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Events relating to music
Otto Klemperer starts a seven-year spell as music director of Cologne opera, and begins to acquire an international reputation
Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle is finally staged in Budapest, nine years after its composition
Composer and pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski becomes prime minister of the newly independent Poland
Edward Elgar completes his last great work, the Cello Concerto in E minor
Music-hall artist Harry Lauder is knighted for his wartime performances entertaining troops at the front
Léonide Massine, Ottorino Respighi and André Derain collaborate on the ballet La Boutique Fantasque
Darius Milhaud provides the score for Jean Cocteau's pantomime ballet Le Boeuf sur le toit
The prime minister of Poland, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, resigns his post so as to concentrate on his concert career
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart work together as Columbia University students, creating the musical Fly With Me
Charles Ives publishes his Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60, usually known as the Concord Sonata
A group of composers in Paris - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre - become known as 'les Six'
Gustav Holst's Hymn of Jesus has its premiere in London, conducted by the composer
Taras Bulba, a rhapsody for orchestra by Leos Janacek, is first performed in Brno
Janacek's opera Kátya Kabanová, based on Ostrovsky's play The Storm, has its premiere in Brno
William Walton and Edith Sitwell give a private performance of their entertainment Façade, setting poems by Sitwell
The German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler is appointed to the Berlin Philharmonic, and spends most of the rest of his life with the orchestra
Bessie Smith has a big hit with her first record, Downhearted Blues, selling two million copies within a year
Albert Roussel's opera-ballet Padmâvâti is premiered in Paris
Arnold Schoenberg's Suite for piano is his first piece entirely in the 12-note serial method
Zoltan Kod´ly's work for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Psalmus Hungaricus, has its first performance in Budapest
Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231, inspired by the sounds of a steam train, has its first performance in Paris
Paul Hindemith sets Rainer Maria Rilke's song-cycle Das Marienleben
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue has its first performance, at the Aeolian Hall in New York
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London
Le Train Bleu brings together Bronislava Nijinska (choreography), Darius Milhaud (music), and Coco Chanel (costumes)
