Music year 1937
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Events
World premieres of classical works
- February 24 : The opera Lucrezia by Ottorino Respighi has its world premiere in Milan after his death and after its completion by his wife .
- March 2 : The opera Massimilla Doni by Othmar Schoeck based on the novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac is premiered at the State Opera in Dresden.
- March 10 : The world premiere of the musical drama L'Aiglon by Arthur Honegger takes place in Monte Carlo.
- March 20 : The ballet Die Kirmes von Delft by Sonja Korty (choreography and libretto) based on music by Hermann Reutter is premiered in Baden-Baden as part of the music festival of the International Society for New Music .
- March 25th : The "musical football swank " Roxy and her wonder team by Paul Abraham is premiered in the presence of the Austrian national football team at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- April 1st : Amelia Goes to the Ball , a grotesque opera by Gian Carlo Menotti , premieres at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia.
- June 2 : The unfinished opera Lulu by the Austrian composer Alban Berg premiered posthumously at the Zurich Opera House . The literary models for the work are the two tragedies Erdgeist and The Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind , the wording of which the composer has left almost unchanged. The work also celebrates a success as a fragment.
- June 8th : The scenic cantata Carmina Burana by Carl Orff is successfully premiered at the Opera in Frankfurt am Main . The Middle Latin and Middle High German texts come from the medieval song and drama texts of the same name .
- June 24th : The opera Don Juan de Mañara by Eugène Aynsley Goossens is premiered at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
- September 3 : The operetta Hofball in Schönbrunn by August Pepöck with the libretto by Josef Wenter is premiered in Vienna .
- September 27 : The premiere of the Mask in Blue by Fred Raymond with the text by Günther Schwenn takes place in the Metropol-Theater in Berlin . The operetta is a long-term success, and several numbers from it become evergreens .
- October 3 : The world premiere of the operetta Monika by Nico Dostal on a libretto by Hermann Hermecke takes place in Stuttgart.
- November 24th : The world premiere of the opera Tobias Wunderlich by Joseph Haas takes place in Kassel . The libretto wrote Ludwig Strecker the Younger under the pseudonym Louis Andersen . A text by the Austrian writer Hermann Heinz Ortner served as a template .
- December 22 : At the Central Theater in Leipzig operetta Balkan love of Rudolf Kattnigg premiered.
- December 23 : The world premiere of the operetta Julia by Paul Abraham takes place in Budapest.
jazz
- Count Basie writes the swing number One O'Clock Jump in a 12-bar blues rhythm, which is attributed to Kansas City jazz .
- January 2nd : Teddy Wilson and Billie Holiday hit position 3 on the US charts with their version of " Pennies from Heaven ".
- January 16 : Benny Goodman has his seventh number 1 hit with "Goodnight My Love" by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel . Goodman's band singer here is Ella Fitzgerald . The fans can only buy the record for a short time because Decca Records has stopped the sale of the Victor records for contractual reasons - Ella is under contract with Chick Webb at Decca.
- January 30th : Benny Goodman storms the charts again with the Irving Berlin song "This Year's Kisses" from the film On the Avenue . Also Hal Kemp , Shep Fields and Teddy Wilson / Billie Holiday come with the song this year in the hit parade.
- March 27th : The Quintette du Hot Club de France with Django Reinhardt makes it into the American charts (once) with “ After You've Gone ”. In November, Lionel Hampton hit the Billboard charts with the ballad .
- April 24th . Teddy Wilson's only number 1 hit was with Billie Holiday . Her song "Carelessly", recorded for Brunswick , stayed at number one for three weeks. Cootie Williams , Harry Carney and Johnny Hodges are the soloists.
- May 8 : Experimenter Raymond Scott hits the US charts with “The Toy Trumpet” and reaches # 17. The instrumental title is popularized by Shirley Temple's version from the film Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm .
- July 3rd : The Duke Ellington Orchestra made it to # 4 in the charts with “ Caravan ” and stayed in the charts for 18 weeks. It was not until 1949 that Juan Tizol's composition returned to the charts in the version by Billy Eckstine .
- July 6 : Benny Goodman covers the Louis Prima composition Sing, Sing, Sing .
