1912 in music

Events

• February 28 – In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 3 (the Sinfonia espansiva) and his Violin Concerto
• March – Hart A. Wand published "Dallas Blues", a jazz standard and an early published blues song.
• June 26 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter
• Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire debuts in Vienna
• W.C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues", one of the first blues songs to become a hit.
• Aino Ackté founds an opera festival in Savonlinna; after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland
• The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time.
• William Henry Bell becomes director of the South African College of Music in Cape Town.

Published popular music

• "After All That I've Been To You" w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith
• "Alexander's Ragtime Band" w.m. Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
• "All Night Long" w.m. Shelton Brooks
• "And The Green Grass Grew All Around" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "At The Devil's Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Bagdad" w. Anne Caldwell m. Victor Herbert
• "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
• "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith
• "Becky's Got A Job In A Musical Show" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Come Back To Me, My Melody" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Come Back To Playland With Me" w.m. Maude Lambert
• "Cuddle Up And Cling To Me" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry L. Marshall
• "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
• " A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
• "Do It Again" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Down In Dear Old New Orleans" w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden
• "Dreams Of Long Ago" w. Earl Carroll m. Enrico Caruso
  

  
• "The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Everybody Loves A Chicken" w.m. Bobby Jones
• "Everybody Two-Step" w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer
• "Florida Rag" V. Lowry
• "The Funny Little Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Giannina Mia" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Goodnight, Nurse" w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker
• "He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee" w.m. E. Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin
• "Hitchy-Koo" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
• "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "In My Harem" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "In the Garden" w.m. C. Austin Miles
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" w.m. Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams
• "Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Kentucky Sue" by Lew Brown
• "The Land Of Golden Dreams" w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry
• "Last Night Was The End Of The World" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Last Shot Got Him" w.m. Cecil Mack & Cecil Smith
• "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Irving Berlin from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels'
• "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu
• "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes
• "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. William Christopher Handy
• "The Million Dollar Ball" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz
• "My Melancholy Baby" w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett
• "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards

• "On The Mississippi" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll & Arthur Fields
• "Parisienne" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Pick, Pick, Pick Pick On The Mandolin, Antonio" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Ragging The Baby To Sleep" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" w. Grant Clarke m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
• "The Ragtime Drummer" James I. Lent
• "The Ragtime Jockey Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Ragtime Mocking Bird" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Ragtime Soldier Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Roll Dem Roly Boly Eyes" w.m. Eddie Leonard
• "The Rose of Tralee" w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover
• "Row Row Row" w. William Jerome m. James V. Monaco
• "She Pushed Me Into The Parlour" w. Alf Ellerton m. Will Mayne
• "Slippery Elm Rag" m. Clarence Woods
• "Sly Musette" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "The Society Bear" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Some Boy" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
• "Somebody's Coming To Town From Dixie" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Henry Clay Smith
• "The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" w. Byron D. Stokes m. F. Dudleigh Vernor
• "Sympathy" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Take A Little Tip From Father" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Take Me Back" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Take Me To That Swanee Shore" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Take Me To The Cabaret" w.m. William Dillon
• "Teasing Moon" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry Marshall
• "That Dixie Dip Rag" m. Dippy Dip
• "That Eccentric Rag" m. J. Russel Robinson
• "That Kentucky Rag" w. Boyle Woolfolk m. Hampton Durand
• "That Old Girl Of Mine" w. Earle C. Jones m. Egbert van Alstyne
• "That Syncopated Boogie Boo" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "That's How I Need You" w. Joe McCarthy & Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
• "There's One In A Million Like You" w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz
• "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
• "'Way Down South" w.m. George Fairman
• "The Wedding Glide" w.m. Louis Hirsch
• "A Wee Hoose 'Mang The Heather" w.m Gilbert Wells, Fred Elton & Harry Lauder
• "When I Get You Alone Tonight" w.m. Joseph McCarthy, Joe Goodwin & Fred Fisher
• "When I Lost You" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" w. Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
• "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor
• "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo" w.m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Yiddisha Professor" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "You're My Baby" w. A Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer

Popular Recordings

• "The Herd Girl's Dream" by George Stehl, Marshall P. Lufsky, & Paul Surth, Columbia
• "Everybody Two Step" by Billy Murray, Edison
• "Roamin' in the Gloamin'" by Harry Lauder, Victor

