This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1912.
Specific locations 1912 in Norwegian music
Specific genres 1912 in jazz
Events February 28 – In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 3 (the Sinfonia espansiva) and his Violin Concerto. March – Hart A. Wand publishes "Dallas Blues", a jazz standard and an early published blues song. June 26 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is premiered posthumously in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. September – W. C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues", one of the first blues songs to become a hit. October 16 – Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire debuts at the Berlin Choralion-Saal. Aino Ackté founds an opera festival in Savonlinna; after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland. The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time. William Henry Bell becomes director of the South African College of Music in Cape Town.
Published popular music "After All That I've Been To You" w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith "Alexander's Ragtime Band" w.m. Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane "All Night Long" w.m. Shelton Brooks "And The Green Grass Grew All Around" w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer "At The Devil's Ball" w.m. Irving Berlin "Baby Seals Blues" m. Artie Matthews "Bagdad" w. Anne Caldwell m. Victor Herbert "Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee" w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. Marshall "Beans! Beans!! Beans!!!" w. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith "Becky's Got A Job In A Musical Show" w.m. Irving Berlin "Come Back To Me, My Melody" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder "Daddy Has A Sweetheart (And Mother Is Her Name)" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper "A Dinder Courtship" w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Eric Coates "Do It Again" w.m. Irving Berlin "Dreams Of Long Ago" w. Earl Carroll m. Enrico Caruso "The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up!" w.m. Irving Berlin "Everybody Two-Step" w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer "The Funny Little Melody" w.m. Irving Berlin "Giannina Mia" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml "He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee" w.m. E. Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin "Hitchy-Koo" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams "I'm Afraid, Pretty Maid, I'm Afraid" w.m. Irving Berlin "I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer "In My Harem" w.m. Irving Berlin "In the Garden" w.m. C. Austin Miles "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" w.m. Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams "Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile" w.m. Irving Berlin "Kentucky Sue" by Lew Brown "Last Night Was The End Of The World" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer "The Last Shot Got Him" w.m. Cecil Mack & Cecil Smith "Lead Me To That Beautiful Band" w. E. Ray Goetz m. Irving Berlin from the musical theater production 'Cohan And Harris Minstrels' "A Little Love, A Little Kiss" w. (Fr) Nilson Fysher (Eng) Adrian Ross m. Leo Silesu "Love Is Like A Firefly" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml "Melody" m. Charles Gates Dawes "The Memphis Blues" w. George A. Norton m. W. C. Handy "The Million Dollar Ball" Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz "My Melancholy Baby" w. George A. Norton m. Ernie Burnett "On A Beautiful Night With A Beautiful Girl" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
"On The Mississippi" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll & Arthur Fields "Parisienne" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer "Pick, Pick, Pick Pick On The Mandolin, Antonio" w.m. Irving Berlin "Ragging The Baby To Sleep" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" w. Grant Clarke m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams "The Ragtime Jockey Man" w.m. Irving Berlin "Ragtime Mocking Bird" w.m. Irving Berlin "The Ragtime Soldier Man" w.m. Irving Berlin "The Rose of Tralee" w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover "Row Row Row" w. William Jerome m. James V. Monaco "Sly Musette" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane "The Society Bear" w.m. Irving Berlin "Some Boy" w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper "Somebody's Coming To Town From Dixie" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Henry Clay Smith "The Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi" w. Byron D. Stokes m. F. Dudleigh Vernor "Sympathy" w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml "Take A Little Tip From Father" Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder "Take Me Back" w.m. Irving Berlin "Take Me To That Swanee Shore" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir "Take Me To The Cabaret" w.m. William Dillon "That Eccentric Rag" m. J. Russel Robinson "That Old Girl Of Mine" w. Earle C. Jones m. Egbert van Alstyne "That's How I Need You" w. Joe McCarthy & Joe Goodwin m. Al Piantadosi "There's One In A Million Like You" w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz "Waiting For The Robert E. Lee" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir "'Way Down South" w.m. George Fairman "The Wedding Glide" w.m. Louis Hirsch "A Wee Hoose 'Mang The Heather" w.m Gilbert Wells, Fred Elton & Harry Lauder "When I Get You Alone Tonight" w.m. Joseph McCarthy, Joe Goodwin & Fred Fisher "When I Lost You" w.m. Irving Berlin "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" w. Chauncey Olcott & George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball "When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam" w.m. Irving Berlin "When Uncle Joe Plays A Rag On His Old Banjo" w.m. Theodore F. Morse "Yiddisha Professor" w.m. Irving Berlin "You're My Baby" w. A Seymour Brown m. Nat D. Ayer
Popular recordings "The Herd Girl's Dream" by George Stehl, Marshall P. Lufsky, & Paul Surth, Columbia "Everybody Two Step" by Billy Murray, Edison "The Floral Dance" by Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) "Roamin' in the Gloamin'" by Harry Lauder, Victor
