Music year 1935

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Music year 1935
Elvis Aaron Presley , who later became the "King of Rock'n'Roll" , was born in Tupelo , Mississippi.

Events

From the classical to the operetta

4th January : World premiere of the operetta Heirat not excluded by Walter Kollo in the Komische Oper, Berlin
February 26 : Georges Bizet's Symphonie en ut majeur (1855) is performed for the first time under Felix Weingartner in Basel .
March 30 : World premiere of the operetta Herz über Bord by Eduard Künneke in Zurich and Düsseldorf.
April 8 : World premiere of the opera Maria Malibran by Robert Russell Bennett at the Juilliard School in New York.
April 8 : Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 5 premieres in Washington, DC .
April 10 : World premiere of the 4th Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams in London's Queen's Hall .
May 22nd : World premiere of the opera Die Zaubergeige by Werner Egk in Frankfurt am Main
June 24th : World premiere of the opera Die Schweigsame Frau by Richard Strauss in the Dresden State Opera
August 22nd : World premiere of the operetta An Kaiser is in love by Walter Kollo in the German National Theater, Osnabrück
October 5th : World premiere of the operetta Drei Walzer by Oscar Straus at the Stadttheater Zürich
October 9 : On the occasion of his 75th birthday, Felix Woyrsch conducts the 5th Symphony in D major (original broadcast), Das Deutsche Sanctus (after Luther) and his three Böcklin Fantasies on the radio. Performers: The large orchestra of the Reichsender Hamburg and the municipal choir Altona.
October 10 : After the preview at the Colonial Theater in Boston on September 30, 1935, the opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin with Todd Duncan and Anne Wiggins Brown in the title roles has its Broadway premiere on October 10 at the Alvin Theater in New York . The songs it contains, Summertime and later I Got Plenty o 'Nuttin', are also interpreted in a pop and jazz context.
October 10th : World premiere of the operetta Berlin as it cries, Berlin as it laughs by Walter Kollo in Berlin
October 17th : World premiere of the operetta Pour plaire aux femmes (after women like it ) by Walter Kollo in Paris
November 2nd : World premiere of the comic opera Ero s onoga svijeta ( Ero the Rogue ) by Jakov Gotovac in Zagreb
November 6th : First complete performance of the 1st Symphony by William Walton in London.
November 14th : World premiere of the concert for viola and small orchestra Der Schwanendreher by Paul Hindemith in Amsterdam
November 19 : World premiere of the musical comedy Das kleine Hofkonzert by Edmund Nick in Munich
November 30th : World premiere of the operetta Hopsa by Paul Burkhard at the Stadttheater Zürich
December 1 : Sergei Prokofiev's second violin concerto is in Madrid Premiere
December 21 : Premiere of the operetta Dschainah, the girl from the dance house of Paul Abraham in Vienna
December 31 : World premiere of the cheerful opera The Great Sinner by Eduard Künneke at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin

Jazz / swing

Swing is becoming popular in the United States .

Oscar Hammerstein (right) with Richard Rodgers (left) and Irving Berlin (1948)

January 5th : With the Rodgers and Hart composition " Blue Moon " the Casa Loma Orchestra achieved a number 1 hit; originally written for Jean Harlow in the musical Hollywood Revue .
January 19 : Tommy Dorsey makes it into the top 20 with Fats Waller's " Honeysuckle Rose ".
January 26th : Benny Goodman also hits the charts with “Blue Moon”; his version with singer Helen Ward comes to # 2 on the US charts. In the same week, Red Norvo is also represented in the charts (# 20) and a studio band around Claude Thornhill under the pseudonym Harry Rosenthal with "All Through the Night" (# 18).
February 9th : The Casa Loma Orchestra has another number 1 hit with "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein . Fats Waller reached # 17 with his own version of "Honeysuckle Rose".
February 22nd : The Village Vanguard opens in New York's Greenwich Village , one of the most important jazz clubs from the 1950s .

March 2nd : The Dorsey Brothers enter the top ten with “Night Wind”.

March 16 : Benny Goodman hits the US charts with "Clouds" by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson ; The number was arranged by Fletcher Henderson .

