1917 in music
Events
- the British type-setter Gustav Holst finishes its work the Planets .
- February 22nd: Recording of the first true disc of Jazz by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band of James “Nick” Rocca, the Dixie Jazz Band One Step , put on sale at New York.
- April 1st: Edgard Varèse directs to New York the Requiem , of Berlioz.
- May 12th: Creation with Budapest of the Prince of wood , opera of Béla Bartok.
- June 12th: Ziegfeld' S Madnesses off 1917, spectacle with W.C. Fields and Fanny Brice.
- October 26th: the Marriage , Op3era Comique of Modest Moussorgski created with Petrograd.
- October 27th: Recital with New York of the Russian violonist Jascha Heifetz.
- November 28th: Over the Signal , musical comedy with Fred and Adele Astaire in New York.
Success of the year in France
- March 27th: the Swallow , opera of Puccini, created with Monte Carlo.
- May 18th: Parade , ballet of Diaghilev (Erik Satie, Cocteau, Picasso, Massine), first spectacle cubist.
- June: Henri Alibert makes his beginnings with Marseilles in the Grande Review of the Beach .
- August 17th: Mistinguett and Maurice Knight, high-speed motorboats of the review of the Theater Marigny.
- November 10th: Sonatas of Gabriel Fauré.
- November 23rd: Beatrice , Op3era Comique of Andre Messager.
- December 11th:
- Inauguration of new the Casino of Paris with, for the first time in France, a concert of Jazz, the Rag Time Band.
- negro Rhapsody , of Francis Poulenc.
Rewards
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Births
- March 23rd: Stick McGhee, singer of rhythm and American blues
- March 26th: Rufus Thomas, American singer of drunk person music
- July 18th: Henri Salvador; French singer and lyric writer
- August 22nd: John Lee Hooker, guitarist and singer of American blues
Principal deaths
- April 1st: Scott Joplin, type-setter of Jazz, with New York.
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