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1925 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1925.

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Published popular music

Top Popular Recordings 1925

The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1924: Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference.

Classical music

  • Isidor Achron – Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Pedro Humberto Allende –
  • Mientras baja la nieve, for voice and piano
  • El surtidor, for voice and piano
  • A las nubes, for voice and piano
  • Ojitas de pena, for voice and piano
  • Tres Tonadas, for orchestra
  • Tempo di minuetto in C major, for piano
  • Tempo de vals, for harp
  • Béla Bartók – Dance Suite (version for piano of an orchestral work written in 1923)
  • Ernest Bloch – Concerto Grosso No. 1, for piano and strings
  • Frank Bridge –
  • "Golden Hair", for voice and piano
  • "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
  • The Pneu World, for cello and piano
  • Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
  • Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
  • Winter Pastorale, for piano
  • Carlos Chávez –
  • Cake Walk, for piano
  • Los cuatro soles, ballet, for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • Energía, for nine instruments
  • Foxtrot, for piano
  • 36, for piano
  • Aaron Copland – Music for the Theatre, for chamber orchestra
  • Henry Cowell –
  • The Banshee, for string piano
  • Ensemble, for two violins, two cellos, and thundersticks
  • Slow Jig, for piano
  • Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
  • Edward Elgar –
  • "The Herald", part-song, SATB
  • "The Prince of Sleep", part-song, SATB
  • Eduardo Fabini –
  • A mi río, for mixed choir and orchestra
  • Luz mala, for soprano and orchestra
  • Triste No. 1, version for orchestra
  • John Fernström – Violin Concerto No. 1
  • Jacob Gade – Jalousie, for cello and piano
  • George Gershwin – Piano Concerto in F
  • Leopold Godowsky – Java Suite
  • William Henry Harris – Faire Is the Heaven
  • Gustav Holst –
  • "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
  • Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir
  • Motets (2), for choir
  • Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
  • Terzetto for flute, oboe, and viola
  • Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
  • Jacques Ibert – Concerto for cello and wind instruments
  • John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano 1925
  • Ernst Krenek –
  • Die Jahreszeiten, Op. 35, for choir
  • Mammon, Op. 37, ballet, for orchestra
  • Der vertauschte Cupido, Op. 38, ballet, for orchestra
  • Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 2
  • Carl Nielsen – Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Semplice
  • Juan Carlos Paz –
  • Chorale in F-sharp major, for piano
  • Cuatro fugas sobre un tema, for piano
  • Piano Sonata No. 2, in B-flat minor
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony No. 2, Iron and Steel
  • Ottorino Respighi –
  • Concerto in modo misolidio, for piano and orchestra
  • Poema autunnale, for violinand orchestra
  • Rossiniana, suite for orchestra
  • Albert Roussel –
  • Duo, for bassoon and contrabass
  • Segovia, Op. 29, for guitar
  • Serenade, Op. 30, for flute, string trio, and harp
  • Arnold Schoenberg –
  • Drei Satiren, Op. 28, for SATB choir with viola, cello, and piano
  • Vier Stücke, Op. 27, for SATB choir with clarinet, mandolin, violin, and cello
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Symphony No. 1, String Quartet No. 2 (https://web.archive.org/web/20070414122127/http://www.musica.cz/comp/schulhoff.htm)
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger –
  • The Adventures of Tom Thumb, for piano
  • Piano Preludes Nos. 1–5
  • Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 1
  • Jean Sibelius –
  • Ett ensamt skidspÃ¥r, for reciting voice and piano
  • Herran siunaus, for choir and organ
  • Intrada, for organ, Op. 111, No. 1
  • Kolme johdantovuorolaulua, for choir and organ
  • Morceau romantique sur un motif de M. Jacob de Julin, for orchestra
  • Narciss, for voice and piano
  • SkolsÃ¥ng, for choir
  • SkyddskÃ¥rsmarsch, for choir
  • Stormen [The Tempest], Op. 109, incidental music for Shakespeare's play
  • Igor Stravinsky –
  • Serenade in A, for piano
  • Suite No. 1, for small orchestra
  • Suite, "d’après thèmes, fragments et pièces de Giambattista Pergolesi", for violin and piano
  • Marcel Tournier – Images No. 1, Op. 29; Etude de Concert "Au Matin"
  • Joaquín Turina –
  • La oración del torero, Op. 34, for lute quartet, also arranged for string quartet or string orchestra
  • La venta de los gatos, Op. 32, for piano
  • Edgard Varèse – Intégrales
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams –
  • Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
  • Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
  • Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir
  • Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
  • Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
  • Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos –
  • Chôros No. 3 ("Pica-páo"), for male choir or seven wind instruments, or both together
  • Chôros No. 5 ("Alma brasileira"), for piano
  • Chôros No. 8, for large orchestra and two pianos
  • Cirandinhas, for piano
  • O Martírio dos Insetos, for violin and orchestra
  • Sul America, for piano
  • William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
  • Kurt Weill – Violin Concerto
  • Alberto Williams –
  • Canciones pasionales, for voice and piano
  • Piezas modernas para los niños, for piano
  • Stefan Wolpe – Three Songs by Heinrich von Kleist

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