1913 in music

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Events

• April 1 – Manuel de Falla's opera La vida breve is given its world première in Nice.
• May 29 – There is a near-riot at the première of the Igor Stravinsky-scored ballet The Rite of Spring in Paris. Police are called during the interval.
• October – Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced
• Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster.
• The Aeolian Company introduces the Duo-Art piano technology.

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 Osman Perez 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
• "They've Got Me Doin' It Now" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Looral" w.m. James R. 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

• George Butterworth – Banks of Green Willow
• John Alden Carpenter – Violin Sonata
• Claude Debussy – La boîte à joujoux (ballet); Trois poèmes de Mallarmé
• Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring
• Louis Vierne – Messe basse, Op. 30

Opera

• Manuel de Falla – La vida breve
• Gabriel Fauré – Pénélope
• 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)

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 Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 3 and ran for 72 performances
• 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 18 – Danny Kaye, actor, singer, dancer and comedian (d. 1987)
• 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)
• 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 6 – Ella Logan, actress and singer (d. 1969)
• March 13
  • Smoky Dawson, Australian singer (d. 2008)
  • Libero de Luca, operatic tenor
  • Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian lyricist (d. 2009)
• 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
• 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 mezzosoprano
• June 12 – Nina Mae McKinney, dancer and actress (d. 1967)
• 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
  • Licia Albanese, operatic soprano
  • Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader and songwriter (d. 1995)
• August 2
  • Hal Block, songwriter (d. 1981)
  • Edric Connor, calypso singer (d. 1968)
• August 28 – Robert Irving, conductor (d. 1991)
• August 29 – Sylvia Fine, songwriter (d. 1991)
• 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)
• 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 15 – Gus Johnson, jazz drummer (d. 2000)
• November 19 – Blue Barron, orchestra leader (d. 2005)
• November 22 – Benjamin Britten, composer (d. 1976)
• December 1 – Mary Martin, US singer and actress (d. 1990)
• December 30 – Lucio Agostini, conductor and composer (d. 1996)
• date unknown – John Collins, jazz guitarist (d. 2001)

Deaths

• February 26 – Felix Draeseke, composer (b. 1835)
• March 19 – 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 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, operatic soprano (b. 1868)
• July 16 – Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (b. 1841)
• July 17 – Armes Beaumont, singer (b. 1842)
• 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 Schellendorf, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
• December 6 – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer (b. 1871)
• date unknown
  • Géza Allaga, composer, cellist and cimbalist (b. 1841)
  • Ludwig Milde, composer of bassoon music (b. 1849)