1916 in music

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Events

• February 1 - Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 4, the Inextinguishable, in Copenhagen.
• February 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
• April 28 - Edison Records carry out the first public "comparison test" between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano Marie Rappold.
• June 5 - Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
• The Original Dixieland Jass Band make a hit in Chicago, Illinois.
• Wilber Sweatman records his hot ragtime in New York City.
• Sydney conservatorium of music in Australia accepted first students.
• Soprano Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann is awarded the Charlottenkreuz.
• German soprano Vali von der Osten marries tenor Fritz Windgassen.

Published popular music

• "Allah's Holiday" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "And They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
• "Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "At Finnigan's Ball" w.m. Bert Lee
• "Baby Shoes" by Joe Goodwin
• "Beale Street Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
• "A Broken Doll" w.m. James W. Tate & Frank Clifford Harris
• "Bugle Call Rag" w.m. Eubie Blake & Carey Morgan
• "Bull Frog Blues" Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley
• "The Cobbler's Song" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton
• "La Cumparsita" w. Carol Raven m. G. H. Matos Rodriguez (words written 1932)
• "Don't Leave Me, Daddy" Joe Verges
• "Down In Honky Tonky Town" w. Charles McCarron m. Chris Smith
• "Down Where The Swanee River Flows" w. Charles McCarron m. Charles S. Alberte
• "For Dixie And Uncle Sam" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• ""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" w. Darl MacBoyle m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "From Here To Shanghai" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Give Me All Of You" Schwartzwald
• "Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Green Hills Of Somerset" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
• "Have A Heart" w. Gene Buck m. Jerome Kern
• "Homesickness Blues" w.m. Cliff Hess
• "The Honolulu Blues" w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco
• "How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
• "Hula Lou" w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward
• "I Ain't Got Nobody" w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m. Spencer Williams
• "I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden
• "I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer
• "I Want To Marry A Male Quartette" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)" w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer
• "I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" w.m. N. J. Clesi
• "Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There" w. Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
• "I've A Shooting Box In Scotland" w.m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs & Cole Porter
• "Joe Turner Blues" w. Walter Hirsch m. W. C. Handy
• "Katinka" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love" w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m. Ira Schuster
• "The Laddies Who Fought And Won" w.m. Harry Lauder
• "Li'l Liza Jane" w.m. Countess Ada De Lachau
• "Love Me At Twilight" w. William Jerome & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
• "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
• "M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" w, Bert Hanlon & Benny Ryan m. Harry Tierney
• "Movie Trot" m. Harry H. Raymond
• "My Hawaiian Sunrise" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Carey Morgan
• "My Syncopated Melody Man" w.m. Blanche Merrill & Eddie Cox
• "Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an" w.m. James Kendris
• "Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" w. Joe Goodwin & William Tracey m. Nat Vincent
• "Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" w.m. Cecil Mack & Chris Smith
• "O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian" w. Al Dubin m. Rennie Cormack
• "Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo" w. Stanley Murphy & Charles McCarron m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Operatic Rag" J. Lensberg
• "Poor Butterfly" w. John Golden m. Raymond Hubbell
• "Pretty Baby" w. Gus Kahn m. Tony Jackson & Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Rackety Coo!" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Rolling Stones - All Come Rolling Home Again" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
• "Roses of Picardy" w. Frederick Weatherly m. Haydn Wood
• "Shamrock Rag" m. Euday L. Bowman
• "She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
• "Sierra Sue" w.m. Joseph Buell Carey
• "Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine" w. Joe McCarthy m. Percy Wenrich

Joseph Lamb's 1916 "The Top Liner Rag", a classic rag.

• "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty" w.m. A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey & Bennett Scott
• "That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland" w.m. Henry I. Marshal
• "There's A Little Bit Of Bad In Every Good Little Girl" w. Grant Clarke m. Fred Fisher
• "There's A Quaker Down In Quaker Town" w. David Berg m. Alfred Solman
• "They Made It Twice As Nice as Paradise and They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m. Richard Whiting
• "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii" w. Joe Goodwin m. Halsey K. Mohr
• "Throw Me A Rose" w. P. G. Wodehouse & Herbert Reynolds m. Emmerich Kallman
• "Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Walkin' The Dog" Shelton Brooks
• "What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?" w. Joseph McCarthy & Howard Johnson m. James V. Monaco
• "When John McCormack Sings A Song" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
• "When You're Down In Louisville" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. George W. Meyer
• "Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" w. Dave Radford m. Richard Whiting
• "Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula" w.m. E. Ray Goetz, Joe Young & Pete Wendling
• "You Belong To Me" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "You Can't Get Along With 'Em Or Without 'Em" w. Grant Clarke m. Fred Fisher
• "You're In Love" w. Otto Harbach & Edward Clark m. Rudolf Friml

