Music year 1909

◄◄ | ◄ | 1905 | 1906 | 1907 | 1908 | Music year 1909 | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | ► | ►►
Overview of the music years
Further events

Music year 1909
The 3rd piano concerto by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow is premiered.

Title page of Elektra's libretto , drawing by Lovis Corinth , 1909

Events

futurism

The futuristic manifesto in Le Figaro

February 20 : The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes his futuristic manifesto in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro , thereby founding futurism .

World premieres

ballet

Sergei Pavlovich Djagilew 1909, portrait of Valentin Alexandrovich Serov

May 19 : The Ballets Russes under the direction of Sergei Pavlovich Djagilew gives a guest performance in Paris. At the Théâtre du Châtelet, Polovetsian dances will be premiered, which has been removed as an independent ballet by Michel Fokine from Alexander Borodin's opera Fürst Igor .

Instrumental music

January 9th : The three-part piano piece Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel , inspired by Aloysius Bertrand 's short prose of the same name , is premiered by Ricardo Viñes in Paris.

November 28 : The New York Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Walter Damrosch performs the 3rd Piano Concerto by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow for the first time. The criticism is rather restrained, but the piece soon becomes very popular.

Opera

Ernestine Schumann-Heink 1909

January 25 : The symphony opera Elektra by Richard Strauss with the libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is successfully premiered by Ernst von Schuch at the Hofoper in Dresden . Ernestine Schumann-Heink sings the role of Klytämnestra.

February 3rd : The world premiere of the opera Il principe di Zilah by Franco Alfano takes place at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa.

April 1 : The opera fragment The Marriage (Orig .: Shenitba ) by Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgski based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol from 1868 is premiered at the Court Opera in Saint Petersburg.

May 2 : The opera Bacchus by Jules Massenet has its world premiere at the Grand Opéra Paris .

May 5th : The comic opera Robins Ende by Eduard Künneke is premiered at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim.

October 7th : The opera Der goldene Hahn (Orig .: Solotoi petuschok ) by Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow based on a libretto by Vladimir Ivanovich Bjelski based on the fairy tale of the same name by Alexander Pushkin , which in turn is based on the saga of the Arabic astrologer from the collection of stories The Alhambra by Washington Irving , will be premiered at the Zimin Opera in Moscow.

November 6th : The music drama Izeÿl by Eugen d'Albert is premiered at the Stadttheater Hamburg . Rudolf Lothar wrote the libretto based on a model by Armand Silvestre and Eugen Morand.

December 4 : The world premiere of the opera Susannen's Secret by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , which the composer calls an intermezzo , based on the libretto by Enrico Golisciani, takes place at the Munich Court Theater .

operetta

January 22nd : The world premiere of the operetta Ein Herbstmanöver by Emmerich Kálmán takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna and brings the composer his first success. The work is a German adaptation of the Hungarian Kálmán operetta Tatárjárás from 1908 . The work was very well received and made it to Broadway in New York under the name The Gay Hussars .

August 3rd : The world premiere of the operetta Miss Bagpipes by Rudolf Nelson based on a libretto by Fritz Grünbaum and Hans Reichert takes place at the Kleiner Schauspielhaus in Berlin.

October 7th : The world premiere of the operetta The Prince's Child by Franz Lehár in the Johann Strauss Theater takes place in Vienna. The libretto is by Victor Léon using a character from the novel Le roi des montagnes by Edmond About . In contrast to other Lehár operettas, the piece never made it onto the repertoire.

November 12th : The world premiere of the operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg by Franz Lehár, conducted by Robert Stolz , from the “ Silver Operetta Era ” at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, run by Wilhelm Karczag , is received with stormy enthusiasm and then runs over 300 times.

December 1st : The world premiere of the Singspiel Brüderlein fein by Leo Fall with the libretto by Julius Wilhelm takes place in Vienna. The focus of the piece is the composer and conductor Joseph Drechsler . The title refers to Ferdinand Raimund's play Der Bauer als Millionär .

