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| 1919 |
| | | The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata | |
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| 1920 |
| | | A group of composers in Paris - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre - become known as 'les Six' | |
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| 1920 |
| | | Gustav Holst's Hymn of Jesus has its premiere in London, conducted by the composer | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno | |
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| 1921 |
| | | Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno | |
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| 1922 |
| | | William Walton and Edith Sitwell give a private performance of their entertainment Façade, setting poems by Sitwell | |
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| 1922 |
| | | The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic, and spends most of the rest of his life with the orchestra | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year | |
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| 1923 |
| | | Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris | |
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