1910 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1910.

Specific locations

 * 1910 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

 * 1910 in jazz

Events

 * February 19 - English premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra, Thomas Beecham conducting at the first-ever performance of a Strauss opera in the UK at the Royal Opera House, London
 * March 19 – Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest
 * June 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris
 * September 12 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand, is premiered in Munich under his baton.
 * October – Pietro Mascagni and Giacomo Puccini make up after their 1905 quarrel
 * November – John Lomax's pioneering collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is published by Sturgis and Walton in the United States with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
 * November 7 – The musical comedy, Naughty Marietta, with music by Victor Herbert, is first performed on Broadway
 * November 10 – Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto, with Fritz Kreisler playing the solo part
 * Mary Garden begins her 20-year reign as soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera



Published popular music

 * "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" w. Rita Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert. From the operetta Naughty Marietta
 * "Alexander and His Clarinet" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "All Aboard For Blanket Bay" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "All That I Ask Of You Is Love" w. Edgar Selden m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Angels" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me" w. Thomas J. Gray m. Fred Fisher
 * "Back To My Old Home Town" w.m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
 * "A Banjo Song" by Howard Weeden
 * "The Big Bass Viol" w.m. M. T. Bohannon
 * "The Birth of Passion" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna. From the musical Madame Sherry.
 * "Bring Back My Lena To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin & David Andrew Noll
 * "By The Saskatchewan" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
 * "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Caprice Viennois" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "The Chanticleer Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Albert Gumble
 * "The Chicken Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly
 * "Chinatown, My Chinatown" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Cloud-Chief" m. J. Ernest Philie.
 * "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
 * "Come To The Ball" w. Adrian Ross m. Lionel Monckton
 * "Constantly" w. Chris Smith m. James Henry Burris
 * "The Convict And The Bird" w.m. T. W. Connor
 * "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
 * "Dear Mayme, I Love You!" Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder
 * "Doctor Tinkle Tinker" by Otto Harbach
 * "Don't Wake Me Up, I'm Dreaming" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Down By The Old Mill Stream" w.m. Tell Taylor
 * "Dream of a Miner's Child" ("Don't Go down in the Mine, Dad") w. Robert Donnely, Will Geddes
 * "Dreams, Just Dreams" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Every Little Movement" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
 * "Gee But It's Great To Meet A Friend From Your Old Home Town" w. William Tracey m. James Mc Gavisk
 * "Goodbye Rose" w. Addison Burkhart m. Herbert Ingraham
 * "Grizzly Bear" w.m. George Botsford & Irving Berlin
 * "Hennessy" w.m. T.W. Connor w.m. Herman E. Darewski Jr.
 * "Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "How Can You Love Such A Man?" Irving Berlin
 * "I Feel So Lonely" w.m. Bert Lee. Introduced by Fred Allandale in the musical The Islander (musical)
 * "I'd Love To Live In Loveland" w.m. W. R. Williams (Rossiter)
 * "If He Comes In I'm Going Out" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith
 * "If I Was A Millionaire" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "I'm Falling In Love With Someone" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
 * "I'm Henery the Eighth" w.m. Fred Murray & R. P. Weston
 * "In The Shadows" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Herman Finck
 * "Is There Anything Else I Can Do For You?" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Italian Street Song" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
 * "I've Got The Time I've Got The Place But It's Hard To Find The Girl" w. Ballard MacDonald m. S. R. Henry
 * "Joshua" w.m George Arthurs & Bert Lee
 * "Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Leo Friedman
 * "Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland" w.m. Elizabeth Brice & Charles King
 * "Liebesfreud" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "Liebeslied" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "Life Is Only What You Make It After All" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
 * "Macushla" w. Josephine V. Rowe m. Dermot MacMurrough
 * "Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes" w. J. W. Johnson m. Bob Cole
 * "Morning" w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Oley Speaks
 * "Mother Machree" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Ernest R. Ball & Chauncey Olcott
 * "'Neath The Southern Moon" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert. From the operetta Naughty Marietta.
 * "Nora Malone" w. Junie McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Oh How That German Could Love" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
 * "Oh That Beautiful Rag" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
 * "On Mobile Bay" w. Earl C. Jones m. Neil Moret
 * "A Perfect Day" w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
 * "Plant A Watermelon On My Grave And Let The Juice Soak Through" w.m. Frank Dumont & R. P. Lilly
 * "Play That Barbershop Chord" w. Ballard MacDonald & William Tracey m. Lewis F. Muir
 * "Put On Your Ta-Ta Little Girlie" w.m. Fred Leigh
 * "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" w. Junie McCree m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Red Pepper: A Spicy Rag" m. Henry Lodge
 * "Silver Bell" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
 * "Silver Star" m. Charles L. Johnson
 * "Some Of These Days" w.m. Shelton Brooks
 * "Spaghetti Rag" m. George Lyons & Bob Yosco
 * "Steamboat Bill" w. Ren Shields m. Bert Leighton & Frank Leighton
 * "Stein Song (Maine)" w. Lincoln Colcord m. E. A. Fenstad
 * "Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over And Love Me Some More)" w.m. Irving Berlin
 * "Sweet Italian Love" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
 * "Tambourin Chinois" m. Fritz Kreisler
 * "Telling Lies" Irving Berlin, Henrietta Blanke-Belcher
 * "That Minor Strain" w. Cecil Mack m. Ford Dabney
 * "That Opera Rag" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
 * "That's Why They Call Me "Shine"" w. Cecil Mack m. Ford Dabney
 * "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
 * "Two Little Love Bees" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
 * "Under The Yum Yum Tree" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Vissi D'Arte" Giacossa, Illica, Puccini
 * "Washington And Lee Swing" w. Thornton W. Allen & C. A. Robbins m. Thornton W. Allen & M. W. Sheafe
 * "What's The Matter With Father?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Who Are You With Tonight?" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "You Are The Ideal Of My Dreams" w.m. Herbert Ingraham

