1909 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1909.

Specific locations

• 1909 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

• 1909 in jazz

Events

• January 25 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
• Ema Destinová
  in the title role, sung in German.
• February 22 – Thomas Beecham conducts the first concert with his newly established Beecham Symphony Orchestra in the UK.^[1]
• May 12 – Leopold Stokowski makes his debut as a conductor, for the Colonne Orchestra in Paris.
• November 8 – Boston Opera House in the United States opens with a performance of La Gioconda starring Lillian Nordica and Louise Homer.
• November 28 – Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is premièred in New York City with the composer as soloist.
• December 18 – George Enescu's Octet for Strings and Piano Quartet No. 1 in D Major are premiered together on a program also featuring his Sept chansons de Clement Marot, Op. 15, at the Salle des agriculteurs in Paris, as part of the "Soirées d'Art" concert series.
• Chemnitz Opera
  in Germany opens.
• Foerster & Sons, musical instrument maker, is founded in Milwaukee.

Published popular music

• "Ace In The Hole" w.m. George D. Mitchell & James E. Dempsey
• "And Now Assemble" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
• "Arcady Is Ever Young" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Lionel Monckton. Introduced by Florence Smithson in the musical The Arcadians.
• "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" w. George Whiting & Carter De Haven m. Ted Snyder
• "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti
• "Blue Feather" w. Jack Mahoney, m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Boiled Beef and Carrots" w.m. Charles Collins & Fred Murray
• "
  Gus Edwards
• "Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)" w. Juni McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "The Ballad of Casey Jones" w. T. Lawrence Seibert m. Eddie Newton
• "Chewska" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
• "Christmas-Time Seems Years And Years Away" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "The Cubanola Glide" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Dollar Princesses" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
• "Dublin Daisies" m. Percy Wenrich
• "Fickle Fortune" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Lionel Monckton & Howard Talbot
• "For You Alone" w. P. J. O'Reilly m. Henry E. Geehl
• "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman
• "The Garden of Roses" by J.E. Dempsey
• "Golden Arrow w. Harry Williams, m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Heaven Will Protect The Working Girl" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "How Do You Do?" w. Adrian Ross m. Leo Fall
• "I Just Came Back To Say Good Bye" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "
  I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Kid
  " w.m. Harry Armstrong & Billy Clark
• "
  I Love, I Love, I Love My Wife—But Oh! You Kid!" m. Harry von Tilzer
  w. Jimmy Lucas
• "I Wish That You Was My Gal, Molly" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard & Harold Orlob
• "If The Wind Had Only Blown The Other Way" w.m. Edna Williams & Bessie Wynn
• "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "I'm Alabama Bound" by Robert Hoffman
• "I'm Awfully Glad I Met You" w. Jack Drislane m. George W. Meyer
• "I'm Glad I'm A Boy/ I'm Glad I'm A Girl" w.m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
• "I'm Going To Do What I Please" w. Alfred Bryan m. Ted Snyder
• "
  I've Got A Pain In My Sawdust
  " w. Henry Edward Warner m. Herman Avery Wade
• "I've Got Rings On My Fingers" w. R. P. Weston & F. J. Barnes m. Maurice Scott
• "Let's All Go Down The Strand" w.m. Harry Castling & C. W. Murphy

