1905 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.

Specific locations

• 1905 in Norwegian music

Events

• January 6 – Première of Leoš Janáček's piano cycle On an Overgrown Path (Po zarostlém chodníčku) at the "Besední dům" Hall in Brno.
• January 8 - Florent Schmitt's symphonic poem Le Palais hante [The Haunted Palace], based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, is premièred at the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris.^[1]
• January 26 – Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premièred in Vienna.
• January 29 – Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna.
• February 2 - The Moscov paper Nashi Dni publishes an open letter signed by 29 prominent Moscov musicians, including Rachmaninoff, Chaliapin, Gliere, calling for basic reforms in Russia.^[2]
• February 5 - Camille Saint-Saëns's Concerto No.2 in D Minor for Cello and Orchestra premieres in Paris
• February 10 - German conductor Felix Weingartner conducts for the first time in America with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.^[3]
• February 14 - Jules Massenet's opera Cherubin premiers in Monte Carlo.
• February 25 - Concerto for Dubble Bass and Orchestra by Serge Koussevitzky is premièred in Moscow, with the composer as soloist.
• February 27 - The ballet My Lady Nicotine, with music by George W. Byng, is produced at the Alhambra Theatre, London.^[4]
• March 4 - Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op.82, by Alexander Glazunov, receives its world première in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting.
• March 8 - Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra and Pomp and Circumstance No.3 are premièred as the composer conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
• March 12 - Ottorino Respighi's first opera Re Enzo receives its initial performance in Bologna.
• March 16 - Pietro Mascagni's lyric drama Amica is premièred at the Theatre du Casino, Monte Carlo.
• March 19 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is dismissed from the faculty of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory for supporting students who went on strike demanding reforms.^[5]
• March 27 - A performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Kashchey the Deathless becomes the scene of heated public demonstration as a result of recent events at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
• April 14 - Engelbert Humperdinck's three-act comic opera Die Heirat wider Willen receives its initial performance at the Royal Opera in Berlin.
• April 15 - The Consertvatory of Geneva gives the first public demonstration os Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's eurythmics.
• April 30 - Louis Coerne is awarded a Ph.D.for his dissertation The Evolution of Modern Orchestration.
• May 25 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's opera Onkel Dazumal is produced in Cologne
• May 29 - Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No.3 in C Major, The Divine Poem, Op.43, is performed for the first time by Arthur Nikisch in Paris.
• June 26 - Gabriel Faure succeeds Theodore Dubois as director of the Paris Conservatoire
• September – The lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore's song "Amar Shonar Bangla" are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
• September 8 - Double-bass virtuoso Serge Koussevitzky maries Natalie Ushkov, the daughter of a wealthy tea merchant
• September 29 - George Whitefield Chadwick's symphonic poem Cleopatra premieres at the Worcester Music Festival in Massachusetts
• October – The opera house at Nancy, France, is destroyed by fire.
• October 4 - Enrico Caruso, now in Vienna, denies claims of music critics in Budapest that he "had to have morphine injected" when he sang in Budapest
• October 8 - Max Reger's Sinfonietta in A Major, Op.90 is premiered by Felix Mottl in Essen
• October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.^[6]
• October 15 – Claude Debussy's La Mer is premiered in Paris as Camille Chevillard conducts the Lamoureux Orchestra.
• October 19 - A revised final version of Jean Sibelius' Violin concerto in D Minor, Op.47, premieres in Berlin with Carl Halir as soloist.
• October 21
  • Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a Trafalgar Day concert in London.
  • Turandot Suite, by Ferruccio Busoni, receives its first performance in Berlin.
• October 29 - The first concert of the New Symphony Orchestra of London occurs at the Coronet Theater, London
• Otto Klemperer meets Mahler for the first time, while conducting one of his works.
• December 1 - The first opera by an American composer ever to be staged in Europe is produced in Bremen. It is the three-act opera Zenobia, by Louis Adolphe Coerne.
• December 5 - Alexander Glazunov is elected director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
• December 9 - Richard Strauss's one-act musical drama Salome receives its initial performance at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden.
• December 26 - Charles-Marie Widor's four-act opera Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean receives its first performance at the Opera-Comique in Paris.^[7]
• December 28 - Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehar, receives its first performance in Vienna.^[8]

