This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1908.
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Specific genres
Events
Published popular music
- Kurt Atterberg â Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
- Béla Bartók â First Violin Concerto
- Alban Berg â Piano Sonata, Op.1
- York Bowen â Viola Concerto in C minor
- Henry Walford Davies â Solemn Melody for organ
- George Enescu âÂÂ
- Cantate pour la pose de la prèmiere pierre du pont àtransbordeur de Bordeaux, for military band, two harps, string orchestra, solo cello, choir, baritone solo, and cannons
- "Morgengebet", for voice and piano
- Sept chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15
- Gabriel Fauré âÂÂ
- Nocturne No. 9 in B minor, Op. 97
- Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, Op. 99
- Serenade for cello and piano, Op. 98
- Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 8
- Reinhold Glière â Second Symphony, Op. 25
- Hamilton Harty â Violin Concerto
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov â Symphony No. 1
- John Ireland â Phantasy Piano Trio
- Charles Ives âÂÂ
- Prelude on Eventide
- The Unanswered Question
- Paul von Klenau â Symphony No. 1
- Toivo Kuula â Piano Trio
- Gian Francesco Malipiero â Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte
- Erkki Melartin â Third String Quartet
- Carl Nielsen â Saga-Drøm (tone poem)
- Maurice Ravel -
- Gaspard de la nuit
- Rapsodie espagnole
- Max Reger âÂÂ
- Auferstanden, auferstanden, cantata for SATB soloists, SATB choir, and organ
- Sonatinas for two pianos (4), Op. 89
- Suite, for violin and piano, in E minor
- Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 102
- Violin Concerto, in A major, Op. 101
- Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, Op. 108
- Weihegesang, for alto solo, SATB choir, and winds
- Zwei geistliche Lieder, for choir
- Xaver Scharwenka â Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor
- Arnold Schoenberg âÂÂ
- Lieder (2), Op. 14
- String Quartet No. 2 â premiered in Vienna
- Alexander Scriabin â The Poem of Ecstasy
- Igor Stravinsky â Feu d'artifice
- May Summerbelle 'Beaux Yeux' Waltz for solo piano
- Anton Webern â Passacaglia for orchestra, Op. 1
Film
Births
- January 7 â Red Allen, jazz musician (d. 1967)
- January 14 â Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, composer (d. 1934)
- January 16 â Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (d. 1984)
- January 26
- Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (d. 1997)
- Ernst Oster, pianist, musicologist, and music theorist (d. 1977)
- January 27 â Hot Lips Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)
- February 20 â Ruby Elzy, US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess (d. 1943)
- February 29 â A. L. Lloyd, folk song collector (d. 1982)
- March 14 â Nikolai Rakov, Soviet composer (d. 1990)
- March 18 â Ivor Moreton, British singer, composer and pianist (d. 1984)
- April 2 â Buddy Ebsen, US actor and singer (d. 2003)
- April 5 â Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
- April 7 â Percy Faith, composer, musician (d. 1976)
- April 8 â Tito GuÃÂzar, Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999)
- April 15 â eden ahbez, hermit, musician (d. 1995)
- April 20 â Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)
- May 6 â Necil Kazñm Akses, Turkish composer (d. 1999)
- May 8 â Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1985)
- May 15 â Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer (d. 1986)
- May 27 â Harold Rome, US songwriter (d. 1993)
- June 24 â Hugo Distler, organist and composer (d. 1942)
- June 29 â Leroy Anderson, US composer and conductor (d. 1975)
- July 8 â Louis Jordan, bandleader (d. 1975)
- July 22 â Ljerko Spiller, Croat-Argentine violinist (d. 2008)
- July 25 â Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Carnatic vocalist (d. 2003)
- August 1 â Miloslav KabeláÃÂ, composer (d. 1979)
- August 4 â Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (d. 1994)
- August 12 â Nina Makarova, composer (d. 1976)
- August 29 â Orestes López, Cuban bassist, cellist, pianist and composer (d. 1991)
- September 5 - Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer
- September 6 â Maria Grinberg, pianist (d. 1978)
- September 7 â Max Kaminsky, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
- September 10 â Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
- September 13 â Mae Questel, US singer (d. 1998)
- September 16 â Chick Bullock, US singer (d. 1981)
- September 25 â Eugen SuchoÃ
Â, Slovak composer (d. 1993)
- September 30 â David Oistrakh, violinist (d. 1974)
- October 1 â Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)
- October 14 â Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
- October 19 â Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
- October 20 â Stuart Hamblen, US singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1989)
- October 21
- Harry Stewart, comedian, singer, and songwriter (d. 1956)
- Howard Ferguson, British composer and musicologist (d. 1999)
- November 19
- Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, French organist and composer (d. 2002)
- Keg Johnson, US jazz trombonist (d. 1967)
- December 10 â Olivier Messiaen, composer (d. 1992)
- December 11 â Elliott Carter, composer (d. 2012)
- December 16 â Frances Day, US actress and singer (d. 1984)
- December 17 â William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)
- December 21 â Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer (died 1988)
Deaths
- January 22 â August Wilhelmj, German violinist, 62
- January 23 â Edward MacDowell, American composer (b. 1860)
- February 28 â Pauline Lucca, operatic soprano (b. 1842)
- March 2 â Walter Slaughter, conductor and composer (b. 1860)
- March 12 â Clara Novello, soprano (b. 1818)
- March 26 â Louis Chauvin, ragtime musician (b. 1881)
- April 29 â Auguste Götze, German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (b. 1840)
- May 7 â Ludovic Halévy, lyricist (b. 1834)
- May 12 â Melisio Morales, composer (b. 1838)
- June 5 â Josef Wagner, composer (b. 1856)
- June 20 â Federico Chueca, zarzuela composer (b. 1846)
- June 21 â Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
- July 10 â Phoebe Knapp, composer of hymns (b. 1839)
- July 14 â William Mason, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
- July 18 â Jaime Nunó, composer of Mexico's national anthem (b. 1824)
- August 13 â Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (b. 1840)
- August 20 â Louisa Bassano, opera singer (b. 1818)
- August 26 â Tony Pastor, vaudeville founder & theater impresario (b. 1837)
- September 20 â Pablo de Sarasate, violinist (b. 1844)
- September 21 â Atanas Badev, composer and music teacher (b. 1860)
- November 15 â Katti Lanner, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1829)
- November 20 â Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (b. 1829)
- date unknown â Alois Kaiser, cantor and composer (b. 1840)
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