title: 1917 in music
text: # 1917 in music
  
  This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917.
  
  ## Specific locations
  
  * 1917 in British music
  * 1917 in Norwegian music
  
  ## Specific genres
  
  * 1917 in country music
  * 1917 in jazz
  
  ## Events
  
  * March 7 – "Livery Stable Blues", recorded with "Dixie Jazz Band One Step" on February 26 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (a white 5-piece group from New Orleans led by cornetist Nick LaRocca) for the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States, becomes the first jazz recording commercially released (described as a "foxtrot"). On August 17 the band records "Tiger Rag"
  * May 12 – Béla Bartók's ballet The Wooden Prince is premiered in Budapest
  * First African American jazz recordings made by Wilbur Sweatman's Band
  * Eddie Cantor makes his first recordings
  * Songs of the First World War become popular in the U.S.
  
  ## Bands formed
  
  * See Category:Musical groups established in 1917
  
  ## Published popular music
  
  * "All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me" w. Al Dubin m. Ernest R. Ball
  * "Any Time Is Kissing Time" w. Oscar Asche m. Frederic Norton from the musical Chu Chin Chow
  * "Are You From Heaven?" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
  * "At the Jazz Band Ball" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
  * "A Bachelor Gay" w. Frank Clifford Harris & (Arthur) Valentine m. James W. Tate from the musical The Maid of the Mountains
  * "Barnyard Blues" w.m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro & Larry Shields
  * "The Bells Of St Mary's" w. Douglas Furber m. A. Emmett Adams
  * "The Bombo-Shay" by Henry Creamer
  * "Bring Back My Daddy to Me" m. George W. Meyer w. William Tracey & Howard Johnson
  * "Bring Me A Rose" w.m. Charles Shisler
  * "Cheer Up, Liza" John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell
  * "Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band" w. Jack Coogan m. Jimmy Morgan
  * "Come To The Fair" w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin
  * "The Darktown Strutters' Ball" w.m. Shelton Brooks
  * "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" Original Dixieland Jass Band
  * "Down in the Valley" trad US
  * "Eileen (Alanna Asthore)" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
  * "For Me And My Gal" w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer
  * "For Your Country and My Country" w.m. Irving Berlin
  * "Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride" w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey O'Hara
  * "Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  * "Going Up" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch
  * "Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
  * "Good Bye Broadway, Hello France" w. C. Francis Reisner & Benny Davis m. Billy Baskette
  * "Goodbye, Ma! Goodbye, Pa! Goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw!" w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker
  * "'Good-bye,' That Means You" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Arthur Lange
  * "Good-bye-ee" w.m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee
  * "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here" w. D. A. Esrom (pseudonym of Dolly Morse) m. Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan
  * "Have A Heart" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  * "Hawaiian Butterfly" w. George A. Little m. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley
  * "Homeward Bound" m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson and Coleman Goetz
  * "Homing" w. Arthur L. Salmon m. Teresa del Riego
  * "How Can I Forget When There's So Much To Remember" w.m. Irving Berlin
  * "Huckleberry Finn" by Cliff Hess
  * "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" w.m. George Fairman
  * "I Don't Want to Get Well" w. Howard Johnson & Harry Pease m. Harry Jentes
  * "I May Be Gone for a Long, Long Time" w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer
  * "I Wish You all the Luck in the World" w. & m. by Abe Olman
  * "I'd Love To Be A Monkey In The Zoo" w. Bert Hanlon m. Willie White
  * "I'll Take You Back To Italy" w.m. Irving Berlin
  * "I'm All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
  * "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Carroll (melody adapted from Chopin)
  * "If I Find The Guy Who Wrote "Poor Butterfly"" w. William Jerome m. Arthur Green
  * "Indiana" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
  * "Indianola" m. Henry R. Stern & Domenico Savino
  * "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" w. Alfred Bryan & Willie Weston m. Jack Wells
  * "Johnson Rag" m. Guy H. Hall & Henry Kleinhauf
  * "Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. M. K. Jerome
  * "Leave It To Jane" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  * "Let's All Be Americans Now" w.m. Irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & George W. Meyer