Hit recordings

 * "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" – Blanche Ring

Classical music

 * Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3
 * Rutland Boughton – Five Celtic Songs
 * Claude Debussy - Préludes (book 1 begun in 1910)
 * Edward Elgar -
 * Violin Concerto, Op. 61
 * Romance for bassoon, Op. 62
 * Victor Ewald – Symphony for Brass
 * Gabriel Fauré – Préludes (Fauré) (completed in this year)
 * Charles Ives - Symphony No. 3 (1908-1910)
 * Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9
 * Erkki Melartin – String Quartet No. 4
 * Nikolai Myaskovsky –
 * Symphonic poem Silence
 * String Quartet No. 3 (original version)
 * Carl Nielsen –
 * At the Bier of a Young Artist (orchestral work for funeral)
 * Paaske-Liljen (choral work)
 * Sinfonia espansiva, Op. 27 / FS 60 (begun, concluded 1911)
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
 * 13 Preludes, Op. 32
 * Arnold Schoenberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra
 * Alexander Scriabin – Prometheus, "The Poem of Fire"
 * Jean Sibelius - In Memoriam, Op. 59 (completed)
 * Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams
 * Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (first version)
 * Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony")
 * Anton Webern – 4 Pieces for Violin (Webern)

Incidental music

 * Carl Nielsen - Hagbarth og Signe

Opera

 * Gialdino Gialdini – La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
 * Jules Massenet – Don Quichotte premiered February 19 in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
 * Giacomo Puccini – La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City
 * Alexander Zemlinsky – Kleider machen Leute

Ballet

 * June 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris

Musical theatre

 * The Balkan Princess London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on February 19 and ran for 176 performances
 * The Chocolate Soldier (Rudolf Friml) – London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on September 10 and ran for 500 performances
 * The Islander London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on April 23 and ran for 114 performances
 * The Jolly Bachelors Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 6 and ran for 165 performances
 * Die keusche Susanne (m. Jean Gilbert) opened in Magdeburg
 * Madame Sherry Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on August 30 and ran for 231 performances
 * Naughty Marietta (Rida Johnson Young and Victor Herbert) – Broadway production opened at the New York Theatre on November 7 and ran for 136 performances
 * Our Miss Gibbs Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 29 and ran for 64 performances
 * The Quaker Girl (Music: Lionel Monckton Lyrics: Adrian Ross & Percy Greenbank Book: James T. Tanner).  London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on November 5 and ran for 536 performances.  Starring Gertie Millar, Joseph Coyne and C. Hayden Coffin.
 * The Satyr London production
 * Tillie's Nightmare Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 5 and was revived at the Manhattan Opera House on December 18, 1911, for a total run of 85 performances
 * Up and Down Broadway Broadway revue opened at the Casino Theatre on July 18 and ran for 72 performances
 * The Yankee Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 10 and ran for 92 performances
 * Zigeunerliebe Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on January 8

