Months in 1912: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 3 of 3
Sep 27th - W C Handy publishes "Memphis Blues" 1st Blues Song, 1912
Nov 7th - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Dec 12th - R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in NYC
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 89 of 89
Jan 2nd - Barbara Pentland, Winnipeg Canada, composer
Jan 7th - Günter Wand,
German conductor, composer (d. 2002)
Jan 8th - Rudolf G Escher,
Dutch composer (True Face of Peace)
Jan 17th - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov,
composer
Feb 2nd - Burton Lane,
Broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
Feb 4th - Erich Leinsdorf,
Vienna Austria, available conductor & banana eater
Feb 5th - Zoltan Pongracz,
composer
Feb 11th - Rudolf Firkusny,
Napajedla Czechoslovakia, pianist (Julliard)
Feb 16th - Machito "Frank Grillo",
Florida, bandleader (created salsa music)
Feb 19th - Stan Kenton,
[Newcomb], Wichita Ks, jazz musician (Music 55)
Feb 19th - Saul Chaplin, American composer (d. 1997)
Feb 21st - Nikita Magaloff,
Russian/Swiss pianist (Arkadia 598-Schubert)
Mar 11th - Xavier Montsalvatge,
Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
Mar 12th - Paul Weston,
Springfield Mass, orchestra leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
Mar 13th - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
Mar 14th - Les Brown,
Reinerton Pa, American bandleader (d. 2001)
Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (Mar 15th)
Mar 15th - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins,
Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
Mar 19th - Russ Case,
Hamburg Iowa, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
Mar 27th - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
Apr 10th - Martin Denny,
rocker/actor (Forbidden Island)
Apr 12th - Herbert Mills,
singer, (Mills Brothers)
Apr 14th - Belinda Quirey,
dance historian/teacher
Apr 14th - Piet van Egmond, Dutch organist/conductor (Neth Chamber Orch)
Apr 22nd - Gavalda Miguel Querol,
composer
May 1st - Anna Pollak,
mezzo-soprano
May 1st - Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer
May 3rd - Virgil Fox,
American organist (d. 1980)
May 4th - Lou Brown,
Bkln, orchestra leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
May 12th - Marshall Royal,
jazz sax/clarinet
May 13th - Gil Evans,
Canadian musician (d. 1988)
May 15th - Arthur Victor Berger,
NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
May 17th - Sandor Vegh,
violinist teacher conductor
May 18th - Perry Como,
[Pierino], Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show)
May 24th - Joan Hammond,
British operatic soprano
May 25th - Eddie Maxwell,
singer (Yes We Have No Bananas)
Jun 9th - Ingolf Dahl,
Hamburg Germany, composer (Andante & Arioso)
Jun 12th - Eddie Williams,
blues/Jazz Bassist
Jun 19th - Jerry Jerome,
Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music)
Jun 19th - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
Jun 28th - Sergiu Celibidache,
conductor
Jun 29th - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia,
Guadalajara Mexico, composer (Huapango)
Jun 30th - [J] Tibor de Machula,
Hungarian/Dutch cellist
Jul 7th - Tiny Alma,
[Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
Jul 8th - Jacques Stehman,
composer
Jul 14th - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie,
folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
Jul 16th - Ray Barr,
NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
Jul 27th - Igor Markevitch,
Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Le Paradis Perdu)
Jul 27th - Vernon Elliott, musician/composer
Aug 4th - David Raksin,
Phila Penns, composer (Modern Times)
Aug 10th - Herman Strategier,
Dutch organist/composer/conductor
Aug 23rd - Gene Kelly,
Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
Sep 5th - John Cage,
LA California, composer (Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O)
Sep 9th - Kurt Sanderling,
Arys Germany, conductor (E Berlin Symph 1960-77)
Sep 15th - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo,
composer
Sep 21st - György Sándor,
Hungarian pianist (d. 2005)
Sep 22nd - Alfred G Vanderbilt,
thoroughbred horse owner (Native Dancer)
Sep 30th - Kenny Baker,
radio singer/actor (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back)
Oct 3rd - Gabriel Julian,
original pianist of Bobby Byrne Orchestra, arranger for Glenn Miller and founder Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Ens
Oct 4th - Alfonso Letelier-Llonas,
composer
Oct 13th - Hugo David Weisgall,
Ivancice Moravia, composer (4 Impressions)
Oct 21st - Carlos Don Byas,
US jazz saxophonist
Oct 21st - Georg Solti, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Fidelio)
Oct 27th - Conlon Nancarrow,
Texarkana Arkansas, composer (Soundings 4)
Nov 2nd - Jouko Paavo Kalervo Tolonen,
composer
Nov 4th - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov,
composer
Nov 8th - Jean-Louis Martinet,
composer
Nov 21st - Eleanor Powell,
Springfield Mass, actress/tap dancer (Bdwy Melody)
Nov 24th - Theodore "Teddy" Wilson,
US jazz pianist/arranger
Nov 26th - Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold,
composer
Dec 1st - Terence Beckles,
pianist/teacher
Dec 25th - Leighton Noble,
singer/bandleader
Dec 25th - Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love)
Dec 25th - Werner Fussan, composer
Dec 29th - Peggy Glanville-Hicks,
Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 11 of 11
Apr 30th - František Kmoch,
Czech composer, dies at 63
May 26th - Jan Blockx,
Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies at 61
Aug 13th - Jules EF Massenet,
French opera composer (Werther, Manon), dies at 70
Aug 19th - Alfonse Hasselmans,
composer, dies at 67
Sep 1st - Samuel Coleridge Taylor,
African-British composer, dies at 37
Sep 30th - Mary Frances Allitsen,
composer, dies at 63
Oct 3rd - Guido Papini,
composer, dies at 65
Oct 8th - Wilhelm Kuhe,
composer, dies at 88
Oct 30th - Jan Karol Gali,
composer, dies at 56
Nov 6th - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko,
composer, dies at 70
Nov 11th - Joseph Wieniawski,
composer, dies at 75
