1913 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1913.

Specific locations

• 1913 in British music
• 1913 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

• 1913 in jazz

Events

• February 5 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea is performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years, in Paris. ^[1]
• March 9 – The second performance of Francesco Balilla Pratella's Musica Futurista in Rome becomes the first of several pieces this year of classical music with an unruly audience response. ^{[2] [3]}
• March 31 – Skandalkonzert : A concert at the Musikverein in Vienna with Arnold Schoenberg conducting music by himself and his pupils Alban Berg and Anton Webern, particularly Berg's Altenberg Lieder , provokes fisticuffs and is abandoned. ^[4]
• April 1 – Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve is given its world première in Nice.
• May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring , with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, its modernism provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history. ^[5] The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel. Police are called during the interval.
• September 5 – Sergei Prokofiev's performance of the first version of his Piano Concerto No. 2 at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, is met with hisses and catcalls. ^[6]
• September 10 – Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté and orchestra conducted by Herbert Brewer. ^[7]
• October – Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced.
• The term "Jazz" first appears in print (in the San Francisco Bulletin).
• Louis Armstrong begins playing the cornet, in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs.
• Lili Boulanger becomes the first woman to win the Musical Composition section of the Prix de Rome, with her cantata Faust et Hélène .
• The Aeolian Company introduces the Duo-Art piano technology.
• Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster.

Published popular music

• "Abie Sings An Irish Song": words & music by Irving Berlin
• "All Aboard For Dixieland": words Jack Yellen, music George L. Cobb
• "And Then", w. Alfred Bryan, m. Herman Paley
• "The Angelus", w. Robert B. Smith, w. Victor Herbert
• "Asia" by E. Ray Goetz
• "At The Ball, That's All" by J. Leubrie Hill
• "Ay, Ay, Ay!" by Osmán Pérez Freire
• "Ballin' the Jack", w. James Henry Burris, m. Chris Smith
• "Brighten The Corner Where You Are" w. Ina Duley Ogdon m. Charles H. Gabriel
• "The Bubble" by Otto Harbach
• "Crazy Bone Rag" m. Charles L. Johnson
• "The Cricket On The Hearth" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "'Cross The Great Divide" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "The Curse Of An Aching Heart" w. Henry Fink m. Al Piantadosi
• "Daddy, Come Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Danny Boy" w. Frederick Weatherly m. trad
• "Don't Blame It All On Broadway" w. Joe Young & Harry Williams m. Bert Grant
• "Down In Chattanooga" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "El Cóndor Pasa" by Daniel Alomía Robles
• "Fat Li'l' Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes" w.m. Sheridan Gordon & F. L. Stanton
• "Fifteen Cents" by Chris Smith
• "Gasoline" w. J. Will Callahan (1874–1946), m. Paul Pratt (1890–1948)
• "Goodbye Boys" w. Andrew B. Sterling & William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Happy Little Country Girl" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "He'd Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" w. Grant Clark & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams
• "Hello, Honey" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell. Introduced by Elizabeth Brice in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1913
• "Hungarian Rag" m. Julius Lenzberg
• "I Can Live Without You" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
• "I Miss You Most Of All" w.m. Joseph McCarthy Sr. & James V. Monaco
• "If I Had My Way" w. Lou Klein m. James Kendis
• "I'll Change The Shadows To Sunshine" w. George Graff Jr. m. Ernest R. Ball
• "I'll Get You" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "I'm On My Way To Mandalay" w. Al Bryan m. Fred Fisher
• "The Incandescent Rag" m. George Botsford
• "The International Rag" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Isle D'Amour" w. Earl Carroll m. Leo Edwards
• "It's Nice To Get Up In The Morning" w.m. Harry Lauder
• "Just For Tonight" w.m. George L. Cobb
• "Keep On Walking" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Lion Tamer Rag" m. Mark Janza
• "Look In Her Eyes" w. M. E. Rourke m. Jerome Kern
• "Marcheta" by Victor Schertzinger
• "Melinda's Wedding Day" Berlin
• "My Little Moonlight Maid" w. W. R. Williams m. Spencer Williams
• "Never Mind" w.m. Harry Dent & Tom Goldburn
• "The Old Maids' Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "On the Old Fall River Line" w. William Jerome & Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Panama" w. George V. Hobart m. Raymond Hubbell
• "Peg O' My Heart" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
• "The Pullman Porters On Parade" w. Ren G. May m. Maurice Abrahams
• "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" w. A. Seymour Brown m. Albert Gumble
• "Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay" George Botsford & Jean C. Harvez
• "San Francisco Bound" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Snookey Ookums" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Somebody's Coming To My House" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Something Seems Tingle-Ingling" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "The Sunshine of Your Smile" w. Leonard Cooke m. Lilian Ray
• "Sweethearts" w. Robert B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "Take Me to Roseland, My Beautiful Rose" w. Jack Strouse & Ed Johnson m. Nat Osbrone
• "There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "There's a Long, Long Trail" w. Stoddard King m. Alonzo Elliot
• "There Is Power in a Union" w. Joe Hill m. Lewis E. Jones
• "They've Got Me Doin' It Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)" w.m. James Royce Shannon
• "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Tra-La, La, La!" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "We Have Much To Be Thankful For" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Welcome Home" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When You Play In The Game Of Love" w. Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
• "When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Silvio Hein
• "Where Did You Get That Girl?" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Puck
• "You Made Me Love You" w. Joseph McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
• "You're Here And I'm Here" w. Harry B. Smith m. Jerome Kern
• "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" w.m. Irving Berlin

