This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.
Specific locations
Events
- January 6 â Première of LeoÃ
¡ JanáÃÂek's piano cycle On an Overgrown Path (Po zarostlém chodnÃÂÃÂku) at the "BesednàdÃ
¯m" 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.
- January 26 â Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premièred in Vienna.
- January 29 â 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 ÃÂmile 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 â 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 â 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 â The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.
- October 15 â 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.
- December 28 - Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehar, receives its first performance in Vienna.
Published popular music
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Recorded popular music
- "I Love A Lassie" by Harry Lauder
- "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 â Symphony No. 3 in E major
- Claude Debussy
- La mer
- Suite bergamasque (revised)
- Edward Elgar â Introduction and Allegro for Strings
- George Enescu â Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13
- Gabriel Fauré â Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89
- LeoÃ
¡ JanáÃÂek â Piano Sonata 1.X.1905
- Reynaldo Hahn â Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este, suite for wind instruments, two harps and piano
- Serge Koussevitzky - Concerto for Double Bass and Orchestra
- Nikolai Medtner â Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
- Carl Nielsen â Søvnen (The Sleep)
- VÃÂtÃÂzslav Novák â Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
- Helena Munktell â Violin Sonata, Op.21
- Ole Olsen â Trombone Concerto
- Maurice Ravel â 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 â Conte àla poupée, L.5
- Camille Saint-Saëns â Cello Sonata No. 2
- Arnold Schoenberg â String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 in D minor.
- Jean Sibelius â Violin Concerto (Op. 47)
- Emil Sjögren
- Poème, Op.40
- Piano Sonata No.2, Op.44
- Anton Webern âÂÂ
- Langsamer Satz, for string quartet
- String Quartet in one movement
- Haydn Wood â Phantasy String Quartet
Births
- January 2 â Michael Tippett, composer (d. 1998)
- January 5 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer (d. 1989)
- January 8 â Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988)
- January 10 â Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)
- January 12 â Tex Ritter, actor and singer (d. 1974)
- January 24 â Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
- January 26 â Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
- February 11 â William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)
- February 15 â Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986)
- February 18 â Queenie Leonard, British character actress and singer (d. 2002)
- February 25 â Harald Lander, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1971)
- March 2 â Marc Blitzstein, American composer (d. 1964)
- March 6 â Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
- March 11 â Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
- March 15
- Bertha Hill, American blues, vaudeville singer and dancer (d. 1950)
- Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen (d. 1987)
- March 18 - John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (d.1991)
- March 21 â Ivar Haglund, folksinger and restaurateur (d. 1985)
- March 22 - Ruth Page, dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1991)
- March 23 â Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
- 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 â Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
- May 4 - Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (d.1960)
- May 7 â Bumble Bee Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist (d. 1968)
- May 8 â Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965)
- May 10 â Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
- May 11 â Kansas Joe McCoy, American Delta blues musician, songwriter (d. 1950)
- 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 â 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 â Jesús Bal y Gay, Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist (d. 1993)
- July 7
- , Argentine singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer (d. 1990)
- Max Rostal, Austrian-British violinist (d. 1991)
- July 10 â Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer (d. 1949)
- July 15 â Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974)
- August 2 â Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
- August 8 â André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)
- August 23 â Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
- August 29 â Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)
- October 4 â 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 â William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985)
- November 12 - Arthur Hedley, English musicologist (d.1969)
- November 15 â Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
- November 19 â Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)
- November 21 â Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
- November 24 â Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist (d. 1962)
- December 7 â Charles Magnante, accordionist, composer, arranger, author, and educator (d. 1986)
- December 8 â Ernst Hermann Meyer, German (later East German) musicologist and composer (d. 1988)
- December 31 â Jule Styne, composer (d. 1994)
Deaths
- January 4 â Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
- January 5 â Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)
- January 10 â KÃÂrlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
- January 22 â Alfred Dörffel, German pianist (born 1821)
- January 24 â Anna Mooney Burch, American soprano (born )
- February 10 â Ignacy KrzyÃ
¼anowski, composer (b. 1826)
- February 12 â Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)
- March 15 â Luigi Manzotti, choreographer (b. 1835)
- April 12 â Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (b. 1833)
- April 29 â Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (b. 1847)
- May 5 â Ernst Pauer, pianist (b. 1826)
- May 13 â Sam S. Shubert, Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
- May 14 â Jessie Bartlett Davis, operatic contralto (b. 1859)
- May 15 â Andrey Schulz-Evler, composer and arranger (b. 1852)
- May 31 â Franz Strauss, musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss (b. 1822)
- July 8 â Walter Kittredge, self-taught musician and composer (b. 1834)
- August 25 â , composer (born 1866)
- August 28 â Yannis Apostolou, Greek tenor who performed widely in Italy under the name Giovanni Apostolu (b. 1860)
- August 31 â Francesco Tamagno, operatic tenor (b. 1850)
- September 22 â Célestine Marié, mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1837)
- October 18 â Emmie Owen, opera singer (b. 1871)
- December 9 â Henry Holmes, composer and violinist (b. 1839)
References