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Events relating to music
Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome
7-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives his first professional recital, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in San Francisco
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani
Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, in Chicago, forms the Hot Five with his wife on piano and three New Orleans musicians on trombone, clarinet and guitar
Maurice Ravel and Colette provide music and libretto for the opera The Child and the Enchantments
Anton Webern again follows Schoenberg, this time into serialism, when he adopts the 12-note method for his Three Traditional Rhymes
Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck has its premiere in Berlin
19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory
Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw
Leos Janacek completes his powerfully scored orchestral work Sinfonietta
Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, has a synchronized musical score, making it the earliest example of a film with a sound track
Jelly Roll Morton and his new group of seven, the Red Hot Peppers, record their first classic, Black Bottom Stomp
Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry J´nos has its first performance in Budapest
Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it
23-year-old US crooner Bing Crosby makes his first record, singing I''ve Got the Girl with the Paul Whiteman band
Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York
Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno
Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny Strikes Up has its premiere in Leipzig
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write Mahagonny Songspiel for the Baden-Baden music festival
11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno
Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern open on Broadway with an immensely influential American musical, Show Boat
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie
Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York