- July 10 : Fats Waller has his fifth number 1 hit with "(You Know It All) Smarty" by Alan Freed and Burton Lane . It's just popularized with Bing Crosby's version of the musical, Double Or Nothing .
- July 30th : Benny Goodman records the Gershwin standard " The Man I Love " for Victor Records in a quartet with Lionel Hampton , Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa ; with the later jazz standard it only reached # 20 on the US charts.
- August 7th : Bob Crosby & His Orchestra stay at number 1 in the US charts for four weeks with “Whispers in the Dark”. The song is best known for Connee Boswell's version from the film musical Artists and Models , where it is accompanied by Andrém Kostelanetz 'orchestra.
- September 4th : Tommy Dorsey's “The Big Apple” comes in at number 1; its popularity is based on the fashion dance of the same name.
- October 2nd : Bunny Berigan and his orchestra hit # 5 on the US charts with "Ebb Tide", a number by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin from the James P. Hogan film of the same name . That same week Teddy Wilson had his last number 1 hit with the instrumental title "You Can't Stop Me from Dreaming".
- October 9th : Louis Armstrong reaches the top twenty with his version of " Alexander's Ragtime Band ". The Irving Berlin number from 1911 reaches # 12.
- October 23 : Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra manage to land a number 1 hit in the USA for the eighth time; "Once In a While". In 1937 Horace Heidt also made it onto the charts. Teddy Wilson made it into the American top ten that same week with Fats Waller's evergreen " Ain't Misbehavin ' " .
- November 13th : Larry Clinton writes the number "The Dispey Doodle" for Tommy Dorsey , inspired by the baseball pitcher Carl Hubbell , whom he admires.
Others
- The Kalkberg Stadium , an open-air stage in the center of Bad Segeberg based on plans by the architect Fritz Schaller , who took up plans by the garden and landscape designer Wilhelm Heintz from 1927, will be completed by the National Socialist Reich Labor Service after three years of construction . The stadium was named Feierstätte der Nordmark and was officially opened in the same year by Joseph Goebbels and with the performance of the play The Battle of the White Ships by Henrik Herse . It is one of many thing places that are set up for the thing game or the thing movement .
Born
January February
- January 1st : Osvaldo Piro , Argentine bandoneonist and tango composer
- January 2nd : Martin Lauer , German athlete and pop singer
- January 3 : Zygmunt Konieczny , Polish composer
- January 4th : John Gorman , British musician
- January 6th : Paolo Conte , Italian chanson singer, jazz musician and composer
- January 6 : Nino Tempo , American pop musician
- January 6th : Doris Troy , American soul singer († 2004 )
- January 8th : Wolfgang Hirschmann , German sound engineer and music producer of jazz
- January 8th : Shirley Bassey , British singer
- January 14th : Billie Jo Spears , American country singer
- January 16 : Conny Vandenbos , Dutch pop singers († 2002 )
- January 18 : Ric Cartey , American rockabilly musician and songwriter († 2009 )
- January 19 : Phil Wilson , American jazz trombonist
- January 21 : Zbigniew Bargielski , Polish composer
- January 22nd : Al Kasha , American composer and songwriter
- January 25 : Junior Thompson , American rockabilly singer
- February 3 : Bobby Durham , American jazz drummer († 2008 )
- February 3 : Leroy Williams , American jazz drummer
- February 4 : Ann Southam , Canadian composer († 2010 )
- February 7 : Rica Déus , German pop singer
- February 7th : Svante Thuresson , Swedish jazz and pop singer
- February 8 : Manfred Krug , German actor and singer
- February 9 : Hildegard Behrens , German singer (soprano) († 2009 )
- February 11th : Brian Lemon , British jazz pianist and arranger
- February 11 : Phillip Walker , American blues singer and guitarist († 2010 )
- February 14 : Magic Sam , American blues guitarist and singer († 1969 )
- February 18 : Elisabeth Roloff , German organist († 2008 )
