This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1922.
Specific locations 1922 in British music 1922 in Norwegian music
Specific genres 1922 in country music 1922 in jazz
Events January 24 – Carl Nielsen conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No. 5 in Copenhagen. May 28 – The Detroit News Orchestra, the world's first radio orchestra (a symphonic ensemble organized specifically to play on radio), begins broadcasting from radio station WWJ in Detroit, Michigan. October 11 – Leila Megàne makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting.BBC Cymru Y gantores ysbrydegol: Llyfr am Leila Megane yn dwyn atgofion (Welsh language) October 19 – Maurice Ravel's orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris. December 20 – Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on the stage of the Théâtre de l'Atelier in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger and costumes by Gabrielle Chanel. Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Richard Tauber joins the Vienna State Opera. Earliest known example of American gospel song "This Train (is Bound for Glory)", a recording by Florida Normal and Industrial Institute Quartette, under the title "Dis Train". The Central Band of the Royal Air Force becomes the first military band to make a radio broadcast with the British Broadcasting Company. All musical compositions written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States. Recordings of those compositions, however are still protected by various state statutes and do not fully enter the nationwide public domain until February 15, 2067.
Publications
Published popular music "Aggravatin' Papa" w.m. Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt "All Over Nothing At All" w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule "Along The Road To Gundagai" w.m. Jack O'Hagan "L'Amour. Toujours L'Amour (Love Everlasting)" w.(Eng) Catherine Chisholm Cushing m. Rudolf Friml "Angel Child" w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis m. Abner Silver "Baby Blue Eyes" w.m. Jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel "Bee's Knees" by Leo Wood & Ray Lopez "Blue (And Broken Hearted)" w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman "Broken Hearted Melody" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones "A Brown Bird Singing" w. Royden Barrie m. Haydn Wood "Bugle Call Rag" m. Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel "Carolina in the Morning" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson "Carolina Shout" m. James P. Johnson "Chicago" w.m. Fred Fisher "China Boy" w.m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje "Crinoline Days" w.m. Irving Berlin "Dancing Fool" w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder "Dearest (You're The Nearest To My Heart)" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst "Do It Again" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin "Down In Midnight Town" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer "Down Hearted Blues" w. Alberta Hunter m Lovie Austin "Dream On" (An Indian Lullaby) w. B.G DeSylva, m. Victor Herbert "Dreamy Melody" w.m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C. Naset "Farewell Blues" w.m. Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel "Fate" by Byron Gay "Georgette" w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson "Georgia" w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson "Heute spielt der Uridil" w.m. Oskar Virag & Oskar Steiner "I Found A Four Leaf Clover" w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin "I Gave You Up Just Before You Threw Me Down" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Fred E. Ahlert "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin "I'm going Back to Yarrawonga" "A Kiss In The Dark" w. B. G. De Sylva m. Victor Herbert "Kitten on the Keys" m. Zez Confrey "The Lady In Ermine" w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman "Lady Of The Evening" w.m. Irving Berlin. Introduced by John Steel in the Music Box Revue of 1922. "Limehouse Blues" w. Douglas Furber m. Philip Braham "Los mareados w. Enrique Cadícamo m. Juan Carlos Cobián "Lovesick Blues" w. Irving Mills m. Cliff Friend "Lovin' Sam (The Sheik Of Alabam)" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager "March With Me!" w. Douglas Furber m. Ivor Novello "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" w.m. Ed Gallagher & Al Shean "My Buddy" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson "My Rambler Rose" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper "My Sweet Hortense" w. Joe Young & Sam Lewis m. Walter Donaldson "My Word You Do Look Queer" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee "'Neath The South Sea Moon" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper "Nellie Kelly I Love You" w.m. George M. Cohan "Nuits de Chine" w. Ernest Dumont m. Louis Bénech "On the Alamo" w. Gus Kahn m. Isham Jones "On The Gin Gin Ginny Shore" w. Edgar Leslie m. Walter Donaldson "Oo-oo Ernest Are You Earnest With Me" w. Sidney Clare & Harry Tobias m. Cliff Friend "Pack Up Your Sins And Go To The Devil" w.m. Irving Berlin "Rose Of The Rio Grande" w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Warren & Ross Gorman "Round On The End And High In The Middle (O-Hi-O)" w.m. Alfred Bryan & Bert Hanlon "Runnin' Wild" w. Joe Grey & Leo Wood m. A. Harrington Gibbs "Say It While Dancing" w. Benny Davis m. Abner Silver "Shabondama" w. Ujō Noguchi "'Taint Nobody's Business If I Do" w.m. Clarence Williams, Porter Grainger & Graham Prince "Three O'Clock in the Morning" w. Dorothy Terriss m. Julián Robledo "Throw Me A Kiss" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch & Dave Stamper "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" w.m. Dan Russo, Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn & Ernie Erdman "Trees" w. Joyce Kilmer m. Oscar Rasbach "Tu verras Montmartre!" w. Lucien Boyer m. Charles Borel-Clerc "'Way Down Yonder In New Orleans" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton "When Hearts Are Young" w. Cyrus Wood m. Sigmund Romberg & Al Goodman "When You And I Were Young, Maggie, Blues" w.m. Jack Frost & Jimmy McHugh "Who Cares?" w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager "Wonderful One" w. Dorothy Terris m. Paul Whiteman & Ferde Grofe "You Know You Belong To Somebody Else" w. Eugene West m. James V. Monaco "You Remind Me Of My Mother" w.m. George M. Cohan "You Tell Her, I S-t-u-t-t-e-r" w. Billy Rose m. Cliff Friend
