Overview of the events of 1903 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1903.
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Events
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
"Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris ) – Byron G. Harlan on Edison Records
"Any Rags?" (w.m. Thomas S. Allen ) – Arthur Collins on Edison
"The Arrow And The Song" (w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Michael William Balfe ) – Herbert Goddard on Victor Records
"Badinage" (m. Victor Herbert ) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"Bedelia" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz ) – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records – Edward M. Favor on Columbia – Billy Murray on Edison
"The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" (w.m. Dan McAvoy) – Edward M. Favor on Edison – Dan W. Quinn on Victor
"Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann ) – banjos Vess L. Ossman & Bill Farmer on Victor
"Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann) – Kendle's Band on Victor
"By The Sycamore Tree" (w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann ) – Harry Macdonough on Edison – Bob Roberts on Columbia – Billy Murray on Victor
"Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" (w. Robert B. Smith m. John Stromberg ) – Mina Hickman on Victor
"Congo Love Song" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson ) – Harry Macdonough on Edison – Mina Hickman on Victor
"Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown?" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards ) – Harry Macdonough on Victor
"The Country Girl" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards ) – Vesta Victoria on Gramophone Records
"Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
"Down On The Farm" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Harry Von Tilzer ) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
"Flowers Of Dixieland" (w. Edgar Smith m. J. Rosamond Johnson) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
"The Gambling Man(1)" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Silas Leachman on Victor
"Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Arthur Collins on Edison
"Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
"He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" (w. Arthur L. Robb m. John Walter Bratton ) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
"He Was A Sailor" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Collins & Harlan on Edison
"Heidelberg Stein Song" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) – Harry Macdonough on Edison & Victor
"Hiawatha " (w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison – Harry Macdonough on Edison – Metropolitan Orchestra on Victor – Sousa's Band on Victor
"Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse) – Collins & Harlan on Edison – Dan W. Quinn on Victor
"I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen) – Harry West on Edison
"I Like You, Lil, For Fair" (Ade, Loraine) – Billy Murray on Victor
"I Never Could Love Like That" (Bowman, Johns) – Billy Murray on Victor
"I Want To Be A Lidy" (w. George Dance m. George Dee) – Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
"I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" (w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome) – Arthur Collins on Victor & Edison
"I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford) – John H. Bieling & Harry Macdonough on Victor
"I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers) – Dan W. Quinn on Victor – Arthur Collins on Edison & Victor
"I'm Thinking Of You All The While" (Reed Jnr) – Billy Murray on Victor
"I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) – Harry Macdonough & John H. Bieling on Victor
"In Silence" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane ) – Arthur Clifford on Edison
"In The City Of Sighs And Tears" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills) – J. W. Myers on Victor
"In the Good Old Summer Time " (w. Ren Shields m. George "Honey Boy" Evans ) – Haydn Quartet on Victor – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough with Sousa's Band on Victor – Harry Macdonough on Victor
"In The Sweet Bye And Bye" (w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer) – J. Aldrich Libbey on Edison
"In The Village By The Sea" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Stanley Crawford ) – Byron G. Harlan on Edison
"It Takes The Irish To Beat The Dutch" (w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse ) – Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
"It Was The Dutch" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen) – Collins & Harlan on Edison
"Juanita" (w. Caroline Norton m. trad Sp.) – Haydn Quartette on Victor
"Julie" (w. Wiliam Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
"Just For Tonight(1)" (w.m. Frank O. French) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison
"The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" (w. Robert B. Smith m. Melville Ellis) – Clarke's Band of Providence on Victor
"Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" (w. Arthur Lamb m. Kerry Mills) – Joe Natus on Victor
"The Maid Of Timbucktoo" (w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
"Massa's In De Cold Ground" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster ) – Edison Male Quartette on Edison
"Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer) – William H. Thompson (singer) on Victor
"Melody Of Love" (w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann) – Edison Symphony Orchestra on Edison
"The Message Of The Rose" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Leo Edwards ) – George Seymour Lenox on Edison
"The Message Of The Violet" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) – J. W. Myers on Victor
"Mighty Lak' A Rose " (w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Ethelbert Nevin ) – Arthur Clifford on Edison
"Moriaty" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Fred V. Bowers) – Collins & Harlan on Edison
"My Cosy Corner Girl" (w. Charles Noel Douglas m. John Walter Bratton) – Henry Burr on Columbia – Harry Macdonough on Edison
"My Little Coney Isle" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer) – Harry Tally on Edison
"My Little 'Rang Outang" (Madden, Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor
"My Own United States" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards ) – J. W. Myers on Victor
