Events
- January 18 – The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers at the Konzerthaus, Vienna. [1]
- February 13 – May Mukle and Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall in New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge, and Clarke herself. It includes the premiėre of Morpheus , written by Clarke under the pen-name "Anthony Trent". [2]
- March 3 – Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 2 is premièred in Budapest.
- April 30 – May 1 – Composer Toivo Kuula is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War.
- August – King Oliver leaves New Orleans for Chicago.
- September 28 – First performance of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat , conducted by Ernest Ansermet, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- September 29 – First performance of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets , before an invited audience at the Queen's Hall in London, conducted by Adrian Boult.
- November 15 – Rosa Ponselle makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino , opposite Enrico Caruso.
- November 30 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
- Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army (United Kingdom).
- First documented racially integrated jazz recording session.
- Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year.