  * "Lily Of The Valley" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Anatole Friedland
  * "Little Mother Of Mine" w. Walter H. Brown m. Harry T. Burleigh
  * "Little Sir Echo" w. Laura R. Smith m. J. S. Fearis
  * "Livery Stable Blues" Alcide Nunez & Ray Lopez
  * "Lorraine (My Beautiful Alsace Lorraine)" w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher
  * "Love Will Find A Way" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson. Introduced by José Collins in the musical The Maid of the Mountains
  * "Mad'moiselle From Armentieres" w.m. anon
  * "McNamara's Band" w. John J. Stamford m. Shamus O'Connor
  * "The Modern Maiden's Prayer" w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley
  * "My Sunshine Jane" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
  * "My Sweetie" w.m. Irving Berlin
  * "'N' Everything" w.m. Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva & Gus Kahn
  * "Napoleon" w. P.G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  * "Nesting Time In Flatbush" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  * "Oh It's A Lovely War" w.m. Maurice Scott
  * "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" w. Ed Rose m. Abe Olman
  * "Ole Miss Rag" w.m. W. C. Handy
  * "On The Road To Home Sweet Home" w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert van Alstyne
  * "Ostrich Walk" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
  * "Out Where The West Begins" w. Arthur Chapman m. Estelle Philleo
  * "Over There" w.m. George M. Cohan
  * "Paddy McGinty's Goat" w.m. R.P. Weston, Bert Lee & The Two Bobs
  * "A Paradise For Two" w. Frank Clifford Harris & Valentine m. James W. Tate
  * "Regretful Blues" w. Grant Clarke m. Cliff Hess
  * "Reflection Rag" m. Scott Joplin
  * "The Road To Paradise" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Sigmund Romberg from the musical Maytime
  * "Rockaway" by Howard Johnson
  * "Rolled Into One" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  * "Rose Room" w. Harry Williams m. Art Hickman
  * "Sailin' Away On The Henry Clay" w. Gus Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne
  * "Say a Prayer for the Boys "Out There"" w. Bernie Grossman m. Alex Marr
  * "Send Me Away With A Smile" w.m. Louis Weslyn & Al Piantadosi
  * "Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble" m. Spencer Williams
  * "Sing Me Love's Lullaby" w. Dorothy Terris m. Theodore F. Morse
  * "The Siren's Song" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  * "Six Times Six Is Thirty-Six" w. Bert Hanlon m. William White
  * "Slippery Hank" Frank H. Losey
  * "Smile And Show Your Dimple" w.m. Irving Berlin (reworked 1933 as "Easter Parade")
  * "Smiles" w. J. Will Callahan m. Lee S. Roberts
  * "Some Sunday Morning" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
  * "Somewhere In France" w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herbert Ivey
  * "Somewhere In France (Is The Lily)" w. Philander Chase Johnson m. Joseph E. Howard
  * "Southern Gals" w. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
  * "The Story Book Ball" w.m. Billie Montgomery & George Perry
  * "Sweet Emalina My Gal" w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton
  * "That's The Kind Of Baby For Me" w.m. Jack Egan & Alfred Harrison
  * "There Are Fairies At The Bottom Of Our Garden" w.m. Liza Lehmann
  * "There's A Lump Of Sugar Down In Dixie" w. Alfred Bryan & Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble
  * "There's Something Nice About The South" w.m. Irving Berlin
  * "They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me" w. Joseph McCarthy m. Fred Fisher
  * "They'll Be Whistling It All Over Town" w. E Ray Goetz m.Jean Schwartz
  * "Thine Alone" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
  * "The Tickle Toe" w. Otto Harbach m. Louis Hirsch
  * "Tiger Rag" w. Harry De Costa m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Sbarbaro, Henry Ragas & Larry Shields
  * "Till The Clouds Roll By" w. P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern
  * "Ugly Chile" w.m. Clarence Williams
  * "The Waggle O' The Kilt" w.m. Harry Lauder
  * "Wait Till The Cows Come Home" w. Anne Caldwell m. Ivan Caryll
  * "When the Boys Come Home" w. John Hay m. Oley Speaks
  * "When Yankee Doodle Learns To Parlez Vous Francais" w. Will Hart m. Edward G. Nelson
  * "Where Do We Go From Here?" w. Howard Johnson m. Percy Wenrich
  * "Where The Morning Glories Grow" w. Gus Kahn & Raymond B. Egan m. Richard A. Whiting
  * "Why Am I Always The Bridesmaid?" w.m. Fred Leigh, Charles Collins & Lily Morris
  * "Will You Remember?" w. Rida Johnson Young m. Sigmund Romberg
  * "Wonder Eyes" m. Percy E. Fletcher
  * "Yah-De-Dah" m. Mel B. Kaufman
  * "You Brought Ireland Right Over To Me" w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
  * "You Never Knew About Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern
  