- February 19 : Fred Van Hove , Belgian improvisation musician and composer
- February 20 : Nancy Wilson , American singer († 2018 )
- February 23 : Marc Bleuse , French composer and music teacher
- February 26 : William Ferris , American composer, organist and choir director († 2000 )
- February 26 : Hagood Hardy , Canadian vibraphonist, pianist and film composer († 1997 )
March April
- March 3rd : Alfred Janson , Norwegian composer, pianist and accordionist († 2019 )
- March 4th : Diana McIntosh , Canadian pianist, composer and performance artist
- March 4 : Barney Wilen , French jazz musician (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone) († 1996 )
- March 5th : Carol Sloane , American jazz singer
- March 6 : Doug Dillard , American country singer and composer († 2012 )
- March 6 : Paul Méfano , French composer and music teacher
- March 14 : Nadka Karadschowa , Bulgarian folklore singer († 2011 )
- March 20 : Jerry Reed , American country musician and actor († 2008 )
- March 22nd : Angelo Badalamenti , Italian composer
- March 22nd : Jon Hassell , American trumpeter and composer
- March 22nd : Peter Tonger , German music publisher, choir director and reciter
- March 24th : Billy Stewart , American singer and keyboardist († 1970 )
- March 27 : Johnny Copeland , American blues musician († 1997 )
- March 27 : Miriam Klein , Swiss jazz singer
- March 27 : Alan Hawkshaw , British musician, piano and keyboards
- March 31 : Willem Duyn , Dutch rock singer († 2004 )
- March 31 : Jimmy Vass , American jazz saxophonist and flautist († 2006 )
- April 6 : Merle Haggard , American country musician († 2016 )
- April 10 : Wolfgang Jehn , German composer († 2017 )
- April 14 : Donnie Bowshier , American country and rockabilly singer († 2002 )
- April 15 : Bob Luman , American country singer († 1978 )
- April 18 : Keiko Abe , Japanese composer, marimba player
- April 19 : Klaus Thunemann , German bassoonist
- April 22 : Manolo Juárez , Argentine composer († 2020 )
- April 22nd : Jack Nitzsche , American pianist and composer († 2000 )
- April 24 : Spanky DeBrest , American jazz bassist († 1973 )
- April 24 : Joe Henderson , American jazz musician (tenor saxophonist) († 2001 )
- April 27 : Manfred Schubert , German composer, conductor and music critic († 2011 )
- April 27 : John Weaver , American organist, choirmaster and conductor
- April 29 : Donald Arthur , American opera singer, actor and German-speaking voice actor († 2016 )
- April 30th : Günther Höller , German recorder player († 2016 )
May June
- May 4th : Dick Dale , American singer, pioneer of surf rock
- May 15 : Trini Lopez , Latin American singer († 2020 )
- May 19 : Ulrich Melchinger , German opera director († 1979 )
- May 24th : Charly Antolini , Swiss jazz drummer
- May 24 : Archie Shepp , American jazz musician, composer, literary and theater scholar
- May 26 : Yehuda Yannay , Israeli composer
- May 29 : Irmin Schmidt , German musician and composer
- May 31 : Louis Hayes , American jazz drummer
- May 31 : Winfried Schlepphorst , German musicologist, organist and organ monument curator († 2006 )
- June 1 : Lussine Sakarjan , Soviet-Armenian singer (soprano) († 1992 )
- June 2nd : Pierre Favre , Swiss jazz drummer and percussionist
- June 3 : Grachan Moncur III , American jazz trombonist
- June 4th : Aurino Quirino Gonçalves , Brazilian singer and composer
- June 4 : Freddy Fender , American country singer († 2006 )
- June 4th : Mark Whitecage , American jazz saxophonist
- June 7th : Roberto Blanco , German pop singer
- June 7th : Roberto Fernández , Argentine jazz trumpeter
- June 7 : Neeme Järvi , Estonian-American conductor
- June 7 : Teddy Redell , American rockabilly, rock and roll, and country musician
- June 8 : Toni Harper , American jazz and pop singer
- June 12 : Chips Moman , American music producer and composer († 2016 )
- June 15 : Waylon Jennings , American country musician († 2002 )
- June 18 : Johann Schadenbauer , Austrian composer and conductor
- June 20 : Jerry Keller , American singer and songwriter
- June 21 : Kim Tolliver , American soul singer († 2007 )