Hit recordings

Wilber Sweatman record

• "O Sole Mio" by Enrico Caruso
• "Santa Lucia" by Enrico Caruso
• "Somewhere a Voice is Calling" by John McCormack
• "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" by Al Jolson
• "I Love A Piano" by Billy Murray
• "Pretty Baby" by Billy Murray
• "I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" by Marion Harris
• "Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)" by James F. Harrison
• "There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding" by James F. Harrison
• "Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" by Charles Harrison

Classical music

• Kurt Atterberg - Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"
• Béla Bartók - Suite for Piano
• Ernest Bloch - Israel Symphony, String Quartet No. 1
• Claude Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
• Frederick Delius - Cello Sonata
• George Enescu - Piano Trio
• Alexander Glazunov - Karelian Legend
• Jesus Guridi - Una aventura de Don Quijote
• Paul Hindemith - Cello Concerto in E-flat, Op. 3
• Ludvig Holm - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
• Charles Ives - Fourth Symphony
• Erkki Melartin - Symphony no 5 in A minor, Op. 90, "Sinfonia brevis"
• Hubert Parry - Jerusalem
• Siegfried Salomon - Concerto for violin and orchestra in G minor
• Igor Stravinsky - Burleske for 4 Pantomimes and Chamber Orchestra
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - Second Cello Sonata

Opera

• Rutland Boughton - The Round Table
• Enrique Granados - Goyescas
• Erwin Lendvai - Elga
• Manuel Penella - El Gato Montés
• Felix Weingartner - Dame Kobold

Musical theater

• Betty Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 2 and ran for 63 performances
• Broadway And Buttermilk Broadway production opened at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on August 15 and ran for 23 performances
• Chu Chin Chow London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on August 31 and ran for a record 2238 performances.
• Follow Me Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 29 and ran for 78 performances
• Pell Mell London production opened at the Ambassadors Theatre on June 5 and ran for 298 performances
• Robinson Crusoe Jr Broadway production opened on February 17 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 139 performances
• So Long Letty Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 23 and ran for 96 performances
• Sybil Broadway production opened on January 10 at the Liberty Theatre and ran for 168 performances. Starring Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian and Joseph Cawthorn.
• We're All in It London revue opened at the Empire Theatre on July 13
• Ziegfeld Follies Of 1916 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 12 and ran for 112 performances

