1907 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1907.

Specific locations

• 1907 in Norwegian music

Events

• January 27 – Executives of the Metropolitan Opera removes Richard Strauss's Salome from the repertoire following protests that the opera was indecent.^[1]
• Karel Kovarovic
  conducting.
• February 7 – Jules Massenet's Therese is produced in Monte Carlo.^[2]
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.^[2]
• February 21 – Frederick Delius' opera Romeo and Julia auf dem Dorf has its premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin.^[2]
• February 22 - Maurice Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for harp, string quartet, flute and clarinet premieres at the Cercle Masical in Paris.^[2]
• March 1 - Claude Debussy's La Mer receives its American premiere as it is performed by Karl Muck and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.^[2]
• March 19 - Edward Elgar conducts a New York performance of his oratio The Apostles with the Ontario Society of New York City.
• April 20 - Vincent d'Indy's symphnic work dedicated to the memory of his wife, Souvenirs premiers in Paris.^[2]
• April 23 - Excerpts from Arthur Nevin's opera Poia are premiered at the White House. President Theodore Roosevelt listens as the composer performs at the piano in the absence of an orchestra.^[2]
• Igor Stravinski's Symphony No.1 E-flat
  receives its first private performance in Saint Peterburg at a private concert
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, by Paul Dukas by the libretto based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, premiers at the Paris Opéra-Comique
• Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky and others. Feodor Chaliapin
  sings operatic excerpts, creating a sensation.
• May 27 – Bach House (Eisenach) opens in what is at this time believed to be the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, the first museum devoted to a single composer.
• Cambridge University awards the honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Alexander Glazunov.^[3]
• Oxford University awards the honorary degree of Doctor of Music to Alexander Glazunov
  .
• Camille Saint-Saens
  .
• Pomp and Circumstance
  No.4 premiers at London.
• September 25 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 3 in C major Op.52 in Helsinki.^[4]
• September 27 - Norfolk Rhapsody No.2 and Norfolk Rhapsody No.3 by Ralph Vaughan Williams, are premiered at the Cardiff Festival.^[2]
• November 9 – Umberto Giordano's Marcella is peroduced at La Scala in Milan. The opera, in three episodes, is about the love affair between an artist and his model.^[2]
• Publication of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni.
• November 20 – Feodor Chaliapin makes his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera house in Mefistofele
• Cosima Wagner steps down from her position as head of the Bayreuth Festival. She is succeeded by her son Siegfried.

Published popular music

"Heliotrope Bouquet"

Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin's "Heliotrope Bouquet" being performed by a pianist circa 2007.

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• "
  All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice
  " w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "And A Little Bit More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
• "Ballooning" w. Paul West m. Jerome Kern
• "The Bandolero" w. m. Leslie Stuart
• "Be My Little Teddy Bear" w.
  Max Hoffman
• "
  Because I'm Married Now
  " w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Bon Bon Buddy" by Alex Rogers
• "Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain" w.m. Arthur Longbrake
• "Budweiser's A Friend Of Mine" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Seymour Furth
• "Bye Bye Dearie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "
  The Caissons Go Rolling Along
  " m. Edmund L. Gruber
• "Come Along, My Mandy" w.m. Tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence & Harry Gifford New words Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth 1910
• "Common Sense" w.m. Chris Smith & John Larkins
• "Don't Worry" w.m. Ed Rose & Ted Snyder
• "Down Home Shout" Herman Carle
• "Fairy Queen" m. Percy Wenrich
• "Fishing For the Moon" David Kilburn Stevens
• "Gladiolus Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "Golden Rod" McKinley
• "The Handsome, Brave Life Saver" Gumble
• "Harrigan" w.m. George M. Cohan. Introduced by George M. Cohan in the musical Fifty Miles from Boston
• "
  Vincent Bryan m. E. Ray Goetz
• "He Was One Of The Boys" w.m. T. W. Connor
• "Heliotrope Bouquet" Louis Chauvin and Scott Joplin
• "The Homesick Yankee" Clark
• "Honey Boy" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "The Honeybee's Honeymoon" Reed
• "I Finnish 'em Off!" w.m. T.W. Connor
• "I Love You So" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "I Wish I Had A Girl" w.
  Grace LeBoy
• "I'd Rather Be A Lobster Than A Wise Guy" Morse
• "I'd Rather Two-Step Than Waltz, Bill" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "I'm Happy When The Band Plays Dixie" Vandeveer
• "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" w. E. S. S. Huntingdon m. J. Fred Helf
• "In A Hammock Built For Two" w.
  Harry von Tilzer
• "In the Land of the Buffalo" Williams, Van Alstyne
• "In The Wildwood Where The Bluebells Grow" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
• "In Washington" w. Vincent Bryan m.
  Gertrude H. Hoffman
• "It's A Poor Heart That Never Rejoices" w.m. T.W. Connor
• "It's Delightful To Be Married" w. Anna Held m. Vincent Scotto
• "It's Great To Be A Soldier Man" Morse
• "It's Nice To Have A Sweetheart" Kerker
• "I've Told His Missus All About Him" Tate
• "Just Because He Couldn't Sing "Love Me And The World Is Mine"" w.m. Bert Fitzgibbon
• "Kansas City Rag" by
  James Scott
• "Keep On Smiling" Paley
• "The Last Rose Of Summer Is The Sweetest Rose Of All" w. Arthur Gillespie m. Harry Sidney
• "Lucia" Klein
• "A Man Without A Woman" Rogers
• "Marie From Sunny Italy" w. Irving Berlin m. M. Nicholson
• "Mariutch Down At Coney Island" (aka "Mariutch Dance Da Hootch-A-Ma-Kootch") w.
  Harry von Tilzer
• "(You'll Find Me At) Maxim's" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "Meet Me Down At The Corner" w. Will D. Cobb m. Harry Hoyt
• "(The Best I Get Is) Much Obliged To You" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "'Neath The Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle" w. C. M. Denison m. J. Fred Helf
• "'Neath The Old Cherry Tree, Sweet Marie" w.m. Harry Williams &
  Egbert van Alstyne
• "Nestle By My Side" Luders
• "No Wedding Bells For Me" w. E. P. Moran & Will A. Heelan m. Seymour Furth
• "No, No, Positively No" w.m. Chris Smith & Harry Brown
• "No-One Knows" w.m. Francis Mack
• "Not For Me" w.m. Bessie Wynn
• "On The Road To Mandalay" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Oley Speaks
• "The Peach That Tastes The Sweetest Hangs The Highest On The Tree" w.
  Gus Edwards
• "
  Pride Of The Prairie" w. Harry Breen m. George Botsford
• "Put Me Among The Girls" w. C. W. Murphy m. Dan Lipton

