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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915.

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  • March–December – The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/news/how-san-franciscos-panama-pacific-international-expo-of-1915-sparked-the-first-uke-craze|title=The Spark that Started the First Ukulele Craze|date=February 19, 2015|website=Ukulele magazine|access-date=July 24, 2021}}
  • May 15 – Tom Brown's band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band".[http://www.redhotjazz.com/browns.html Tom Brown's Band from Dixie Land] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202853/http://www.redhotjazz.com/browns.html |date=2016-03-03 }}. Accessed 17 April 2013.
  • April 21 – Sibelius sees sixteen swans over Lake Tuusula which immediately inspires him to write the theme that becomes the finalé to his Symphony No. 5.
  • Summer – Claude Debussy composes at Pourville on the French Channel coast.
  • October 28 – Richard Strauss's symphonic poem An Alpine Symphony (Eine Alpensinfonie) is premiered by the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin under the composer's baton.
  • November 13 – First concert devoted to the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.{{Full citation needed|date=April 2017}}
  • December 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 5 in Helsinki at a birthday concert for him.{{cite book|first=Jon|last=Paxman|title=Classical Music 1600–2000: A Chronology|location=London|publisher=Omnibus|year=2014|isbn=978-1-84449-773-7}}
  • December – Claude Debussy becomes one of the first people to receive a colostomy.
  • Composer Alban Berg enters service with the Austro-Hungarian Army.
  • Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Spicer|year=1998|title=Herbert Howells|publisher=Seren|location=Bridgend|ISBN= 1-85411-233-3|page=44}}
  • William Penfro Rowlands's hymn tune "Blaenwern" is first published in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant.
  • Marie and Edward M. Zimmerman's suffrage anthem "Votes for Woman, Suffrage Rallying Song" is published.{{cite book|title=Suffragist Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the Women's Rights and Suffrage Movement in America, 1795-1921, with Complete Lyrics|first=Danny O.|last= Crew|year=2015|publisher=McFarland & Company|isbn=9781476607443|page=337}}

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