- June 24 : Renzo Arbore , Italian radio host, actor, screenwriter, film director and musician
- June 25 : Victor Yoran , Russian cellist and composer
- June 26 : Reggie Workman , American jazz bassist
- June 30th : Michael von Biel , German composer and cellist
July August
- July 4th : Hanns HF Schmidt , German writer, composer and painter
- July 6 : Vladimir Ashkenazi , Russian pianist and conductor
- July 9 : Peter Beil , German pop singer, trumpeter, composer and band leader († 2007 )
- July 12th : Howie Casey , English saxophonist
- July 19 : George Hamilton IV , American country singer
- July 19 : Günther Witschurke , German composer and music teacher († 2017 )
- July 25 : Anita Traversi , Swiss pop singer († 1991 )
- July 27 : Peter Damm , German horn player
- July 28 : Bernal Flores Costa Rican composer
- July 29th : Don Woody , American rockabilly singer
- July 30th : Sonny West , American rockabilly singer
- August 3 : Hans Wüthrich , Swiss composer and linguist († 2019 )
- August 6 : Charlie Haden , American jazz bassist († 2014 )
- August 6 : Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian musician († 2000 )
- August 7th : Magic Slim , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter († 2013 )
- August 8 : Cornelis Vreeswijk , Dutch-Swedish troubadour, composer and poet († 1987 )
- August 14 : Jimmy Wormworth , American jazz drummer
- August 20 : Jean-Louis Petit , French conductor, composer, pianist and organist
- August 20 : Sky Saxon , American rock 'n' roll singer († 2009 )
- August 26 : Cornelius Kweku Ganyo , Ghanaian percussionist and dancer († 2003 )
- August 27 : Alice Coltrane , American jazz musician († 2007 )
- August 27 : Tommy Sands , American singer and actor
- August 27 : Phil Shulman , Scottish musician
- August 31 : Gunter Hampel , German jazz musician
- August 31 : Bobby Parker , American guitarist († 2013 )
September October
- September 6 : Wolf-Dieter Hauschild , German conductor
- September 8th : Olaf Kübler , German jazz saxophonist
- September 11 : Iossif Kobson , Soviet or Russian singer († 2018 )
- September 12 : Gus Backus , American musician and pop singer († 2019 )
- September 12 : Wayne Cogswell , American rock and roll musician and songwriter
- September 18 : Dee Barton , American jazz musician, arranger and film composer († 2001 )
- September 20 : Monica Zetterlund , Swedish singer and actress († 2005 )
- September 25 : Horacee Arnold , American jazz drummer
- September 27th : Franz Grundträger , German opera singer
- September 29 : Joe Hughes , American blues guitarist († 2003 )
- September 30th : Walentyn Sylwestrow , Ukrainian composer
- October 5 : Abi Ofarim , Israeli singer († 2018 )
- October 6 : Hōzan Yamamoto , Japanese shakuhachi player, composer and university teacher († 2014 )
- October 9 : Eugen Jegorov , Czech actor and jazz musician († 1997 )
- October 16 : Eduard Moissejewitsch Schafranski , Russian classical guitarist and composer († 2005 )
- October 20 : Wanda Jackson , American rockabilly and country singer
- October 22nd : Manos Loïzos , Greek composer († 1982 )
- October 22 : Tadeáš Salva , Czech composer († 1995 )
- October 28 : Graham Bond , English jazz and blues musician († 1974 )
- October 31 : Tom Paxton , American folk singer, songwriter, and children's book author
November December
- November 5 : Mihai Moldovan , Romanian composer († 1981 )
- November 7th : Alberto Grau , Venezuelan composer, conductor and music teacher
- November 20 : René Kollo , German tenor (chamber singer)
- November 20 : Ruth Laredo , American pianist († 2005 )
- November 22nd : Theophil Antonicek , Austrian musicologist
- November 22 : Nikolai Kapustin , Russian-Ukrainian composer and pianist († 2020 )
- November 26 : Bob Babbitt , American bass player and studio musician († 2012 )
- November 30th : Eduard Artemjew , Russian composer of film music
- November 30th : Heloísa Maria Buarque de Hollanda , Brazilian singer and composer († 2018 )
- December 7th : Peter Vujica , Austrian music critic, culture editor, composer and author
- December 8th : Erich Syri , German chamber singer
