1912 In Music

Events

• February 28 - In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 3 (the Sinfonia espansiva) and his Violin Concerto
• June 26 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter
• 16 October - Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire debuted in Vienna
• W.C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues", one of the first blues songs to become a hit.
• Aino Ackt founds an opera festival in Savonlinna; after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland

Published popular music

• "After All That I've Been To You" w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith
• "Alexander's Bag-Pipe Band" w.m. Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane
• "All Night Long" w.m. Shelton Brooks
• "And The Green Grass Grew All Around" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "At The Devil's Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Bagdad" w. Anne Caldwell m. Victor Herbert
• "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall
• "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith
• "Becky's Got A Job In A Musical Show" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Come Back To Me, My Melody" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Come Back To Playland With Me" w.m. Maude Lambert
• "Cuddle Up And Cling To Me" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry L. Marshall
• "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
• " A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates
• "Do It Again" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Down In Dear Old New Orleans" w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden
• "Dreams Of Long Ago" w. Earl Carroll m. Enrico Caruso right
• "The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Everybody Loves A Chicken" w.m. Bobby Jones
• "Everybody Two-Step" w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer
• "Florida Rag" V. Lowry
• "The Funny Little Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Giannina Mia" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Goodnight, Nurse" w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker
• "He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee" w.m.Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin
• "Hitchy-Koo" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
• "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "In My Harem" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "In The Garden" w.m. C. Austin Miles
• "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" w.m. Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams
• "Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Kentucky Sue" by Lew Brown
• "The Land Of Golden Dreams" w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry
• "Last Night Was The End Of The World" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "The Last Shot Got Him" w.m. Cecil Mack & Cecil Smith
• "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Irving Berlin from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels'
• "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu
• "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes
• "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. William Christopher Handy
• "The Million Dollar Ball" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz
• "My Melancholy Baby" w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett
• "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards

• "On The Mississippi" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll & Arthur Fields
• "Parisienne" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Pick, Pick, Pick Pick On The Mandolin, Antonio" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Ragging The Baby To Sleep" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" w. Grant Clarke m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams
• "The Ragtime Drummer" James I. Lent
• "The Ragtime Jockey Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Ragtime Mocking Bird" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Ragtime Soldier Man" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Roll Dem Roly Boly Eyes" w.m. Eddie Leonard
• "The Rose Of Tralee" w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover
• "Row Row Row" w. William Jerome m. James V. Monaco
• "She Pushed Me Into The Parlour" w. Alf Ellerton m. Will Mayne
• "Slippery Elm Rag" m. Clarence Woods
• "Sly Musette" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
• "The Society Bear" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Some Boy" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper
• "Somebody's Coming To Town From Dixie" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Henry Clay Smith
• "The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" w. Byron D. Stokes m. F. Dudleigh Vernor
• "Sympathy" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml
• "Take A Little Tip From Father" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder
• "Take Me Back" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "Take Me To That Swanee Shore" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
• "Take Me To The Cabaret" w.m. Will Dillon
• "Teasing Moon" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry Marshall
• "That Dixie Dip Rag" m. Dippy Dip
• "That Eccentric Rag" m. J. Russel Robinson
• "That Kentucky Rag" w. Boyle Woolfolk m. Hampton Durand
• "That Old Girl Of Mine" w. Earle C. Jones m. Egbert van Alstyne
• "That Syncopated Boogie Boo" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
• "That's How I Need You" w. Joe McCarthy & Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi
• "There's One In A Million Like You" w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz
• "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir
• "'Way Down South" w.m. George Fairman
• "The Wedding Glide" w.m. Louis Hirsch
• "A Wee Hoose 'Mang The Heather" w.m Gilbert Wells, Fred Elton & Harry Lauder
• "When I Get You Alone Tonight" w.m. Joseph McCarthy, Joe Goodwin & Fred Fisher
• "When I Lost You" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" w. Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
• "When It's Apple Blossom Time In Normandy" w.m Harry Gifford, Huntley Trevor & Tom Mellor
• "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo" w.m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Yiddisha Professor" w.m. Irving Berlin
• "You're My Baby" w. A Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer

Popular Recordings

• "The Herd Girl's Dream" by George Stehl, Marshall P. Lufsky, & Paul Surth, Columbia
• "Everybody Two Step" by Billy Murray, Edison
• "Roamin' in the Gloamin'" by Harry Lauder, Victor

Classical music

• Ferruccio Busoni - Sonatina no. 2
• Claude Debussy - Khamma (ballet)
• Paul Dukas - La Peri (ballet)
• Victor Ewald - Quintet for Brass No. 1
• Alexander Glazunov - Finnish Sketches
• Cyril Scott - Two Passacaglias
• Louis Vierne - Symphony for Organ no 3 in F minor

Opera

• Richard Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos

Musical theater

• The Count Of Luxembourg Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 120 performances.
• The Firefly, Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2 and ran for 120 performances
• Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway Broadway revival opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on March 14 and ran for 36 performances.
• Gypsy Love London production opened at Daly's Theatre on June 1 and ran for 299 performances.
• Hullo, Ragtime Opened at the London Hippodrome on December 23 and ran for 451 performances.
• Der Lila Domino (The Lilac Domino) - Vienna production
• Oh! Oh! Delphine! Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30 and ran for 248 performances
• The Pink Lady London production opened at the Globe Theatre on April 11 and ran for 124 performances
• Wall Street Girl Broadway production opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on April 15 and ran for 56 performances
• The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1912, Broadway revue opened at the Moulin Rouge Theatre on October 21 and ran for 88 performances

Births

• February 2 - Burton Lane, US composer
• March 11 - Xavier Montsalvatge, composer
• March 14 - Les Brown, US bandleader
• March 15 - Lightnin' Hopkins
• April 2 - Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers singing quartet
• April 22 - Kathleen Ferrier
• May 18 - Perry Como
• July 14 - Woody Guthrie
• July 27 - Igor Markevitch, composer
• August 9 - Anne Brown, US soprano, first Bess in Porgy and Bess, 1935
• September 5 - John Cage
• September 19 - Kurt Sanderling, conductor
• October 21 - Sir Georg Solti
• October 27 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer
• December 25 - Natalino Otto, Italian singer

Deaths

• September 1 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor
• November 11 - Joseph Wieniawski, composer

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