  ## Hit recordings
  
  * "Livery Stable Blues/Dixie Jass One Step" by the Original Dixieland Jass Band
  * "Goodbye Broadway, Hello France" by the American Quartet
  * "A Bachelor Gay" by Peter Dawson
  * "I Don't Want To Get Well" by Van & Schenck
  * "Joe Turner Blues" by Wilbur Sweatman
  * "Long Boy" by Byron G. Harlan With The Peerless Quartet
  * "Over There" recorded by
     * Billy Murray
     * Nora Bayes
  * "Poor Butterfly" by the Victor Military Band
  * "That's The Kind Of A Baby For Me" by Eddie Cantor
  * "The Waggle O' The Kilt" by Harry Lauder
  * "Yaddie Kaddie Kiddie Kaddie Koo" by Van & Schenck
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Arnold Bax – November Woods
  * Lili Boulanger – Psaume 130 (Du fond de l'abîme)
  * Frank Bridge – Cello Sonata in D minor
  * John Alden Carpenter
     * The Birthday of the Infanta, ballet
     * The Home Road for SATB mixed chorus or unison voices and piano
     * Symphony No. 1 ("Sermons in Stones")
  * Carlos Chávez – Sonata fantasia (Piano Sonata No. 1)
  * Nancy Dalberg – Symphony in C-sharp minor
  * Claude Debussy – Violin Sonata in G minor
  * Frederick Delius – Eventyr (Once Upon a Time)
  * Gabriel Fauré – Cello Sonata No. 1
  * Alexander Glazunov – Piano Concerto No. 2 in B, Op. 100
  * Launy Grøndahl – Violin Concerto in D Major
  * Charles Koechlin
     * La divine vesprée, ballet
     * Paysages et marines, Op. 63bis, version for flute, clarinet, string quartet, and piano
     * Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 66
  * Carl Nielsen – Chaconne, for piano
  * Willem Pijper
     * Symphony No. 1, Pan
     * Sonatina No. 1, for piano
     * De Lente Komt, choral
  * Sergei Prokofiev
     * Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 19
     * Igrok (The Gambler), opera, Op. 24
     * Mimoletnosti (Visions fugitives), 20 pieces for piano, Op. 22
     * Piano Sonata No. 3 ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 28
     * Piano Sonata No. 4 ("From Old Notebooks"), Op. 29
     * Symphony No. 1 Classical, Op. 25
  * Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau de Couperin, for piano
  * Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 1
  * Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (string orchestra version)
  * Jean Sibelius – Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra opp. 87 and 89
  * Charles Villiers Stanford
     * Aviator's Hymn, for tenor, bass, choir, and organ
     * Irish Rhapsody No. 5, in G Minor, for orchestra
     * Night Thoughts, Op. 148, for piano
     * "On Windy Way When Morning Breaks", partsong
     * Sailing Song, partsong, two soprano voices
     * "St George of England", song
     * Scènes de ballet, Op. 150, for piano
     * Sonata No. 1, in F major, Op. 149, for organ
     * Sonata No. 2 ("Eroica"), in G minor, Op. 151, for organ
     * Sonata No. 3 ("Britannica"), in D minor, Op. 152, for organ
  * Igor Stravinsky
     * Berceuse, for voice and piano
     * Le chant du rossignol, symphonic poem
     * Cinq pièces faciles, for piano 4 hands
     * "Ovsen’", No. 2 from Podblyudnïye (Saucers) (Four Russian Peasant Songs), for women's choir
     * Song of the Volga Boatmen, arrangement for winds and percussion
     * Study, for pianola
     * Valse pour les enfants, for piano (possibly 1916)
  * Karol Szymanowski
     * Sonata No. 3, for piano
     * String Quartet No. 1 in C major
     * Demeter, cantata
     * Agave, cantata
  * Heitor Villa-Lobos
     * String Quartet No. 4
     * Symphony No. 2 Ascenção (Ascension), revised or completed 1943/44
  * Eugène Ysaÿe – Exil, for string orchestra of only violins and violas, Op. 25
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Armas Launis – Kullervo
  * Sergei Prokofiev – The Gambler
  * Ignatz Waghalter – Jugend
  * Giacomo Puccini – La rondine, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 27 March
  * Richard Strauss – Die Frau ohne Schatten
  * Gabriel von Wayditch – The Caliph's Magician
  * Alexander Zemlinsky – Eine florentinische Tragödie
  