March 30th : The Mills Blue Rhythm Band hits the charts with the Ellington classic “ Solitude ” (# 8).

April 6th : With “Lullaby of Broadway” the Dorsey Brothers have another number 1 hit; Harry Warren and Al Dubin's song on the film Golddiggers of 1935 stayed at the top for two weeks . On May 4th, Chick Bullock's version also just made it into the top 20.

May 11th : With “Rhythm Is Our Business”, Jimmy Lunceford and his orchestra made it to the top of the US hit parades once, in which he stayed for a total of 16 weeks.

May 25th : Lunceford hits the charts again with Duke Ellington's " Black and Tan Fantasy "; arranged by the number Sy Oliver .

June 1st : The Mills Blue Rhythm Band (“Dancing Dags”, # 8) and Louis Prima (“I'm Living in a Great Big Way”, # 13) are successful in the US charts this week .

June 8 : The Duke Ellington Orchestra comes in at # 6 with “Merry-Go-Round”; Ellington used two bassists on the track, Hayes Alvis and Billy Taylor .

June 15 : With the later jazz standard " Body and Soul " Red Allen comes to # 17 in the charts.

June 22nd : Bob Crosby , Fats Waller and the Casa Loma Orchestra are successful in the Hizparade, "Chasing Shadows" reached number 1 in the Dorsey Brothers version.

June 29th : Bob Crosby tops the US charts with "In a Little Gypsy Tearoom". In the same week, Jimmy Lunceford is represented in the top ten with his version of the classic " Stardust "; Fats Waller comes with "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" at # 5.

July 6th : The Duke Ellington Orchestra hits # 14 with “ In a Sentimental Mood ”; Glenn Miller's “Solo Hop”, on the other hand, manages # 7.

Adrian Rollini at the vibraphone with guitarist Allen Haulon, probably in the 1940s
Photo: William P. Gottlieb

July 20 : Adrian Rollini's second (and last) chart success was with “Weather Man”, with which he reached # 11. Wingy Manone and Carmen Mastren are his vocalists.

July 27 : Red Norvo's version of "Honeysuckle Rose" makes it into the top ten; Bunny Berigan and Chu Berry are among the soloists.

August 24th : Chick Webb made the Top 20 with Edgar Sampson's “ Don't Be That Way ”, a popular song among swing bands that was to popularize Benny Goodman in 1938 .

August 30th : Fats Waller has a number 1 hit with "Truckin '" by Rube Bloom and Ted Koehler . The number from the Cotton Club Parade of 1935 stayed in the charts for 13 weeks. The pianist is also among the top 20 with the re- edition of the Tin Pan Alley classic "12th Street Rag".

September 7th : One of the groundbreaking recordings of the swing era with a small cast was the trio recording of the later classic " Body and Soul " by Benny Goodman with Teddy Wilson (piano) and Gene Krupa (drums). Goodman ranks # 5 on the charts, where he'll stay for eight weeks.

September 21 : Duke Ellington hits the charts at # 6 with "Accent On South" from the film of the same name starring Sylvia Sidney . It is also the first time that Ben Webster has appeared on a recording with the orchestra; However, the soloist is Johnny Hodges .

October 11 : The broadcasting of jazz music is banned from all German radio stations by Reich broadcasting director Eugen Hadamovsky .

October 12th : The Dorsey Brothers are featured in the charts twice; with Arthur Freed's numbers "You're My Lucky Star" and "I've Got a Feelin 'You're Foolin'", which are taken from the musical Broadway Melody of 1935 . The song "Cotton", with which the Ellington Band came to # 4 in the charts, was taken from there.

October 19 : Benny Goodman has another hit success with his trio with “ After You've Gone ”.

October 26th : Louis Armstrong conquers the US charts with "I'm in the Mood for Love" and comes to # 3. Tommy Dorsey landed the number 1 hit this week with "On Treasure Island". The Christmas carol " Jingle Bells " hit the charts for the first time with Benny Goodman's version arranged by Fletcher Henderson (# 18).

