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.
 * 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.
 * 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 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 clams 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.
 * 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.
 * December 28 - Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehar, receives its first performance in Vienna.

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
 * "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" w.m. Fred Fisher
 * "I'm Getting Sleepy" w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander
 * "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
 * "It's Allus De Same In Dixie" Cook
 * "I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" Farrell, Silver
 * "I've Sweethearts In Every Port" Keith
 * "Jolly Pickaninnies" m. Ernst Rueffe
 * "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "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.
 * "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" Brady, Johnston, Frantzen
 * "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Moonlight" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
 * "My Dusky Rose" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
 * "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
 * "One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" w. William Cahill m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Paddy's Day" Fogarty, Mullen
 * "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
 * "Pretty Desdamone" w.m. F. Collins Wildman
 * "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
 * "Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry H. Williams m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "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
 * "They Can't Diddle Me" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
 * "The Umpire Is A Most Unhappy Man" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
 * "Violette" w. Dolly Jardon m. J. B. Mullen
 * "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
 * "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
 * "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
 * Suite bergamasque (revised)
 * 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 Dobble 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)
 * 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)
 * January 5 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer (d. 1989)
 * January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988)
 * January 10 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)
 * January 12 – Tex Ritter, actor and singer (d. 1974)
 * January 24 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
 * January 26 – Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
 * February 11 – William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)
 * February 15 – Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986)
 * 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)
 * March 6 – Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
 * March 11 – 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 – Ivar Haglund, folksinger and restaurateur (d. 1985)
 * March 22 - Ruth Page, dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1991)
 * March 23 – 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 – 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)
 * May 8 – Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965)
 * May 10 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
 * May 11 – 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 – 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)
 * August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
 * August 8 – André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)
 * August 23 – Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
 * August 29 – Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)
 * October 4 – Léon Orthel, composer and pianist (d. 1985)
 * 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)
 * November 12 - Arthur Hedley, English musicologist (d.1969)
 * November 15 – Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
 * November 19 – Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)
 * 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)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
 * January 5 – Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)