Music year 1934

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Events

World premieres

Franz Lehár

• January 20 : The world premiere of the operetta Giuditta by Franz Lehár under the direction of the composer takes place at the Vienna State Opera . The libretto is by Paul Knepler and Fritz Löhner-Beda . Jarmila Novotná can be seen in the title role, Richard Tauber sings the male lead .
• January 22 : The opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Orig .: Леди Макбет Мценского уезда ) by Dmitri Shostakovich to a libretto by Alexander Hermanovitch price after the novella by Nikolai Leskov from the year 1865 is an overwhelming success at the Mariinsky Theater premiered in Leningrad. The opera celebrated one success after another until January 28, 1936 .
• January 23 : The opera La Fiamma by Ottorino Respighi is premiered at the Teatro Reale in Rome .
• January 31 : The world premiere of the chamber opera The Wandering Scholar by Gustav Holst takes place in Liverpool.
• March 12 : The Berlin Philharmonic , under the baton of Wilhelm Furtwängler , the symphony Mathis der Maler by Paul Hindemith premiered with overwhelming success. A few months later, all of Hindemith's works were prohibited from performing in the German Empire.
• March 28 : The world premiere of the operetta Märchen in the Grand Hotel by Paul Abraham based on a libretto by Alfred Grünwald and Fritz Löhner-Beda takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
• March 31st : Walter Wilhelm Goetzes operetta Der goldene Pierrot is premiered in the Theater des Westens in Berlin. The libretto is by Oskar Felix and Otto Kleinert .
• May 28 : The opera Rolande et le mauvais garçon by Henri Rabaud is premiered at the Grand Opéra Paris .
• November 7th : The rhapsody on a theme by Paganini is premiered by Sergei Rachmaninow on piano and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski .

Cole Porter 1934

• November 21 : At the Alvin Theater in New York City the premiere finds Musical Comedy Anything Goes by Cole Porter instead. The book is by Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse , the revision by Russel Crouse and Howard Lindsay , who also directs. The show is produced by Vinton Freedley . It is the first of five Broadway musicals by Cole Porter to star Ethel Merman . William Gaxton and Victor Moore can also be seen in other leading roles .
• December 22nd : The world premiere of the operetta The Dancer Fanny Elßler with posthumous music by Johann Strauss (son) , compiled and arranged for the stage by Bernard Grun and Oskar Stalla . The libretto is by Hans Adler .

Jazz / swing

• January 6th : The Casa Loma Orchestra with the band vocalist Pee Wee Hunt comes to # 12 in the US charts with "You're Gonna Loose That Gal", with which Harry Reser and his orchestra were also successful this week (# 13) in the hit parades are.
• January 13 : Benny Goodman makes it into the top 20 with “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues”; his band singer is Jack Teagarden , who also plays the trombone here.
• January 27 : Benny Goodman helps Billie Holiday to her first chart success with his song "Riffin 'the Scotch" (# 6). In the same week, the orchestras of Claude Hopkins ("Washington Squabble") and Ben Pollack ("Got the Jitters") hit the charts.
• February 3 : "Love Me or Leave Me" by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson , with whom Ruth Etting was last successful in 1929, hits the charts in the version by Benny Goodman (# 16).
• February 17th : “My Little Grass Shack” brings Ben Pollack's orchestra to # 10, “Daybreak Express” by the Duke Ellington Orchestra reaches # 20 in the US charts.
• March 24th : Ben Pollack hits the charts again with Johnny Burke's "The Beat of My Heart"; the song, recorded for the first time by Paul Whiteman , comes in at position 2 and remains in the charts for 14 weeks.
• April 18th : Cab Calloway just made it into the top 20 with "Jitter Bug".
• April 25th : The Casa Loma Orchestra is in the charts with two titles, with "The Champagner Waltz" (# 7) and "The House Is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)", the last from the Broadway musical Ziegfeld Follies .
• May 5 : With “Cocktails for Two” Duke Ellington achieves the second number 1 hit in his career; the song came from the film musical Murder at the Vanities . In the same week " Basin Street Blues " in the version by Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden comes on # 14.

