# 1911 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911.

## Specific locations

* 1911 in Norwegian music

## Specific genres

* 1911 in jazz

## Events

* January 26 – Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, in Dresden; the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the director is Max Reinhardt.
* February 21 – Gustav Mahler, who has contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic, of which he has been principal conductor since 1909.
* April 3 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 4 in Helsinki.
* April 8 – Gustav Mahler embarks from New York for France; he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later.
* May 19 – Maurice Ravel's opera L'heure espagnole is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, in a double bill with Jules Massenet's 1907 opera Thérèse.
* May 24 – Edward Elgar conducts the première of his Symphony No. 2 in London.
* June 15 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka is premiered in Paris; the lead dancer is Vaslav Nijinsky.
* July – Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, while staying at Eastbourne.
* November 20 – Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, after the composer's death, with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter conducting at the request of Alma Mahler.
* date unknown
** Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland.
** "Elsässisches Fahnenlied" is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
** 16-year-old Carl Orff publishes his first compositions.
** The Society of Women Musicians is co-founded by Marion Scott and others.

## Published popular music

* "After That I Want A Little More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
* "After The Honeymoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Alexander's Ragtime Band" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "All Alone" w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Any Old Iron" w.m. Charles Collins & Terry Sheppard
* "Baby Rose" by Louis Weslyn
* "Billy" w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
* "Bring Back My Lovin' Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
* "Core 'ngrato" w. Riccardo Cordiferro, m. Salvatore Cardillo
* "Down Home Rag" m. Wilbur Sweatman
* "Down The Field" w. Caleb O'Connor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman
* "El Choclo" w. Francice Luban m. Angel G. Villoldo
* "Everybody's Doing it Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "The Firebird" m. Igor Stravinsky
* "The Floral Dance" w.m. Katie Moss
* "The Gaby Glide" w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis Hirsch
* "Honey Love" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
* "Honeysuckle Rag" m. George Botsford
* "I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)" w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as ""I'm Going Back To Dixie") w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
* "If Every Hour Were A Day" w. Anna Driver m. Alfred Bryan
* "In The Land Of Harmony" w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder
* "Jimmy Valentine" w. Edward Madden m. Gus Edwards
* "The Little Grey Home In The West" w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m. Hermann Löhr
* "Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
* "Mary O'Hoolihan" Berlin
* "(On) Moonlight Bay" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
* "Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder
* "My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
* "My Hula Hula Love" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
* "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
* "The Oceana Roll" w. Roger Lewis m. Lucien Denni
* "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
* "One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Ragtime Violin!" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Red Rose Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
* "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" w.m. Harry Lauder
* "Run Home And Tell Your Mother" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Sarnia Cherie" (anthem of Guernsey) w. George Deighton, m. Domenico Santangelo
* "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" w. Eileen Newton m. Arthur F. Tate
* "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" w.m. Billy Merson
* "Spanish Love" Irving Berlin, Vincent Bryan, Ted Snyder
* "That Hypnotizing Man" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
* "That Mysterious Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
* "That Was Before I Met You" w. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer
* "There's A Girl In Havana" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
* "They Always Pick On Me" by Harry Von Tilzer and Stanley Murphy
* "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
* "To The Land Of My Own Romance" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "Too Much Mustard" m. Cecil Macklin
* "Virginia Lou" Irving Berlin, Earl Taylor
* "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" w.m. Gerald Grafton & Harry Lauder
* "When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
* "When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
* "When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" w. Edgar Leslie m. Lewis F. Muir
* "When You Kiss An Italian Girl" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "When You're Away" w. A. Seymour Brown & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
* "When You're In Town" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "The Whistling Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" w.m. Irving Berlin & Vincent Bryan
* "Yiddisha Nightingale" w.m. Irving Berlin
* "You've Got Me Hypnotized" w.m. Irving Berlin

## Hit recordings

* "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, Is the Right Little Girl for Me" – Billy Murray
* "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" - the Peerless Quartet
* "Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man" – Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth

