1907 in music

See also: 1906 in music, other events of 1907, 1908 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• February 21 - Frederick Delius's opera A Village Romeo and Juliet is premiered in Berlin
• General Porfirio Díaz legendarily orders a mariachi band to wear upper-class clothing (a charro suit) when they played for the visiting United States Secretary of State Elihu Root; this is the beginning of modern mariachi, as well as the traditional dress of future mariachi stars.
• Publication of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni

Published popular music

• "All She Gets from The Iceman Is Ice" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "And A Little Bit More" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
• "Ballooning" w. Paul West m. Jerome Kern
• "The Bandolero" w. m. Leslie Stuart
• "Be My Little Teddy Bear" w. Vincent Bryan m. Max Hoffman
• "Because I'm Married Now" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Bon Bon Buddy" by Alex Rogers
• "Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain" w.m. Arthur Longbrake
• "Budweiser's A Friend Of Mine" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Seymour Furth
• "Bye Bye Dearie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Caissons Go Rolling Along" m. Edmund L. Gruber
• "Come Along, My Mandy" w.m. Tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence & Harry Gifford New words Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth 1910
• "Common Sense" w.m. Chris Smith & John Larkins
• "Don't Worry" w.m. Ed Rose & Ted Snyder
• "Down Home Shout" Herman Carle
• "Fairy Queen" m. Percy Wenrich
• "Fishing For the Moon" David Kilburn Stevens
• "Gladiolus Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "Golden Rod" McKinley
• "The Handsome, Brave Life Saver" Gumble
• "Harrigan" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "He Goes To Church On Sunday" w. Vincent Bryan m. E. Ray Goetz
• "The Homesick Yankee" Clark
• "Honey Boy" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "The Honeybee's Honeymoon" Reed
• "I Love You So" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "I Wish I Had A Girl" w. Gus Kahn m. Grace Leboy Kahn
• "I'd Rather Be A Lobster Than A Wise Guy" Morse
• "I'd Rather Two-Step Than Waltz, Bill" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "I'm Afraid To Come Home In The Dark" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "I'm Happy When The Band Plays Dixie" Vandeveer
• "I'm Tying The Leaves So They Won't Come Down" w. E. S. S. Huntingdon m. J. Fred Helf
• "In A Hammock Built For Two" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "In The Land Of The Buffalo" Williams, Van Alstyne
• "In The Wildwood Where The Bluebells Grow" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
• "In Washington" w. Vincent Bryan m. Gertrude Hoffmann
• "It's Delightful To Be Married" w. Anna Held m. Vincent Scotto
• "It's Great To Be A Soldier Man" Morse
• "It's Nice To Have A Sweetheart" Kerker
• "I've Told His Missus All About Him" Tate
• "Just Because He Couldn't Sing "Love Me And The World Is Mine"" w.m. Bert Fitzgibbon
• "Kansas City Rag" by James Scott
• "Keep On Smiling" Paley
• "The Last Rose Of Summer Is The Sweetest Rose Of All" w. Arthur Gillespie m. Harry Sidney
• "Lucia" Klein
• "A Man Without A Woman" Rogers
• "Marie From Sunny Italy" w. Irving Berlin m. M. Nicholson
• "Mariutch Down At Coney Island" (aka "Mariutch Dance Da Hootch-A-Ma-Kootch") w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
• "(You'll Find Me At) Maxim's" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "Meet Me Down At The Corner" w. Will D. Cobb m. Harry Hoyt
• "(The Best I Get Is) Much Obliged To You" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "'Neath The Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle" w. C. M. Denison m. J. Fred Helf
• "'Neath The Old Cherry Tree, Sweet Marie" w.m. Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne
• "Nestle By My Side" Luders
• "No Wedding Bells For Me" w. E. P. Moran & Will A. Heelan m. Seymour Furth
• "No, No, Positively No" w.m. Chris Smith & Harry Brown
• "No-One Knows" w.m. Francis Mack
• "Not For Me" w.m. Bessie Wynn
• "On The Road To Mandalay" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Oley Speaks
• "The Peach That Tastes The Sweetest Hangs The Highest On The Tree" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "The Pride Of The Prairie" w. Harry Breen m. George Botsford
• "Put Me Among The Girls" w. C. W. Murphy m. Dan Lipton

