1905 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.
Events
Published popular music
- "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
- "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
- "Bandana Land" by Glen MacDonough
- "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
- "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
- "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
- "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
- "College Life" m. Hery Frantzen
- "Come Clean" by Paul Sarebresole
- "Daddy's Little Girl" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
- "Dearie" w.m. Clare Kummer
- "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John A. Heinzman & Otto Milton Heinzman (1873–1943)
- "Everybody Works But Father" w.m. Jean Havez
- "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
- "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical of the same name.
- "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
- "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
- "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
- "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
- "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" Jean Schwartz
- "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
- "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer
- "Happy Heine" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
- "He's Me Pal" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
- "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
- "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska m. Jerome Kern
- "I Don't Care" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
- "I Love A Lassie" w. Harry Lauder & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder
- "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
- "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
- "I Thought It Was My Birthday Come" w.m. T.W. Connor
- "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
- "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" w.m. Fred Fisher
- "I'm Getting Sleepy" w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander
- "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
- "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
- "In Dear Old Georgia" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
- "In My Merry Oldsmobile" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
- "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
- "The Irish Girl I Love" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
- "Is Everybody Happy ?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
- "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
- "It's Allus De Same In Dixie" Cook
- "I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" Farrell, Silver
- "I've Sweethearts In Every Port" Keith
- "Jolly Pickaninnies" m. Ernst Rueffe
- "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
- "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
- "Kiss Me Again" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
- "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
- "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
- "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. George M. Cohan. From the musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway.
- "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" Brady, Johnston, Frantzen
- "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "Moonlight" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
- "My Dusky Rose" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
- "My Gal Sal" w.m. Paul Dresser
- "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
- "My Irish Molly O" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
- "Nellie Dean" Henry W. Armstrong
- "Nobody" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert A. Williams
- "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
- "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
- "One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" w. William Cahill m. Theodore F. Morse
- "Paddy's Day" Fogarty, Mullen
- "Parade Of The Tin Soldiers" later known as "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers" m. Leon Jessel
- "Peaches And Cream" m. Percy Wenrich
- "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "Pretty Desdamone" w.m. F. Collins Wildman
- "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
- "Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry H. Williams m. Jean Schwartz
- "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
- "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
Recorded popular music
Classical music
Births
- January 2 – Michael Tippett, composer (d. 1998)
- January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988)
- January 12 – Tex Ritter, actor, singer (d. 1974)
- January 24 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
- January 26 – Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
- February 11 – William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)
- February 15 – Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986)
- March 6 – Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
- March 11 – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
- March 15 – Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen (d. 1987)
- March 23 – Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
- May 2 – Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
- May 8 – Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist
- May 10 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
- June 13 – Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
- June 18 – Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
- July 10 – Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer (d. 1949)
- July 15 – Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974)
- August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
- August 8 – André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)
- August 23 – Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
- August 29 – Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)
- October 4 – Léon Orthel, composer and pianist (d. 1985)
- November 7 – William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985)
- November 15 – Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
- November 19 – Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)
- November 21 – Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
- November 24 – Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist (d. 1962)
- December 8 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, German (later East German) musicologist, composer (d. 1988)
- December 31 – Jule Styne, composer (d. 1994)
Deaths
- January 4 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
- January 10 – Kārlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
- February 12 – Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)
- March 15 – Luigi Manzotti, choreographer (b. 1835)
- April 12 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (b. 1833)
- April 29 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (b. 1847)
- May 5 – Ernst Pauer, pianist (b. 1826)
- May 13 – Sam S. Shubert, Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
- May 14 – Jessie Bartlett Davis, operatic contralto (b. 1859)
- May 15 – Andrey Schulz-Evler, composer and arranger (b. 1852)
- May 31 – Franz Strauss, musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss (b. 1822)
- July 8 – Walter Kittredge, self-taught musician (b. 1834)
- August 31 – Francesco Tamagno, operatic tenor (b. 1850)
- September 22 – Célestine Marié, mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1840)
- October 18 – Emmie Owen, opera singer (b. 1871)
- [date unknown] – Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)