# 1910 in music

This list is about **1910 in music**.

## Events

* 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.
* October - Pietro Mascagni and Giacomo Puccini make up after their 1905 quarrel.
* 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

Ragtime banjo by Vess L. Ossman Columbia Records, 1910
## Published popular music

* "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" w. Rida 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
* "Alma, Where Do You Live?" w. George V. Hobart m. Adolph Philipp
* "Angel Eyes" w. Alfred Bryan m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
* "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
* "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
* "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
* "Dear Mayme, I Love You!" Irving Berlin & 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
* "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
* "Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
* "How Can You Love Such A Man?" Berlin
* " I Feel So Lonely" w.m. Bert Lee. Introduced by Fred Allandale in the musical *The Islander*
* "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

"The Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes", with photo of Anna Held, from Library of Congress
* "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

## Classical music

* Victor Ewald - *Symphony for Brass*
* Gustav Mahler - *Symphony No. 9 finished*
* Erkki Melartin - *String Quartet No. 4*
* Nikolai Myaskovsky - Symphonic poem *Silence*; original versions of *String Quartet No. 3*, *String Quartet No. 4*
* Carl Nielsen - *At the Bier of a Young Artist* (orchestral for funeral)
* Arnold Schoenberg - *Five Pieces for Orchestra*
* Alexander Scriabin - *Prometheus, "The Poem of Fire"*
* Igor Stravinsky - *The Firebird*
* Ralph Vaughan Williams - *Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis*, *Symphony No. 1 ('A Sea Symphony')*

## Opera

* Giacomo Puccini - *La fanciulla del West* (*The Girl of the Golden West*), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in New York City
* Jules Massenet - *Don Quichotte* premiered in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
* Gialdino Gialdini - *La Bufera* premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
* Scott Joplin - *Treemonisha* completed but not staged

## Musical theater

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A 1910 Edison Records recording of vaudeville performer Edward M. Favor's rendition of Clarence Wainwright Murphy's song *How can they tell that I'm Irish?*

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* *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 8 - Fabian Andre, composer (d. 1960)
* January 23 - Django Reinhardt, 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 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)
* May 12 - Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
* May 13 - Cleavant Derricks, gospel songwriter (d. 1977)
* May 23 - Artie Shaw, US bandleader (d. 2004)
* 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 17 - H. Owen Reed, conductor and composer
* June 18 - Ray McKinley, US drummer, singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
* 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 aka **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)
* 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)
* November 22 - Ethel Smith, organist (d. 1996)
* 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)
* 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 - 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)

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