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See also: 1909 in music, other events of 1910, 1911 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 Top Hits 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• March 19 - Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 1 is premiered in Budapest
• September 12 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, the Symphony of a Thousand, is premiered in Munich
• November 7 - the musical comedy, Naughty Marietta, with music by Victor Herbert, is first performed on Broadway

Top Hits

• "Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine" by Fred Fisher & Alfred Bryan
• "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Tell Taylor
• "Italian Street Song" by Rida Young[?]
• "A Big Bass Viol" by M.T. Bohannon
• "Doctor Tinkle Tinker" by Otto Harbach
• "The Chanticleer Rag" by Edward Madden[?]
• "Chicken Reel" by J.M. Daly
• "A Banjo Song" by Howard Weeden[?]
• "Day Dreams" by Robert B. Smith[?]
• "Morning" by Frank Stanton[?]
• "Mother Macree" by Rida Johnson Young, Chauncey Olcott, & Ernest Ball
• "Chinatown, My Chinatown" by William Jerome & Jean Schwartz

Births

• January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist
• May 28 - T. Bone Walker[?]
• June 10 - Howlin' Wolf
• June 26 - Colonel Tom Parker[?], Elvis Presley's manager
• December 7 - Louis Prima, musician, singer
• December 10 - John Hammond Sr.[?]

Deaths