1906 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Musical theater 4 Opera 5 Oratorio 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• May 27 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 6 is premiered in Essen
• Amelita Galli-Curci makes her operatic debut

Published popular music

• "Abraham Jefferson Washington Lee" Harry Von Tilzer
• "Ain't You Coming Back To Old New Hampshire, Molly?" Helf, Rodin
• "Alice, Where Art Thou Going?" Heelan, Gumble
• "All In Down And Out" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith, Billy B. Smith & Elmer Bowman
• "Anchors Aweigh" w. Alfred Hart Miles & R. Lovell m. Charles A. Zimmerman
• "Andulko Safárova" Kmoch
• "Anxious" William Jerome, Jean Kendis, Paley
• "Are You Coming Out Tonight, Mary Ann?" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Arrah Wanna" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "At Dawning" w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman
• "Because You're You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "The Bee That Gets The Honey Doesn't Hang Around The Hive" w. Ed Rose m. J. Fred Helf
• "The Bird On Nellie's Hat" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
• "The Buffalo Rag" Tom Turpin
• "By The Side Of The Zuyder Zee" w. A. J. Mills m. Bennett Scott
• "Captain Baby Bunting Of The Rocking Horse Brigade" w. Ed Gardinier & Will D. Cobb m. J. Fred Helf
• "Cheyenne" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Colleen Bawn" w. Edward Madden m. J. Fred Helf
• "College Life" w. Porter Emerson Browne m. Henry Frantzen
• "Come, Take A Skate With Me" w.m. Raymond Brown & Gus Edwards
• "Crocodile Isle" Morse
• "Dill Pickles Rag" m. Charles L. Johnson
• "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do" w. William Cahill m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
• "Don't You Think It's Time To Marry?" Edwards
• "Dreaming" w. L. W. Heiser m. J. Anton Dailey
• "Every Day Is Ladies' Day To Me" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "The Free Lance March" m. John Philip Sousa
• "Frog Legs Rag" m. James Scott
• "The Game Of Peek-a-Boo" Edwards
• "Girlie, I Love You" Morse
• "The Good Old USA" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "The Grand Old Rag" (aka "You're A Grand Old Flag" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "He Walked Right In Turned Around And Walked Right Out Again" w. Edward Rose m. Maxwell Silver
• "Here's To Our Absent Brothers" w.m. J. Fred Helf
• "He's A Cousin Of Mine" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein
• "Highland Birthday Party" w.m. Hector Grant
• "Holding Hands (You Don't Say Nothing At All)" w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer
• "Honora H. Doolin" Mills
• "I Don't Like Your Family" Howard
• "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards
• "I Miss You In A Thousand Different Ways" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "I Never Saw Such Jealousy In My Life" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "I Was Born In Virginia" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "Ida-Ho!" Von Tilzer
• "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" w.m. Harry Hoyt
• "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" w.m. Fred Fisher
• "I'm Sorry" Von Tilzer
• "In Old New York" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "Is It Warm Enough For You?" Paley
• "I've Said My Last Farewell" Sischer
• "Just One Word Of Consolation" w. Frank B. Williams m. Tom Lemonier
• "Keep On The Sunny Side" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
• "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (If You Want To Learn To Kiss)" w. Harry B. Smith m. Gertrude Hoffmann
• "Lassie, Dinna Sigh For Me" w.m. Hector Grant
• "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love" w. M. E. Rourke m. Richard Carle
• "Let Bygones Be Bygones And Let Us Be Sweethearts Again" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert Williams
• "Let It Alone" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert Williams
• "Let Me See You Smile" Fischer
• "The Little Chauffeur" Bowers
• "The Load That Father Carried" w. Frank Fogerty m. J. B. Mullen
• "Love Me And The World Is Mine" w. Dave Reed Jr m. Ernest R. Ball
• "Moonbeams" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
• "Moonlight Dance" m. Herman Finck
• "Mr Monkey" Edwards
• "My Mariuccia Take A Steamboat" w. George Ronklyn m. Al Piantodosi
• "National Emblem March" w. E. E. Bagley
• "The Next Horse I Ride On" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
• "Not Because Your Hair Is Curly" w.m. Bob Adams
• "Nothing Like That In Our Family" Heelan, Furth
• "Poor John" w. Fred E. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
• "The Poor Old Man" w.m. Vincent Bryan
• "School Days" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "Since Father Went To Work" w.m. William Cahill
• "Some One Looks Good To Some One" Weaver
• "The Streets Of New York" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Rad Mill
• "Sunbonnet Sue" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "Sweet Anastasia Brady" Schwartz
• "That's The Reason Noo I Wear A Kilt" w.m. A. B. Kendal & Harry Lauder
• "Waltz Me Around Again Willie" w. Will D. Cobb m. Ren Shields
• "We Parted On The Shore" w.m. Harry Lauder
• "We've Been Chums For Fifty Years" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
• "What A Mouth" w.m. R. P. Weston
• "What's The Use Of Dreaming?" w.m. Joseph E. Howard
• "What's The Use Of Loving If You Can't Love All The Time" w. Joseph Mittenthal m. Harry Armstrong
• "When Love Is Young In Springtime" w.m. Rida Johnson Young & Melville Ellis
• "When The Whip-poor-will Sings, Marguerite" w. C. M. Denison m. J. Fred Helf
• "When Tommy Atkins Marries Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "When You Know You're Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget" w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf
• "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning" w. Will D. Cobb m. Kerry Mills
• "Whistle It!" Blossom, Herbert
• "Wonderland" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
• "Won't You Come Over To My House" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
• "Wouldn't You Like To Flirt with Me?" Rogers
• "You Can Have Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical George Washington, Junior
• "You Can't Give Your Heart To Somebody Else And Still Hold Hands With Me" Edwards

• About Town Broadway production
• Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway Broadway production
• The Free Lance Broadway production
• ''George Washington, Junior Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 12 and ran for 81 performances.
• The Glass-Blowers Broadway production
• The Little Cherub London production
• The Red Mill Broadway production
• The Vicar Of Wakefield London production

• Francesca Da Rimini by Sergei Rachmaninov
• I quattro rusteghi by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
• The Wreckers by Dame Ethel Smyth

• "The Kingdom" by Edward Elgar

• January 31 - Roosevelt Sykes
• March 3 - Barney Bigard
• March 13 - Frank Teschemacher
• March 27 - Pee Wee Russell
• April 18 - Little Brother Montgomery
• September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich
• December 10 - Harold Adamson, US lyricist

• January 30 - Paul Dresser, US composer