• "Kissing-Bug" m. Charles L. Johnson
• "Let's Go Into A Picture Show" w.m. Junie McCree &
  Albert von Tilzer
• "The Letter Song" w. Stanislaus Stange m. Oscar Straus
• "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Leo Friedman
• "Moonstruck" w.m. Lionel Monckton
• "Moving Day In Jungle Town" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
• "My Cousin Caruso" w.
  Gus Edwards
• "My Hero" w. (Eng) Stanislaus Stange (Ger) Rudolf Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson [de] m. Oscar Straus
• "My Motter" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Howard Talbot
• "My Pony Boy" w. Bobby Heath m. Charles O'Donnell
• "My Prairie Song Bird" w. Jack Drislane, m. George W. Meyer
• "My Southern Rose" by Earl Taylor
• "My Wife's Gone To The Country" w. George Whiting & Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
• "Next To Your Mother Who Do You Love" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
• "No One Could Do It Like My Father" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "Nobody Knows Nobody Cares" w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "Oh! You Candy Kid" w.m. Bob Adams & John Golden
• "Oh, What I Know About You" Irving Berlin, Joseph H. McKeon, Harry M. Piano, W. Raymond Walker
• "On Wisconsin" w. Carl Beck m. W. T. Purdy
• "Only a Dream of You" w. Carol Loveland m. Harry J. Lincoln
• "Our Farm" Caryll & Monckton
• "Pork And Beans" m. Theron C. Bennett
• "Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet" w. Stanley Murphy m. Percy Wenrich
• "Rainbow" w. Alfred Bryan m. Percy Wenrich
• "Sadie Salome Go Home" w.m. Irving Berlin & Edgar Leslie
• "She Was A Dear Little Girl" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
• "Ship Ahoy!" w.m. A. J. Mills & Bennett Scott
• "Stop That Rag (Keep On Playing, Honey)" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Take Me Up With You, Dearie" w. Junie McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Temptation Rag" m. Henry Lodge
• "That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "That's A Plenty" w.
  Bert A. Williams
• "When I Dream In The Gloaming Of You" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "When You First Kissed The Last Girl You Loved" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
• "Where My Caravan Has Rested" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Herman Lohr
• "
  The Whiffenpoof Song" w. Meade Minnigerode
  & George S. Pomeroy m. Tod B. Galloway
• "The White Wash Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Wild Cherries (Coony, Spoony Rag)" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Yiddle On Your Fiddle" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "You Taught Me How To Love You Now Teach Me To Forget" w. Jack Drislane & Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer

Recorded popular music

Shine On, Harvest Moon 1909 Edison Records recording of husband-and-wife team Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes' 1908 hit Shine On, Harvest Moon with Ada Jones and Billy Murray. Problems playing this file? See media help.

• "Beautiful Eyes, Beautiful Lies" – Ada Jones
• "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" – Nellie Melba
• "
  Black And White Rag
  ", recorded by
  • Victor Dance Orchestra
  • Prince's Band
• "
  Haydn Quartette
• "Carrie (Carrie Marry Harry)" – Billy Murray
• "College Life" – Billy Murray
• "Dill Pickles Rag" – Pryor's Band
• "Down Among The Sugar Cane" –
  Collins and Harlan
• "Down In Jungle Town" – Peter Dawson (as Charles Handy)
• "Face To Face" – Frank C. Stanley
• "Good Evening, Caroline" – Billy Murray
• "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?" – Florrie Forde
• "I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside", recorded by:
  • Mark Sheridan
  • Florrie Forde
• "I Just Came Back To Say Good Bye" – Amy Butler
• "I Love My Wife, But Oh, You Kid" – Billy Murray
• "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" – Billy Murray
• "If The Wind Had Only Blown The Other Way" – Grace Cameron
• "I'm A Member Of The Midnight Crew" – Eddie Morton
• "I'm Going To Do What I Please" – Stella Tobin
• "I've Got Rings On My Fingers", recorded by:
  • Ada Jones
  • Blanche Ring
• "Just Before The Battle, Mother" – Will Oakland
• "Let's Go Into A Picture Show", recorded by:
  • Harry Tally with orchestra directed by Walter B. Rogers
  • Pete Murray
• "The Longest Way 'Round Is The Sweetest Way Home" – Will Oakland
• "Maple Leaf Rag" – United States Marine Band (popular remake by the U.S.M.B. of their historic 1906 recording)
• "Meet Me In Rose-Time, Rosie" – Peter Dawson (as Mr C. Handy)
• "My Pony Boy" – Ada Jones & Peerless Quartette
• "My Wife's Gone To The Country" – Collins & Harlan
• "Not For Me" – Bessie Wynn
• "Now I Have To Call Him Father" – Florrie Forde
• "Oh You Kid!" – Billy Murray & Ada Jones
• "Oh! You Candy Kid" – Ada Jones
• "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "Old Black Joe" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "Put Me Upon An Island" – Wilkie Bard
• "
  Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
  " – Haydn Quartette
• "Rainbow" – Frank C. Stanley and Henry Burr
• "She Sells Sea-Shells" – Billy Murray
• "The Star Spangled Banner" – Geraldine Farrar w. male chorus (Harry Macdonough, Reed Miller, Reinald Werrenrath and Frank C. Stanley)
• "Sweet Simplicitas" – Peter Dawson (as Charles Handy) w. Chorus (Ernest Pike, Harold Wilde and Stewart Gardner)
• "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
• "Take Me Up With You, Dearie" – Billy Murray and Haydn Quartet
• "That's A Plenty" – Arthur Collins
• "When I Dream In The Gloaming Of You", recorded by:
  • Harry Tally with
    Prince's Orchestra
  • Walter Van Brunt
• "The Whole Damm Family" – Billy Murray
• "The Yama Yama Man" – Ada Jones
• "Yankiana Rag" – The American Symphony Orchestra
• "
  Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
  " – Nellie Melba
• "Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay!", recorded by:
  • George Grossmith Jr.
  • Blanche Ring with orchestra directed by Walter B. Rogers

