1908 in music
Overview of the events of 1908 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1908.
Specific locations
Specific genres
Events
Published popular music
Kurt Atterberg – Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra Béla Bartók – First Violin Concerto Alban Berg – Piano Sonata, Op.1York Bowen – Viola Concerto in C minorHenry Walford Davies – Solemn Melody for organGeorge Enescu –
Cantate pour la pose de la prèmiere pierre du pont à transbordeur de Bordeaux , for military band, two harps, string orchestra, solo cello, choir, baritone solo, and cannons"Morgengebet", for voice and piano
Sept chansons de Clement Marot , for tenor and piano, Op. 15Gabriel Fauré –
Nocturne No. 9 in B minor, Op. 97
Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, Op. 99
Serenade for cello and piano, Op. 98 Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 8 Reinhold Glière – Second Symphony, Op. 25Hamilton Harty – Violin ConcertoMikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Symphony No. 1John Ireland – Phantasy Piano Trio Charles Ives –
Paul von Klenau – Symphony No. 1Toivo Kuula – Piano TrioGian Francesco Malipiero – Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte Erkki Melartin – Third String QuartetCarl Nielsen – Saga-Drøm (tone poem)Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit Max Reger –
Auferstanden, auferstanden , cantata for SATB soloists, SATB choir, and organSonatinas for two pianos (4), Op. 89
Suite, for violin and piano, in E minor
Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 102
Violin Concerto, in A major, Op. 101
Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, Op. 108Weihegesang , for alto solo, SATB choir, and windsZwei geistliche Lieder , for choirXaver Scharwenka – Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minorArnold Schoenberg –
Alexander Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy Igor Stravinsky – Feu d'artifice May Summerbelle 'Beaux Yeux' Waltz for solo pianoAnton Webern – Passacaglia for orchestra , Op. 1
Film
Births
January 7 – Red Allen , jazz musician (d. 1967)January 14 – Russ Columbo , singer, bandleader, composer (d. 1934)January 16 – Ethel Merman , American singer and actress (d. 1984)January 26
January 27 – Hot Lips Page , jazz trumpet (d. 1954)February 20 – Ruby Elzy , US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess February 29 – A. L. Lloyd , folk song collector (d. 1982)March 14 – Nikolai Rakov , Soviet composer (d. 1990)March 18 – Ivor Moreton , British singer, composer and pianist (d. 1984)April 2 – Buddy Ebsen , US actor and singer (d. 2003)April 5 – Herbert von Karajan , Austrian conductor (d. 1989)April 7 – Percy Faith , composer, musician (d. 1976)April 8 – Tito Guízar , Mexican singer and film actor (d. 1999 )April 15 – eden ahbez , hermit, musician (d. 1995)April 20 – Lionel Hampton , jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)May 6 – Necil Kazım Akses , Turkish composer (d. 1999)May 8 – Cristian Vasile , Romanian tango singer (d. 1985)May 15 – Lars-Erik Larsson , Swedish composer (d. 1986)May 27 – Harold Rome , US songwriter (d. 1993)June 24 – Hugo Distler , organist and composer (d. 1942)June 29 – Leroy Anderson , US composer and conductor (d. 1975)July 8 – Louis Jordan , bandleader (d. 1975)July 22 – Ljerko Spiller , Croat-Argentine violinist (d. 2008 )July 25 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer , Carnatic vocalist (d. 2003)August 1 – Miloslav Kabeláč , composer (d. 1979)August 4 – Kurt Eichhorn , conductor (d. 1994)August 12 – Nina Makarova , composer (d. 1976)August 29 – Orestes López , Cuban bassist, cellist, pianist and composer (d. 1991)September 5 - Cecilia Seghizzi , Italian composerSeptember 6 – Maria Grinberg , pianist (d. 1978)September 7 – Max Kaminsky , US jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)September 10 – Raymond Scott , composer, bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)September 13 – Mae Questel , US singer (d. 1998)September 16 – Chick Bullock , US singer (d. 1981)September 25 – Eugen Suchoň , Slovak composer (d. 1993)September 30 – David Oistrakh , violinist (d. 1974)October 1 – Umar Dimayev , Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)October 14 – Allan Jones , actor, singer (d. 1992)October 19 – Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer (d. 1981)October 20 – Stuart Hamblen , US singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1989)October 21
November 19
December 10 – Olivier Messiaen , composer (d. 1992)December 11 – Elliott Carter , composer (d. 2012)December 16 – Frances Day , US actress and singer (d. 1984)December 17 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth , English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)December 21 – Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer (died 1988)[ 2]
Deaths
January 22 – August Wilhelmj , German violinist, 62[ 3] January 23 – Edward MacDowell , American composer (b. 1860)February 28 – Pauline Lucca , operatic soprano (b. 1842)March 2 – Walter Slaughter , conductor and composer (b. 1860)March 12 – Clara Novello , soprano (b. 1818)March 26 – Louis Chauvin , ragtime musician (b. 1881)April 29 – Auguste Götze , German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (b. 1840)May 7 – Ludovic Halévy , lyricist (b. 1834)May 12 – Melisio Morales , composer (b. 1838)June 5 – Josef Wagner , composer (b. 1856)June 20 – Federico Chueca , zarzuela composer (b. 1846)June 21 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , composer (b. 1844)July 10 – Phoebe Knapp , composer of hymns (b. 1839)July 14 – William Mason , pianist and composer (b. 1829)July 18 – Jaime Nunó , composer of Mexico's national anthem (b. 1824)August 13 – Ira D. Sankey , gospel singer and composer (b. 1840)August 20 – Louisa Bassano , opera singer (b. 1818)August 26 – Tony Pastor , vaudeville founder & theater impresario (b. 1837)September 20 – Pablo de Sarasate , violinist (b. 1844)September 21 – Atanas Badev , composer and music teacher (b. 1860)November 15 – Katti Lanner , ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1829)November 20 – Albert Dietrich , conductor and composer (b. 1829)[ 4] date unknown – Alois Kaiser , cantor and composer (b. 1840)
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