November 23 : Teddy Wilson and Billie Holiday achieved a chart success (# 6) with "Twenty-Four Hours a Day", a melody from the film Sweet Surrender (1935).

December 7th : "Lady Day" is again successful in the charts with "If You Were Mine" by Johnny Mercer , known from the musical To Beat the Band (1935).

December 14th : Fats Waller had another number 1 hit with “A Little Bit Independent”. Joe Venuti makes it into the top ten with “Stop, Look and Listen”.

December 21 : With the dance song “The Music Goes Round and Round”, Tommy Dorsey managed to stay at the top of the charts for five weeks.

December 28th : Teddy Wilson hits the charts at # 16 with the solo piano version of "On Treasure Island".

Other events

February 22nd : The Comedian Harmonists are banned by the Nazi government .
April 23 : Your Hit Parade is first broadcast on American radio.

Born

January February

Elvis Presley

Johnny "Guitar" Watson (1976)

0January 7th : Kenny Davern , American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist († 2006 )
0January 8 : Elvis Presley , American singer († 1977 )
January 10 : Werner Andreas Albert , German conductor
January 10 : Georg Katzer , German composer († 2019 )
January 11 : Ronnie Hawkins , American singer and pianist
January 11 : Sherrill Milnes , American opera singer
January 16 : Werner Benz , German deacon, church music director and state trombonist († 2019 )
January 18 : Clemens Ganz , German church musician
January 26 : Peter Ronnefeld , German composer and conductor († 1965 )
January 30th : Ambros Seelos , German saxophonist, clarinetist, band leader and arranger († 2015 )

0February 2 : Glenn Barber , American country and rockabilly musician († 2008 )
0February 3rd : Dieter Bäumle , Swiss composer
0February 3 : Johnny Guitar Watson , American blues, soul and funk musician († 1996 )
0February 5 : Alex Harvey , British rock singer († 1982 )
0February 5 : Siegfried Kessler , French jazz musician († 2007 )
0February 9 : Carmen Miranda , Portuguese-Brazilian singer and actress
February 10 : Theodore Antoniou , Greek conductor and composer
February 10th , Helmut Klotz , German opera singer and choir director
February 11 : Gene Vincent , American rockabilly singer († 1971 )
February 11 : Bent Lorentzen , Danish composer
February 12 : Gene McDaniels , American pop music singer, composer and producer, singer-songwriter († 2011 )
February 12 : Manfred Weiss , German composer
February 15 : George Alexander Albrecht , German conductor
February 16 : Sonny Bono , American singer, actor and producer († 1998 )
February 18 : Ciaran Bourke , Irish folk musician († 1988)
February 18 : Boško Petrović , Croatian jazz musician and music producer († 2011 )
February 27 : Mirella Freni , Italian opera singer († 2020 )

March April

March 8 : George Coleman , American jazz musician
March 17 : Elisabeth Steiner , German opera singer († 2006)
March 20 : Sam Lay , American blues musician
March 21 : Erich Kunzel , American conductor († 2009)
March 26 : Peret , Spanish singer and guitarist († 2014)
March 29 : Tibby Edwards , American country musician († 1999)
March 29 : Ruby Murray , British pop singer († 1996)
March 30th : Karl Berger , jazz musician
March 30 : John Eaton , American composer

Herb Alpert (1966)

March 31 : Herb Alpert , American trumpeter and band leader
March 31 : Adolf Dresen , German theater and opera director

Aulis Sallinen (2009)

April 5 : Peter Grant , British music manager in the rock business (1995)
April 5 : Friedrich Wolf , Austrian choir director, music teacher and composer († 2008)
April 5 : Peter Grant , American music manager († 1995)
April 6th : Pierre Durand , French composer
April 6 : Rolf Urs Ringger , Swiss composer and publicist
April 7th : Bobby Bare , American singer-songwriter
April 9 : Aulis Sallinen , Finnish composer
April 11 : Richard Berry , American singer and songwriter († 1997)
April 11 : Dieter Einfeldt , German composer and university professor
April 11th : Vader Abraham , Dutch singer, composer, lyricist and producer
April 12 : Jimmy Makulis , Greek pop singer († 2007)
April 14th : Loretta Lynn , American country singer and songwriter
April 16 : Bobby Vinton , American singer
April 19 : Dudley Moore , British composer, jazz pianist and actor († 2002)
April 20 : Ran Blake , American jazz pianist and third stream composer
April 22nd : Paul Chambers , American jazz bassist († 1969)
April 23 : Bunky Green , American jazz saxophonist composer and arranger
April 23 : Ray Peterson , American singer († 2005)
April 29th : Otis Rush , American blues guitarist († 2018 )