Classical music Hugo Alfvén – , for flute (incidental music for the play by Plautus) , for voice and piano (incidental music for the play by Verner von Heidenstam), for chorus and small orchestra , Op. 30, for baritone, male choir, and orchestra Granville Bantock – In the Far West, serenade for string orchestra Alban Berg – Five Orchestral Songs on Picture-Postcard Texts by Peter Altenberg Frank Bridge 4 Short Pieces for Violin and Piano, H.104 Piano Quintet Max Bruch – Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra Ferruccio Busoni Nocturne symphonique, Op. 43, BV 262 Sonatina No. 2 George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad John Alden Carpenter – The Cock Shall Crow, for voice and piano Poems by Paul Verlaine (Four), for voice and piano Songs (Eight), for medium voice and piano Carlos Chávez – for piano for piano Claude Debussy Gigues Khamma (ballet) Preludes, Book 2 Frederick Delius The Song of the High Hills On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Paul Dukas – La Peri (ballet) Edward Elgar – The Music Makers George Enescu – Sonatensatz in F minor, for piano Victor Ewald – Brass Quintet No. 1 Philippe Gaubert – Fantaisie for Flute and Piano Alexander Glazunov Piano Concerto No.1, Op.92 Finnish Sketches Percy Grainger – Handel in the Strand Swan Hennessy En Passant, Op.40 Valses caprices, Op.41 Sonatine, Op.43 3 Pièces Celtiques, Op.45 Joseph Holbrooke – Nocturne: "Fairyland", Op. 57, for oboe, clarinet (or viola), and piano Arthur Honegger – Sonata in D minor, for violin and piano Charles Ives – Robert Browning Overture Leoš Janáček The Fiddler's Child for orchestra V mlhách (In the Mists) for piano Manolis Kalomiris – , for voice and orchestra Quintet, for piano and strings, with voice Sigfrid Karg-Elert – Chorale Improvisations (Four), for organ , for harmonium (20), Op. 78, for organ Triumph, Op. 79, for unaccompanied chorus , chorale canzona, Op. 82, No. 2, for chorus, violin, and organ Anatoly Lyadov – , Op. 66, for orchestra Gian Francesco Malipiero – , symphonic poem for cello and orchestra , for orchestra Bohuslav Martinů – Andante, for string quartet Ave Maria, for soprano and organ Niponari, for soprano and orchestra Nocturnes (Two), for string quartet Offertorium, for soprano and organ Phantasie, for violin and piano String Quartet Arnold Mendelssohn – , Op. 61, for solo voices, chorus, organ, and orchestra , Op. 54, for soprano, chorus, organ, and orchestra Moritz Moszkowski – Grande valse de concert, Op.88 Carl Nielsen – , for wind orchestra Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, for violin and piano Leo Ornstein – A Paris Street Scene at Night, Op. 4, No. 3, for piano Otakar Ostrčil – , Op. 15, for male chorus Suite in C minor, Op. 14, for orchestra Gabriel Pierné – , oratorio Ildebrando Pizzetti – , for voice and piano , for voice and piano Sergei Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Major Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor Roger Quilter – Moonlight on the Lake, for piano Where the Rainbow Ends: Suite, for piano Sergei Rachmaninoff – Songs (14), Op. 34 Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé Max Reger – "An die Hoffnung", Op. 124, for contralto (or mezzo-soprano) and orchestra (or piano) , Op. 85, 35 little pieces for piano , Op. 110, for chorus in F major, Op. 123, for orchestra Preludes and Fugues, Op. 117, for violin solo , Op. 125, for orchestra , Op. 126, for male voices and orchestra Henriette Renié – Ballade fantastique for harp Erik Satie – , for piano duet , for piano , for piano , for piano Philipp Scharwenka – String Quartet No.2, Op.120 Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot Lunaire Cyril Scott – Two Passacaglias Alexander Scriabin Poème-Nocturne, Op.61 Piano Sonata No.6, Op.62 2 Poèmes, Op.63 Piano Sonata No.7, Op.64 3 Études, Op. 65 Rudi Stephan Musik für 7 Saiteninstrumente, Op.16 Musik fur Orchester Richard Strauss – Der Bürger als Edelmann (first version, as incidental music for Hugo von Hofmannsthal's translation of Molière's play) Igor Stravinsky – Le roi des étoiles Marcel Tournier – Louis Vierne – Symphony for Organ No. 3 in F minor Heitor Villa-Lobos – , for piano , for piano , for piano , for guitar Egon Wellesz 5 Kirschblütenlieder, Op. 8 3 Tänze for piano, Op. 10 Vorfrühling for orchestra, Op. 12 Charles-Marie Widor – Suite for cello and piano Alberto Williams – (5), for orchestra Kōsaku Yamada Overture in D major Symphony in F major "Triumph and Peace"
Opera Eugen d'Albert – (Vienna, 6 February) (Vienna, 12 November) Walter Damrosch – The Dove of Peace Joseph Holbrooke – The Children of Don, Op. 56 (London, 12 June) Otakar Ostrčil – (The Bud), Op. 12 (Prague, National Theatre, 25 January) Guy Ropartz – Le Pays Richard Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos Franz Schreker – Der ferne Klang Ferruccio Busoni – Die Brautwahl
Ballet Maurice Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé premieres at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris by his Ballets Russes
Musical theater
The Count of Luxembourg Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 16 and ran for 120 performances. The Firefly, music by Rudolf Friml, Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 2 and ran for 120 performances Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway Broadway revival opened at the George M. Cohan Theatre on March 14 and ran for 36 performances. Gypsy Love (musical) London production opened at Daly's Theatre on June 1 and ran for 299 performances. Hullo, Rag-time! Opened at the London Hippodrome on December 23 and ran for 451 performances. The Lady of the Slipper Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 28 and ran for 232 performances. Starring Elsie Janis, Montgomery and Stone, James Reaney, Peggy Wood and Vernon Castle. Der Lila Domino (The Lilac Domino) – Vienna production Mama's Baby Boy (Music: Hans Linne Book & Lyrics: Junie McCree) Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on May 25 and ran for 9 performances Oh! Oh! Delphine! Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 30 and ran for 248 performances Over the River (Words & Music: John Golden) Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on January 8 and ran for 120 performances. Starring Eddie Foy, Lillian Lorraine, Mae Busch, Peggy Wood and Maurice and Walton. The Pink Lady London production opened at the Globe Theatre on April 11 and ran for 124 performances