Jack Teagarden

• May 19 : Jack Teagarden hits # 16 on the charts with his own composition "I've Got 'It'". But because his band leader Paul Whiteman does not allow him to go it alone, he only managed to get into the charts again in 1939 with “The Sheik of Araby”. In the same week Ethel Waters is also successful with "Come Up and See Me Sometime", and Claude Hopkins with the popular song " Three Little Words ".
• May 26th : Benny Goodman / Jack Teagarden are again successful with the song "I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming", which Isham Jones made popular (# 6).

Joe Sullivan, circa January 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb

• June 2nd : The Mills Brothers reach position 2 on the US charts with “Swing It, Sister”. That same week pianist Joe Sullivan hit the charts for the first time with “Onyx Bringdown” (# 9); for the first time also the band leader Chick Webb with "I Can't Dance (I Got Ants in My Pants)" (# 20).
• June 9th : Red Allen and his orchestra are successful with Frank Loesser's song "I Wish I Were Twins" (# 20); to play in his band a. Dickie Wells , Buster Bailey and John Kirby .
• June 16 : Will Hudson's “ Moonglow ” is the first of a total of fourteen number 1 hits by Benny Goodman ; a title that remained in Goodman's repertoire from then on. In the same week "I Wish I Were Twins" made it into the charts again, this time in the version of Fats Waller (# 8); the Casa Loma Orchestra comes with the " Limehouse Blues " at # 20 on the charts.
• June 23 : Ben Pollack appears twice in the charts , with “Freckle Face, You're Beautiful” (# 8) and with “Sleepy Head”. The Mills Brothers are represented with "Money in My Pockets" (# 12).
• June 30 : “Sleepy Head,” this time in the Mills Brothers version, comes in at # 2; Chick Webb with "Stomping at the Savoy" at # 10. Edgar Sampson wrote the song alluding to the Savoy Ballroom to a text by Andy Razaf .
• July 14th : "Margie" by Claude Hopkins hits the charts at # 5, the last of the band leader's four hits.
• August 11th : “Moonglow” is again successful in the US charts (# 8), this time in the version of the Casa Loma Orchestra . In the following week Cab Calloway also brought the title to # 7.
• August 25 : "Pardon My Southern Accent" is one of the popular daily hits of the era with which Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra reached # 13.
• September 15 : Benny Goodman (“Take My Word”, # 5) and the Casa Loma Orchestra with “Two Cigarettes in the Dark” and Luis Russell with the evergreen “ Ol 'Man River ” from 1927 are successful in the US hit parades .
• September 29th : Fats Waller's “Then I'll Be Tired of You” is one of the pianist's many ungalant songs, with which he comes to # 9. EY Harburg and Arthur Schwartz wrote the number .
• October 6th : The Duke Ellington Orchestra builds on the current success of "Moonglow" and reaches # 2 with the song; Ellington remains in the charts for 16 weeks.
• October 13th : Benny Goodman's “Bugle Call Rag” ranks # 5 on the charts; In 1936 he took it on again in the arrangement of Jimmy Mundy . Fats Waller hit the charts with "Don't Let It Bother You" by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel , a melody from the movie Gay Divorce , where it was sung by Fred Astaire .
• October 20 : Cab Calloway ("Chines Rhythm", # 6), Fletcher Henderson ("Tidal Wave", # 19) and Fats Waller with "Sweetie Pie" (# 7), which Anson Weeks in this time in the program.
• October 20 : Duke Ellington hits number 2 on the charts for a week with his own version of “ Solitude ”; it becomes an evergreen in Ellington's repertoire and since then it has become a well-known jazz standard , with which the Mills Blue Rhythm Band also hit the charts that same year .
• November 3 : "Lost in a Fog" by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields is a hit for the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra (# 15); the Casa Loma Orchestra comes in the same week with "You're a Builder Upper" at # 11.
• November 10 : Jimmy Lunceford hits # 19 on the charts with his version of the Ellington song " Mood Indigo ".
• November 17th : The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra with singer Bob Crosby reached the Top 20 with “ I'm Getting Sentimental Over You ”, which George Bassman wrote for the orchestra. Also represented in the charts is Duke Ellington with “Saddest Tale” (# 9); the soloists are Barney Bigard , Tricky Sam Nanton , Johnny Hodges , Cootie Williams and Harry Carney .