Popular recordings

• "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" by Al Jolson
• "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold" by Alan Turner
• "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" by Collins & Harlan
• "Cohen on the Telephone" – Ethnic humor
• "It's Nicer To Be In Bed" by Harry Lauder

Classical music

• Alban Berg – 4 Stücke, Op. 5
• George Butterworth – Banks of Green Willow
• John Alden Carpenter – Violin Sonata
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco – Questo fu il carro della morte, Op. 2
• Claude Debussy
  • La boîte à joujoux (ballet)
  • Syrinx
  • Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
• Frederick Delius – I-Brasil, RT V/28
• Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
• Paul von Klenau
  • Symphony No. 3
  • Symphony No. 4 (Dante-Symphony)
  • Paolo und Francesca (symphonic fantasy)
• Fritz Kreisler – Allegretto in the Style of Porpora
• Nikolai Medtner – 4 Fairy Tales, Op.26
• Morfydd Owen – Nocturne
• Sergey Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No.2, Op.16 (original version, lost in the Russian Revolution)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • The Bells (Choral symphony), premiered November 30 in St. Petersburg.
  • Piano Sonata No.2, Op.36 (first version)
• Maurice Ravel
  • Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2, M. 57b
  • À la manière de Borodine, M. 63
  • À la manière de Chabrier, M. 63
  • Prélude in A minor, M.65
  • Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
• Max Reger
  • Introduction, Passacaglia und Fuge, Op.127
  • 4 Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin, Op.128
  • 9 Stücke, Op.129
• Ottorino Respighi – Ouverture carnevalesca
• Erik Satie
  • Chapitres tournés en tous sens
  • Descriptions automatiques
• F. Xaver Scharwenka – Eglantine waltz
• Arnold Schoenberg – Gurre-Lieder (first performed/published; composed 1900–1911) ^[8]
• Jean Sibelius – The Bard
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
• Germaine Tailleferre – Berceuse for violin and piano in E major
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (Symphony No. 2)
• Louis Vierne – Messe basse, Op. 30
• Anton Webern
  • Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, for string quartet
  • Five Pieces for orchestra
  • Three Pieces for string quartet and mezzo-soprano

