# 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
* "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
* "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
* "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
* "Grizzly Bear" w.m. George Botsford & Irving Berlin
* "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)
* "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 Your Arms Around Me Honey" w. Junie McCree m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "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
* "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

## 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 – 9 Préludes, Op. 103 [fr] (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 – Four Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 7 [fr]

### 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)