Elsa Maxwell (center), with William Rhinelander Stewart (left) and Cole Porter , 1934

• December 8 : Ethel Waters hits # 19 with the song "Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today)", which Cole Porter dedicated to columnist Elsa Maxwell . He was later recorded by Nat King Cole and Cab Calloway .
• December 15 : “Georgia's Gorgeous Gal” is by Frank Perkins, who wrote “Stars Fell on Alabama” with Mitchell Parish . It's the only hit from the women's band Ina Ray Hutton & Her Melodears; the song was recorded in Germany in 1934 by Hans Bund and his dance orchestra.

Others

• April 24 : Laurens Hammond receives a patent on the Hammond organ in Washington, DC .
• May 28 : The first Glyndebourne Festival initiated by John Christie opens in Christie's country house in Great Britain with Le nozze di Figaro , followed by Così fan tutte . The artistic directors are emigrants from Germany: Fritz Busch as conductor, Carl Ebert is the dramaturgical director and Rudolf Bing is the general director. The festival, which focuses on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lasts six weeks.
• August 18 : The Völkischer Beobachter published an appeal by the cultural sector in favor of Adolf Hitler.
• Autumn: Adolf Hitler has the planned performance of the opera Mathis der Maler by the ostracized composer Paul Hindemith prohibited. Thereupon Wilhelm Furtwängler campaigned for Hindemith on November 25th in the sensational newspaper article Der Fall Hindemith in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . Since the hoped-for NS leadership did not give in, Furtwängler not only resigned from his position as State Opera Director on December 4th , but also resigned from the leadership of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and was released from the position of Vice President of the RMK .

Born

January to March

• 0January 5 : Phil Ramone , American music producer († 2013 )
• 0January 5th : Cees See , Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist († 1985 )
• 0January 8th : Osvaldo Montes , Argentinian bandoneonist and tango composer
• January 14th : Hans Deinzer , German clarinetist and music teacher († 2020 )
• January 14 : Gisbert Schneider , German professor and church music director († 2018 )
• January 16 : Richard Wernick , American composer and music educator
• January 31 : Bobby Lee Trammell , American rockabilly musician and politician († 2008 )

• 0February 7th : King Curtis , American tenor saxophonist († 1971 )
• February 10 : Rahn Burton , American jazz pianist († 2013 )
• February 11 : Curtis Johnson , American rockabilly musician († 2001 )
• February 11 : Francesco Pennisi , Italian composer († 2000 )
• February 16 : William Dean Tinker , American organist, pianist, harpsichordist and music educator
• February 17th : Anner Bylsma , Dutch musician († 2019 )
• February 18 : Skip Battin , American country rock singer and bassist († 2003 )
• February 25 : John Wimber , American musician († 1997 )
• February 28 : Willie Bobo , American jazz percussionist († 1983 )

• 0March 4 : Mario Davidovsky , Argentine composer († 2019 )
• 0March 8 : Christian Wolff , American composer
• March 15 : Wolfgang Hufschmidt , German composer and church musician
• March 16 : Roger Norrington , British conductor
• March 25 : Johnny Burnette , American rockabilly musician († 1964 )
• March 26 : Donald Bailey , American jazz drummer († 2013 )
• March 28 : Siegfried Thiele , German composer
• March 31 : John D. Loudermilk , American country singer and songwriter

