This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
Published popular music
Hit recordings
Classical music
- Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 39, "FrÃÂ¥n havsbandet"
- Granville Bantock - Hamabdil for cello, harp and strings
- Arnold Bax â Tintagel
- Ernest Bloch â Suite for Viola and Orchestra
- Rebecca Clarke â Sonata for Viola and Piano
- Edward Elgar - Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
- Gabriel Fauré â Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112
- Robert Fuchs â Twelve Waltzes, Op. 110, for piano
- Louis Glass â Symphony No. 5 in C major, Op. 57, "Svastika"
- Peder Gram â Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
- Charles Tomlinson Griffes â The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
- Alois Hába - String Quartet No. 1, Op. 4
- Johan Halvorsen â Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
- Paul Hindemith
- Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 11, No. 3
- Viola Sonata No.1 in F major, Op. 11, No. 4
- Sonata for Solo Viola No. 1, Op. 11, No. 5
- Gustav Holst - Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38
- Dorothy Howell â Lamia
- Ernst Krenek - Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 2
- Darius Milhaud
- Poèmes de Francis Thompson, Op. 54
- Les soirées de Pétrograd, Op. 55
- Machines agricoles, 6 Pastorales for voice and chamber ensemble, Op. 56
- Suite symphonique No. 2, Op. 57
- Le bÃ
Âuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (ballet)
- Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 58b
- Carl Nielsen â Aladdin (for theatre)
- Gabriel Pierné â Sonata for Cello and Piano
- Maurice Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin, M68a (orchestration of 4 pieces from M 68)
- Dane Rudhyar â Syntony
- Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
- Leo Sowerby â Concerto for Harp
- Charles Villiers Stanford â A Song of Agincourt
- Igor Stravinsky
- The Firebird Suite No. 2
- Piano-Rag-Music
- Symphony in E-flat (revised version)
- Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
- JoaquÃÂn Turina
- NiñerÃÂas, Series 1 Op. 21, for piano
- Danzas fantásticas Op. 22, two versions: piano solo, and orchestra
- Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Symphony No. 3, "A guerra" (War)
- Symphony No. 4, "A vitória" (Victory)
Opera
Jazz
Musical theater
Publications
Births
- January 1 â Yoshio Tabata, singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
- January 14 â Kaifi Azmi, Urdu and Hindi songwriter (d. 2002)
- January 18 â Juan Orrego-Salas, Chilean-American composer (d. 2019
- January 22 â Sid Ramin, arranger (d. 2019)
- January 25
- Eula Beal, operatic contralto (d. 2008)
- Norman Newell, English record producer and lyricist (d. 2004)
- January 27 â Ross Bagdasarian (aka David Seville), of The Chipmunks (d. 1972)
- February 1 â Artie Singer, American songwriter, music producer, and bandleader (d. 2008)
- February 2 â Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (d. 2012)
- February 13 â Tennessee Ernie Ford, country musician (d. 1991)
- March 10 â Marion Hutton, big band singer (d. 1987)
- March 15 â George Avakian, jazz record producer (d. 2017)
- March 17 â Nat King Cole, singer and pianist (d. 1965)
- March 19 â Alfred Apaka, Hawaiian singer (d. 1960)
- March 28 â D. K. Pattammal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
- April 3 â Ervin Drake, songwriter (d. 2015)
- April 14 â Karel Berman, opera singer and composer (d. 1995)
- April 16 â Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer (d. 2009)
- April 21
- Don Cornell, singer (d. 2004)
- Roger Doucet, tenor, regular performer of the Canadian national anthem (d. 1981)
- April 29 â Stephen Wilkinson, English conductor and composer (d. 2021)
- May 3 â Pete Seeger, American folk singer (d. 2014)
- May 7 â La Esterella, Flemish singer (d. 2011)
- May 12 â Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002)
- May 16 â Liberace, American pianist (d. 1987)
- May 17 â Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer, actor and producer (d. 2007)
- May 18 â Margot Fonteyn, born Margaret Hookham, English ballerina (d. 1991)
- May 19 â Georgie Auld, jazz musician (d. 1990)
- May 23 â Betty Garrett, actress and dancer (d. 2011)