Classical music

Maurice Ravel in 1912

• Alban Berg – Five Orchestral Songs on Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg
• Frank Bridge – Piano Quintet
• Ferruccio Busoni – Sonatina No. 2
• George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad
• Claude Debussy – Gigues; Khamma (ballet); Preludes, Book 2
• Frederick Delius – The Song of the High Hills; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
• Paul Dukas – La Peri (ballet)
• Edward Elgar – The Music Makers
• Victor Ewald – Brass Quintet No. 1
• Alexander Glazunov – Finnish Sketches
• Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand
• Charles Ives – Robert Browning Overture
• Leoš Janáček – The Fiddler's Child
• Sergei Prokofiev
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D♭ Major
  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor
• Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé
• Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire
• Cyril Scott – Two Passacaglias
• Marcel Tournier – Promenade a l'automne
• Louis Vierne – Symphony for Organ No. 3 in F♯ minor

Opera

• Walter Damrosch – The Dove of Peace
• Guy Ropartz – Le Pays
• Richard Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos
• Franz Schreker – Der ferne Klang, libretto by the composer
• Ferruccio Busoni - Die Brautwahl

Musical theater

Promotional artwork for 1912 Ziegfeld Follies

• The Count of Luxembourg Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 120 performances.
• The Firefly, Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2 and ran for 120 performances
• Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway Broadway revival opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on March 14 and ran for 36 performances.
• Gypsy Love London production opened at Daly's Theatre on June 1 and ran for 299 performances.
• Hullo, Ragtime Opened at the London Hippodrome on December 23 and ran for 451 performances.
• The Lady of the Slipper Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 28 and ran for 232 performances. Starring Elsie Janis, Montgomery and Stone, James Reaney, Peggy Wood and Vernon Castle.
• Der Lila Domino (The Lilac Domino) – Vienna production
• Mama's Baby Boy (Music: Hans Linne Book & Lyrics: Junie McCree) Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 25 and ran for 9 performances
• Oh! Oh! Delphine! Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30 and ran for 248 performances
• Over the River (Words & Music: John Golden) Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on January 8 and ran for 120 performances. Starring Eddie Foy, Lillian Lorraine, Mae Busch, Peggy Wood and Maurice and Walton.
• The Pink Lady London production opened at the Globe Theatre on April 11 and ran for 124 performances
• Under Many Flags Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome on August 31 and ran for 445 performances
• The Wall Street Girl Broadway production opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on April 15 and ran for 56 performances
• The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1912, Broadway revue opened at the Moulin Rouge Theatre on October 21 and ran for 88 performances