May June

0May 4 : Don Friedman , American jazz pianist († 2016)
May 10 : Larry Williams , American rhythm & blues musician († 1980)
May 12 : Gary Peacock , American jazz bassist
May 13 : Yizhak Sadai , Israeli composer († 2019)
May 15 : Utah Phillips , American folk singer, poet, and trade unionist
May 19 : Cecil McBee , American jazz bassist
May 20 : Dino Saluzzi , Argentinian bandoneon player and composer
May 22 , Giuseppi Logan , American jazz musician († 2020)
May 27 : Ramsey Lewis , American jazz musician and composer
May 28 : Richard Van Allan , British opera singer († 2008)
May 30th : Harry Beckett , British trumpeter († 2010)
May 31 : Hiroshi Wakasugi , Japanese conductor († 2009)

0June 2 : Samuel Jones , American composer and conductor
0June 3 : Ervin Acél , Hungarian conductor († 2006)
0June 3 : Michael Hampe , German theater and opera director
0June 5th : Misha Mengelberg , Dutch pianist, composer and band leader
0June 5 : Günter Noris , German band leader, pianist, arranger and composer († 2007)
0June 6 : Grant Green , American jazz guitarist († 1979)
June 15th : François Jeanneau , French jazz musician
June 16 : Helmut Zehetmair , Austrian musician, music teacher and emeritus university professor
June 17th : Peggy Seeger , American (and now British) folk singer and songwriter
June 22nd : Peter Meisel , German music publisher and producer († 2010)
June 24 : Terry Riley , American composer and pianist

Terry Riley
June 25 : Lloyd McCollough , American rockabilly musician († 1976)
June 25 : Eddie Floyd , American soul singer and songwriter
June 25 : Kurt Schwertsik , Austrian composer and music teacher
June 29 : Julian Priester , American jazz musician

July August

0July 1 : Rashied Ali , American jazz drummer († 2009)
0July 1 , James Cotton , American blues harmonica player.
0July 3rd : Cheo Feliciano , salsa musician
0July 5th : Shirley Collins , British folk singer
0July 8 : Steve Lawrence , American pop singer, entertainer and actor
0July 9th : Mercedes Sosa , singer of South American folklore and political protest songs († 2009)

Mercedes Sosa, 1972
0July 9th , Mighty Sparrow , calypso singer
0July 9 : Frank Wright , American jazz musician († 1990)
July 12th : Barry Mason , English songwriter
July 15 : Diahann Carroll , American actress and singer († 2019)
July 17th : Peter Schickele , American composer
July 18 : Ioan Holender , Austrian singer, artist agent and opera director of Romanian origin
July 19 : Gerd Albrecht , German conductor
July 21 . Margit Schramm , German opera, lied and operetta singer († 1996)
July 24th : Les Reed , English songwriter, musician, arranger and orchestra leader († 2019)
July 29th : Jacques Levy , American songwriter († 2004)
July 29th : Peter Schreier , German singer (tenor) and conductor

Peter Schreier, 1976

0August 2 : Hank Cochran , American country musician († 2010)
August 10 : Giya Kancheli , Georgian composer
August 12th . Harry Kupfer , German opera director († 2019)
August 15th : Jim Dale , British actor, singer and comedian
August 16 : Bobby Mitchell , American New Orleans, Doo-Wop and R&B singer († 1986)
August 30 : John Phillips , American singer and songwriter ( The Mamas & the Papas ) († 2001)

