1905 in music

Events

• January 26 - Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premiered in Vienna.
• January 29 - Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna.
• October - The opera house at Nancy, France, is destroyed by fire.
• October 15 - Claude Debussy's La Mer is premiered in Paris.
• September - The lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore's song "Amar Shonar Bangla" are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
• December 28 - Premiere of The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár.
• Otto Klemperer meets Mahler for the first time, while conducting one of his works.

Published popular music

• "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
• "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
• "Bandana Land" by Glen MacDonough
• "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
• "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
• "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
• "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
• "College Life" m. Hery Frantzen
• "Come Clean" by Paul Sarebresole
• "Daddy's Little Girl" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Dearie" w.m. Clare Kummer
• "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John Heinzman & Otto Heinzman
• "Everybody Works But Father" w.m. Jean Havez
• "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical of the same name.
• "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
• "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
• "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
• "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" Schwartz
• "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer
• "Happy Heine" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
• "He's Me Pal" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
• "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
• "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska m. Jerome Kern
• "I Don't Care" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
• "I Love A Lassie" w. Harry Lauder & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder
• "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
• "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" w.m. Fred Fisher
• "I'm Getting Sleepy" w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander
• "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
• "In Dear Old Georgia" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "In My Merry Oldsmobile" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
• "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "The Irish Girl I Love" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
• "Is Everybody Happy ?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
• "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
• "It's Allus De Same In Dixie" Cook
• "I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" Farrell, Silver
• "I've Sweethearts In Every Port" Keith
• "Jolly Pickaninnies" m. Ernst Rueffe
• "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Kiss Me Again" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
• "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. George M. Cohan. From the musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway.
• "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" Brady, Johnston, Frantzen
• "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Moonlight" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
• "My Dusky Rose" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
• "My Gal Sal" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
• "My Irish Molly O" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Nellie Dean" Henry W. Armstrong
• "Nobody" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert A. Williams
• "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" w. William Cahill m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Paddy's Day" Fogarty, Mullen
• "Parade Of The Tin Soldiers" later known as "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers" m. Leon Jessel
• "Peaches And Cream" m. Percy Wenrich
• "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Pretty Desdamone" w.m. F. Collins Wildman
• "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
• "Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry H. Williams m. Jean Schwartz
• "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer

• "Say Yes, Honey, Do" by Sara E. Posey
• "She Is My Daisy" w.m. Harry Lauder & J. D. Harper
• "Silence And Fun" Mullen
• "Since Nellie Went Away" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
• "So Long Mary" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "Tammany" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
• "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
• "The Umpire Is A Most Unhappy Man" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
• "Violette" w. Dolly Jardon m. J. B. Mullen
• "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Waiting At The Church" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
• "Waltzing With The Girl You Love" w.m. George Evans & Ren Shields
• "When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "Where The River Shannon Flows" w.m. James J. Russell
• "The Whistler And His Dog" m. Arthur Pryor
• "The Whole Damm Family" Smith, Von Tilzer
• "Why Don't You Try?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Will You Love Me In December" w. James J. Walker m. Ernest R. Ball
• "A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert

Recorded popular music

• "I Love A Lassie" by Harry Lauder

Classical music

• Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 3 in E major
• Claude Debussy - La mer
• Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings
• Nikolai Medtner - Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
• Carl Nielsen - Søvnen (The Sleep)
• Vítězslav Novák - Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
• Maurice Ravel - Introduction et Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
• Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No. 1, op. 7 in D minor.
• Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz, String Quartet in one movement
• Haydn Wood - Phantasy String Quartet

Opera

• Frederick Converse - The Pipe of Desire
• Leo Fall - Irrlicht
• Manuel de Falla - La Vida breve (Libretto by Fernández Shaw)
• Franz Lehár - Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, after the play L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac)
• Jules Massenet - Chérubin (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
• Leopoldo Mugnone - Vita Bretone
• Richard Strauss - Salome (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde)

Musical theater

• The Babes and the Baron Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
• The Catch of the Season Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
• The Earl and the Girl Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
• Fantana Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
• Lifting the Lid Broadway production opened at the Aerial Gardens Theatre on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
• Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) Vienna production
• Miss Dolly Dollars Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 4 and moved to the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
• Mlle. Modiste Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
• The Rogers Brothers in Ireland Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
• The Rollicking Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre on April 16, 1906 for a total run of 199 performances
• Sergeant Brue Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
• The Spring Chicken London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
• When We Were Forty-One Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
• Wonderland Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 24 and ran for 73 performances

Births

• January 2 - Michael Tippett, composer
• January 8 - Giacinto Scelsi, composer
• January 12 - Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
• January 24 - Elena Nicolai, opera singer
• January 26 - Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
• February 11 - William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)
• February 15 - Harold Arlen, popular composer
• February 17 - Orville "Hoppy" Jones, The Ink Spots singer
• March 6 - Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
• March 11 - Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
• March 15 – Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen (d. 1987)
• March 23 - Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
• May 2 - Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
• May 8 - Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist
• June 13 - Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter
• June 18 - Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
• July 10 - Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer
• July 15 - Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974)
• August 2 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
• August 8 - André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)
• August 23 - Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
• August 29 - Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)
• November 7 - William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985)
• November 15 - Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
• November 19 - Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)
• November 21 - Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
• November 24 - Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist
• December 31 - Jule Styne, composer

Deaths

• January 4 - Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
• January 10 - Kārlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
• February 12 - Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)
• April 12 - Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (b. 1833)
• April 29 - Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• May 13 - Sam S. Shubert, Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
• May 14 - Jessie Bartlett Davis, operatic contralto (b. 1859)
• May 15 - Andrey Schulz-Evler, composer and arranger (b. 1852)
• May 31 - Franz Strauss, musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss (b. 1822)
• July 8 - Walter Kittredge, self-taught musician (b. 1834)
• August 31 - Francesco Tamagno, operatic tenor (b. 1850)
• September 22 - Célestine Marié, mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1840)
• October 18 - Emmie Owen, opera singer (b. 1871)
• date unknown
  • Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)
  • Luigi Manzotti, choreographer (b. 1835)
  • Ernst Pauer, pianist (b. 1826)

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