Births

• January 8 – Arkady Filippenko, composer (died 1983)
• January 11 – Emiliano Zuleta, vallenato composer, accordion player and singer (died 2005)
• February 2 – Burton Lane, US composer (died 1997)
• February 3 – Mary Carlisle, actress and singer
• February 11 – Rudolf Firkusny, pianist (died 1994)
• February 19 – Saul Chaplin, film score composer and arranger (died 1997)
• February 27 – Eliška Kleinová, pianist and music teacher (died 1999)
• March 11 – Xavier Montsalvatge, composer and music critic (died 2002)
• March 14 – Les Brown, US bandleader (died 2001)
• March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician (died 1982)
• March 24 – Sari Biro, pianist (died 1990)
• March 27 – Robert Hughes, composer (died 2007)
• April 2 – Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers singing quartet (died 1989)
• April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer (died 2009)
• April 5 – Carlos Guastavino, composer (died 2000)
• April 17 – Marta Eggerth, singer and actress
• April 22 – Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
• April 24 – Renato Cellini, conductor (died 1967)
• May 3 – Virgil Fox, organist (died 1980)
• May 10 – Adrian Aeschbacher, pianist (died 2002)
• May 13 – Gil Evans, jazz pianist and bandleader (died 1988)
• May 18 – Perry Como, singer (died 2001)
• May 23 – Jean Françaix, composer (died 1997)
• May 31 – Alfred Deller, singer (died 1979)
• June 6 – Robert Levin, pianist (died 1996)
• June 9 – Edgar Evans, operatic tenor (died 2007)
• June 17 – Don Gillis, conductor and composer (died 1978))
• June 28 – Eleazar de Carvalho, conductor and composer (died 1996)
• July 4 – Fritz Schulz-Reichel, jazz pianist (died 1990)
• July 5
  • Mack David, songwriter (died 1993)
  • Ilona Massey, actress and singer (died 1974)
• July 14 – Woody Guthrie, folk singer (died 1967)
• July 17 – Irene Manning, actress and singer (died 2004)
• July 27 – Igor Markevitch, composer (died 1983)
• August 9 – Anne Brown, US soprano, first Bess in Porgy and Bess (died 2009)
• August 13 – Francesco Albanese, operatic tenor (died 2005)
• August 21 – Natalia Dudinskaya, ballerina (died 2003)
• August 23 – Gene Kelly, dancer, singer and actor (died 1996)
• September 5 – John Cage, composer (died 1992)
• September 19 – Kurt Sanderling, conductor
• September 26 – René Hall, guitarist and arranger (died 1988)
• September 30 – Kenny Baker, singer and actor (died 1985)
• October 7 – Joseph Cooper, pianist and broadcaster (died 2001)
• October 15 – Nellie Lutcher, jazz singer and pianist (died 2007)
• October 21
  • Don Byas, jazz musician (died 1972)
  • Sir Georg Solti, conductor (died 1997)
• October 24 – Peter Gellhorn, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2004)
• October 27 – Conlon Nancarrow, composer (died 1997)
• November 4 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (died 1978)
• November 6 – King Kolax, jazz trumpeter (died 1991)
• November 11 – Larry LaPrise, creator of the "Hokey-Pokey" or "Hokey-Cokey" song and dance (died 1996)
• November 18 – Jimmy Swan, country musician (died 1995)
• November 21 – Eleanor Powell, dancer (died 1982)
• November 22 – Chick Henderson, singer (died 1944)
• November 30 – Hugo del Carril, actor and tango singer (died 1989)
• December 7 – Daniel Jones, composer (died 1993)
• December 10 – Irving Fazola, jazz clarinetist (died 1949)
• December 13 – Luiz Gonzaga, folk singer and songwriter (died 1989)
• December 23 – Josef Greindl, operatic bass (died 1993)
• December 25 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (died 1969)
• December 28 – Yuri Levitin, Ukrainian composer (died 1993)
• December 30 – Rosina Lawrence, actress, singer and dancer (died 1997)
• date unknown
  • Buddy Feyne, lyricist and composer (d. 1998)
  • Niyazi, conductor and composer (d. 1984)
  • William Vacchiano, trumpeter (d. 2005)
• probable – Merline Johnson, blues singer

Deaths

• January 3 - Harald Scharff, ballet dancer, 75
• January 30 – Florence St. John, singer and actress, 56
• March 1 – George Grossmith, comic singer in operetta, 64
• March 17 – Domenico Mustafà, castrato singer and composer, 82
• March 30 – Lina Ramann, biographer of Liszt, 78
• April 15
  • Wallace Hartley, violinist and leader of the band on RMS Titanic, 33 (drowned)
  • John Law Hume, violinist on board Titanic, 21 (drowned)
• April 30 – František Kmoch, conductor and composer, 63)
• June 6 – Giulio Ricordi, music publisher, 71
• July 21 – Antonio Magini-Coletti, operatic baritone, 57
• August 13 – Jules Massenet, composer, 70
• August 14 – Marion Hood, singer, 58
• August 30 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano, 79
• September 1 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, 37 (pneumonia)
• October 1 – Frances Allitsen, composer, 63
• October 15 – Max Spicker, conductor and composer, 54
• October 19 – Richard Temple, opera singer, 66
• October 24 – Mykola Lysenko, pianist, composer and conductor, 70
• October 30 – Jan Gall, composer and music teacher, 56
• November 10 – Riccardo Antoniazzi, violin maker, 58
• November 11 - Józef Wieniawski, pianist, conductor and composer, 75
• December 15 – Franz Simandl, double bassist, 72
• date unknown
  • Eduardo Corrochio, tap dancer (born 1869)
  • Auguste von Müller, singer and actress (born 1848)
  • Emma Seehofer, operatic contralto

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