"My Sulu Lulu Loo" (w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann) – Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
"Only A Dream Of A Golden Past" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
"Out Where The Breakers Roar" (w. Harlow Hyde m. H. W. Petrie) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison
"Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards ) – Byron G. Harlan on Victor & Edison
"Pretty Little Dinah Jones" (w.m. J. B. Mullen) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
"R-E-M-O-R-S-E" (w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall) – Joe Natus on Victor
"Sal" (w.m. Paul Rubens ) – Madge Crichton with piano Landon Ronald on Gramophone & Typewriter Records
"Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
"Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson) – Henry Burr on Columbia
"Sly Musette" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
"Tell Me Dusky Maiden" (w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson) – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Victor
"Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life" (w.m. George M. Cohan ) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
"There's One In A Million Like You" (w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz) – Walter Van Brunt on Edison
"Two Eyes Of Blue" (w. George H. Taylor m. Leslie Stuart ) – Harry Macdonough on Victor – Mina Hickman on Victor
"Under The Bamboo Tree" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson) – Mina Hickman on Victor
"Up In A Coconut Tree" (Madden, Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
"Upper Broadway After Dark" (w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
"The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root ) – Byron G. Harlan on Edison
"Wait At The Gate For Me" (w. Ren Shields m. Theodore F. Morse ) – J. W. Myers on Victor
"What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) – Arthur Clifford on Edison
"When The Fields Are White With Cotton" (w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
"When We Were Two Little Boys" (w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor
Classical music
Births
January 4 – Carroll Gibbons , bandleader and composer (d. 1954)
January 22 – Robin Milford , English composer and educator (d. 1959)
February 6 – Claudio Arrau , pianist (d. 1991)
February 12 – Todd Duncan , American baritone, first Porgy in Porgy and Bess (d. 1998)
February 15 – Marie-Thérèse Gauley , French opera singer prominent at the Opéra-Comique (d. 1992)
March 10 – Bix Beiderbecke , jazz musician (d. 1931)
April 3 – Bubber Miley , jazz trumpeter (d. 1932)
April 21 – Issy Bonn , singer and actor (d. 1977)
May 3 – Bing Crosby , US singer and actor (d. 1977)
May 12 – Lennox Berkeley , composer (d. 1989)
May 26 – Bob Hope , English-born US actor, comedian and singer (d. 2003)
June 6 – Aram Khachaturian , composer (d. 1978)
June 18 – Jeanette MacDonald , US singer and actress (d. 1965)
June 26 – St. Louis Jimmy Oden , blues singer (d. 1977)
July 3 – Dick Robertson (singer) , US singer (d. 1944?)
July 10 – Helen Pickens of the Pickens Sisters US singing group
July 16 – Carmen Lombardo , Canadian singer, composer and saxophonist (d. 1971)
August 4 – Helen Kane , US singer (d. 1966)
August 20 – António Fortunato de Figueiredo , conductor (d. 1981)
September 15 – Roy Acuff , Country and Western singer (d. 1992)
October 1 (probable) – Vladimir Horowitz , pianist (d. 1989)
October 10 – Vladimir Dukelsky aka Vernon Duke , composer (d. 1969)
October 16
October 29 – Yvonne Georgi , ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1975)
December 5 – Johannes Heesters , all-round entertainer (d. 2011)
December 17 – Ray Noble , bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 1978)
date unknown – Caterina Jarboro , operatic soprano (d. 1986)
Deaths
January 28
January 31 – Meyer Lutz , conductor and composer, 73[3]
February 17 – Joseph Parry , organist and composer, 61[4]
February 22 – Hugo Wolf , Austrian composer, 62 (syphilis)[5]
February 23 – Friedrich Grützmacher , cellist, 70
March – Eugène Cormon , French librettist, 92
March 5 – Thomas Ryan , viola and clarinet player, 75[6]
March 19 – Pista Dankó , "gypsy" bandleader and composer, 44
April 10 – Heinrich Bellermann , music theorist, 71
May 1 – Luigi Arditi , violinist, conductor and composer, 80[7]
May 9 – Giuseppe Cremonini , operatic tenor, 36[8]
May 15 – Sibyl Sanderson , operatic soprano, 38 (pneumonia)[9]
June – Constance Bache , pianist, composer and music teacher, 57[10]
June 29 – Rentarō Taki , Japanese pianist and composer, 23 (tuberculosis)
July 27 – Lina Sandell , Swedish poet and hymn-writer 70[11]
September 4 – Hermann Zumpe , conductor and composer, 53[12]
September 28 – Samuel A. Ward , organist and composer, 55
December 12 – Christian Johansson , ballet dancer and teacher, 86
December 20 – Kornél Ábrányi , pianist and composer, 81
References
^ Rollo Myers: "Augusta Holmès: A Meteoric Career", in: The Musical Quarterly 53 (1967) 3, pp. 365–76
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Planquette, Robert" . Encyclopædia Britannica . 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 725.
^ Gänzl, Kurt. "Lutz, (Wilhelm) Meyer (1829–1903)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004, Retrieved on 8 July 2008
^ "Death of Dr. Joseph Parry" . The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard. 20 February 1903. p. 6. Retrieved 31 May 2016 .
^ Sams, Eric and Susan Youens , 'Hugo Wolf', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy, (subscription access)
^ Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy, ed. (1919). "Ryan, Thomas" . Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (3rd ed.). p. 798.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arditi, Luigi" . Encyclopædia Britannica . 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 451.
^ Leo Riemens (1969). A concise biographical dictionary of singers; from the beginning of recorded sound to the present . Chilton Book Co .
^ Sibyl Sanderson Dead: Singer Passes Away in Paris, New York Times, May 16, 1903.
^ Who Was Who 1897-1916 gives her date of death as June 30; the Musical Times obituary gives June 28
^ Scandinavian Hymnody ccel.org . Retrieved: 8 May 2013
^ Fuller Maitland, J. A. (1910). "Zumpe, Hermann". Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians . V (second ed.). New York: Macmillan and Co. OCLC 5000207 .