Births

• January 4 - Slim Gaillard, jazz musician (d. 1991)
• January 9 - Vic Mizzy, TV theme composer (d. 2009)
• January 14 - Maxwell Davis, R&B musician (d. 1970)
• January 15 - Artie Shapiro, jazz bassist (d. 2003)
• January 16 - Rudolf Benesh, developer of the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing (d. 1975)
• January 22 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
• February 5 - Daniel Santos, singer (d. 1992)
• February 8 - Jimmy Skidmore, jazz musician (d. 1998)
• February 22 - Pedro Junco, composer (d. 1939)
• February 29 - Dinah Shore, singer (d. 1994)
• March 6 - Red Callender, jazz musician (d. 1992)
• March 15 - Harry James, bandleader (d. 1983)
• March 17 - Ray Ellington, singer and bandleader (d. 1985)
• April 11 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian composer (d. 1983)
• April 12 - Russell Garcia, film score composer
• April 14 - Denis ApIvor, composer (d. 2004)
• April 15 - Lee Vincent, DJ and orchestra leader (d. 2007)
• April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (d. 1999)
• April 30 - Robert Shaw, conductor (d. 1999)
• May 6 - Adriana Caselotti, voice (and model) for Snow White (d. 1997)
• May 9 - Bernard Rose, organist and composer (d. 1996)
• May 10 - Milton Babbitt, composer
• May 17 - Paul Quinichette, jazz musician (d. 1983)
• May 21 - Lydia Mendoza, guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
• May 26 - Moondog, singer, percussionist, composer and inventor of musical instruments (d. 1999)
• June 15 - Horacio Salgán, pianist, composer and orchestra leader
• June 17 - Einar Englund, Finnish composer (died 1999)
• June 26 - Giuseppe Taddei, operatic baritone
• July 9
  • Dean Goffin, Salvation Army composer (d. 1984)
  • Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (d. 2005)
• July 16 - Miles Copeland, Jr., musician and CIA agent (d. 1991)
• July 24 - Bob Eberly, US singer with Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra (d. 1981)
• July 28 - Rosina Raisbeck, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 2006)
• July 29 - Charlie Christian, swing and jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
• August 3 - Claude Demetrius, songwriter (d. 1988)
• August 18 - Moura Lympany, pianist (d. 2005)
• August 21 - Bill Lee, singer (d. 1980)
• August 24 – Léo Ferré, singer, songwriter and composer (d. 1993)
• August 25 - Ethel Stark, violinist and composer
• August 27 - Martha Raye, US singer and actress (d. 1994)
• September 8 - René Touzet, pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 2003)
• September 13 - Dick Haymes, Argentinian-born US singer and actor (d. 1980)
• September 16 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Carnatic vocalist (d. 2004)
• October 3 - David Mann, songwriter (d. 2002)
• October 19
  • Karl-Birger Blomdahl, composer and conductor (d. 1968)
  • Emil Gilels, Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1985)
• October 28 - Bill Harris, jazz trombonist (d. 1973)
• October 29 - Hadda Brooks, pianist, singer and composer (d. 2002)
• November 6 - Ray Conniff, trombonist and bandleader (d. 2002)
• November 10 - Billy May, composer and arranger (d. 2004)
• December 11 - Perez Prado, Cuban bandleader and composer (d. 1989)
• December 15
  • Buddy Cole, jazz musician (d. 1964)
  • Greta Gynt, singer, dancer and actress (d. 2000)
• December 18 - Betty Grable, star of many Hollywood musicals (d. 1973)
• December 25
  • Oscar Moore, jazz guitarist (d. 1981)
  • Graciela Naranjo, Venezuelan singer and actress (d. 2001)
• December 27 – Johnny Frigo, American jazz violinist and bassist (d. 2007)
• date unknown
  • Jan Håkan Åberg, organist and composer
  • Sam Taylor, jazz musician (d.1980)
  • Freddie Webster, jazz musician (d. 1947)

Deaths

• January 16 - Charles A. Zimmerman, composer (b. 1861)
• January 21 - George Musgrove, theatre and opera producer (b. 1854)
• February 4 - Adolphe Biarent, cellist and composer (b. 1871)
• February 5 - Francesco Marconi, operatic tenor (b. 1853/1855)
• February 20 - Giovanni Sbriglia, operatic tenor and singing teacher (b. 1832)
• March 7 - José Ferrer, guitarist (b. 1835)
• March 24 - Enrique Granados, composer (b. 1867)
• May 11 - Max Reger, composer (b. 1873)
• May 13
  • Clara Louise Kellogg, singer (b. 1842)
  • Jessie MacLachlan, Gaelic singer (b. 1866)
• May 28 - Albert Lavignac, musicologist and composer (b. 1846)
• June 5 - Mildred J. Hill, songwriter (b. 1859)
• June 10 - Max Vogrich, pianist and composer (b.1852)
• August 2 - Hamish MacCunn, composer (b. 1868)
• August 5 - George Butterworth, composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
• August 8 - Franz Eckert, composer (b. 1852)
• September 10 - Friedrich Gernsheim, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
• September 15 - Julius Fučík, composer (b. 1872)
• November 2 - Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher and composer (b. 1832)
• November 23 - Eduard Nápravník, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
• December 2 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer and music teacher (b. 1846)
• December 5 - Hans Richter, conductor (b. 1843)
• December 20 - William Gilchrist, composer (b. 1846)
• December 28 - Eduard Strauss, composer (b. 1835)
• December 31 - Ernst Rudorff, composer and music teacher (b. 1840)
• date unknown
  • John Francis Barnett, composer and music teacher (b. 1837)
  • Charlie Case, vaudeville entertainer