Published popular music

• "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
• "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
• "Bandana Land" by Glen MacDonough
• "Bethena" m. Scott Joplin
• "Bink's Waltz" m. Scott Joplin
• "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
• "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
• "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
• "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
• "College Life" m. Hery Frantzen
• "Come Clean" by Paul Sarebresole
• "Daddy's Little Girl" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Dearie" w.m. Clare Kummer
• "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John A. Heinzman & Otto Milton Heinzman (1873–1943)
• "Everybody Works But Father" w.m. Jean Havez
• "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical of the same name.
• "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
• "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
• "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
• "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" Jean Schwartz
• "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer
• "Happy Heine" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
• "He's Me Pal" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
• "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
• "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska m. Jerome Kern
• "I Don't Care" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
• "I Love A Lassie" w. Harry Lauder & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder
• "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
• "I Thought It Was My Birthday Come" w.m. T.W. Connor
• "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
• "In Dear Old Georgia" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "In My Merry Oldsmobile" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
• "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "The Irish Girl I Love" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
• "Is Everybody Happy?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
• "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
• "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse^[9]
• "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Kiss Me Again" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Leola" m. Scott Joplin
• "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
• "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. George M. Cohan. From the musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway.
• "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "My Gal Sal" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
• "My Irish Molly O" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Nellie Dean" Henry W. Armstrong
• "Nobody" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert A. Williams
• "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "Parade Of The Tin Soldiers" later known as "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers" m. Leon Jessel
• "Peaches And Cream" m. Percy Wenrich
• "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
• "Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry H. Williams m. Jean Schwartz

• "Say Yes, Honey, Do" by Sara E. Posey
• "She Is My Daisy" w.m. Harry Lauder & J. D. Harper
• "Silence And Fun" Mullen
• "Since Nellie Went Away" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
• "So Long Mary" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "Tammany" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
• "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
• "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Waiting At The Church" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
• "Waltzing With The Girl You Love" w.m. George Evans & Ren Shields
• "When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "Where The River Shannon Flows" w.m. James J. Russell
• "The Whistler And His Dog" m. Arthur Pryor
• "The Whole Damm Family" Smith, Von Tilzer^[10]
• "Why Don't You Try?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Will You Love Me In December" w. James J. Walker m. Ernest R. Ball
• "A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert

Recorded popular music

• "I Love A Lassie" by Harry Lauder^[11]
• "Yankee Doodle Boy" by Billy Murray
• "Give My Regards To Broadway" by Billy Murray
• "In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Billy Murray

Classical music

• Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 3 in E major
• Claude Debussy
  • La mer^[12]
  • Suite bergamasque (revised)^[13]
• Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro for Strings
• George Enescu – Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13
• Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89
• Leoš Janáček – Piano Sonata 1.X.1905
• Reynaldo Hahn – Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este, suite for wind instruments, two harps and piano
• Serge Koussevitzky - Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra
• Nikolai Medtner – Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
• Carl Nielsen – Søvnen (The Sleep)
• Vítězslav Novák – Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
• Helena Munktell – Violin Sonata, Op.21
• Ole Olsen – Trombone Concerto
• Maurice Ravel – Introduction et Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
• Emil von Reznicek
  • Nachtstück
  • Präludium und chromatische Fuge
  • Symphony No.2 in B-flat major "Ironic"
• Albert Roussel – Conte à la poupée, L.5
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Cello Sonata No. 2
• Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 in D minor.
• Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto (Op. 47)^[14]
• Emil Sjögren
  • Poème, Op.40
  • Piano Sonata No.2, Op.44
• Anton Webern –
  • Langsamer Satz, for string quartet
  • String Quartet in one movement
• Haydn Wood – Phantasy String Quartet

Opera

• Frederick Converse – The Pipe of Desire
• Leo Fall – Irrlicht
• Manuel de Falla – La Vida breve (libretto by Fernández Shaw)
• Franz Lehár
  • Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, after the play L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac)
  • Tatjana, premiered February 21 in Brünn
• Jules Massenet – Chérubin (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
• Leopoldo Mugnone – Vita Bretone
• Richard Strauss – Salome (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde)

Musical theater

• The Babes and the Baron Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
• The Catch of the Season Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
• The Earl and the Girl Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
• Fantana Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
• Lifting the Lid Broadway production opened at the Aerial Gardens Theatre on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
• Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) Vienna production, December 28
• Miss Dolly Dollars Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 4 and moved to the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
• Mlle. Modiste Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
• The Rogers Brothers in Ireland Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
• The Rollicking Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre on April 16, 1906, for a total run of 199 performances
• Sergeant Brue Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
• The Spring Chicken London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
• When We Were Forty-One Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
• Wonderland Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 24 and ran for 73 performances

