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Overview of the events of 1918 in music
Overview of the events of 1918 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
Programme for Rebecca Clarke's recital at the Aeolian Hall
Bands formed
Published popular music
"After You've Gone " w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
"All Aboard for Home Sweet Home " w.m. Addison Burkhardt. Al Piantadosi and Jack Glogau
"Bagdad" w. Harold Atteridge m. Al Jolson
"Beautiful Ohio " w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
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"Dallas Blues" w. Lloyd Garrett m. Hart A. Wand
"Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
"Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
"The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m. Walter Donaldson
"Dear Little Boy of Mine " w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
"Dear Old Pal of Mine " w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
"Ding Dong" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Don't Let Us Sing Anymore About War, Just Let Us Sing of Love (Peace Song) " w.m. Harry Lauder
"Every Day" by Shelton Brooks
"Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton
"Everybody's Happy Now " m. James Kendis & James Brockman & Nat Vincent
"Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
"Fidgety Feet" m.
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
"Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip! " w.m. Robert Lloyd
"Goodbye, France " w.m. Irving Berlin
"Hello Central! Give Me No Man's Land " w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
"Hike! Hike! Hike! (Along the Old Turn Pike)" w.m. Nat Vincent
"How Can You Tell" by Ned Wayburn
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've Seen Paree)? " w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson
"I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy
"I Want To Shimmy" by Shelton Brooks
"If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany! " w. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer
"I'll Be There, Laddie Boy, I'll Be There " w. Jack Frost m. E. Clinton Keithley
"I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson
"In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
"Ja-Da " w.m. Bob Carleton
"K-K-K-Katy " w.m. Geoffrey O'Hara
"Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
"Mammy's Chocolate Soldier " w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
"Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
"My Baby Boy" w. William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
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"Oh! Frenchy " w. Sam Ehrlich m. Con Conrad
"Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning " w.m. Irving Berlin
"Oh, Susie, Behave " w. Ed Rose and m. Abe Olman
"On the Road to Calais " w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Jolson
"Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m. J. Russell Robinson
"Oui, Oui, Marie " w. Alfred Bryan & Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
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"The Rose of No Man's Land " w. Jack Caddigan m. James A. Brennan
"Russian Rag" m. George L. Cobb
"Somebody Stole My Gal " w.m. Leo Wood
"Sometime" by Rida Johnson Young
"Tell That to the Marines " w. Harold Atteridge & Al Jolson m. Jean Schwartz
"That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
"That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
"There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m. Con Conrad
"They Were All Out of Step But Jim " w.m. Irving Berlin
"Those Draftin' Blues " w.m. Maceo Pinkard
"Till We Meet Again " w. Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
"Tishomingo Blues" Spencer Williams
"Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There " w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
"When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band to France " w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
"When Tony Goes Over The Top " w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
"When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
"Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
"Without You" w. Nora Bayes m. Irving Fisher
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"You Can't Stop the Yanks (Till They Go Right Thru) " w.m. Jack Caddigan & Chick Story
"You'll Find Old Dixieland In France " w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
"You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown, Egbert van Alstyne
Top hit recordings
Classical music
Joseph Achron – Violin Sonata No.2
Agustín Barrios – Un sueño en la foresta
Arnold Bax
String Quartet No. 1 in G major, GP. 199[3]
Symphonic Variations , GP. 210[3]
Emile-Robert Blanchet – 2 Barcarolles for piano, Op.24
Lili Boulanger
Carl Busch – Indian Tribal Melodies
John Alden Carpenter – Little Indian
Frederick Delius – A Song Before Sunrise
Edward Elgar – Violin Sonata
George Enescu – Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 21
Gabriel Fauré – Fantaisie , Op. 111
Gustav Holst – The Planets
Alexander Glazunov – Romance of Nina
Paul Hindemith – Violin Sonatas, Op. 11
Jan Ingenhoven [nl ] – Trio for violin, cello and harp
Leoš Janáček – Taras Bulba
Sigfrid Karg-Elert – 30 Caprices for Flute Solo, Op. 107
Charles Koechlin – Sonata (for bassoon and piano) Op. 71
Leevi Madetoja – Symphony No. 2, Op. 35
Bohuslav Martinů – String Quartet No. 1 , H. 117
Darius Milhaud – Symphonie de chambre No.2, Op. 49
Nikolai Myaskovsky – Symphony No.5, Op. 18
Carl Nielsen – Pan and Syrinx (tone poem)
Preston Ware Orem – American Indian Rhapsody
Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Two Clarinets, FP 7
Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8
Toréador, FP 11
Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14
Ottorino Respighi – La boutique fantasque. Balletto su musiche di G. Rossini
Emil Reznicek – Symphony No.3 in D major (composer on April 5, premiered the following year)
Camille Saint-Saens – Vers la victoire, Op.152
Igor Stravinsky
Histoire du Soldat
Ragtime
Karol Szymanowski
Songs of an infatuated Muezzin, for soprano and orchestra
3 Caprices de Paganini, for voice and piano
4 Songs to Lyrics by Rabindranath Tagore, for voice and piano
Felix Weingartner – Freiheitsgesang, Op.67
Opera
Jazz
Musical theatre
Births
January 9 – Ruthilde Boesch , Austrian soprano (d. 2012)
January 12 – Julio Gutiérrez , Cuban pianist, conductor and songwriter (d. 1990)
January 20 – Juan García Esquivel , Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
January 24 – Gottfried von Einem , composer (d. 1996)
January 27
February 3 – Joey Bishop , all-round entertainer (d. 2007)
February 15 – Hank Locklin , singer (d. 2009)
February 16 – Patty Andrews of The Andrews Sisters singing group (d. 2013)
March 20 – Bernd Alois Zimmermann , German composer (d. 1970)
March 20 – Marian McPartland , British jazz pianist (d. 2013)
March 23 – Alberto Caracciolo , tango musician (d. 1994)
March 29 – Pearl Bailey , singer (d. 1990)
April 3 – Sixten Ehrling , conductor (d. 2005)
April 25 – Astrid Varnay , operatic soprano (d. 2006)
May 15 – Eddy Arnold , country singer (d. 2008)
May 17 – Birgit Nilsson , operatic soprano (d. 2005)
June 4 – Noel Estrada , composer (d. 1979)
June 8 – Robert Preston , star of musicals (d. 1987)
June 10 – Patachou , French singer (d. 2015)
June 26 – Roger Voisin , trumpeter (d. 2008)
July 5 – George Rochberg , composer (d. 2005)
July 6 – Eugene List , classical pianist (d. 1985)
July 24 – Ruggiero Ricci , violinist (d. 2012)
July 27 – Leonard Rose , cellist (d. 1984)
August 18 – Cisco Houston , folk singer (d. 1961)
August 25 – Leonard Bernstein , composer and conductor (d. 1990)
August 29 – Mrs Mills , born Gladys Jordan, honky-tonk pianist (d. 1978)
August 31 – Alan Jay Lerner , US lyricist (d. 1986)
September 13 – Dick Haymes , Argentinian-born US singer and actor (d. 1980)
September 14 – Israel López "Cachao ", Cuban bassist and composer (d. 2008)
September 22 – Henryk Szeryng , violinist (d. 1988)
September 23 – Lola Graham , pianist (d. 1992)
September 26 – John Zacherle , actor and singer (d. 2016)
October 9 – Bebo Valdés , Cuban pianist (d. 2013)
October 11 – Jerome Robbins , choreographer (d. 1998)
October 14 – Ellen Faull , operatic soprano (d. 2008)
October 16 – Géori Boué , operatic soprano (d. 2017)
October 17 – Rita Hayworth , actress, dancer and singer (d. 1987)
October 26 – Eric Ericson , Swedish choral conductor and choral teacher (d. 2013)
November 20 – Tibor Frešo , composer (d. 1987)
December 12 – Joe Williams , jazz singer (d. 1999)
December 19 – Professor Longhair , blues singer and pianist (d. 1980)
December 23 – José Greco , flamenco dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)
December 24 – Dave Bartholomew , bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 2019)
Deaths
January 10 – Alphonse Mailly , French composer (born 1833)
January 19 – Juan José Cañas , co-writer of the El Salvador national anthem (b. 1826)
February 7 – Alexander Taneyev , composer (b. 1850)
February 15 – Miguel Marqués – Spanish composer and violinist (b. 1843)
February 23 – Sophie Menter – German composer and pianist (b. 1846)
February 27 – Vasily Safonov , pianist (born 1852)
March 1 – Emil Sjögren , lieder composer (b. 1853)
March 2 – Theobald Rehbaum , violinist (born 1835)
March (12–15) – José White Lafitte , violinist and composer (b. 1836)
March 13 – César Cui , music critic and composer (b. 1835)
March 15 – Lili Boulanger , composer (b. 1893)
March 23 – Théo Ysaÿe , pianist and composer (b. 1865)
March 25 – Claude Debussy , composer (b. 1862)
March 26 – Charles Clairville , librettist (born 1855)
April 8 – Lucjan Rydel , Polish lyricist and playwright (b. 1870)
David Ffrangcon Davies
, operatic baritone (b. 1855)
April 21 – Antonio Pini-Corsi , operatic baritone (b. 1859)
May 5 – Bertha Palmer , writer, musician, businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist (b. 1849)
May 18 – Toivo Kuula , conductor and composer (b. 1883) (accidentally shot)
Fritz Seitz
, violinist and composer (b. 1848)
Jozsef Angster
, master organ maker (b. 1834)
June 10 – Arrigo Boito , writer and composer (b. 1842)
July 27 – Gustav Kobbé , American music critic and author (b. 1857) (killed in sailing accident)
August 12 – Anna Held , singer (b. 1872)
August 15 – Heinrich Köselitz , author and composer (b. 1854)
August 26 – Cecil Coles , composer (b. 1888) (killed in action)[5]
September 7 – Morfydd Llwyn Owen , singer, pianist and composer (b. 1891) (complications from surgery for appendicitis)[6]
September 18 – Ernest Farrar , composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
September 19
October 7 – Hubert Parry , composer (b. 1848)
October 15 – Antonio Cotogni , operatic baritone (b. 1831)
October 16 – Felix Arndt , pianist and composer (b. 1889)
October 22 – Charles Peccatte , archetier (b. 1850)
October 24
October 29 – Rudolf Tobias , organist and composer (b. 1873)
November 4 – Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán , zarzuela composer (b. 1875)
December 13 – Nikolay Figner , Russian-Ukrainian lyric tenor (b. 1857)
date unknown – King Watzke , violinist and bandleader (b. c. 1880)
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