April to June

• 0April 1 : Jim Ed Brown , American country musician († 2015 )
• 0April 6 : Mario Merola , Italian singer († 2006 )
• 0April 7 : Victor Feldman , English jazz musician († 1987 )
• 0April 7th : Antonio Ruiz-Pipó , Spanish composer and pianist († 1997 )
• April 10 : Zsolt Durkó , Hungarian composer († 1997 )
• April 11 : Norma Beecroft , Canadian composer
• April 13 : Siegfried Matthus , German composer
• April 16 : Robert Stigwood , Australian music and film producer († 2016 )

• 0May 3 : Georges Moustaki , French singer and poet († 2013 )
• 0May 3 : Frankie Valli , American pop singer, lead singer of the Four Seasons
• 0May 6th : Oskar Gottlieb Blarr , German composer, organist and church musician
• 0May 8 : Jan Paul Nagel , Sorbian composer and Domowina chairman († 1997 )
• May 16 : Billy Sanders , British singer († 2001 )
• May 23 : Robert Moog , pioneer of electronic music, inventor of one of the first synthesizers († 2005 )
• May 30th : Dieter Süverkrüp , German songwriter
• May 31 : Karl-Erik Welin , Swedish pianist, organist and composer († 1992 )

• 0June 1 : Pat Boone , American singer
• 0June 7 : Wynn Stewart , American country musician († 1985 )
• 0June 9 : Jackie Wilson , rhythm and blues and soul singer († 1984 )
• June 14 : Mieke Telkamp , Dutch lawyer and singer († 2016 )
• June 15 : Mikel Laboa , Spanish-Basque songwriter and guitarist († 2008 )
• June 17th : Peter Janssens , German composer, inventor of Sacro Pop († 1998 )
• June 20 : Cornel Țăranu , Romanian composer
• June 24th : Maria Carta , Italian actress and singer († 1994 )
• June 26 : Dave Grusin , American film composer and jazz musician
• June 26th : Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Ivanov , Russian solo drummer, composer and conductor

July to September

• 0July 1st : Alicia Terzian , Argentine composer
• 0July 3 : Christian Manen , French composer and music teacher
• 0July 6 : René Urtreger , French jazz pianist
• 0July 6th : Marta Valdés , Cuban singer and composer
• 0July 7th : Vinko Globokar , Yugoslav trombonist and composer
• 0July 9 : Pierre Perret , French author and singer
• July 12 : Van Cliburn , American pianist († 2013 )
• July 15 : Harrison Birtwistle , English composer
• July 17th : Philippe Capdenat , French composer and music teacher
• July 18 : Roger Reynolds , American composer
• July 23 : Steve Lacy , American jazz musician and soprano saxophonist († 2004 )
• July 26 : Anthony Gilbert , English composer and music teacher
• July 28 : Brian May , Australian composer for film music († 1997 )
• July 30 : André Prévost , Canadian composer († 2001 )

• 0August 1st : Hermann Rudolph Konrad Baumann , German horn player
• 0August 1 : Pit Krüger , German comedian, singer and actor († 2003 )
• 0August 5 : Vern Gosdin , American country singer († 2009 )
• August 19 : Al Ferrier , American country, cajun and rockabilly musician († 2015 )
• August 20 : Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer , German writer, playwright, translator and musicologist
• August 23 : Raul de Souza , Brazilian jazz musician
• August 25 : Dietrich Unkrodt , German tuba player and double bass player († 2006 )
• August 29 : Henrique de Curitiba , Polish-Brazilian composer († 2008 )

• 0September 3 : Freddie King , American blues musician († 1976 )
• 0September 4th : Guy-Claude Burger , Swiss musician and physicist
• 0September 4th : Eduard Chil , Russian Estrada singer († 1969 )
• 0September 7th : Waldo de los Ríos , Argentine pianist, orchestra conductor, arranger and composer († 1977 )
• 0September 7th : Little Milton , American blues musician († 2005 )
• September 14th : Don Walser , American country musician († 2006 )
• September 16 : Ronnie Drew , Irish singer and guitarist († 2008 )
• September 17th : Aubrey Cagle , American rockabilly musician († 2004 )
• September 19 : Brian Epstein , British businessman, manager of the Beatles († 1967 )
• September 21 : Leonard Cohen , Canadian writer, composer and singer
• September 26th : Dick Heckstall-Smith , British musician, saxophonist († 2004 )
• September 30 : Udo Jürgens , Austrian singer and songwriter († 2014 )

