1907 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 21 - Frederick Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet is premiered in Berlin
• General Porfirio Díaz legendarily orders a mariachi band to wear upper-class clothing (a charro suit) when they played for the visiting United States Secretary of State Elihu Root; this is the beginning of modern mariachi, as well as the traditional dress of future mariachi stars.
• Publication of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni

[edit] Published popular music

• "All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "And A Little Bit More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
• "Ballooning" w. Paul West m. Jerome Kern
• "The Bandolero" w. m. Leslie Stuart
• "Be My Little Teddy Bear" w. Vincent Bryan m. Max Hoffman
• "Because I'm Married Now" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Bon Bon Buddy" by Alex Rogers
• "Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain" w.m. Arthur Longbrake
• "Budweiser's A Friend Of Mine" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Seymour Furth
• "Bye Bye Dearie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Caissons Go Rolling Along" m. Edmund L. Gruber
• "Come Along, My Mandy" w.m. Tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence & Harry Gifford New words Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth 1910
• "Common Sense" w.m. Chris Smith & John Larkins
• "Don't Worry" w.m. Ed Rose & Ted Snyder
• "Down Home Shout" Herman Carle
• "Fairy Queen" m. Percy Wenrich
• "Fishing For the Moon" David Kilburn Stevens
• "Gladiolus Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "Golden Rod" McKinley
• "The Handsome, Brave Life Saver" Gumble
• "Harrigan" w.m. George M. Cohan. Introduced by George M. Cohan in the musical Fifty Miles from Boston
• "He Goes to Church on Sunday" w. Vincent Bryan m. E. Ray Goetz
• "The Homesick Yankee" Clark
• "Honey Boy" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "The Honeybee's Honeymoon" Reed
• "I Love You So" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "I Wish I Had A Girl" w. Gus Kahn m. Grace Leboy Kahn
• "I'd Rather Be A Lobster Than A Wise Guy" Morse
• "I'd Rather Two-Step Than Waltz, Bill" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "I'm Happy When The Band Plays Dixie" Vandeveer
• "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" w. E. S. S. Huntingdon m. J. Fred Helf
• "In A Hammock Built For Two" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "In the Land of the Buffalo" Williams, Van Alstyne
• "In The Wildwood Where The Bluebells Grow" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
• "In Washington" w. Vincent Bryan m. Gertrude Hoffmann
• "It's Delightful To Be Married" w. Anna Held m. Vincent Scotto
• "It's Great To Be A Soldier Man" Morse
• "It's Nice To Have A Sweetheart" Kerker
• "I've Told His Missus All About Him" Tate
• "Just Because He Couldn't Sing "Love Me And The World Is Mine"" w.m. Bert Fitzgibbon
• "Kansas City Rag" by James Scott
• "Keep On Smiling" Paley
• "The Last Rose Of Summer Is The Sweetest Rose Of All" w. Arthur Gillespie m. Harry Sidney
• "Lucia" Klein
• "A Man Without A Woman" Rogers
• "Marie From Sunny Italy" w. Irving Berlin m. M. Nicholson
• "Mariutch Down At Coney Island" (aka "Mariutch Dance Da Hootch-A-Ma-Kootch") w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "(You'll Find Me At) Maxim's" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "Meet Me Down At The Corner" w. Will D. Cobb m. Harry Hoyt
• "(The Best I Get Is) Much Obliged To You" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "'Neath The Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle" w. C. M. Denison m. J. Fred Helf
• "'Neath The Old Cherry Tree, Sweet Marie" w.m. Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne
• "Nestle By My Side" Luders
• "No Wedding Bells For Me" w. E. P. Moran & Will A. Heelan m. Seymour Furth
• "No, No, Positively No" w.m. Chris Smith & Harry Brown
• "No-One Knows" w.m. Francis Mack
• "Not For Me" w.m. Bessie Wynn
• "On The Road To Mandalay" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Oley Speaks
• "The Peach That Tastes The Sweetest Hangs The Highest On The Tree" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "Pride Of The Prairie" w. Harry Breen m. George Botsford
• "Put Me Among The Girls" w. C. W. Murphy m. Dan Lipton

• "Rain-in-the-Face" Burt
• "Red Wing" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
• "Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Out For The Day Today" w. Fred Leigh m. Orlando Powell
• "San Antonio" w.m. Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne
• "Sandy, You're A Dandy" w.m. Hector Grant
• "Search Light Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "She's A Lassie From Lancashire" Murphy, Lipton, Neat
• "Sleepy Sidney" by Archie W Scheu
• "Smile, Smile, Smile" Hoffman
• "Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone" m. John Walter Bratton
• "Somebody's Waiting For You" w. Vincent Bryan m. Albert Gumble
• "Take Me Back To New York Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Take Me Where There's A Big Brass Band" Morse
• "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" w. James B. Kennedy m. John Walter Bratton (Words 1932)
• "That Lovin' Rag" w. Victor H. Smalley m. Bernie Adler
• "Theodore" w.m. Vincent Bryan
• "There Never Was A Girl Like You" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Tipperary" w. Leo Curley m. James M. Fulton & J. Fred Helf
• "Tommy, Lad!" w. Edward Teschemacher m. E. J. Margetson
• "Two Blue Eyes" by Edward Madden
• "Two Little Baby Shoes" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Under Any Old Flag At All" Cohan
• "Vilia" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "Wal, I Swan!" (aka "Ebeneezer Frye") w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "'Way Down In Colon Town" Hoffman
• "When A Fellow's On The Level With A Girl That's On The Square" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Talk Of New York
• "Who? Me?" Snyder
• "Won't You Be My Honey?" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Wouldn't You Like To Have Me For A Sweetheart?" Robyn
• "You Splash Me And I'll Splash You" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman

[edit] Classical music

• York Bowen - Piano Concerto No. 3 'Fantasia' Op. 23, Viola Concerto in C minor Op. 25 ([1])
• Havergal Brian - English Suite
• Frederick Delius - Songs of Sunset; Brigg Fair
• Ernő Dohnányi - String Quartet no. 2 in D-flat, Op. 15
• Edward Elgar - The Wand of Youth
• Reinhold Glière - Symphony No. 2 in C minor
• Gustav Holst - A Somerset Rhapsody
• Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński - Violin Sonata in G ([2])
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor
• Max Reger - Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 102
• Ottorino Respighi - Quartet for Strings in D major
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq d'Or
• Charles Villiers Stanford - Stabat Mater
• Josef Suk - Symphony No. 2 in C minor, op. 27 (Asrael)

[edit] Opera

• Francesco Cilea - Gloria
• Luigi Mancinelli - Paolo e Francesca
• Jules Massenet - Thérèse

[edit] Musical theater

• Die Dollarprinzessin Vienna production
• Follies of 1907 Broadway production
• The Gay White Way Broadway revue opened at the Casino Theatre on October 7 and ran for 105 performances
• The Girls of Gottenberg London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 15 and ran for 303 performances. Starring May de Sousa, George Grossmith Jr., Gertie Millar, Robert Nainby and Edmund Payne.
• Franz Lehár - The Merry Widow London and Broadway productions
• Miss Hook of Holland London and Broadway productions
• Nelly Neil London production
• The Orchid Broadway production
• The Rogers Brothers in Panama Broadway production
• The Talk of New York Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 3 and ran for 157 performances.
• Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream) Vienna production
• Ein Walzertraum Berlin production

[edit] Births

• February 1 - Günter Eich, German lyricist (d. 1972)
• February 15 - Jean Langlais, French organist and composer (d. 1991)
• February 27 - Mildred Bailey, US singer (d. 1951)
• March 3 - Joy Finzi, widow of Gerald Finzi and founder of the Finzi Trust (d. 1991)
• March 11 - Jessie Matthews, British actress and singer (d. 1981)
• March 14 - Tolibjon Sadikov, Uzbek composer (d. 1957)
• March 15 - Zarah Leander, Swedish singer and actress (d. 1981)
• March 19 - Elizabeth Maconchy, English composer (d. 1994)
• April 12 - Imogen Holst, British conductor and composer (d. 1984)
• April 18 - Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American film composer (d. 1995)
• April 21 - Beatrice Kay US singer and actress (d. 1986)
• April 29 - Tino Rossi, French singer and actor (d. 1983)
• May 1 - Kate Smith, US singer (d. 1986)
• May 14 - Edythe Wright, US singer (d. 1965)
• May 18 - Clifford Curzon, English pianist (d. 1982)
• July 19 - Günter Bialas, German composer (d. 1995)
• July 26 - André Gertler, Hungarian violinist (d. 1998)
• August 8 - Benny Carter, US jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader (d.2003)
• September 29 - Gene Autry, US singer and performer (d. 1998)
• October 5 - Mrs. Miller, US singer (d. 1997)
• October 12 - Wolfgang Fortner, composer (d. 1987)
• October 27 - Helmut Walcha, organist (d. 1991)
• November 18 - Compay Segundo, Cuban singer and songwriter, inventor of the armónico (d. 2003)
• November 30 - György Ránki, Hungarian composer (d. 1992)
• December 7 - Wanda Toscanini (d. 1998)
• December 25 - Cab Calloway, US jazz singer and band leader (d. 1994)
• December 27 - Willem van Otterloo, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1978)
• date unknown
  • James Moody,composer for harmonica (d. 1995)
  • N. Senada, German composer and music theorist (d. 1993)

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - Beniamino Cesi, pianist (b. 1845)
• February 5 - Ludwig Thuille, composer (b. 1861)
• February 28 - Rosina Brandram, D'Oyly Carte singer and actress (b. 1846)
• March 1 - August Manns, conductor (b. 1825)
• March 17 - Ernesto Köhler, flautist and composer (b. 1849)
• April 4 - Lucile Grahn, ballerina (b. 1819)
• June 1 - Richard Mühlfeld, clarinettist (b. 1856)
• June 2 - Anastazy Wilhelm Dreszer, pianist and composer (b. 1845)
• June 4 - Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Norwegian pianist and composer (b. 1847)
• July 23 - William Shakespeare Hays, songwriter (b. 1837)
• August 15 - Joseph Joachim, violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1831)
• September 4 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)
• September 5 - Adolf Østbye, first Norwegian recording artist (b. 1868)
• September 17 - Ignaz Brüll, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1846)
• October 9 - Romualdo Marenco, composer (b. 1841)
• October 10 - Charles Dancla, violinist and composer (b. 1817)
• November 21 - Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (b. 1829)

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