1912 in music

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

Events

Venues

  • The Finnish soprano Aino Ackté founded in Savonlinna Opera Festival, the Olavinlinna.

Blues

  • September: The African- American WC Handy published in Memphis, Tennessee, his 1909 piece written The Memphis Blues. It is considered the first published blues piece of history.

Premieres

  • January 31: The singer wears Jack Judge in Stalybridge for the first time the song composed by him It's a Long Way to Tipperary, which is known worldwide by British soldiers in the First World War.
  • February 3: At the New Theatre at the zoo in Berlin is Leo Fall's operetta Der liebe Augustin, a revision of his fallen by opera Irrlicht from 1905 premiered. In this version of the piece with a libretto by Ernst Welisch and Rudolf Bernauer is finally granted success.

Olympic games

  • At the Olympic Games in Stockholm and art contests are held. In the discipline of music Italians Riccardo Barthelemy wins the gold medal for his Olympic triumph march.

Technology

  • Columbia Records presents its production of wax cylinders to on records.
  • The sale of the developed by Thomas Alva Edison Diamond Discs begins.

Born

January to April

May to August

  • MAY 3: Virgil Keel Fox, American organist († 1980)
  • May 7: Sitson Ma, Chinese violin virtuoso and composer († 1987)
  • May 8: Guillermo Abadia Morales, Colombian folklorist († 2010)
  • May 10: Adrian Aeschbacher, Swiss pianist († 2002)
  • MAY 13: Gil Evans, Canadian jazz musician († 1988)
  • MAY 13: Ernst Hess, Swiss conductor, composer and musicologist († 1968)
  • MAY 17: Sándor Végh, French conductor and violinist Hungarian-born († 1997)
  • MAY 17: Percy Young, British music writer and composer († 2004)
  • MAY 18: Perry Como, American singer († 2001)
  • MAY 23: Jean Françaix, French pianist and composer († 1997)
  • MAY 28: Jos Hanniken, Belgian composer and conductor († 1998)
  • MAY 31: Alfred Deller, English singer († 1979)
  • 9 June: Ingolf Dahl, American composer and conductor († 1970)
  • JUNE 28: Eleazar de Carvalho, Brazilian composer and conductor († 1996)
  • JULY 4: Fritz Schulz- Reichel, German composer and pianist († 1990)
  • July 10: Piet Stalmeier, Dutch composer and conductor († 1990)
  • July 11: Sergiu Celibidache, Romanian conductor († 1996)
  • July 12: Sid Robin, American lyricist and composer († 1985)
  • July 14: Woody Guthrie, American trade unionist and Songwriter († 1967)
  • July 27: Igor Markevitch, Russian composer and conductor († 1983)
  • August 4: David Raksin, American composer of film music († 2004)
  • August 9: Bojan Adamič, Slovenian composer and conductor († 1995)
  • August 9: Anne Brown, American soprano († 2009)
  • August 12: Rex Griffin, American old-time and country musician († 1958)
  • August 14: Louis Joseph Moyse, French flutist and composer († 2007)
  • August 18th: Volker Gwinner, German composer and organist († 2004)

September to December

  • September 5: John Cage, American composer († 1992)
  • September 15: Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, Cuban musicologist and composer († 1971)
  • SEPTEMBER 19: Kurt Sanderling, German conductor († 2011)
  • SEPTEMBER 27: Maria Luise Thurmair, South Tyrol author of poems and hymns († 2005)
  • October 6: Erwin White, Austrian composer († 2004)
  • October 9: Konrad Siebach, German double bassist and bass teacher († 1995)
  • October 11: Fedora Alemán, Venezuelan singer
  • OCTOBER 20: Marcel Couraud, French conductor († 1986)
  • October 21: Don Byas, jazz tenor sax player († 1972)
  • October 21: Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor († 1997)
  • October 22: Lucien Gekiere, Belgian composer and conductor († 1990)
  • October 24: John Petzold, German church musician († 1985)
  • OCTOBER 26: Lotti Huber, German actress, singer and dancer († 1998)
  • OCTOBER 27: Conlon Nancarrow, Mexican composer († 1997)
  • November 2: Alfredo De Angelis, Argentine musician, bandleader and composer († 1992)
  • November 4: Enrique González Mántici, Cuban conductor, violinist and composer († 1974)
  • November 4: Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanow, Russian composer († 1978)
  • November 6: King Kolax, American jazz trumpeter († 1991)
  • November 21: Eleanor Powell, American dancer, singer and actress († 1982)
  • November 26: Gunnar Sonstevold, Norwegian composer († 1991)
  • DECEMBER 13: Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer, accordion player and composer († 1989)
  • 17 December: Hellmut Haase- Altendorf, German composer and pianist († 1990)
  • December 22: Oscar Moret, Swiss composer and professor († 2003)
  • December 29: Peggy Glanville - Hicks, Australian composer († 1990)

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Knyaz Hacıbəyov, Azerbaijani conductor († 1984)

Died

  • Alphonse Schmitt, Alsatian organist and composer (* 1875)
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