1905 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.
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- 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.[1]
 - 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.[2]
 - 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.[3]
 - 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.[4]
 - 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.[5]
 - 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.[6]
 - 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.[7]
 - December 28 - Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehar, receives its first performance in Vienna.[8]
 
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[9]
 - "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[10]
 - "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[11]
 
Classical music
    
- Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 3 in E major
 - Claude Debussy 
- La mer[12]
 - Suite bergamasque (revised)[13]
 
 - 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
 - Ole Olsen – Trombone Concerto
 - Maurice Ravel – Introduction et Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
 - Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 in D minor.
 - Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto (Op. 47)[14]
 - 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)
 - 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)[15]
 - January 5 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer (d. 1989)
 - January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988)[16]
 - January 10 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)[17]
 - January 12 – Tex Ritter, actor and singer (d. 1974)[18]
 - January 24 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
 - January 26 – Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)[19]
 - February 11 – William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)[20]
 - February 15 – Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986)[21]
 - 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)[22]
 - March 6 – Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)[23]
 - March 11 – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
 - March 15 
- Bertha Hill, American blues, vaudeville singer and dancer (d. 1950)[24]
 - 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)[25]
 - 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)[26]
 - May 8 – Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965)[27]
 - May 10 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
 - May 11 – Kansas Joe McCoy, American Delta blues musician, songwriter (d. 1950)[28]
 - 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)[29]
 - August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)[30]
 - August 8 – André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)[31]
 - August 23 – Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)[32]
 - August 29 – Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)[33]
 - 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)[34]
 - November 12 - Arthur Hedley, English musicologist (d.1905)
 - November 15 – Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)[35]
 - November 19 – Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)[36]
 - 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)[37]
 
Deaths
    
- January 4 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
 - January 5 – Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)[38]
 - January 10 – Kārlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
 - February 10 – Ignacy Krzyżanowski, composer (b. 1826)
 - February 12 – Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)[39]
 - 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)[40]
 - 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)[41]
 - 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)[42]
 
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