• "Rain-in-the-Face" Burt
• "Red Wing" w. Thurland Chattaway m. Kerry Mills
• "Rum-Tiddley-Um-Tum-Tay Out For The Day Today" w. Fred Leigh m. Orlando Powell
• "San Antonio" w.m. Harry Williams & Egbert van Alstyne
• "Sandy, You're A Dandy" w.m. Hector Grant
• "Search Light Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "She's A Lassie From Lancashire" Murphy, Lipton, Neat
• "Sleepy Sidney" by Archie W Scheu
• "Smile, Smile, Smile" Hoffman
• "Somebody's Been Around Here Since I've Been Gone" Bratton
• "Somebody's Waiting For You" w. Vincent Bryan m. Albert Gumble
• "Take Me Back To New York Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Take Me Where There's A Big Brass Band" Morse
• "The Teddy Bears' Picnic" w. James B. Kennedy m. John W. Bratton Words 1932.
• "That Lovin' Rag" w. Victor H. Smalley m. Bernie Adler
• "Theodore" w.m. Vincent Bryan
• "There Never Was A Girl Like You" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Tipperary" w. Leo Curley m. James M. Fulton & J. Fred Helf
• "Tommy, Lad!" w. Edward Teschemacher m. E. J. Margetson
• "Two Blue Eyes" by Edward Madden
• "Two Little Baby Shoes" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Under Any Old Flag At All" Cohan
• "Vilia" w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár
• "Wal, I Swan!" (aka "Ebeneezer Frye") w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "'Way Down In Colon Town" Hoffman
• "When A Fellow's On The Level With A Girl That's On The Square" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Talk Of New York
• "Who? Me?" Snyder
• "Won't You Be My Honey?" Morse
• "Won't You Waltz Home Sweet Home With Me" w.m. Herbert Ingraham
• "Wouldn't You Like To Have Me For A Sweetheart?" Robyn
• "You Splash Me And I'll Splash You" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman

Classical music

• Frederick Delius - Songs of Sunset; Brigg Fair
• Edward Elgar - The Wand of Youth
• Gustav Holst - A Somerset Rhapsody
• Ottorino Respighi - Quartet for Strings in D major
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Le Coq d'Or
• Charles Villiers Stanford - Stabat Mater

Opera

• Luigi Mancinelli - Paolo e Francesca

Musical theater

• Die Dollarprinzessin Vienna production
• Follies Of 1907 Broadway production
• The Gay White Way Broadway production
• The Girls Of Gottenberg London production
• Franz Lehár - The Merry Widow London and Broadway productions
• Miss Hook Of Holland London and Broadway productions
• Nelly Neil London production
• The Orchid Broadway production
• The Rogers Brothers In Panama Broadway production
• The Talk Of New York Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 3 and ran for 157 performances.
• Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream) Vienna production
• Ein Walzertraum Berlin production

Births

• February 1 - Günter Eich, lyricist (d. 1972)
• February 27 - Mildred Bailey, singer
• March 3 - Joy Finzi, widow of Gerald Finzi and founder of the Finzi Trust
• March 11 - Jessie Matthews, actress and singer
• March 14 - Tolibjon Sadikov, composer
• March 15 - Zarah Leander, singer and actress
• March 19 - Elizabeth Maconchy, composer
• April 12 - Imogen Holst, conductor and composer
• April 18 - Miklós Rózsa, film composer
• April 21 - Beatrice Kay
• April 29 - Peggy English
• April 29 - Tino Rossi, singer
• May 1 - Kate Smith, US singer
• May 1 - Ralph Freed, US lyricist
• May 14 - Edythe Wright, US singer
• May 18 - Clifford Curzon, pianist
• August 8 - Benny Carter, US jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and bandleader
• September 29 - Gene Autry
• October 5 - Mrs. Miller, singer (d. 1997)
• November 18 - Compay Segundo, singer and songwriter, inventor of the armónico (d. 2003)
• December 7 - Wanda Toscanini (d. 1998)
• December 25 - Cab Calloway
• date unknown - N. Senada, composer and music theorist

Deaths

• June 4 - Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer
• August 15 - Joseph Joachim, violinist
• September 4 - Edvard Grieg, composer
• September 5 - Adolf Østbye, first Norwegian recording artist
• September 17 - Ignaz Brüll, pianist and composer