- December 8th : Margot Werner , Austrian ballet artist and chanson singer († 2012 )
- December 9th : Herbert Hechtel , German composer
- December 12th : Connie Francis , American singer
- December 16 : Joe Farrell , American jazz musician († 1986 )
- December 23 : Jimmy Van Eaton , American drummer
- December 24th : Bernt Rosengren , Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist and flutist
- December 29th : Dieter Thomas Heck , German pop singer, presenter, actor, showmaster, producer and entertainer († 2018 )
- December 30th : John Hartford , American songwriter († 2001 )
- December 31 : Alvis Wayne , American rockabilly singer († 2013 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Jimmy Dell , American rockabilly, country and gospel musician and preacher
- Tsheten Drölma , Tibetan singer
- Peter Hoch , German music teacher and composer
- Vinnie Johnson , American jazz drummer († 2012 )
- Mary Ann Joyce-Walter , American composer and music teacher
- Jacobus Kloppers , South African organist and musicologist
- Wolf Moser , German musician and writer
- Clarence Sharpe , American jazz saxophonist († 1990 )
- Jimmy Stayton , American rockabilly musician
- Metin Türköz , German-Turkish songwriter
- Sibyl Urbancic , Austrian-Icelandic musician, Feldenkrais pedagogue, journalist and translator
- Cirilo Vila Castro , Chilean conductor, composer and pianist († 2015 )
- Michelangelo Zurletti , Italian music critic, conductor and music teacher
Died
First half of the year
- January 5th : Sofie Röhr-Brajnin , Polish-German opera singer (soprano) (* 1861 )
- January 24th : Karl Wüstefeld , German organist, choir director and local researcher (* 1857 )
- February 7th : Anna Jäger , Austrian-German opera singer (soprano) (* 1862 )
- March 1 : Paul Scheinpflug , German composer and conductor (* 1875 )
- March 12 : Jenő Hubay , Hungarian composer and violin virtuoso (* 1858 )
- March 12 : Charles-Marie Widor , French organist, composer and teacher (* 1844 )
- March 15 : Ward Pinkett , American jazz trumpeter (* 1906 )
- April 4th : Paul Gläser , German church musician, composer and church music director (* 1871 )
- April 8 : Arthur Foote , American composer (* 1853 )
- 10 / April 15 : Heinrichplatz Becker , German composer and organist (* 1860 )
- April 29 : Anton Günther , folk poet and singer of the Ore Mountains (* 1876 )
- May 7 : Alfonso de Silva , Peruvian composer (* 1903 )
- May 11 : Viliam Figuš-Bystrý , Slovak composer (* 1875 )
- June 2 : Louis Vierne , French composer and organist (* 1870 )
- June 7th : Hugo Röhr , German composer (* 1866 )
- June 11 : José María Lacalle , Spanish composer (* 1860 )
Second half of the year
- July 11 : George Gershwin , American composer (* 1898 )
- July 17th : Gabriel Pierné , French composer (* 1863 )
- August 11 : Stéphan Elmas , Turkish-Armenian composer and pianist (* 1864 )
- August 23 : Albert Roussel , French composer (* 1869 )
- September 6 : Henry Kimball Hadley , American composer (* 1871 )
- September 26 : Bessie Smith , American musician (* 1894 )
- October 9 : Julianus Marie August de Boeck , Belgian composer, organist and music teacher (* 1865 )
- October 22 : Frank Damrosch , German-American conductor and music educator (* 1859 )
- November 11 : Felice Carena , Italian composer (* 1885 )
- November 11th : Jerzy Gablenz , Polish composer (* 1888 )
- November 21 : Meliton Balantschiwadze , Georgian composer and folk song collector (* 1863 )
- November 21 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter (* 1857 )
- December 2 : Joe Smith , American jazz trumpeter (* 1902 )
Anton Strohmayer's tomb at the Dornbacher Friedhof in Vienna
- December 20 : Anton Strohmayer , Austrian musician, member of the Schrammel Quartet (* 1848 )
- December 28th : Maurice Ravel , French composer (* 1875 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Clarence Eddy , American organist and composer (* 1851 )
- Paul Fauchet , French organist and composer (* 1881 )
- Jim Jackson , American blues singer and guitarist (* around 1884 or 1890)
See also
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