1914 in music explained
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1914.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
- January 1 – The copyright on Wagner's Parsifal expires allowing it to be staged outside of Bayreuth. Performances take place in Barcelona, Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bologna, Rome and Wrocław. In the next few weeks it is staged in St. Petersburg, Paris, Brussels, Vienna and London's Covent Garden.
- January 21 – Edward Elgar makes the first recordings of his music, including the miniature "Carissima" prior to its public premiere.[1]
- January 24 – First public performance of Leoš Janáček's piano cycle In the Mists at the third concert of the Organ School in Brno by pianist Marie Dvořáková, teacher of the school.
- January – First Finnish performance of Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar, with soprano Aino Ackté and conductor Georg Schnéevoigt.[2]
- c. June – First publication of Orchestration, the classic book by Cecil Forsyth.
- August 26 – Rutland Boughton's fairy opera The Immortal Hour is first performed in the Glastonbury Assembly Rooms at the inaugural Glastonbury Festival co-founded by the English socialist composer.[3] On August 5, the first concert concluded with the choral song "The Last Post" by Charles Villiers Stanford in lieu of the Grail Dance from Parsifal "owing to the outbreak of war."[4]
- October – Adelina Patti gives her last public performance, in a Red Cross concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.
- October 15 – In Rovigo, Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
- December 31 – English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, aged 42, volunteers for war service, initially as a private with the Royal Army Medical Corps.[5]
- The first recorded calypso music is made in Trinidad and Tobago.
Published popular music
Popular recordings
Classical music
Opera
See main article: 1914 in jazz.
Musical theatre
Births
- January 25 – William Strickland, American conductor and organist (d. 1991)
- February 10 – Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso (d. 2001)[7]
- February 12 – Tex Beneke, American bandleader (d. 2000)[8]
- February 18 – Pee Wee King, country musician (d. 2000)
- March 5 – Philip Farkas, horn player (d. 1992)
- March 6 – Kirill Kondrashin, conductor (d. 1981)[9]
- March 10 – Pilar Manalo Danao, Filipino songwriter (d. 1987)
- March 21 – Paul Tortelier, cellist and composer (d. 1990)[10]
- March 28 – Clara Petrella, Italian operatic soprano (d. 1987)
- March 30 – Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician (d. 1948)[11]
- April 4 – Frances Langford, American singer and actress (d. 2005)
- April 25 – John Sebastian, harmonica virtuoso (d. 1980)
- April 26 – Wilfrid Mellers, musicologist and composer (d. 2008)
- May 13 – Johnnie Wright, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
- May 22 – Sun Ra, American musician (d. 1993)
- May 26 – Ziggy Elman, American trumpet player (d. 1968)
- May 31 – Akira Ifukube, composer (d. 2006)
- June 6 – Iris du Pré, pianist, mother of Jacqueline du Pré and Hilary du Pré (d. 1985)
- June 16
- June 28 – Lester Flatt, bluegrass musician (d. 1979)
- June 29 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor (d. 1996)[15]
- July 2 – Frederick Fennell, conductor (d. 2004)
- July 5 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress and singer (d. 2009)[16]
- July 7 – Serafim Tulikov, Russian and Soviet composer (d. 2004)[17]
- July 8 – Billy Eckstine, jazz musician and singer (d. 1993)[18]
- July 14 – Fred Fox, American French horn player and brass instrument teacher (d. 1949)
- July 24 – Riccardo Malipiero, Italian composer, pianist and music educator (d. 2003)
- July 26
- August 5 – Stjepan Šulek, Croatian composer (d. 1986)
- August 10 – Witold Małcużyński, Polish pianist (d. 1977)
- August 11 – Hugh Martin, American composer (d. 2011)[19]
- August 12 – Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and songwriter (d. 1981)
- August 18 – Irmgard Österwall, Swedish jazz singer (d. 1980)
- August 28 – Glenn Osser, American conductor and arranger (d. 2014)
- September 5 – Minuetta Kessler, née Shumiatcher, concert pianist, classical composer and music educator (d. 2002)
- September 12 – Eddy Howard, singer (d. 1963)
- September 24 – Andrzej Panufnik, composer (d. 1991)[20]
- September 25 – Robert Wright, American composer (d. 2005)
- October 7 – Alfred Drake, American singer and actor (d. 1992)
- October 10 – Ivory Joe Hunter, R&B singer, songwriter and pianist (d. 1974)
- November 15 – Jorge Bolet, pianist and conductor (d. 1990)
- December 3 – Irving Fine, composer (d. 1962)
- December 7 – Alberto Castillo, Argentine tango singer and actor (d. 2002)
- December 14 – Rosalyn Tureck, pianist (d. 2003)[21]