  ## Film
  
  * Pietro Mascagni – Rapsodia Satanica
  
  ## Musical theatre
  
  * The Beauty Spot West End production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on 22 December and ran for 152 performances
  * The Better 'Ole London production opened at the Oxford Theatre on August 4 and ran for 811 performances
  * The Boy London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 14 and ran for 801 performances
  * Cheep London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on April 26.
  * Chu Chin Chow Broadway production opened at the Manhattan Opera House on October 22 and ran for 208 performances
  * Eileen opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 19 and ran for 64 performances.
  * Hanky Panky London revue opened at the Empire Theatre on March 24
  * Jack O'Lantern Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 16 and ran for 265 performances
  * Leave It to Jane Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28 and ran for 167 performances
  * The Maid Of The Mountains London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 10 and ran for 1352 performances
  * Maytime Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on August 16 and ran for 492 performances
  * Miss 1917 Broadway revue opened at the Century Theatre on November 5 and ran for 72 performances
  * Oh, Boy! (musical) Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on February 20 and ran for 463 performances
  * The Riviera Girl Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 24 and ran for 78 performances
  * Arlette West End production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 6 September and ran for 280 performances
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 2 – Vera Zorina, German dancer and actress (died 2003)
  * January 3 – Pierre Dervaux, French operatic conductor, composer and pedagogue (d. 1992)
  * January 10 – Jerry Wexler, music journalist and record producer (d. 2008)
  * January 12
     * Walter Hendl, American conductor, composer and pianist (d. 2007)
     * Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, major influence on The Beatles (d. 2008)
  * January 15 – Tiny Timbrell, guitarist (d. 1992)
  * January 19 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (d. 2005)
  * February 11 – Arcesia, singer (d. 1983)
  * February 15 – Denise Scharley, French contralto (d. 2011)
  * February 18 – Dona Massin, choreographer (d. 2001)
  * February 25 – Anthony Burgess, composer (d. 1993)
  * February 27 – George Mitchell, founder of the Black and White Minstrels (d. 2002)
  * March 2
     * Desi Arnaz, musician, actor and producer (d. 1986)
     * John Gardner, composer (d. 2011)
  * March 7 – Janet Collins, dancer and choreographer (d. 2003)
  * March 12 – Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
  * March 17 – Brian Boydell, Irish composer (d. 2000)
  * March 18 – Riccardo Brengola, violinist (d. 2004)
  * March 19 – Dinu Lipatti, pianist (d. 1950)
  * March 20 – Vera Lynn, singer (d. 2020)
  * March 21 – Anton Coppola, opera conductor (d. 2020)
  * March 23
     * Josef Locke, tenor (d. 1999)
     * Oscar Shumsky, violinist (d. 2000)
  * March 26 – Rufus Thomas, singer (d. 2001)
  * March 30
     * Els Aarne, composer (d. 1995)
     * Rudolf Brucci, composer (d. 2002)
  * April 9 – Johannes Bobrowski, lyricist (d. 1965)
  * April 12 – Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (d. 1999)
  * April 22 – Yvette Chauviré, ballerina (d. 2016)
  * April 25 – Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (d. 1996)
  * April 30 – Bea Wain, US big band singer (d. 2017)
  * May 1
     * Danielle Darrieux, singer and actress (d. 2017)
     * Lily Lian, street singer (d. 2020)
  * May 14
     * Lou Harrison, US composer (d. 2003)
     * Norman Luboff, US choral director (d. 1987)
