Music from 1900 - 1930

By Dani_López9213

  • 1900

    1900
    The trend was the famous New Orleans Jazz.
    Important musicians: Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton and Kid Ory.
    Their nationalities are from New Orleans, USA except for Kid Ory which was from Laplace, Louisiana,

  • 1904

    1904
    The most famous were jazz and opera. One famous opera was Armida which was created by Antonín Dvořák. He was from Czech Republic.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWlM1TFH5E8

  • 1908

    1908
    In Austria-Hungary, Gustav Mahler composed the song of earth that was adapted from Chinese poetry.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQk5ZiWXg0Y

  • 1912

    1912
    W.C Handy published the Memphis Blues, which became a hit, it was instrumental.

  • 1916

    1916
    Dominic "Nick" LaRocca, was an early jazz cornetist, trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time. Dixieland band was created.

  • 1919

    1919
    Jazz establishes Chicago as its capital. The city will become home to such jazz greats as trumpeter Louis Armstrong and pianist Jelly Roll Morton.

  • 1920

    1920
    The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra was founded in Britain and directed by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

  • 1924

    1924
    Arthur Gibbs and his gang did a jazz song named "Charleston" featured in a theatre in New York.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBhBbw87Z4o

  • 1928

    1928
    Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer. He began the song "The intimate letters" in string quartet.

  • 1930

    1930
    A performance of Thomas A. Dorsey's "If You See My Savior" causes Gospel music to become popular.Gospel is first publicly.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2-twJpqjFY