This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1910.

Specific locations

• 1910 in Norwegian music

Specific genres

• 1910 in jazz

Events

• February 19 - English premiere of Richard Strauss's opera Elektra, Thomas Beecham conducting at the first-ever performance of a Strauss opera in the UK at the Royal Opera House, London
• March 19 – Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest
• June 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris
• September 12 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand, is premiered in Munich under his baton.
• October – Pietro Mascagni and Giacomo Puccini make up after their 1905 quarrel
• November – John Lomax's pioneering collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is published by Sturgis and Walton in the United States with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
• November 7 – The musical comedy, Naughty Marietta, with music by Victor Herbert, is first performed on Broadway
• November 10 – Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto, with Fritz Kreisler playing the solo part
• Mary Garden begins her 20-year reign as soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera

Published popular music

• "Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life" w. Rita Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert. From the operetta Naughty Marietta
• "Alexander and His Clarinet" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
• "All Aboard For Blanket Bay" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "All That I Ask Of You Is Love" w. Edgar Selden m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Angels" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me" w. Thomas J. Gray m. Fred Fisher
• "Back To My Old Home Town" w.m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
• "A Banjo Song" by Howard Weeden
• "The Big Bass Viol" w.m. M. T. Bohannon
• "The Birth of Passion" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna. From the musical Madame Sherry.
• "Bring Back My Lena To Me" w.m. Irving Berlin & David Andrew Noll
• "By The Saskatchewan" w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll
• "Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Caprice Viennois" m. Fritz Kreisler
• "The Chanticleer Rag" w. Edward Madden m. Albert Gumble
• "The Chicken Reel" m. Joseph M. Daly
• "Chinatown, My Chinatown" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
• "Cloud-Chief" m. J. Ernest Philie.
• "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
• "Come To The Ball" w. Adrian Ross m. Lionel Monckton
• "Constantly" w. Chris Smith m. James Henry Burris
• "The Convict And The Bird" w.m. T. W. Connor
• "Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
• "Dear Mayme, I Love You!" Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder
• "Doctor Tinkle Tinker" by Otto Harbach
• "Don't Wake Me Up, I'm Dreaming" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Down By The Old Mill Stream" w.m. Tell Taylor
• "Dream of a Miner's Child" ("Don't Go down in the Mine, Dad") w. Robert Donnely, Will Geddes
• "Dreams, Just Dreams" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "Every Little Movement" w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna
• "Gee But It's Great To Meet A Friend From Your Old Home Town" w. William Tracey m. James Mc Gavisk
• "Goodbye Rose" w. Addison Burkhart m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Grizzly Bear" w.m. George Botsford & Irving Berlin
• "Hennessy" w.m. T.W. Connor w.m. Herman E. Darewski Jr.
• "Herman Let's Dance That Beautiful Waltz" Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "How Can You Love Such A Man?" Irving Berlin
• "I Feel So Lonely" w.m. Bert Lee. Introduced by Fred Allandale in the musical The Islander (musical)
• "I'd Love To Live In Loveland" w.m. W. R. Williams (Rossiter)
• "If He Comes In I'm Going Out" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith
• "If I Was A Millionaire" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "I'm Falling In Love With Someone" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
• "I'm Henery the Eighth" w.m. Fred Murray & R. P. Weston
• "In The Shadows" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Herman Finck
• "Is There Anything Else I Can Do For You?" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "Italian Street Song" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
• "I've Got The Time I've Got The Place But It's Hard To Find The Girl" w. Ballard MacDonald m. S. R. Henry
• "Joshua" w.m George Arthurs & Bert Lee
• "Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
• "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" w. Beth Slater Whitson m. Leo Friedman
• "Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland" w.m. Elizabeth Brice & Charles King
• "Liebesfreud" m. Fritz Kreisler
• "Liebeslied" m. Fritz Kreisler
• "Life Is Only What You Make It After All" w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "Macushla" w. Josephine V. Rowe m. Dermot MacMurrough

• "Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes" w. J. W. Johnson m. Bob Cole
• "Morning" w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Oley Speaks
• "Mother Machree" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Ernest R. Ball & Chauncey Olcott
• "'Neath The Southern Moon" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert. From the operetta Naughty Marietta.
• "Nora Malone" w. Junie McCree m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Oh How That German Could Love" w.m. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder
• "Oh That Beautiful Rag" w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder
• "On Mobile Bay" w. Earl C. Jones m. Neil Moret
• "A Perfect Day" w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
• "Plant A Watermelon On My Grave And Let The Juice Soak Through" w.m. Frank Dumont & R. P. Lilly
• "Play That Barbershop Chord" w. Ballard MacDonald & William Tracey m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Put On Your Ta-Ta Little Girlie" w.m. Fred Leigh
• "Put Your Arms Around Me Honey" w. Junie McCree m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Red Pepper: A Spicy Rag" m. Henry Lodge
• "Silver Bell" w. Edward Madden m. Percy Wenrich
• "Silver Star" m. Charles L. Johnson
• "Some Of These Days" w.m. Shelton Brooks