Classical music

• Arnold Bax – In the Faery Hills
• Ferruccio Busoni – An die Jugend
• Alfredo Casella - Symphony No. 2, Op. 12
• George Enescu – Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 16
• Gustav Helsted – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor
• Anatoly Lyadov
  – Kikimora, Op. 63
• John Blackwood McEwen – A Solway Symphony
• Gustav Mahler
  • Das Lied von der Erde completed
  • Symphony No. 9 completed
• Nikolai Medtner – Violin Sonata No.1, Op. 21
• Adolf Mišek – Sonata for Double Bass and Piano no 1 in A major
• Max Reger –
  • Psalm 100, op. 106
  • Clarinet Sonata No. 3, op. 107
  • String Quartet No. 4, op. 109
• Arnold Schoenberg –
  • "Am Strande", for voice and piano
  • Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
  • Erwartung, monodrama in one act, Op. 17
  • Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16
• Cyril Scott – Piano Sonata No.1, Op. 66
• Voces intimae
• Igor Stravinsky – Pogrebal’naya Pesnya^{[2][clarification needed]}
• Sergei Taneyev – Suite de concert for Violin and Orchestra
• Charles Tournemire – Symphony No. 2 (Ouessant)
• Anton Webern –
  • Fünf Lieder for voice and piano, Op. 4
  • Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5

Opera

• Jules Massenet – Bacchus (opera)
• Ruperto Chapí – Margarita la tornera (Margarita the Gatekeeper)
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Golden Cockerel
• Richard Strauss – Elektra
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Il segreto di Susanna

Musical theater

• The Arcadians London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 28 and ran for 809 performances.
• The Beauty Spot Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on April 10 and ran for 137 performances
• Francis Kennedy
  .
• A Broken Idol Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on August 16 and ran for 40 performances
• Casino Theatre
  on December 20 for a total run of 295 performances
• The Dashing Little Duke London production opened at Hicks Theatre on February 17 and ran for 101 performances
• Prince Of Wales Theatre
  on September 1 and ran for 109 performances
• The Dollar Princess London production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 25 and ran for 428 performances
• The Dollar Princess Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 6 and ran for 250 performances
• Der Graf von Luxemburg (The Count of Luxembourg) Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on November 12 and ran for 299 performances
• Fallen Fairies (Music: Edward German Book & Lyrics W. S. Gilbert) London production opened at the Savoy on 15 December and ran for 51 performances
• The Midnight Sons Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 22 and ran for 257 performances
• Our Miss Gibbs (Music: Ivan Caryll & Lionel Monckton Lyrics: Adrian Ross & Percy Greenbank) London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on January 23 and ran for 636 performances.
• A Persian Princess London production opened at the Queen's Theatre on April 27 and ran for 68 performances.
• Jardin de Paris
  on June 14 and ran for 64 performances