Opera

• Manuel de Falla – La vida breve
• Gabriel Fauré – Pénélope
• Enrique Granados – Goyescas
• Jules Massenet – Panurge
• Italo Montemezzi – L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings)
• Modest Mussorgsky – The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Sorochinskaya yarmarka) (incomplete)
• Uzeyir Hajibeyov – Arshin Mal Alan (operetta)
• Paul von Klenau – Sulamith
• Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – L'amore medico , premiered December 4 in Dresden

Musical theater

• Adele – Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28 and ran for 196 performances
• The American Maid – Broadway production
• The Girl from Utah – London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 18 and ran for 195 performances
• The Girl on the Film – London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 5 and ran for 232 performances
• The Girl on the Film – Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre on December 29 and ran for 64 performances
• The Honeymoon Express – Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 6 and ran for 156 performances
• Hullo, Tango – London production opened at the Hippodrome on December 23
• The Isle o' Dreams – Broadway production opened at the Grand Opera House on January 27 and ran for 32 performances
• The Laughing Husband – London production opened at the New Theatre on October 2.
• The Little Café – Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 10 and ran for 144 performances
• The Madcap Duchess (Music: Victor Herbert) – Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 11 and ran for 71 performances. Starring Ann Swinburne, Peggy Wood and Glenn Hall
• Der Mädchenmarkt – Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on May 7
• The Marriage Market – London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 17 and ran for 423 performances
• The Pearl Girl – London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on September 25 and ran for 254 performances
• The Pleasure Seekers (Music: E. Ray Goetz) – Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 3, starring William J. Montgomery and Florence Moore, ^[9] and ran for 72 performances. ^[10]
• The Sunshine Girl – Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on February 3 and ran for 160 performances
• Sweethearts – Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 8 and transferred to the Liberty Theatre on November 10 for a total run of 272 performances
• Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 – Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 16 and ran for 108 performances

Births

• January 22 – Sid Bass, songwriter (d. 1993)
• January 24 – Norman Dello Joio, American composer (d. 2008)
• January 25 – Witold Lutosławski, composer (d. 1994)
• January 26 – Jimmy Van Heusen, American composer (d. 1990)
• January 27
  • Milton Adolphus, pianist and composer (d. 1988)
  • Jack Brymer, English clarinettist (d. 2003)
• January 31 – Pedro Jústiz "Peruchín", Cuban pianist (d. 1977)
• February 4 – Yam Kim-fai, Cantonese opera singer (d. 1989)
• March 2 – Celedonio Romero, guitarist, composer and poet (d. 1996)
• March 4 – Willie Johnson, guitarist (d. 1995)
• March 5 – Gangubai Hangal, Indian classical singer (d. 2009)
• March 13
  • Smoky Dawson, Australian singer (d. 2008)
  • Libero de Luca, operatic tenor (d. 1997)
  • Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian lyricist (d. 2009)
• March 29 – Pappukutty Bhagavathar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2020)
• March 30 – Frankie Laine, singer (d. 2007)
• March 31 – Etta Baker, blues guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
• April 4 – Gene Ramey, jazz musician (d. 1984)
• April 14 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
• May 1 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (d. 1980)
• May 6
  • Carmen Cavallaro, pianist (d. 1989)
  • Gyula Dávid, composer (d. 1977)
• May 12 – Jamelão, samba singer (d. 2008)
• May 16 – Woody Herman, US jazz musician and bandleader (d. 1987)
• May 21 – Gina Bachauer, pianist (d. 1976)
• May 18 – Charles Trenet, French singer, actor and songwriter (d. 2001)
• June 10 – Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
• June 11 – Risë Stevens, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2013)
• June 12 – Nina Mae McKinney, dancer and actress (d. 1967)
• June 13 – Joy Boughton, English oboist (died 1963)
• June 18 – Sammy Cahn, songwriter (d. 1993)
• June 23 – Helen Humes, US singer (d. 1981)
• June 28 – George Lloyd, composer (d. 1998)
• July 12 – Reino Helismaa, singer-songwriter (d. 1965)
• July 15 – Cowboy Copas, country singer (d. 1963)
• July 22 – Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)
• August 2
  • Hal Block, songwriter (d. 1981)
  • Edric Connor, calypso singer (d. 1968)
• August 8 – Axel Stordahl, arranger, best known for his collaborations with Frank Sinatra (d. 1963)
• August 28 – Robert Irving, conductor (d. 1991)
• August 29 – Sylvia Fine, songwriter (d. 1991)
• September 6 – Julie Gibson, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
• September 17 – Jørgen Jersild, Danish composer and music educator (d. 2004)
• September 20 – John Collins, jazz guitarist (d. 2001)
• September 23 -Alexi Matchavariani, Georgian,(Soviet) Composer,(d.31/12/1995)
• September 26 – Dorothy Sloop, jazz musician (d. 1998)
• October 15 – David Carroll, songwriter and conductor (d. 2008)
• October 16 – Gino Bechi, operatic bass-baritone (d. 1993)
• October 19
  • John Blackburn, lyricist (d. 2006)
  • Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian lyricist (d. 1980)
• October 24 – Tito Gobbi, operatic baritone (d. 1984)
• October 26 – Charlie Barnet, US bandleader (d. 1991)
• November 2 – Harry Babbitt, US singer with Kay Kyser & his orchestra (d. 2004)
• November 3 – Marika Rökk, singer, dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• November 8 – June Havoc, vaudeville performer and film star (d. 2010)
• November 11 – Ivy Benson, bandleader (d. 1993)
• November 15 – Gus Johnson, jazz drummer (d. 2000)
• November 19 – Blue Barron, orchestra leader (d. 2005)
• November 22 – Benjamin Britten, composer (d. 1976)
• November 23 – Raymond Hanson, composer and teacher (d. 1976)
• December 1 – Mary Martin, US singer and actress (d. 1990)
• December 6 – Karl Haas, editor and musicologist (died 2005)
• December 10 – Morton Gould, composer, conductor and arranger (d. 1996)
• December 14 – Rosalyn Tureck, pianist and harpsichordist (d. 2003)
• December 30 – Lucio Agostini, conductor and composer (d. 1996)