• "Spaghetti Rag" m. George Lyons & Bob Yosco
• "Steamboat Bill" w. Ren Shields m. Bert Leighton & Frank Leighton
• "Stein Song (Maine)" w. Lincoln Colcord m. E. A. Fenstad^[1]
• "Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over And Love Me Some More)" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Sweet Italian Love" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Tambourin Chinois" m. Fritz Kreisler
• "Telling Lies" Irving Berlin, Henrietta Blanke-Belcher
• "That Minor Strain" w. Cecil Mack m. Ford Dabney
• "That Opera Rag" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "That's Why They Call Me "Shine"" w. Cecil Mack m. Ford Dabney
• "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Victor Herbert
• "Two Little Love Bees" w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m. Heinrich Reinhardt
• "Under The Yum Yum Tree" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Vissi D'Arte" Giacossa, Illica, Puccini
• "Washington And Lee Swing" w. Thornton W. Allen & C. A. Robbins m. Thornton W. Allen & M. W. Sheafe
• "What's The Matter With Father?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Who Are You With Tonight?" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "You Are The Ideal Of My Dreams" w.m. Herbert Ingraham

Hit recordings

• "Come Josephine In My Flying Machine" – Blanche Ring

Classical music

• Alban Berg - String Quartet, Op. 3
• Rutland Boughton – Five Celtic Songs
• Claude Debussy - Préludes (book 1 begun in 1910)
• Edward Elgar -
  • Violin Concerto, Op. 61
  • Romance for bassoon, Op. 62
• Victor Ewald – Symphony for Brass
• Gabriel Fauré – 9 Préludes, Op. 103 [fr] (completed in this year)
• Charles Ives - Symphony No. 3 (1908-1910)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 9
• Erkki Melartin – String Quartet No. 4
• Nikolai Myaskovsky –
  • Symphonic poem Silence
  • String Quartet No. 3 (original version)
• Carl Nielsen –
  • At the Bier of a Young Artist (orchestral work for funeral)
  • Paaske-Liljen (choral work)
  • Sinfonia espansiva, Op. 27 / FS 60 (begun, concluded 1911)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
  • 13 Preludes, Op. 32
• Arnold Schoenberg – Five Pieces for Orchestra
• Alexander Scriabin – Prometheus, "The Poem of Fire"
• Jean Sibelius - In Memoriam, Op. 59 (completed)
• Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (first version)
  • Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony")
• Anton Webern – Four Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 7 [fr]

Incidental music

• Carl Nielsen - Hagbarth og Signe

Opera

• Gialdino Gialdini – La Bufera premiered November 26 at the Politeama Ciscutti, Pola
• Jules Massenet – Don Quichotte premiered February 19 in Monte Carlo, starring Feodor Chaliapin
• Giacomo Puccini – La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West), libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, first performed in at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City
• Alexander Zemlinsky – Kleider machen Leute

Ballet

• June 25 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet, The Firebird, is premiered in Paris

Musical theatre

"How can they tell that I'm Irish?"

A 1910 Edison Records recording of vaudeville performer Edward M. Favor's rendition of C. W. Murphy's song

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• The Balkan Princess London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on February 19 and ran for 176 performances
• The Chocolate Soldier (Rudolf Friml) – London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on September 10 and ran for 500 performances
• The Islander London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on April 23 and ran for 114 performances
• The Jolly Bachelors Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 6 and ran for 165 performances
• Die keusche Susanne (m. Jean Gilbert) opened in Magdeburg
• Madame Sherry Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on August 30 and ran for 231 performances
• Naughty Marietta (Rida Johnson Young and Victor Herbert) – Broadway production opened at the New York Theatre on November 7 and ran for 136 performances
• Our Miss Gibbs Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 29 and ran for 64 performances
• The Quaker Girl (Music: Lionel Monckton Lyrics: Adrian Ross & Percy Greenbank Book: James T. Tanner). London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on November 5 and ran for 536 performances. Starring Gertie Millar, Joseph Coyne and C. Hayden Coffin.
• The Satyr London production
• Tillie's Nightmare Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 5 and was revived at the Manhattan Opera House on December 18, 1911, for a total run of 85 performances
• Up and Down Broadway Broadway revue opened at the Casino Theatre on July 18 and ran for 72 performances
• The Yankee Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 10 and ran for 92 performances
• Zigeunerliebe Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on January 8