• "Rain-in-the-Face" by Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "Red Wing" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
• "Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Out For The Day Today" w. Fred Leigh m. Orlando Powell
• "San Antonio" w.m.
  Egbert van Alstyne
• "Sandy, You're A Dandy" w.m. Hector Grant
• "Searchlight Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "She's A Lassie From Lancashire" Murphy, Lipton, Neat
• "Sleepy Sidney" by Archie W Scheu
• "Smile, Smile, Smile" Hoffman
• "Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone" m.
  John Walter Bratton
• "Somebody's Waiting For You" w.
  Vincent Bryan m. Albert Gumble
• "Take Me Back To New York Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer^[5]
• "Take Me Where There's A Big Brass Band" Morse
• "
  John Walter Bratton (Words 1932)^[6]
• "That Lovin' Rag" w. Victor H. Smalley m. Bernie Adler
• "Theodore" w.m.
  Vincent Bryan
• "There Never Was A Girl Like You" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Tipperary" w. Leo Curley m. James M. Fulton & J. Fred Helf
• "Tommy, Lad!" w. Edward Teschemacher m. E. J. Margetson
• "Two Blue Eyes" by Edward Madden
• "Two Little Baby Shoes" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Under Any Old Flag At All" Cohan
• "Vilia" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "Wal, I Swan!" (aka "Ebeneezer Frye") w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "'Way Down In Colon Town" Hoffman
• "When A Fellow's On The Level With A Girl That's On The Square" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Talk Of New York^[5]
• "Who? Me?" Snyder
• "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" w. Ada R. Habershon m. Charles H. Gabriel
• "Won't You Be My Honey?" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Wouldn't You Like To Have Me For A Sweetheart?" Robyn
• "You Splash Me And I'll Splash You" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman

Classical music

• Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24 (Uppsalarapsodi)
• York Bowen –
  • Piano Concerto No. 3 "Fantasia" Op. 23
  • Viola Concerto in C minor Op. 25 ([1])
• Havergal Brian – English Suite
• Frederick Delius – Songs of Sunset; Brigg Fair
• Ernő Dohnányi
  – String Quartet No. 2 in D-flat, Op. 15
• Edward Elgar – The Wand of Youth
• Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 2 in C minor
• Gustav Holst – A Somerset Rhapsody
• Sylvio Lazzari – Symphony in E-flat
• Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Violin Sonata in G ([2])
• Sergei Rachmaninoff –
  • Symphony No. 2 in E minor
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor
• Maurice Ravel -
  • Histoires naturelles
  • Une Barque sur l'ocean
• Max Reger – Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 102
• Ottorino Respighi – Quartet for Strings in D major
• Arnold Schoenberg -
  • String Quartet No.1 in D Minor, Op.7
  • Kammersymphonie, Op.9
• Alexandr Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 5, Op.53
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 52
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Stabat Mater
• Igor Stravinsky - Symphony in Eb, Op. 1
• Josef Suk – Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 27 (Asrael)
• Joaquín Turina – Piano Quintet, Op.1

Opera

• Francesco Cilea – Gloria
• Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet, Berlin, February 21.
• Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
  , Paris, May 10
• Umberto Giordano - Marcella, La Scala, November 9
• Luigi Mancinelli – Paolo e Francesca
• Jules Massenet – Thérèse
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Le Coq d'Or
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya

Dance

• Frederic Chopin - Les Sylphides
  (originally called Chopiniana), St.Petersburg, February 23.
• Camille Saint-Saens - The Dying Swan (solo dance for Anna Pavlova), St.Petersburg, December 22.^[2]
• Nikolai Tcherepnin - The Animated Goblins, St.Petersburg, April 28.
• Nikolai Tcherepnin - Le Pavillon d'Armide, St.Petersburg, November 25.

Musical theater

• Die Dollarprinzessin Vienna production
• Follies of 1907 Broadway production
• The Gay Gordons, with a book by Seymour Hicks, music by Guy Jones and lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, C. H. Bovill, Henry Hamilton and P. G. Wodehouse.^[7] It opened at London's Aldwych Theatre on 11 September.
• Casino Theatre
  on October 7 and ran for 105 performances
• The Girls of Gottenberg London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 15 and ran for 303 performances. Starring May de Sousa, George Grossmith Jr., Gertie Millar, Robert Nainby and Edmund Payne.
• Franz Lehár – The Merry Widow London and Broadway productions
• The Merry Farmer Mannheim production
• Miss Hook of Holland London and Broadway productions
• Nelly Neil London production
• The Orchid Broadway production
• The Rogers Brothers in Panama Broadway production
• The Talk of New York Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 3 and ran for 157 performances.
• The Time, the Place and the Girl – Broadway production
• A Waltz Dream
  ) Vienna and Berlin productions

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