Deaths

• January 24 – Gustav Carl Luders, composer (b. 1865)
• February 10 – Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, lyricist (born 1848)
• February 26 – Felix Draeseke, composer (b. 1835)
• March 19
  • Géza Allaga, composer, cellist and cymbalist (b. 1841)
  • John Thomas, harpist and composer (b. 1826)
• March 20 – Christian Barnekow, Danish composer (b. 1837)
• April 4 – Alessandro Parisotti, composer and music writer (b. 1853)
• May 5 – Helen Carte, theatre impresario (b. 1852)
• June 3 – Josef Richard Rozkošný, pianist and composer (b. 1833)
• June 6 – Mary Seney Sheldon, first female president of the New York Philharmonic (b. 1863)
• June 17 – Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf, Swedish-German composer (b. 1840)
• July 4 – Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, Ukrainian-Russian operatic soprano (b. 1868)
• July 16 – Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (b. 1841)
• July 17 – Armes Beaumont, singer (b. 1842)
• August 7 – David Popper, cellist and composer (b. 1843)
• August 11 – Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha, lawyer, diplomat and composer
• August 26 – Michael Maybrick, composer and singer (b. 1841)
• September 13 – Alfred R. Gaul, conductor and composer (b. 1837)
• September 17 – Alfred Sormann, pianist and composer (b. 1861)
• September 22 – Eliakum Zunser, poet and songwriter (b. 1835)
• October 20
  • Charles Brookfield, theatre writer (b. 1857)
  • Polk Miller, banjo player and folk musician (b. 1844)
• November 3 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
• December 6 – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer (b. 1871)
• date unknown – Ludwig Milde, composer of bassoon music (b. 1849)

References

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8. "Gurre-Lieder (Schoenberg, Arnold) – IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved September 17, 2019.
9. Anon., "'Pleasure Seekers' a Spectacle Only: New Winter Garden Show Lacks Comedy, but Has a Big, Dazzling Chorus: Snowball Fight Exciting", The New York Times (4 November 1913): 9.
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