September October

0September 1st : Seiji Ozawa , Japanese conductor
0September 3 : Dorothy Masuka , South African jazz and pop singer († 2019 )
0September 7 : Ronnie Dove , American singer
0September 9 : Chaim Topol , American musical actor
September 11 : Arvo Pärt , Estonian composer

Arvo Pärt in Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin (2008)
September 12 : Geraldo Vandré , Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer
September 16 : Billy Boy Arnold , American blues musician
September 19 : Nick Massi ( The Four Seasons ), American singer († 2000 )
September 23 : Les McCann , American jazz pianist, singer and composer
September 23 : Pierre Mariétan , Swiss composer
September 29 : Jerry Lee Lewis , American singer, songwriter and pianist
September 30 : Johnny Mathis , American singer
September 30th : ZZ Hill , American blues singer

0October 1 : Julie Andrews , American singer and actress
0October 1 : Julio Jaramillo , Ecuadorian musician († 1978 )
0October 1 : Ann Richards , American jazz singer († 1982 )
October 12 : Luciano Pavarotti , Italian opera singer († 2007 )

Luciano Pavarotti, 2003
concert in Saint Petersburg
October 12 : Sam Moore , American singer
October 14 : La Monte Young , American composer
October 15 : Barry McGuire , American singer-songwriter
October 16 : Sugar Pie DeSanto , American R&B singer, dancer, entertainer
October 18 : Bent Jædig , Danish jazz musician († 2004 )
October 20 : Frans Lasson , Danish opera singer and writer († 2009 )
October 21 : Derek Bell , Irish musician († 2002 )
October 21 : Bobby Few , American jazz pianist
October 22 : Thérèse Brenet , French composer and music teacher
October 28 : Folke Rabe , Swedish composer, music producer, radio editor and trombonist († 2017 )

November December

0November 1 : André Tchaikowsky , Polish composer and pianist († 1982 )
0November 3 : Henry Grimes , American jazz musician

Henry Grimes (2005)
0November 9th : Mario Schneeberger , Swiss jazz musician
November 17 : Roswell Rudd , American jazz musician and ethnomusicologist († 2017 )
November 18 : Alain Barrière , French singer and composer († 2019 )
November 21 : Peter Warren , American jazz and improvisation musician
November 27 : Al Jackson, Jr. ( Booker T. & the MG's ), American drummer, record producer and songwriter († 1975 )
November 27th : Helmut Lachenmann , German composer and composition teacher
November 27th : Michel Portal , French musician

0December 1 : Lou Rawls , American singer († 2006 )
0December 1st : Ivica Šerfezi , Yugoslavian pop singer
0December 2 : Wolfgang Weber , Austrian director († 2010 )
0December 2nd : Jürg Wyttenbach , Swiss composer, conductor and pianist
December 12th : Juhani Aaltonen , Finnish jazz musician
December 15 : Dannie Richmond , American jazz drummer

Dannie Richmond (1981)
December 20 : Alois Springer , German conductor and violinist
December 23 : Esther Phillips , American singer († 1984 )
December 30th : Wolfgang Dauner , German keyboardist, jazz pianist and film composer († 2020 )
December 31 : Peter Herbolzheimer , German band leader († 2010 )

Died in 1935

First quarter

January 1st : Victor von Woikowsky-Biedau , German composer and senior government councilor
January 4th : Otto Seele , percussionist, composer and music publisher

Marcella Sembrich

January 11th : Marcella Sembrich , Polish singer and pianist
January 13th : Heinrich Schenker , Austrian music theorist and composer of Galician origin
January 16 : Richard Wetz , German composer, conductor, music teacher and music writer
January 19 : Marie-Louise Müller-Weiss , German court opera singer
January 20th : Julius Manigold , German composer and flute virtuo
January 22nd : Zequinha de Abreu , Brazilian composer and instrumentalist
January 28th : Emil Heerwagen , German organ builder
January 28 : Michail Michailowitsch Ippolitow-Iwanow , Russian composer and conductor
January 30th : Ingfried Hoffmann , German jazz musician, arranger and composer