Top Popular Recordings 1922
The following songs achieved the highest positions in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 and record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website during 1922: Numerical rankings are approximate, they are only used as a frame of reference. Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart Positions 1 Al Jolson "April Showers" Columbia 3500 US Billboard 1922 #1, US #1 for 11 weeks, 17 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales 2 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Three O'Clock in the Morning" Victor 18940 US Billboard 1922 #2, US #1 for 8 weeks, 20 total weeks, 1,732,034 sold (Victor 1920s memo), 3.5 million 3 Ed Gallagher and Al Shean "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" Victor 18941 US Billboard 1922 #3, US #1 for 6 weeks, 12 total weeks, 929,185 sold (Victor 1920s memo) 4 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Stumbling" Victor 18899 US Billboard 1922 #4, US #1 for 6 weeks, 12 total weeks 5 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Hot Lips" Victor 18920 US Billboard 1922 #5, US #1 for 6 weeks, 11 total weeks, 523,106 sold (Victor 1920s memo), 1,000,000 sold 6 Al Jolson "Angel Child" Columbia 3568 US Billboard 1922 #6, US #1 for 5 weeks, 8 total weeks 7 Isham Jones Orchestra "On the Alamo" Brunswick 2245 US Billboard 1922 #7, US #1 for 4 weeks, 10 total weeks 8 Billy Jones & Ernie Hare "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" Okeh 4608 US Billboard 1922 #8, US #1 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks 9 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra "Do it Again" Victor 18882 US Billboard 1922 #9, US #1 for 2 weeks, 9 total weeks, 523,206 sold (Victor 1920s memo) 10 Henry Burr "My Buddy" Victor 18930 US Billboard 1922 #10, US #1 for 1 weeks, 10 total weeks 11 Fanny Brice (Orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon) "My Man" Victor 45263 US Billboard 1922 #11, US #1 for 1 weeks, 9 total weeks, 424,849 sold (Victor 1920s memo) 12 Al Jolson "Give Me My Mammy" Columbia 3540 US Billboard 1922 #12, US #2 for 4 weeks, 8 total weeks 18 Vernon Dalhart and the Criterion Trio "Tuck Me to Sleep (In My Old 'Tucky Home)" Victor 18807 US Billboard 1922 #18, US #2 for 1 weeks, 7 total weeks, 1,040,811 sold (Victor 1920s memo) 19 Isham Jones Orchestra "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" Brunswick 2313 US Billboard 1922 #19, US #2 for 1 weeks, 6 total weeks
Classical music Kurt Atterberg – Cello Concerto Alfredo Barbirolli – Sensuel-tango Arnold Bax – First Symphony Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony Julián Carrillo – Preludio a Colón, for soprano in fifths of a tone, flute, violin, and guitar in quarter tones, octavina in eighth tones, and harp in sixteenth tones Gerald Finzi – By Footpath and Stile, Op. 2 Vittorio Giannini – Stabat Mater Hamilton Harty – Piano Concerto Paul Hindemith – String Quartet No. 3 in C, Op. 22 Jacques Ibert Escales, for orchestra Histoires, for piano Manuel Infante – Sevillana "Impresiones de fiesta en Sevilla" Manuel Jovés (es)– Patotero sentimental Ernesto Nazareth "1922" (tango) "Desengonçado" "Fóra dos eixos" "Gaúcho" "Jangadeiro" "Mandinga" "Meigo" "O futurista" "Por que sofre?..." Carl Nielsen Fynsk Foraar Wind Quintet Francis Poulenc – Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone (subsequently revised) Dmitri Shostakovich Three Fantastic Dances, Op. 5, for piano Suite in F-sharp minor, Op. 6, for two pianos Vaughan Williams – Pastoral Symphony William Walton – Façade (subsequently revised)
Opera Jean Cras – Polyphème Paul Hindemith – Sancta Susanna Léo Manuel – Le fakir de Bénarès Jules Massenet – Amadis Ottorino Respighi – La bella dormente nel bosco Igor Stravinsky – Mavra Alexander Zemlinsky – Der Zwerg
Film Hans Erdmann – Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Jazz
Musical theater The Cabaret Girl (Music: Jerome Kern, Book and Lyrics: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith, Jr.) London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 19 and ran for 361 performances The Hotel Mouse Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 13 and ran for 88 performances Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances Make It Snappy Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on April 13 and ran for 96 performances. Starring Eddie Cantor, Lew Hearn, J. Harold Murray, Nan Halperin, Georgie Hale and Tot Qualters. The Music Box Revue of 1922 opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 23 and ran for 330 performances Orange Blossoms (music Victor Herbert) opened at the Fulton Theatre on September 19 and ran for 95 performances Phi-Phi London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre on August 16 and ran for 132 performances Queen O' Hearts Broadway production opened at the Cohan Theatre on October 10 and ran for 40 performances Whirled into Happiness London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on May 18 and ran for 246 performances
Births January 3 – Siegmund Nissel, Austrian-born British violinist (d. 2008) January 4 – Frank Wess, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 2013) January 7 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flautist (d. 2000) January 16 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008) January 28 – Anna Gordy Gaye, American songwriter and producer, co-founder of Anna Records (d. 2014) February 1 – Renata Tebaldi, operatic soprano (d. 2004) February 16 – Geraint Evans, operatic baritone (d. 1992) February 17 – Tommy Edwards, singer (d. 1969) February 19 – Fredell Lack, American violinist (d. 2017) February 23 – Johnny Franz, English record producer (d. 1977) March 28 – Felice Chiusano, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1990) April 3 – Doris Day, actress and singer (d. 2019) April 4 – Elmer Bernstein, film composer (d. 2004) April 5 – Gale Storm, singer and actress (d. 2009) April 7 – Mongo Santamaría, percussionist (d. 2003) April 14 – Ali Akbar Khan, Indian sarod player (d. 2009)