Births

 * January 1 – Koesbini, Indonesian composer (d. 1991)
 * January 8 – Fabian Andre, composer (d. 1960)
 * January 17 – Sid Catlett, American jazz drummer (d. 1951)
 * January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Romani-French guitarist (d. 1953)
 * February 3 – Blas Galindo Dimas, Mexican composer (d. 1993?)
 * February 25 – Winifred Shaw, US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1982)
 * March 9 – Samuel Barber, composer (d. 1981)
 * March 11 – Nicola Salerno, Italian lyricist (d. 1969)
 * March 15 – Anna-Lisa Björling, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
 * March 25 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (d. 2014)
 * March 27 – Manfred Bukofzer, German-American musicologist (d. 1955)
 * April 14 – Werner Wolf Glaser, Swiss composer (d. 2006)
 * April 26 – Erland von Koch, Swedish composer (d. 2009)
 * April 30 – Levi Celerio, songwriter (d. 2002)
 * May 8 – Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist and composer (d. 1981)
 * May 12
 * Gordon Jenkins, US songwriter, conductor and pianist (d. 1984)
 * Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
 * May 13 – Cleavant Derricks, gospel songwriter (d. 1977)
 * May 23
 * Artie Shaw, US bandleader (d. 2004)
 * Scatman Crothers, American actor, singer, dancer and musician (d. 1986)
 * May 26 – Lola Gjoka, Albanian pianist (d. 1985)
 * May 28 – T-Bone Walker, blues musician (d. 1975)
 * June 4 – Anton Dermota, operatic tenor (d. 1989)
 * June 10 – Howlin' Wolf, blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
 * June 15 – Alf Pearson, British singer, part of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 2012)
 * June 17 – H. Owen Reed, conductor and composer (d. 2014)
 * June 18
 * Ray McKinley, US drummer, singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
 * Takahashi Chikuzan, Japanese musician and composer (d. 1998)
 * June 22 – Anne Ziegler, English soprano (d. 2003)
 * June 29 – Frank Loesser, US songwriter (d. 1969)
 * July 10 – Rafael Cepeda, folk musician (d. 1996)
 * July 15 – Ronald Binge, British composer (d.1973)
 * July 18 – Lou Busch, US arranger and composer a.k.a. Joe "Fingers" Carr (died 1979)
 * August 1 – Walter Scharf, film composer (died 2003)
 * August 7 – Freddie Slack, US pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1965)
 * August 12 – Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (d. 1995)
 * August 17 – Erkki Aaltonen, composer (d. 1990)
 * August 24 – Tunde King, Nigerian singer and instrumentalist, originator of Jùjú music (d. c.1980)
 * August 25 – Ethel Stark, violinist and composer (d. 2012)
 * September 3 – Kitty Carlisle, US actress and singer (d. 2007)
 * September 12 – Shep Fields, bandleader (d. 1981)
 * September 29 – Virginia Bruce, actress and singer (d. 1982)
 * October 1 – André Dumortier, pianist (d. 2004)
 * October 13 – Otto Joachim, composer (d. 2010)
 * December 4 – Alex North, film composer (d. 1991)
 * December 7 – Louis Prima, musician, singer (d. 1978)
 * December 10 – John H. Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Otakar Hostinský, musicologist (b. 1847)
 * March 10 – Carl Reinecke, composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1824)
 * March 17 – Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (b. 1846)
 * March 28 – Édouard Colonne, violinist and conductor (b. 1838)
 * May 3 – Lottie Collins, singer and dancer (b. 1865)
 * May 7 – Bernhard Cossmann, cellist (b. 1822)
 * May 18
 * Pauline Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
 * Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist (b. 1843)
 * May 29 – Mily Balakirev, composer (b. 1837)
 * June 6 – Concepció Bordalba, opera singer (b. 1866)
 * July 4 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, pianist and composer (b. 1840)
 * July 7 – Emilio Usiglio, conductor and composer (b. 1841)
 * July 14 – Marius Petipa, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
 * August 31 – Emīls Dārziņš, composer, conductor and music critic (b. 1875) (probable suicide)
 * September 5
 * Julian Edwards, composer (b. 1855)
 * Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (b. 1840)
 * September 24 – Rudolf Dellinger, composer (b. 1857)
 * October 14 – Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (b. 1826)
 * October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, lyricist of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (b. 1819)
 * November 25 – John Henry Martin, Band instrument manufacturer (b. 1835)
 * date unknown – Albert Schatz, composer and librettist (b. 1839)