George H. Diamond, entertainer and songwriter (b. 1862; illness)
  • date unknown – Alfred Lamy, maker of violin bows (b. 1886)

References

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