February 2 : Franz Paul Fiebrich , Austrian composer of Viennese songs, folk singer, choir director and poet

February 2 : Clara Smith , American blues singer

February 3rd : Quincas Laranjeiras , Brazilian guitarist and composer

February 9 : Heinrich Hagleitner , Austrian high school professor for music, composer and theologian

February 26 : John Victor Bergquist , American composer and organist

February 28th : Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian composer of choro

March 15th : Beatrice Sutter-Kottlar , German soprano and singing teacher
March 18 : Franz Josef Brakl , German opera and operetta singer, theater director and gallery owner

Second quarter

April 2 : Bennie Moten , American jazz pianist and band leader.
April 5 : Franz von Vecsey , Hungarian violinist and composer
April 16 : Viktor Wladimirowitsch Ewald , Russian composer, cellist, engineer and university professor
April 24 : Paul Klengel , German conductor and composer
April 28th Sir Alexander Mackenzie , Scottish composer and conductor
April 29 : Leroy Carr , American blues pianist and singer

May 6th : Herfrid Kier , Austrian music historian and former artistic director of the German subsidiary of the British record company EMI
May 17th : Paul Dukas , French composer
May 19 : Charles Martin Loeffler , American composer, violinist and violist of German descent.
May 29 : Josef Suk , Czech composer and violinist
May 30th : Lothar Windsperger , German composer, editor and editor at B. Schott & Sons

June 1 : Hermann Bendix , German pedagogue, cantor and composer
June 6 : Jacques Urlus , Dutch hero tenor
June 18 : August Reuss , German composer

Carlos Gardel (1933)

June 24th : Carlos Gardel , tango singer and composer

Third quarter

Riadis during his time in Berlin

July 17th : Emilios Riadis , Greek pianist and composer
July 17th : Nie Er , Chinese composer

July 21 : Honoré Dutrey , American jazz trombonist

August 3 : Andrew Hilaire , American jazz drummer
August 10 : Jasper Bisbee , American old-time musician
August 15 : Lucienne Bréval , Swiss-French soprano and opera singer (* 1869 )
August 20 : Otakar Ostrčil , Czech composer and conductor
August 21 : Josef Cyrill Sychra , Czech composer, conductor and music teacher
August 28 : Yoshitomo , German composer, choir director and conductor

September 20 : Amy Sherwin , Australian opera singer
September 22nd : Carl Schroeder , German cellist, composer and conductor as well as court music director

Fourth Quarter

October 4th : Marie Gutheil-Schoder , German opera singer
October 6 : Frederic Hymen Cowen , English composer, pianist and conductor.
October 6 : Ivan Stepanowitsch Prokhanov , engineer, theologian and hymn poet
October 22 : Komitas Vardapet , Armenian priest, composer, singer, choir musician, music pedagogue, music ethnologist and musicologist
October 23 : Franz Bölsche , German musician and composer
October 26 : Ákos Buttykay , Hungarian composer

November 4th : Miklós Radnai , Hungarian composer and opera director
November 6th : Hugo Heermann , German violinist
November 16 : Kurt Schindler , German-American conductor and composer
November 17th : Franz Kaim , German concert organizer and royal Württemberg councilor
November 18 : Anton Hekking , Dutch cellist
November 28th : Erich Moritz von Hornbostel , Austrian ethnomusicologist
November 30th : Hoyt Johnson , American country, rockabilly and gospel musician († 1989)

December 1st : Richard Mayr , Austrian singer
December 4th : Johan Halvorsen , Norwegian violinist, composer and conductor.
December 5 : Max von Oberleithner , lawyer, cloth manufacturer, composer and conductor

Alban Berg (portrayed by Emil Stumpp , 1927)

December 24th : Alban Berg , an Austrian composer

Individual evidence

^ Paul Du Noyer: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music . Flame Tree Publishing, Fulham, London. 2003. ISBN 1-904041-96-5 , p. 128
↑ 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

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[1] Paul Du Noyer: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music . Flame Tree Publishing, Fulham, London. 2003. ISBN 1-904041-96-5 , p. 128

[Klußmeier-2] 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