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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1908.
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Specific genres
Events
Published popular music
Hit recordings
Classical music
- Kurt Atterberg – Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
- Béla Bartók – First Violin Concerto
- Alban Berg – Piano Sonata, Op.1
- York Bowen – Viola Concerto in C minor
- Henry Walford Davies – Solemn Melody for organ
- George Enescu –
- Cantate pour la pose de la prèmiere pierre du pont à transbordeur de Bordeaux, for military band, two harps, string orchestra, solo cello, choir, baritone solo, and cannons
- "Morgengebet", for voice and piano
- Sept chansons de Clement Marot, for tenor and piano, Op. 15
- Gabriel Fauré –
- Nocturne No. 9 in B minor, Op. 97
- Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, Op. 99
- Serenade for cello and piano, Op. 98
- Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 8
- Reinhold Glière – Second Symphony, Op. 25
- Hamilton Harty – Violin Concerto
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Symphony No. 1
- John Ireland – Phantasy Piano Trio
- Charles Ives –
- Paul von Klenau – Symphony No. 1
- Toivo Kuula – Piano Trio
- Gian Francesco Malipiero – Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte
- Erkki Melartin – Third String Quartet
- Carl Nielsen – Saga-Drøm (tone poem)
- Max Reger –
- Auferstanden, auferstanden, cantata for SATB soloists, SATB choir, and organ
- Sonatinas for two pianos (4), Op. 89
- Suite, for violin and piano, in E minor
- Trio No. 2, for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 102
- Violin Concerto, in A major, Op. 101
- Symphonischer Prolog zu einer Tragödie in A minor, Op. 108
- Weihegesang, for alto solo, SATB choir, and winds
- Zwei geistliche Lieder, for choir
- Xaver Scharwenka – Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor
- Arnold Schoenberg –
- Alexander Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy
- Igor Stravinsky – Feu d'artifice
- Anton Webern – Passacaglia for orchestra, Op. 1
- Algeria Broadway production opened at The Broadway Theatre on August 31 and ran for 48 performances
- The Belle of Brittany opened at the Queen's Theatre in London on 24 October 1908 with music by Howard Talbot to a book by Leedham Bantock and lyrics by Percy Greenbank
- The Dollar Princess Manchester production
- Fifty Miles from Boston Broadway production opened on February 3 at the Garrick Theatre and ran for 40 performances
- The King of Cadonia London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on September 3 and ran for 333 performances
- Mr. Hamlet of Broadway Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on December 23 and ran for 54 performances
- My Mimosa Maid London production opened at the Prince Of Wales Theatre on April 21 and ran for 83 performances
- Der Tapfere Soldat (The Chocolate Soldier) (Rudolf Friml) Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on November 14 and ran for 62 performances
- The Three Twins opened at the Herald Square Theatre on June 15 and moved to the Majestic Theatre on January 18, 1909, for a total run of 289 performances
- A Waltz Dream London production opened at the Hicks Theatre on March 7 and ran for 146 performances.
- A Waltz Dream Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on January 27 and ran for 111 performances
- The Yankee Prince Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 20 and ran for 112 performances
- Ziegfeld Follies Broadway revue opened at the Jardin de Paris on June 15 and ran for 120 performances
Births
- January 7 – Red Allen, jazz musician (d. 1967)
- January 14 – Russ Columbo, singer, bandleader, composer (d. 1934)
- January 26
- Stéphane Grappelli, musician, composer (d. 1997)
- Ernst Oster, pianist, musicologist, and music theorist (d. 1977)
- January 27 – Hot Lips Page, jazz trumpet (d. 1954)
- February 20 – Ruby Elzy, US soprano, first Serena in Porgy and Bess (d. 1943)
- February 29 – A. L. Lloyd, folk song collector (d. 1982)
- March 14 – Nikolai Rakov, Soviet composer (d. 1990)
- April 2 – Buddy Ebsen, US actor and singer (d. 2003)
- April 5 – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
- April 7 – Percy Faith, composer, musician (d. 1976)
- April 15 – eden ahbez, hermit, musician (d. 1995)
- April 20 – Lionel Hampton, jazz musician, bandleader (d. 2002)
- May 6 – Necil Kazım Akses, Turkish composer (d. 1999)
- May 8 – Cristian Vasile, Romanian tango singer (d. 1985)
- May 15 – Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer (d. 1986)
- May 27 – Harold Rome, US songwriter (d. 1993)
- June 24 – Hugo Distler, organist and composer (d. 1942)
- June 29 – Leroy Anderson, US composer and conductor (d. 1975)
- July 8 – Louis Jordan, bandleader (d. 1975)
- July 25 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Carnatic vocalist (d. 2003)
- August 1 – Miloslav Kabeláč, composer (d. 1979)
- August 4 – Kurt Eichhorn, conductor (d. 1994)
- August 12 – Nina Makarova, composer (d. 1976)
- August 29 – Orestes López, Cuban bassist, cellist, pianist and composer (d. 1991)
- September 5 - Cecilia Seghizzi, Italian composer
- September 6 – Maria Grinberg, pianist (d. 1978)
- September 7 – Max Kaminsky, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1961)
- September 10 – Raymond Scott, composer, bandleader, and electronic music pioneer (d. 1994)
- September 13 – Mae Questel, US singer (d. 1998)
- September 16 – Chick Bullock, US singer (d. 1981)
- September 25 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (d. 1993)
- September 30 – David Oistrakh, violinist (d. 1974)
- October 1 – Umar Dimayev, Chechen folk singer (d. 1972)
- October 14 – Allan Jones, actor, singer (d. 1992)
- October 19 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
- October 20 – Stuart Hamblen, US singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1989)
- October 21
- November 19
- December 10 – Olivier Messiaen, composer (d. 1992)
- December 11 – Elliott Carter, composer (d. 2012)
- December 16 – Frances Day, US actress and singer (d. 1984)
- December 17 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English/Scottish composer and pianist (died 1988)
- December 21 – Gregory Egiazarovich Yeghiazarian, Armenian composer (died 1988)[1]
Deaths
- January 22 – August Wilhelmj, German violinist (b. 1845)
- January 23 – Edward MacDowell, American composer (b. 1860)
- February 28 – Pauline Lucca, operatic soprano (b. 1842)
- March 2 – Walter Slaughter, conductor and composer (b. 1860)
- March 12 – Clara Novello, soprano (b. 1818)
- March 26 – Louis Chauvin, ragtime musician (b. 1881)
- April 29 – Auguste Götze, German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (b. 1840)
- May 7 – Ludovic Halévy, lyricist (b. 1834)
- May 12 – Melisio Morales, composer (b. 1838)
- June 5 – Josef Wagner, composer (b. 1856)
- June 20 – Federico Chueca, zarzuela composer (b. 1846)
- June 21 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (b. 1844)
- July 10 – Phoebe Knapp, composer of hymns (b. 1839)
- July 14 – William Mason, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
- July 18 – Jaime Nunó, composer of Mexico's national anthem (b. 1824)
- August 13 – Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (b. 1840)
- August 20 – Louisa Bassano, opera singer (b. 1818)
- August 26 – Tony Pastor, vaudeville founder & theater impresario (b. 1837)
- September 20 – Pablo de Sarasate, violinist (b. 1844)
- September 21 – Atanas Badev, composer and music teacher (b. 1860)
- November 15 – Katti Lanner, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1829)
- November 20 – Albert Dietrich, conductor and composer (b. 1829)
- date unknown – Alois Kaiser, cantor and composer (b. 1840)
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