October to December

• 0October 5 : Robert T. Anderson , American organist and music teacher († 2009 )
• 0October 7th : Feliksas Bajoras , Lithuanian composer
• 0October 7 : Amiri Baraka , American poet, playwright, music critic, and prose writer
• 0October 9 : Abdullah Ibrahim , South African pianist and composer
• 0October 9 : Johnny Jay , American rockabilly musician
• October 13th : Nana Mouskouri , Greek singer
• October 13 : Alain Margoni , French composer
• October 17 : Rico Rodriguez , Jamaican trombonist and composer
• October 17th : Christian Bruhn , German composer, arranger and songwriter
• October 18 : Leticia Daneri , Argentine Cantautora
• October 19 : Eva-Maria Hagen , German actress, singer, painter and author
• October 26 : Jacques Loussier , French pianist and composer
• October 27 : Barre Phillips , American jazz bassist
• October 28 : Douglas Tate , British harmonica player, harmonica manufacturer, dealer and specialist book author († 2005 )
• October 29th : Yves Cornière , French church musician and composer
• October 30th : Frans Brüggen , Dutch conductor and flautist
• October 30th : Hamilton Camp , American actor, singer and songwriter († 2005 )

• November 12 : Charles Manson , American musician and murderer († 2017 )
• November 12th : Al Hendrix , American rock and roll and country singer
• November 20th : Fairuz , Lebanese singer
• November 24th : Alfred Schnittke , German-Russian composer and pianist († 1998 )
• November 28 : Carlos Fariñas , Cuban composer († 2002 )
• November 29th : Günter Wewel , German chamber singer

• 0December 9 : Junior Wells , American blues musician († 1998 )
• December 15 : Curtis Fuller , American jazz trombonist
• December 21 : Hank Crawford , American alto saxophonist († 2009 )
• December 23 : Chuck Mayfield , American country musician
• December 24th : Noël Lancien , French composer and conductor († 1999 )
• December 30th : Jean-Claude Henry , French composer
• December 30th : Del Shannon , American rock 'n' roll singer († 1990 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Henry Holt , American conductor, opera director and music teacher († 1997 )
• Ekkehard Schneck , German church musician

Died

Date of death secured

• January 1st : Blagoje Bersa , Croatian composer (* 1873 )
• January 10 : Vincenzo Ferroni , Italian composer and music teacher (* 1858 )
• January 24th : Felix Knubben , German church musician and composer (* 1880 )

• February 23 : Edward Elgar , English composer (* 1857 )
• March 21 : Franz Schreker , Austrian composer (* 1878 )

• April 4 : Pierantonio Tasca , Italian composer (* 1858 )
• May 25 : Gustav Holst , British composer (* 1874 )

• June 10 : Frederick Delius , English composer (* 1862 )
• June 15 : Alfred Bruneau , French composer and music critic (* 1857 )
• June 26th : Max Pallenberg , Austrian singer, actor and comedian (* 1877 )

• October 14 : Leonid Sobinow , Russian opera singer (* 1872 )
• October 18 : Franc-Nohain , French writer and librettist (* 1872 )
• October 29 : Gustavo E. Campa , Mexican composer (* 1863 )

• November 12th : Henri Verbrugghen , Belgian conductor, violinist and music teacher (* 1873 )
• November 30th : Philip Hale , American organist and music critic (* 1854 )

• December 19 : Françis Planté , French pianist (* 1839 )
• December 23 : Henri Dallier , French composer and organist (* 1849 )

Exact date of death unknown

• Frederick Maxson , American composer and organist (* 1862 )
• César Stiattesi , Argentine composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1881 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1934  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All chart information comes from Gerhard Klußmeier : Jazz in the Charts. Another view on jazz history. Liner Notes and Companion Book of the 100 CD Edition. Membrane International GmbH. ISBN 978-3-86735-062-4