Further operetta premieres in 1909:

Leo Ascher , Poor Lori and State of Siege (two operettas).
Richard Heuberger , Your Highness Affair or Der Fürst von Düsterstein
Robert Stolz , The Commandeuse .

Born

January to April

Victor Borge, 1990

0January 3 : Victor Borge , Danish pianist and comedian († 2000 )
0January 8 : Hoke Rice , American country musician († 1974 )
January 13 : Quentin Jackson , American jazz trombonist († 1976 )
January 14 : Ernst Neger , German roofer and carnival singer († 1989 )
January 15 : Enrique Casal Chapí , Spanish composer († 1977 )
January 15 : Gene Krupa , American jazz and big band drummer († 1973 )
January 15 : Elie Siegmeister , American composer († 1991 )
January 19 : Hans Hotter , German-Austrian bass baritone († 2003 )
January 24th : Fritz Weber , German composer ( Ich bin ene kölsche Jung ) († 1984 )
January 30th : Mihály Hajdú , Hungarian composer († 1990 )
January 30th : Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto , Danish horn player and professor († 1991 )

0February 1 : Cilli Wang , Austrian cabaret artist and dancer († 2005 )
0February 5 : Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish composer († 1969 )
0February 9 : Carmen Miranda , Portuguese-Brazilian singer and actress († 1955 )
0February 9 : Harald Genzmer , German composer († 2007 )
February 10 : Holger Alexander Fransman , Finnish horn player († 1997 )
February 20 : Heinz Erhardt , comedian, musician, entertainer, actor, poet († 1979 )
February 20 : Lorenzo Alvary , American opera singer (bass) († 1996 )
February 24 : Will Höhne , German pop singer († 1992 )

0March 3 : Johnny Barfield , American old-time and country musician († 1974 )
0March 4 : Michael Schneider , German organist, choir director, music teacher and musicologist († 1994 )
0March 8 : Alberto Echagüe , Argentine singer and songwriter († 1987 )
March 18 : Ljubica Marić , Serbian composer († 2003 )
March 22nd : Bienvenido Troncoso , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer († 1961 )
March 27 : Ben Webster , American jazz musician († 1973 )

0April 2 : Jean Kurt Forest , German composer and musician († 1975 )
0April 8 : Olavi Pesonen , Finnish composer († 1993 )
April 14 : Isabel Aretz , Argentinian ethnomusicologist, folklorist and composer († 2005 )
April 21 : Karl Scheit , Austrian guitarist, lutenist and music teacher († 1993 )
April 27 : Jos Moerenhout , Belgian composer and conductor († 1985 )

May to August

0May 2 : Teddy Stauffer , Swiss band leader († 1991 )
0May 3 : Colorado Pete , American country and cowboy musician and radio star († unknown)
May 10 : Maybelle Carter , American country and folk singer († 1978 )
May 20 : Erich Kunz , Austrian opera singer (baritone) († 1995 )
May 24 : Louis Fürnberg , German writer, poet and musician († 1957 )
May 26 : Charlie McCoy , American blues guitarist, singer and mandolin player († 1950 )

Benny Goodman during a concert in Nuremberg, 1971

May 30 : Benny Goodman , American jazz musician († 1986 )
May 31 : Eliza Hansen , German piano teacher, pianist and harpsichordist († 2001 )

0June 1 : Szymon Goldberg , American conductor and violinist († 1993 )
0June 7th : Jean Laurent , Belgian violinist and music teacher († 2001 )
June 14 : Burl Ives , American folk singer, author and actor († 1995 )
June 16 : Willi Boskovsky , Austrian violinist and conductor († 1991 )
June 21 : Kurt Schwaen , German composer († 2007 )
June 28 : Jindřich Praveček , Czech conductor and composer (brass music) († 2000 )
June 30 : Paul Constantinescu , Romanian composer († 1963 )

July 10 : Casey Bill Weldon , American blues musician († 196?)
July 13 : Washington Castro , Argentine composer and conductor († 2004 )
July 17 : Ignace Strasfogel , American composer († 1994 )
July 19 : Jenő Vécsey , Hungarian composer († 1966 )
July 29 : Georgi Muschel , Russian composer († 1989 )