- December 23 – Dezider Kardoš, composer (d. 1991)
- December 29 – Billy Tipton, jazz musician (d. 1989)
- date unknown – Rita Abatzi, rebetiko singer (d. 1969)
Deaths
- January 5 – François Cellier, conductor and composer (b. 1849)
- January 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer and professor of the Madrid Royal Conservatory (b. 1837)
- January 23 – George W. Johnson, singer and pioneer recording artist (b. 1850)
- February 1 – Alexander Dodonov, Russian opera singer (b. 1837)
- March 1 – Tor Aulin, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1866)
- March 24 – Ellen Franz, pianist and actress (b. 1839)
- March 31 – Hubert von Herkomer, painter, film director and composer (b. 1849)
- May 3 – Carl Kölling, composer of piano music (b. 1831)
- May 10
- July 1 – Edmund Payne, musical comedy star (b. 1865)
- July 14 – Andrzej Hławiczka, musicologist (b. 1866)
- July 23 – Harry Evans, conductor and composer (b. 1873)
- August 7 – Bolesław Dembiński, composer (b. 1833)
- August 11 – Emil Fischer, operatic bass (b. 1838)
- August 18 – Anna Yesipova, pianist (b. 1851)
- August 28 – Anatoly Lyadov, composer (b. 1855)
- September 2 – K. C. Kesava Pillai, Carnatic composer and poet (b. 1868)[24]
- September 3 – Albéric Magnard, composer (b. 1865)
- September 13 – Robert Hope-Jones, inventor of the theatre organ (b. 1859)
- September 28 – Stevan Mokranjac, composer (b. 1856)
- October 28 – Richard Heuberger, composer (b. 1850)
- November 9 – Jean-Baptiste Faure, operatic baritone and composer (b. 1830)
- December 14 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1841)[25]
- December 16 – Ivan Zajc, composer (b. 1832)[26]
- December 25 – Bernhard Stavenhagen, pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1862)
- December 29/31 – Alfredo D'Ambrosio, Italian composer (b. 1871)
- May Summerbelle
Notes and References
- Web site: Feature Review: Elgar conducts Elgar – The complete recordings, 1914-1925. Quentin. James. Classical Source. 17 January 2012 . 2022-12-28.
- Web site: Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature). Jean Sibelius – The Music. 2016-11-12.
- Web site: Hurd. Michael Hurd (composer). Michael. 1983. Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour. Hyperion. 2014-09-01.
- News: Glastonbury Musical Festival. Central Somerset Gazette. Glastonbury. 7 August 1914. 5.
- Stephen. Connock. The Edge of Beyond. Journal of the RVW Society. 16. October 1999. 3–6.
- Book: Thomas S. Hischak. Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007. 22 April 2009. McFarland. 978-0-7864-5309-2. 80.
- Book: The new Grove dictionary of jazz . 1 . 2002 . Grove's Dictionaries Inc. . New York . 1-56159-284-6 . 2nd . Barry Kernfeld . 16 . Adler, Larry.
- News: Tex Beneke, 86, A Leader of Glenn Miller's Band . . May 31, 2000 . 2010-05-25 .
- Book: Daniel Jaffé. Historical Dictionary of Russian Music. 8 March 2012. Scarecrow Press. 978-0-8108-7980-5. 183.
- Book: The Strad. 1991. Orpheus. 201.
- Book: Henry Townsend. Bill Greensmith. A Blues Life. 1999. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-02526-6. 2.
- Book: Gramophone. 2005. General Gramophone Publications Limited. 19.
- Book: PETER KRAMPERT. The Encyclopedia of the Harmonica. 23 March 2016. Mel Bay Publications. 978-1-61911-577-4. 164.
- Book: Atanas Bozhkov. Boris Christoff: An Authorized Biography. 1991. Robson. 978-0-86051-731-3. 14.
- Book: Guy A. Marco. Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States. 1993. Garland Pub.. 978-0-8240-4782-5. 377.
- Web site: Gerda Gilboe . . 3 August 2009 . Danish . https://web.archive.org/web/20060521221041/http://dnfx.dfi.dk/pls/dnf/pwt.page_setup?p_pagename=dnfnavn&p_parmlist=navneid%3D3552 . 21 May 2006 . dead .
- Book: Portraits of Prominent USSR Personalities. 1969. Scarecrow Press. 168.
- Book: Everett Jenkins. Pan-African Chronology: 1914-1929. 1996. McFarland & Company. 978-0-7864-0835-1. 12.
- Book: Steven Suskin. Show Tunes, 1905-1991: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers : Revised and Expanded. 1992. Limelight Editions. 978-0-87910-146-6. 343.
- Book: B. M. Maciejewski. Twelve Polish Composers. 1976. Allegro Press. 978-0-9505619-0-5. 80.
- Book: Murray Polner. American Jewish Biographies. 1982. Facts on File, Incorporated. 978-0-87196-462-5. 445.
- Book: Scott Baron. They Also Served: Military Biographies of Uncommon Americans. 1998. MIE Publishing. 978-1-877639-37-1. 151.
- Book: The Bay View Magazine. 1914. J. M. Hall. 467.
- Book: The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras. 2001. Music Academy. 180.
- Book: Modern Music and Musicians for Vocalists: Opera and oratorio excerpts. 1918. University Society. 653.
- Book: New Zealand Slavonic Journal. 1978. Department of Russian, Victoria University of Wellington. 7.