## Classical music

* Joseph Achron – Hebrew Melody
* Lili Boulanger – Les Sirènes
* Frank Bridge – The Sea
* George Butterworth – Two English Idylls
* George Whitefield Chadwick – Suite Symphonique
* Eric Coates – Miniature Suite
* Frederick Delius – Summer Night on the River
* George Enescu –
** Sonata for violin and piano, in A minor (first-movement "Torso")
** Suite châtelaine, for orchestra (unfinished)
* Carl Engel – Sea-Shell
* Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
* Enrique Granados – Goyescas
* Reynaldo Hahn – Aubade athénienne
* Gustav Holst
** Invocation for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 19/2
** Second Suite in F, for military band
** 2 Eastern Pictures, H. 112
* Charles Ives – Requiem S. 333
* Paul von Klenau – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor
* Nikolai Medtner – Sonata for Piano in E minor, Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
* Nikolai Myaskovsky
** Sinfonietta in A
** Symphony No. 2
** Cello Sonata No. 1 (later revised in 1945).
* Carl Nielsen – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
* Arnold Schoenberg – Sechs kleine Klavierstücke
* Alexander Scriabin
** Piano Sonata No. 6
** Piano Sonata No. 7
* Cyril Scott
** An Old Song Ended
** Water-Wagtail, Op.71 No.3
** Tallahassee, Op.73 No.4
* Ethel Smyth – The March of the Women
* John Philip Sousa – Tales of a Traveler
* Charles Villiers Stanford
** Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124
** Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126
* Igor Stravinsky
** The Firebird Suite No. 1
** Petrushka
** Two Poems of K. Balmont, for voice and piano
* Amy Woodforde-Finden – "Stars of the Desert"

## Opera

* Béla Bartók – Bluebeard's Castle (first version composed; revised 1912 and 1917; not staged until 1918)
* Scott Joplin – Treemonisha (composed; not staged until 1972)
* Maurice Ravel – L'Heure Espagnole
* Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier, Dresden

## Operetta

* Leányvásár (The Marriage Market) – Victor Jacobi

## Musical theater

* The Count of Luxembourg London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performances
* The Fascinating Widow Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 11 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on November 13 for a total run of 65 performances. Starring Julian Eltinge, Winona Winter, Natalia Ault and Eddie Garvie.
* Gypsy Love (Zigeunerliebe) opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
* Der Lila Domino (Lilac Domino) – Leipzig production
* Madame Sherry New York
* Marriage a la Carte Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
* Peggy, by Leslie Stuart, with a book by George Grossmith, Jr. and lyrics by C. H. Bovill, London production opens at the Gaiety Theatre under the management of George Edwardes, on 4 March, and runs for 270 performances, starring Grossmith, Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray
* The Pink Lady Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 13 and ran for 312 performances
* The Quaker Girl Broadway production opened at the Park Theatre on October 23 and ran for 240 performances
* The Revue of Revues Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 27 and ran for 55 performances. Starring Gaby Deslys, Harry Jolson, Ernie Hare and Frank Tinney.
* Die Sirene by Leo Fall, based on a text by Leo Stein and A. M. Willner, first performed in Vienna on 5 January.
* The Siren, a Broadway musical adaptation of Die Sirene is produced in New York by Charles Frohman and runs at the Knickerbocker Theatre from 28 August 1911 to 16 December (116 performances).