0August 1 : Mary Elizabeth Caldwell , American composer and organist († 2003 )
August 10 : Claude Thornhill , American jazz musician († 1965 )
August 10 : Leo Fender , American musical instrument maker and company founder († 1991 )
August 11th : Gaston Litaize , French composer, organist and organ teacher († 1991 )
August 27 : Lester Young , American tenor saxophonist († 1959 )
August 28 : Fritz Ihlau , German composer and musician († 1995 )

September to December

September 15 : Carlos Estrada , Uruguayan composer, conductor and music teacher († 1970 )
September 18 : Willy Spilling , German composer and musicologist († 1965 )
September 22nd : Václav Dobiáš , Czech composer († 1978 )
September 28 : Fred Rauch , Austrian singer, lyricist and radio presenter († 1997 )

0October 4th : Marcel Stern , French composer and violinist († 1989 )
0October 5 : Otto Ackermann , Swiss conductor († 1960 )
0October 7th : Shura Cherkassky , Russian pianist († 1995 )

Art Tatum

October 13 : Art Tatum , American piano virtuoso of jazz († 1956 )
October 14 : Kalervo Tuukanen , Finnish composer († 1979 )
October 22 : Käte van Tricht , German organist, pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher († 1996 )
October 23 : Champion Jack Dupree , blues singer and pianist († 1992 )
October 27 : Henry Townsend , American blues musician († 2006 )
October 31 : Arnold Sundgaard , American writer and librettist († 2006 )

0November 1st : Bruno Bjelinski , Croatian composer († 1992 )
0November 3 : Herbert Haufrecht , American composer and folklore researcher († 1998 )
0November 6th : Henk Bijvanck , Dutch composer († 1969 )
November 10 : László Halmos , Hungarian composer († 1997 )
November 16 : Mado Michio , Japanese poet of children's songs († 2014 )
November 18 : Valdemar Söderholm , Swedish composer († 1990 )
November 29 : Hans Gillesberger , Austrian choir director († 1986 )
November 30th : Robert Nighthawk , American blues musician († 1967 )

0December 3 : Vladimir Avramov , Bulgarian violinist and music teacher († 2007 )
December 18 : Kaspar Muther , Swiss composer, clarinet and soprano saxophone player († 1980 )
December 20 : Vagn Holmboe , Danish composer († 1996 )
December 21 : Pi Scheffer , Dutch composer and conductor († 1988 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Michael Mosoeu Moerane , South African composer and choir director († 1981 )

Died

January 18 : Ernest Lavigne , Canadian composer, conductor, cornetist and music publisher (* 1851 )
February 8 : Mieczysław Karłowicz , Polish composer (* 1876 )
February 8 : Edouard Silas , Dutch composer and organist (* 1827 )

April 3 : Benjamin Johnson Lang , American organist, pianist, conductor and composer (* 1837 )

May 7 : Carl Joachim Andersen , Danish flautist, conductor and composer (* 1847 )

June 1 : Giuseppe Martucci , Italian composer, pianist and conductor (* 1856 )
June 2 : Lucien Hillemacher , French composer (* 1860 )
June 16 : Ivar Eggert Hedenblad , Swedish composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1851 )

July 22nd : Oscar Byström , Swedish composer (* 1821 )
July 23 : Zygmunt Noskowski , Polish composer (* 1846 )

October 14 : Gottfred Matthison-Hansen , Danish composer (* 1832 )
November 5 : Ove Christensen , Danish composer, violinist and pianist (* 1856 )
November 8 : Charles Bordes , French composer and music teacher (* 1863 )
November 16 : Francis Thomé , French composer (* 1850 )

December 2 : Rudolf Achleitner , Austrian conductor and composer (* 1864 )
December 15 : Francisco Tárrega (y Eixa) , Spanish guitarist and composer (* 1852 )

Web links

Commons : Music 1909 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1909 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files