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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.

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Events

Published popular music

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Recorded popular music

  • "I Love A Lassie" by Harry Lauder{{cite book|author=Peter Martland|title=Since Records Began: EMI, the First 100 Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hfg5AQAAIAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Amadeus Press|isbn=978-1-57467-033-2|page=64}}
  • "Yankee Doodle Boy" by Billy Murray
  • "Give My Regards To Broadway" by Billy Murray
  • "In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Billy Murray

Classical music

[[Opera]]

[[Musical theater]]

Births

  • January 2 – Michael Tippett, composer (d. 1998){{cite book|title=Discographies of British Composers: Sir Michael Tippett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TjE5AQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=British Institute of Recorded Sound|page=89}}
  • January 5 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer (d. 1989)
  • January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988){{cite book|author=Mark Morris|title=A Guide to 20th-century Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-45601-4|page=268}}
  • January 10 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993){{cite book|author=Eileen Dorum|title=Composers of Australia: A Chronological Guide to Composers Born Before 1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nj0KAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=I.C. & E.E. Dorum|isbn=978-0-9588965-2-8|page=57}}
  • January 12 – Tex Ritter, actor and singer (d. 1974){{cite book|author1=Michael McCall|author2=John Rumble|author3=Paul Kingsbury|title=The Encyclopedia of Country Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsiL49XFbnkC&pg=PT1812|date=16 December 2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-984044-1|pages=1812}}
  • January 24 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
  • January 26 – Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987){{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_espAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512800-0|page=801}}
  • February 11 – William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939){{cite book|author=John Chilton|title=McKinney's Music: A Bio-discography of McKinney's Cotton Pickers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MwLiAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Bloomsbury Book Shop|isbn=978-0-9501290-1-3|page=65}}
  • February 15 – Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986){{cite book|author=Gerald Bordman|title=American Musical Theater: A Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiBaRas9jTwC&pg=PA517|date=March 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-513074-4|pages=517}}
  • February 18 – Queenie Leonard, British character actress and singer (d. 2002)
  • February 25 – Harald Lander, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1971)
  • March 2 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer (d. 1964){{cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=Music Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=W.W. Norton, Incorporated|page=50}}
  • March 6 – Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975){{cite book|author=Kurt Wolff|title=Country Music: The Rough Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Jorozp1yp4C&pg=PA92|year=2000|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-85828-534-4|pages=92–}}
  • March 11 – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
  • March 15
  • Bertha Hill, American blues, vaudeville singer and dancer (d. 1950){{cite book|author1=Mike Leadbitter|author2=Neil Slaven|title=Blues Records, 1943-1970: A Selective Discography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJdHAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Record Information Services|isbn=978-0-907872-07-8|page=557}}
  • Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen (d. 1987)
  • March 18 - John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (d.1991)
  • March 21 – Ivar Haglund, folksinger and restaurateur (d. 1985){{cite web|url=https://www.historylink.org/File/2499|title=Haglund, Ivar (1905-1985)|author=Paul Dorpat|website=History Link|access-date=2 March 2025}}
  • March 22 - Ruth Page, dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1991)
  • March 23 – Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972){{cite book|title=The Historic Record & AV Collector Quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Cs5AQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=J. R. Wrigley|page=27}}
  • April 2
  • Serge Lifar, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1976)
  • Kurt Herbert Adler, Austrian conductor (d. 1988)
  • April 3 - Lili Kraus, Hungarian pianist (d. 1986)
  • May 2 – Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
  • May 4 - Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (d.1960)
  • May 7 – Bumble Bee Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist (d. 1968){{cite book|author1=Mike Leadbitter|author2=Neil Slaven|title=Blues Records, 1943-1970: A Selective Discography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LJdHAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Record Information Services|isbn=978-0-907872-07-8|page=387}}
  • May 8 – Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965){{cite book|title=Jazz research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNMJAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Universal Edition|isbn=978-3-201-01889-0|page=55}}
  • May 10 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
  • May 11 – Kansas Joe McCoy, American Delta blues musician, songwriter (d. 1950){{cite book|author=Robert Santelli|title=The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aGwZAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-100145-6|page=324}}
  • May 24 - Sascha Gorodnitzki, pianist (d. 1986)
  • June 4 - José Echániz, Cuban-American pianist (d. 1969)
  • June 6 - Arthur Mendel, music scholar and musicologist (d. 1979)
  • June 13 – Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
  • June 18
  • Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
  • Leonid Lavrovsky, Soviet dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1967)
  • June 23 – Jesús Bal y Gay, Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist (d. 1993)
  • July 7
  • Charlo, Argentine singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer (d. 1990)
  • Max Rostal, Austrian-British violinist (d. 1991)
  • July 10 – Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer (d. 1949)
  • July 15 – Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974){{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yhc5AAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|page=45}}
  • August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963){{cite book|author=Guy Rickards|title=Hindemith, Hartman and Henze|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BcAHAQAAMAAJ|date=19 October 1995|publisher=Phaidon Press|isbn=978-0-7148-3174-9|page=22}}
  • August 8 – André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974){{cite book|author=Cleveland Orchestra|title=Program|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6Y5AAAAIAAJ|year=1958|publisher=Musical Arts Association|page=441}}
  • August 23 – Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951){{cite book|author1=South London Art Gallery|author2=Constant Lambert|title=Constant Lambert, 1905-1951: A Souvenir of the Exhibition at the South London Art Gallery, Peckham Road, London SE5 8UH, 17 September-7 October 1976 ....|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3g9AQAAIAAJ|year=1976|publisher=London Borough of Southwark Council|isbn=978-0-9500243-9-4|page=5}}
  • August 29 – Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964){{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_espAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512800-0|page=416}}
  • October 4 – Léon Orthel, composer and pianist (d. 1985)
  • October 18 -Fritz Feldmann, musicologist (d. 1984)
  • October 23 - Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor (d. 1964)
  • October 24 – Elizabeth Poston, English composer, pianist and writer (d. 1987)
  • November 7 – William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985){{cite book|author=Ian Johnson|title=William Alwyn: The Art of Film Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srcFSKX9pJMC&pg=PA11|year=2005|publisher=Boydell Press|isbn=978-1-84383-159-4|pages=11–}}
  • November 12 - Arthur Hedley, English musicologist (d.1969)
  • November 15 – Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980){{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|title=American National Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L4ARAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512793-5}}
  • November 19 – Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956){{cite book|title=The Book of Golden Discs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxRAAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Barrie & Jenkins|isbn=978-0-214-20480-7|page=21}}
  • November 21 – Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
  • November 24 – Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist (d. 1962)
  • December 7 – Charles Magnante, accordionist, composer, arranger, author, and educator (d. 1986)
  • December 8 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, German (later East German) musicologist and composer (d. 1988)
  • December 31 – Jule Styne, composer (d. 1994){{cite book|author=Steven Suskin|title=Show Tunes, 1905-1991: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers: Revised and Expanded|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BpoYAAAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Limelight Editions|isbn=978-0-87910-146-6|page=374}}

Deaths

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