1911 in music

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• 2.1 January to March
• 2.2 from April to August
• 2.3 from September to December
• 2.4 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Premieres

• JANUARY 21: The March of Women by Ethel Smyth will be premiered in the Pall Mall in London. Another performance takes place on 23 March at the Royal Albert Hall, from where the song undergoes a rapid spread in England, and is the anthem of the British suffragette movement.
• JANUARY 26: The opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss with the conductor Ernst von Schuch premiered in Dresden Court Opera. The work with the libretto by the Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal, whose title was disputed until the end, an overwhelming success is granted.
• MARCH 25: The world premiere of the operetta Grigri by Paul Lincke will take place in Cologne on Metropol Theater.
• MARCH 28: The comic opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky based on a story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol from the collection Evenings on the hamlet in Dikanka premiered decades after the composer's death in Saint Petersburg.
• May 19th at the Opéra -Comique in Paris the world premiere of the one-act play takes place The Spanish Hour by Maurice Ravel with a libretto by Franc- Nohain. The "musical comedy" is acknowledged by audiences and critics with rejection.

• MAY 22: The world premiere of The Martyrdom of Saint Sébastien ( The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian ), a " mystery in five acts " by Gabriele D' Annunzio with music by Claude Debussy in collaboration with André Caplet, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris gets a scandal. The Archbishop of Paris, Léon- Adolphe Amette, forbids all Catholics to visit the ideas because of the representation of the saint by a scantily clad Jewish and Russian woman, the dancer Ida Rubinstein. The audience reacts snubbed or bored because of the duration of the piece.
• June 2: The opera Isabeau of Pietro Mascagni premiered under the composer's direction at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The libretto of leggenda drammatica comes in three acts by Luigi Illica. The inspiration was the story of Lady Godiva. The opera quickly became popular and inspired a number of other operas based on legends.

Others

• Developed by Thomas Alva Edison Edison Diamond Disc Phonograph will be unveiled to the public.

Born

January to March

• January 4: Noro Morales, Puerto Rican Mambo and Rumba musician († 1964)
• January 8: Andrej Očenáš, Slovak composer († 1995)
• January 9: Franz Nauber, German horn player († 2001)
• January 11: Tommy Duncan, American country singer († 1967)
• JANUARY 14: Hans -Martin Majewski, German film composer († 1997)
• January 14: George Tremblay, American composer († 1982)
• JANUARY 15: Nasib Gajasowitsch Schiganow, Tatar composer († 1988)
• JANUARY 18: Gábor Darvas, Hungarian composer and musicologist († 1985)
• JANUARY 19: Ken Nelson, American music producer († 2008)
• JANUARY 22: Roberto García Morillo, Argentine composer († 2003)
• JANUARY 25: Julia Frances Smith, American composer and pianist († 1989)
• JANUARY 26: Norbert Schultze, German composer († 2002)
• JANUARY 30: Roy Eldridge, American jazz trumpeter († 1989)
• February 2: Jean -Jacques Grunenwald, French organist, composer and music teacher († 1982)
• February 3rd: Jehan Alain, French organist and composer († 1940)
• February 5: Jussi Björling, Swedish singers († 1960)
• FEB 14: Mercedes Sagredo, Dominican composer († 1998)
• March 5: Andrés Pardo Tovar, a Colombian sociologist, musicologist and folklorist († 1972)
• March 7: Stefan Kisielewski, Polish composer and writer († 1991)
• MARCH 8: Alan Hovhaness, American composer († 2000)
• March 9: Clara Rockmore, theremin virtuoso Russian († 1998)
• March 10: Remigi Blättler, Swiss clarinetist and folk musician († 2003)
• MARCH 13: Jose Ardèvol, Cuban composer († 1981)
• March 31: Elisabeth Grummer, German opera and chamber singer (soprano ) ( † 1986)

From April to August

September to December

• September 2: René Amengual Astaburuaga, Chilean composer († 1954)
• September 2: Floyd Council, American blues musician († 1976)
• SEPTEMBER 9: Zeke Clements, American country musician († 1994)
• September 11: Bola de Nieve, Cuban musician († 1971)
• September 13: Bill Monroe, American musician († 1996)
• September 19: Allan Pettersson, a Swedish composer and violist († 1980)
• October 7: Shura Cherkassky, Russian pianist († 1995)
• October 7: Vaughn Monroe, American singer, bandleader and trumpeter († 1973)
• OCTOBER 13: André Navarra, French cellist († 1988)
• OCTOBER 19: Willie Perryman, American blues musician († 1985)
• OCTOBER 19: Eberhard Werdin, German composer († 1991)
• OCTOBER 24: Sonny Terry, American blues singer and harmonica player († 1986)
• OCTOBER 26: Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer († 1972)
• November 3: Vladimir Ussachevski, Russian- American composer († 1990)
• November 4: Osamu Shimizu, Japanese composer († 1986)
• NOVEMBER 5: Roy Rogers, American country singer and actor († 1998)
• November 6: Pawel Gerassimowitsch Lisizian, Russian- Armenian baritone († 2004)
• November 24: Erik Bergman, Finnish composer († 2006)
• December 3: Nino Rota, Italian composer († 1979)
• December 5: Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist, composer and writer († 2000)
• December 12: Stanley Bate, English composer († 1959)
• December 12 Dore Hoyer, German dancer and choreographer († 1967)
• December 14: Spike Jones, American musician († 1965)
• December 15: Stan Kenton, American pianist and composer († 1979)
• DECEMBER 21: Paul Burkhard, Swiss composer († 1977)
• DECEMBER 29: Marcel Prawy, Austrian dramatist and opera critic († 2003)

Exact date of birth unknown

• Ronald Kinloch Anderson, Scottish pianist, music teacher and music producer († 1984)
• Thomas Canning, American composer († 1989)
• Gholam Hossein Banan, Iranian singers († 1986)

Died

• February 21: Eugène Vast, French organist and composer (* 1835)
• MARCH 29: Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (* 1837)
• MAY 18: Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (* 1860)
• June 14: Johan Svendsen, Norwegian composer (* 1840)
• JULY 30: Adolphe Deslandres, French composer and organist (* 1840)
• August: Vasily Vasilyevich Kuhner, Russian composer (* 1840)
• OCTOBER 5: Charles Theodore Malherbe, French musicologist and composer (* 1853)