## Births

* January 10 – Sidney Griller, violinist and founder of the Griller Quartet (d. 1993)
* January 18
** Gábor Darvas, composer (d. 1985)
** Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
* January 20
** Roy Eldridge, jazz trumpeter (d. 1989)
** Wendell J. Westcott, American carillon player and educator (d. 2010)
* January 24
** Evelyn Barbirolli, English oboist (d. 2008)
** Muir Mathieson, Scottish conductor and composer (d. 1975)
* February 3 – Jehan Alain, organist and composer (d. 1940)
* February 5 – Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
* February 11 – Wesley Rose, record producer (d. 1990)
* February 17 – Orrin Tucker, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2011)
* February 20 – Robert McBride, composer (d. 2007)
* March 7 – Stefan Kisielewski, Polish composer (d. 1991)
* March 8 – Alan Hovhaness, composer (d. 2000)
* March 9 – Clara Rockmore, born Clara Reisenberg, thereminist and violinist (d. 1998)
* March 16 – Harper Goff, Disney special effects man and Dixieland musician (d. 1993)
* March 18 – Smiley Burnette, singer-songwriter (d. 1967)
* April 6 – Guillermo Portabales, singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1970)
* April 8 – Ichirō Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (d. 1993)
* May 8
** Robert Johnson, blues guitarist and singer (d. 1938)
** Blanche Winogron, harpsichordist (d. 2002)
* May 13 – Maxine Sullivan, singer (d. 1987)
* May 14 – Hans Vogt, composer and conductor (d. 1992)
* May 18 – Big Joe Turner, blues shouter (d. 1985)
* May 20 – Vet Boswell of the Boswell Sisters singing group (d. 1988)
* June 4 – Faustino Oramas, Cuban singer, tres guitarist and composer (d. 2007)
* June 9 – Frederick May, Irish composer (d. 1985)
* June 24 – Portia White, contralto singer (d. 1968)
* June 29 – Bernard Herrmann, film composer (d. 1975)
* July 4 – Mitch Miller, arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player (d. 2010)
* July 7 – Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (d. 2007)
* July 8 – Gertrude Niesen, American singer, actress, comedian and songwriter (d. 1975)
* July 16 – Ginger Rogers, dancer, actress and singer (d. 1995)
* July 26 – Buddy Clark, singer (d. 1949)
* July 29 – Ján Cikker, composer (d. 1989)
* July 31 – George Liberace, violinist and elder brother of Liberace (d. 1983)
* August 5 – Roger Roger, film composer and bandleader (d. 2007)
* August 6 – Lucille Ball, actress and singer (d. 1989)
* August 26 – Deva Dassy, French opera singer (d. 2016)
* August 27 – Kay Walsh, dancer and actress (d. 2005)
* September 2 – Floyd Council, blues musician (d. 1976)
* September 11 – Bola de Nieve, singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1971)
* September 19 – Allan Pettersson, Swedish composer (d. 1980)
* September 24 – Marie Kraja, Albanian operatic and folk singer (d. 1999)
* October 1 – Irwin Kostal, arranger (d. 1994)
* October 7
** Shura Cherkassky, pianist (d. 1995)
** Vaughn Monroe, singer and bandleader (d. 1973)
* October 24 – Sonny Terry, blues musician (d. 1986)
* October 26 – Mahalia Jackson, gospel singer (d. 1972)
* October 29 – Nelson Cavaquinho, samba singer and composer (d. 1986)
* November 5 – Roy Rogers, singer, actor (d. 1998)
* November 30 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
* December 3 – Nino Rota, composer (d. 1979)
* December 14 – Spike Jones, bandleader (d. 1965)
* December 15 – Stan Kenton, bandleader (d. 1979)
* December 17 – André Claveau, French singer and Eurovision winner (d. 2003)
* December 25 – Eric Gilder, musicologist (d. 2000)
* December 27 – Anna Russell, singer and comedian (d. 2006)
* December 28 – Max Jaffa, violinist and bandleader (d. 1991)

## Deaths

* January 7 – William Hall Sherwood, pianist and music educator (b. 1854)
* January 8 – Pietro Gori, anarchist poet and songwriter (b. 1865)
* January 9 – Edwin Arthur Jones, composer (b. 1853)
* January 16 – Wilhelm Berger, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1861)
* January 28 – Wilhelmina Fundin, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1819)
* February 1 – Ángel Mislan, composer (b. 1862)
* February 20 – Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (b. 1854)
* March 20 – Jean-Théodore Radoux, bassoonist and composer (b. 1835)
* March 29 – Alexandre Guilmant, organist and composer (b. 1837)
* April 7 – Wilhelm Thern, pianist (b. 1847)
* April 10 – Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, painter and composer (b. 1875)
* April 15 – Wilma Neruda, violinist (b. 1838)
* May 4 – Ronald Richardson Potter, organist and composer (b. 1879)
* May 5 – James A. Bland, musician and songwriter (b. 1854)
* May 18 – Gustav Mahler, composer (b. 1860)
* May 29 – W. S. Gilbert, of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1836)
* June 7 – Carlos Fernández Shaw, librettist (b. 1865)
* June 13 – Patrick Heeney, composer (b. 1881)
* June 14 – Johan Svendsen, conductor, composer and violinist (b. 1840)
* June 16 – Frank Peabody Atherton, composer and educator (b. 1868)
* June 18 – Franjo Kuhač, piano teacher, conductor and musicologist (b. 1834)
* June 21 – Robert Radecke, composer (b. 1830)
* June 22 – Bruno Klein, organist and composer (b. 1858)
* July 2 – Felix Mottl, conductor and composer (b. 1856)
* July 3 – Madeline Schiller, pianist (b. c. 1845)
* July 7 – Samuel de Lange, composer, organist, pianist, conductor and music teacher, director of the Stuttgart music conservatory (b. 1841)
* July 25 – Filippo Capocci, Italian organist and composer (b. 1840)
* August 2
** Bob Cole, composer (b. 1869)
** José Joaquín Palma, lyricist of the national anthem of Guatemala (b. 1884)
* August 10 – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
* August 29 – Hildegard Werner, Swedish musician, conductor and journalist (b. 1834)
* October 3 – Paul Sarebresole, ragtime composer (b. 1875)
* October 13 – Harry Rickards, comedian, singer and theatre owner (b. 1843)
* November 23 – Catalina Berroa, Cuban pianist, music teacher and composer (b. 1849)
* December 29 – Rosamund Marriott Watson, lyricist (born 1860)