Births

• January 2 – Michael Tippett, composer (d. 1998)^[15]
• January 5 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer (d. 1989)
• January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988)^[16]
• January 10 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)^[17]
• January 12 – Tex Ritter, actor and singer (d. 1974)^[18]
• January 24 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
• January 26 – Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)^[19]
• February 11 – William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)^[20]
• February 15 – Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986)^[21]
• February 18 – Queenie Leonard, British character actress and singer (d. 2002)
• February 25 – Harald Lander, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1971)
• March 2 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer (d. 1964)^[22]
• March 6 – Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)^[23]
• March 11 – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
• March 15
  • Bertha Hill, American blues, vaudeville singer and dancer (d. 1950)^[24]
  • Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen (d. 1987)
• March 18 - John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (d.1991)
• March 21 – Ivar Haglund, folksinger and restaurateur (d. 1985)^[25]
• March 22 - Ruth Page, dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1991)
• March 23 – Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)^[26]
• April 2
  • Serge Lifar, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1976)
  • Kurt Herbert Adler, Austrian conductor (d. 1988)
• April 3 - Lili Kraus, Hungarian pianist (d. 1986)
• May 2 – Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
• May 4 - Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (d.1960)
• May 7 – Bumble Bee Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist (d. 1968)^[27]
• May 8 – Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965)^[28]
• May 10 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
• May 11 – Kansas Joe McCoy, American Delta blues musician, songwriter (d. 1950)^[29]
• May 24 - Sascha Gorodnitzki, pianist (d. 1986)
• June 4 - José Echániz, Cuban-American pianist (d. 1969)
• June 6 - Arthur Mendel, music scholar and musicologist (d. 1979)
• June 13 – Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
• June 18
  • Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
  • Leonid Lavrovsky, Soviet dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1967)
• June 23 – Jesús Bal y Gay, Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist (d. 1993)
• July 7
  • Charlo, Argentine singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer (d. 1990)
  • Max Rostal, Austrian-British violinist (d. 1991)
• July 10 – Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer (d. 1949)
• July 15 – Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974)^[30]
• August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)^[31]
• August 8 – André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)^[32]
• August 23 – Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)^[33]
• August 29 – Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)^[34]
• October 4 – Léon Orthel, composer and pianist (d. 1985)
• October 18 -Fritz Feldmann, musicologist (d. 1984)
• October 23 - Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor (d. 1964)
• October 24 – Elizabeth Poston, English composer, pianist and writer (d. 1987)
• November 7 – William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985)^[35]
• November 12 - Arthur Hedley, English musicologist (d.1969)
• November 15 – Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)^[36]
• November 19 – Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)^[37]
• November 21 – Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
• November 24 – Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist (d. 1962)
• December 7 – Charles Magnante, accordionist, composer, arranger, author, and educator (d. 1986)
• December 8 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, German (later East German) musicologist and composer (d. 1988)
• December 31 – Jule Styne, composer (d. 1994)^[38]

Deaths

• January 4 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
• January 5 – Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)^[39]
• January 10 – Kārlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
• January 22 – Alfred Dörffel, German pianist (born 1821)
• February 10 – Ignacy Krzyżanowski, composer (b. 1826)
• February 12 – Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)^[40]
• March 15 – Luigi Manzotti, choreographer (b. 1835)
• April 12 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (b. 1833)
• April 29 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• May 5 – Ernst Pauer, pianist (b. 1826)
• May 13 – Sam S. Shubert, Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
• May 14 – Jessie Bartlett Davis, operatic contralto (b. 1859)
• May 15 – Andrey Schulz-Evler, composer and arranger (b. 1852)
• May 31 – Franz Strauss, musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss (b. 1822)
• July 8 – Walter Kittredge, self-taught musician and composer (b. 1834)^[41]
• August 25 – Felix vom Rath, composer (born 1866)
• August 28 – Yannis Apostolou, Greek tenor who performed widely in Italy under the name Giovanni Apostolu (b. 1860)
• August 31 – Francesco Tamagno, operatic tenor (b. 1850)^[42]
• September 22 – Célestine Marié, mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1837)
• October 18 – Emmie Owen, opera singer (b. 1871)
• December 9 – Henry Holmes, composer and violinist (b. 1839)^[43]