  * May 16 – Vera Rózsa, singer and voice teacher (d. 2010)
  * May 21 – Dennis Day, US singer (d. 1988)
  * May 22 – Georg Tintner, Austrian conductor (d. 1999)
  * May 28 – Papa John Creach, fiddler (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 1994)
  * June 4 – Robert Merrill, operatic baritone (d. 2004)
  * June 7 – Dean Martin, singer and actor (d. 1995)
  * June 19 – Dave Lambert, US singer and arranger (d. 1966)
  * June 29
     * Sylvia Olden Lee, vocal coach and accompanist (d. 2004)
     * Ulpio Minucci, songwriter and composer (d. 2007)
  * June 24 – Ramblin' Tommy Scott, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
  * June 30 – Lena Horne, singer (died 2010)
  * July 2 – Murry Wilson, American songwriter, producer and manager (d. 1973)
  * July 14 – Roshan, Bollywood composer (d. 1967)
  * July 17 – Red Sovine, American country & folk singer-songwriter (d. 1980)
  * July 24
     * Henri Betti, French composer and pianist (d. 2005)
     * Robert Farnon, composer (d. 2005)
     * Leonor Orosa Goquinco, pianist and dancer (d. 2005)
  * August 3 – Antonio Lauro, guitarist and composer (d. 1986)
  * August 17 – Walter Brown, blues shouter (d. 1956)
  * August 22 – John Lee Hooker, blues musician (d. 2001)
  * August 23 – Tex Williams, American country singer (d. 1985)
  * September 5 – Art Rupe, founder of Specialty Records (d. 2022)
  * September 11 – Myrta Silva, singer and composer (d. 1987)
  * September 13 – Robert Ward, composer (d. 2013)
  * September 15 – Richard Arnell, English composer (d. 2009)
  * September 30 – Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (d. 1987)
  * October 4 – Violeta Parra, Chilean folk musician (suicide 1967)
  * October 7 – June Allyson, American singer and actress (d. 2006)
  * October 10 – Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
  * October 13 – George Osmond, father of the Osmond brothers (d. 2007)
  * October 21
     * William Adam, trumpeter (d. 2013)
     * Dizzy Gillespie, jazz musician (d. 1993)
  * October 24 – Mike Pedicin, jazz bandleader (d. 2016)
  * October 31 – Anna Marly, French singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
  * November 12
     * Hedley Jones, Jamaican musician (d. 2017)
     * Jo Stafford, American pop singer (d. 2008)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January – Friederike Grün, operatic soprano (born 1836)
  * January 13 – Albert Niemann, Wagnerian tenor (b. 1831)
  * February 10 – Emile Pessard, French composer (b. 1843)
  * February 25 – Paul Rubens, English songwriter (b. 1875)
  * March 1 – Antonina Miliukova, widow of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b. 1848)
  * March 4 – Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer (b. 1843)
  * March 25 – Spyridon Samaras, composer (b. 1861)
  * April 1 – Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (b. 1868)
  * April 29 – Florence Farr, actress, singer and composer (b. 1860)
  * May 20 – Romilda Pantaleoni, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
  * May 25 – Edouard de Reszke, operatic bass (b. 1853)
  * June 12 – Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer and conductor (b. 1853)
  * July 16 – Philipp Scharwenka, composer (b. 1847)
  * August 7 – Basil Hood, librettist and lyricist (b. 1864)
  * August 12 – Pavel Gerdt, dancer (b. 1844)
  * September 5 – Marie Hanfstängl, operatic soprano (b. 1848)
  * September 8 – Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer (b. 1843)
  * September 11 – Evie Greene, actress and singer (b. 1875)
  * September 15 – Elias Oechsler, composer (b. 1850)
  * October 3 – Eduardo di Capua, singer and songwriter (b. 1865)
  * December 7 – Ludwig Minkus, violinist and composer (b. 1826)
  * December 9 – Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1873)
  