- May 30 â Joe McQueen, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
- June 11 â Helen Tobias-Duesberg, composer (d. 2010)
- June 17 â Gene de Paul, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
- June 22 â Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer and director (d. 1980)
- July 8 â Ernst Haefliger, Swiss tenor (d. 2007)
- July 10 â Ian Wallace, Scottish bass-baritone opera singer (d. 2009)
- July 27 â Jonathan Sternberg, American conductor, musical director and professor of music (d. 2018)
- July 31 â Norman Del Mar, conductor and music writer (d. 1994)
- August 2 â Carlo Savina, Italian composer and conductor (d. 2002)
- August 11 â Ginette Neveu, violin virtuoso (d. 1949)
- August 13 â George Shearing, English jazz pianist and composer (d. 2011)
- August 17 â Irv Williams, African American jazz saxophonist (d. 2019)
- August 21 â Tommy Reilly, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2000)
- August 24 â Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer (d. 2000)
- September 2 â Marge Champion, dancer and choreographer (d. 2020)
- September 3 â Natalia Clare, ballerina (d. 2007)
- September 4 â Teddy Johnson, popular singer (d. 2018)
- September 16
- Sven-Erik Bäck, composer (d. 1994)
- Andy Russell, singer (d. 1992)
- September 21 â Virgilio Savona, Italian singer, songwriter (d. 2009)
- September 24 â Jack Costanzo, American percussionist (d. 2018)
- September 30 â Patricia Neway, operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (d. 2012)
- October 9 â Irmgard Seefried, operatic soprano (d. 1988)
- October 11 â Art Blakey, jazz drummer and bandleader (d. 1990)
- October 18 â Anita O'Day, singer (d. 2006)
- October 20 â Lia Origoni, singer (d. 2022)
- October 23 â Katie Lee, American folk singer (d. 2017)
- October 26 â James E. Myers, songwriter (d. 2001)
- November 5 â Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
- November 12 â Jackie Washington, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 2009)
- November 15 â Carol Bruce, singer and actress (d. 2007)
- November 23 â Cláudio Santoro, composer (d. 1989)
- December 6 â BlaÃ
¾ Lenger, Croatian folk singer (d. 2006)
- December 8 â Mieczyslaw Weinberg, composer (d. 1996)
- December 10 â Sesto Bruscantini, operatic bass-baritone (d. 2003)
- December 2020 â Reinhold Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist, organist and composer (died 1968)
- December 21 â Nelson Cooke, Australian cellist (d. 2018)
- December 25
- Naushad Ali, film score composer (d. 2006)
- Curly Seckler, American bluegrass musician (d. 2017)
- December 30 â David Willcocks, British choral conductor, organist and composer (d. 2015)
Deaths
- January 28 â Charles McCarron, songwriter (b. 1891)
- February 4 â Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya, Russian mezzo-soprano (b. 1845)
- February 18 â Henry Ragas, jazz pianist (b. 1891)
- March 6 â Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1843)
- March 8 â Auguste Tolbeque, cellist and composer (b. 1830)
- March 13 â Amy Woodforde-Finden, composer (b. 1860)
- March 23 â Henry Blossom, lyricist (b. 1866)
- April 9 â James Reese Europe, jazz musician and composer, band leader (b. 1881) (stabbed in fight)
- April 24 â Camille Erlanger, opera composer (b. 1863)
- April 25 â Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
- June 2 â Ernest Ford, conductor and composer (b. 1858)
- June 22 â Julian Scriabin, musical prodigy, pianist and composer (b. 1908) (drowned)
- August 1 â Oscar Hammerstein I, musical theatre impresario (b. 1847)
- August 4 â Ferdinand Thieriot, composer (b. 1838)
- August 9 â Ruggiero Leoncavallo, composer (b. 1857)
- August 18 â Anna Deinet, operatic soprano (b. 1843)
- September 11 â Géza Csáth, writer and musician (b. 1887)
- September 27 â Adelina Patti, opera singer (b. 1843)
- October 17 â Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (b. 1842)
- November 19 â Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor (b. 1869)
- December 16 â Luigi Illica, librettist (b. 1857)
- December 21 â Louis Diémer, pianist and composer (b. 1843)
- December 27 â Achilles Alferaki, statesman, artist and composer (b. 1846)
- December 31 â Marie van Zandt, American operatic soprano (b. 1858)
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