Births

• January 1 – Koesbini, Indonesian composer (d. 1991)
• January 8 – Fabian Andre, composer (d. 1960)
• January 17 – Sid Catlett, American jazz drummer (d. 1951)
• January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Romani-French guitarist (d. 1953)
• February 3 – Blas Galindo Dimas, Mexican composer (d. 1993?)
• February 25 – Winifred Shaw, US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1982)
• March 9 – Samuel Barber, composer (d. 1981)
• March 11 – Nicola Salerno, Italian lyricist (d. 1969)
• March 15 – Anna-Lisa Björling, operatic soprano (d. 2006)
• March 25 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (d. 2014)^[2]
• March 27 – Manfred Bukofzer, German-American musicologist (d. 1955)
• April 14 – Werner Wolf Glaser, Swiss composer (d. 2006)
• April 26 – Erland von Koch, Swedish composer (d. 2009)
• April 30 – Levi Celerio, songwriter (d. 2002)
• May 8 – Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist and composer (d. 1981)
• May 12
  • Gordon Jenkins, US songwriter, conductor and pianist (d. 1984)
  • Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
• May 13 – Cleavant Derricks, gospel songwriter (d. 1977)
• May 23
  • Artie Shaw, US bandleader (d. 2004)
  • Scatman Crothers, American actor, singer, dancer and musician (d. 1986)
• May 26 – Lola Gjoka, Albanian pianist (d. 1985)
• May 28 – T-Bone Walker, blues musician (d. 1975)
• June 4 – Anton Dermota, operatic tenor (d. 1989)
• June 10 – Howlin' Wolf, blues singer and musician (d. 1976)
• June 15 – Alf Pearson, British singer, part of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 2012)
• June 17 – H. Owen Reed, conductor and composer (d. 2014)
• June 18 – Ray McKinley, US drummer, singer and bandleader (d. 1995)
• June 22 – Anne Ziegler, English soprano (d. 2003)
• June 29 – Frank Loesser, US songwriter (d. 1969)
• July 10 – Rafael Cepeda, folk musician (d. 1996)
• July 15 – Ronald Binge, British composer (d.1973)
• July 18 – Lou Busch, US arranger and composer a.k.a. Joe "Fingers" Carr (died 1979)
• August 1 – Walter Scharf, film composer (died 2003)
• August 7 – Freddie Slack, US pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 1965)
• August 12 – Heinrich Sutermeister, Swiss composer (d. 1995)
• August 17 – Erkki Aaltonen, composer (d. 1990)
• August 24 – Tunde King, Nigerian singer and instrumentalist, originator of Jùjú music (d. c.1980)
• August 25 – Ethel Stark, violinist and composer (d. 2012)
• September 3 – Kitty Carlisle, US actress and singer (d. 2007)
• September 12 – Shep Fields, bandleader (d. 1981)
• September 29 – Virginia Bruce, actress and singer (d. 1982)
• October 1 – André Dumortier, pianist (d. 2004)
• October 13 – Otto Joachim, composer (d. 2010)
• December 4 – Alex North, film composer (d. 1991)
• December 7 – Louis Prima, musician, singer (d. 1978)
• December 10 – John H. Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)
• date unknown – Takahashi Chikuzan, Japanese musician and composer (d. 1998)

Deaths

• January 19 – Otakar Hostinský, musicologist (b. 1847)
• March 10 – Carl Reinecke, composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1824)
• March 17 – Joaquín Valverde Durán, flautist, conductor and composer (b. 1846)
• March 28 – Édouard Colonne, violinist and conductor (b. 1838)^[3]
• May 3 – Lottie Collins, singer and dancer (b. 1865)
• May 7 – Bernhard Cossmann, cellist (b. 1822)
• May 18
  • Pauline Viardot, mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
  • Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist (b. 1843)
• May 29 – Mily Balakirev, composer (b. 1837)
• June 6 – Concepció Bordalba, opera singer (b. 1866)
• July 4 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, pianist and composer (b. 1840)
• July 7 – Emilio Usiglio, conductor and composer (b. 1841)
• July 14 – Marius Petipa, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1818)
• August 31 – Emīls Dārziņš, composer, conductor and music critic (b. 1875) (probable suicide)
• September 5
  • Julian Edwards, composer (b. 1855)
  • Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (b. 1840)
• September 24 – Rudolf Dellinger, composer (b. 1857)
• October 14 – Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (b. 1826)
• October 17 – Julia Ward Howe, lyricist of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (b. 1819)
• November 25 – John Henry Martin, Band instrument manufacturer (b. 1835)
• date unknown – Albert Schatz, composer and librettist (b. 1839)