Births

• January 3 – Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum, Danish-born comedian, musician and actor (d. 2000)
• January 11 – Gunnar Berg, Swiss-born Danish composer (d. 1989)
• January 13 – Ed Burke, jazz musician (d. 1988)
• January 15 – Gene Krupa, drummer (d. 1973)
• Grazyna Bacewicz
  , Polish composer (d. 1969)
• February 9 – Carmen Miranda, Brazilian singer, actress (d. 1955)
• March 17 – K. P. H. Notoprojo, Javanese musician (d. 2007)
• May 1 – George Melachrino, English conductor, singer and composer (d. 1965)
• May 10 – Maybelle Carter née Addington, American country singer and musician, member of the Carter Family (d. 1978)
• May 13 – Ken Darby, American chorale director (d. 1992)
• May 30 – Benny Goodman, musician, actor (d. 1986)
• June 12 – Archie Bleyer, American arranger and bandleader (d. 1989)
• June 14 – Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (d. 1995)
• June 26 – Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager (d. 1997)
• July 9 – Manolo Caracol, Andalusian flamenco singer (d. 1973)
• Harriet Hilliard, American singer and actress, wife of Ozzie Nelson and mother of Rick Nelson
  (d. 1994)
• July 22 – Licia Albanese, Italian-born operatic soprano and songwriter (d. 1995)
• August 10 – Claude Thornhill, American bandleader, pianist and composer (d. 1965)
• Yuji Koseki
  , Japanese composer (d. 1989)
• August 15 – Hugo Winterhalter, American conductor and arranger (d. 1973)
• August 17 – Larry Clinton, American bandleader and songwriter (d. 1985)
• August 23 – Ichirō Saitō, Japanese film composer (d. 1979)
• August 25 – Ruby Keeler, dancer, actress (d. 1993)
• September 24 – Carl Sigman, songwriter (d. 2000)
• October 3 – Borney Bergantine, songwriter (d. 1952)
• November 10 – Johnny Marks, American songwriter (d. 1985)
• November 18 – Johnny Mercer, songwriter (d. 1976)
• Barbarito Diez
  , Cuban singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
• December 20 – Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (d. 1996)
• date unknown – Antonio Mairena, Andalusian flamenco singer (d. 1983)

Deaths

• January 15 – Ernest Reyer, composer and music critic (b. 1823)
• March 21 – Rudolf von Gottschall, lyricist and poet (born 1823)
• March 22 – Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• March 25 – Ruperto Chapí, composer (b. 1851)
• May 6 – Fanny Cerrito, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1817)
• May 19 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (born 1860)
• May 20 – Ernest Hogan, ragtime musician (b. 1865)
• June 1 – Giuseppe Martucci, composer and conductor
• June 7 – P. W. Halton, conductor (b. 1841)
• July 19 – Leopold Rosenfeld, composer (b. 1849)
• August 17 – Richard Hoffman, composer and pianist (b. 1831)
• October 6 – Dudley Buck, organist, composer and music writer (b. 1839)
• October 13 – Julius Ruthardt, violinist and composer (b. 1841)
• November 8 – Charles Bordes, composer (b. 1863)
• November 10 – Ludvig Schytte, Danish composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1848)
• November 16 – Francis Thomé, pianist and composer (b. 1850)
• December 11 – Domenico Salvatori, castrato singer (b. 1855)
• December 15 – Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (b. 1852)
• date unknown
  • August Jaeger, music publisher (b. 1860)
  • When The Saints Go Marching In
    "
  • Pallavi Seshayyar, Carnatic music composer (b. 1842)
  • Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres of Russia

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References

1. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30670. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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2. ^ Stephen Walsh, "Key Igor Stravinsky work found after 100 years", The Observer (5 September 2015).