1931 in music


This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1931.

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Published popular music

Top Popular Recordings 1931

After $75 million in sales during 1929, the US stock market crash in October nearly destroyed the industry, after forty years of consistent operation. Sales fell to $18 million in 1930 and then $5.5 million in 1931, where they remained for the next four years. The top selling records of 1929 ranged from $500,000 and up, fell under $100,000 in 1930, $60k in 1931 and $20k in 1932, where they stayed for several years. Keep this in mind when reviewing sales figures. You may also notice less artists and records. Record companies were afraid of taking more losses, such as gambling on new artists and new styles. Guy Lombardo's recording schedule was unaffected because his releases always sold well, but there were few new acts. Most of the records released in 1931 came from Radio Corporation of America (Victor), Columbia/Okeh, Brunswick and American Record Corporation, which featured discounted "dime store" labels.
The top popular records of 1931 listed below were compiled from Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890–1954, record sales reported on the "Discography of American Historical Recordings" website, and other sources as specified. Numerical rankings are approximate, there were no Billboard charts in 1931, the numbers are only used for a frame of reference.
RankArtistTitleLabelRecordedReleasedChart Positions
1Wayne King and His Orchestra "Good-night Sweetheart"Victor 22825US Billboard 1931 #1, US #1 for 7 weeks, 15 total weeks
2Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra"Mood Indigo"Victor 22587US Billboard 1931 #2, US #3 for 10 total weeks, 48,191 sales, Grammy Hall of Fame in 1975
3Gus Arnheim Coconut Grove Orchestra "Sweet And Lovely"Victor 22770US Billboard 1931 #3, US #1 for 6 weeks, 14 total weeks, 20,527 sales
4Mills Brothers"Tiger Rag"Brunswick 6197US Billboard 1931 #4, US #1 for 4 weeks, 13 total weeks
5Wayne King and His Orchestra"Dream a Little Dream of Me"Victor 22643US Billboard 1931 #5, US #1 for 4 weeks, 12 total weeks, 30,755 sales, ASCAP song of 1930
6Bing Crosby"Just One More Chance"Brunswick 6120US Billboard 1931 #6, US #1 for 2 weeks, 19 total weeks
7Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians"By the River St. Marie"Columbia 2401-DUS Billboard 1931 #7, US #1 for 3 weeks, 11 total weeks
8Bing Crosby"At Your Command"Brunswick 6145US Billboard 1931 #8, US #1 for 3 weeks, 9 total weeks
9Kate Smith with Ben Selvin and His Orchestra"When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain"Columbia 2516-DUS Billboard 1931 #9, US #1 for 2 weeks, 14 total weeks
10Gus Arnheim Coconut Grove Orchestra "I Surrender Dear"Victor 22618US Billboard 1931 #10, US #3 for 3 weeks, 10 total weeks
11Leo Reisman and His Orchestra "Just a Gigolo"Victor 22606US Billboard 1931 #11, US #15 for 1 weeks, 2 total weeks, 39,618 sales
12Bud Billings and Carson Robison"When Your Hair Has Turned To Silver"Victor 22588US Billboard 1931 #12, US #4 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1931 #3, 38,805 sales
13Wayne King and His Orchestra"The Waltz You Saved for Me"Victor 22575US Billboard 1931 #13, US #4 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 38,450 sales
14Bing Crosby"Out of Nowhere"Brunswick 6090US Billboard 1931 #14, US #1 for 3 weeks, 8 total weeks
15Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians" Moonlight Saving Time"Columbia 2457-DUS Billboard 1931 #15, US #1 for 3 weeks, 8 total weeks
16Cab Calloway and His Orchestra"Minnie the Moocher"Brunswick 6074US Billboard 1931 #16, US #1 for 1 week, 17 total weeks
17Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"Love For Sale"Victor 22598US Billboard 1931 #17, US #14 for 1 week, 2 total weeks, 34,465 sales
18Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)"Victor 22707US Billboard 1931 #18, US #1 for 3 weeks, 6 total weeks, 20,769 sales
19Bing Crosby"I Found a Million Dollar Baby "Brunswick 6140US Billboard 1931 #19, US #1 for 3 weeks, 6 total weeks
20Gus Arnheim Coconut Grove Orchestra "The Little Things In Life"Victor 22580US Billboard 1931 #20, US #4 for 1 week, 5 total weeks, 29,066 sales
21Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees"Would You Like to Take a Walk?"Victor 22611US Billboard 1931 #21, US #4 for 1 week, 7 total weeks, 32,716 sales
22Wayne King and His Orchestra"Goofus"Victor 22600US Billboard 1931 #22, US #4 for 1 week, 15 total weeks, 38,450 sales
23Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians"Good Night, Sweetheart"Columbia 2547-DUS Billboard 1931 #23, US #1 for 2 weeks, 11 total weeks
24Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees"When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba"Victor 22742US Billboard 1931 #24, US #2 for 1 week, 7 total weeks, 27,402 sales
25Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"Dancing in the Dark"Victor 22708US Billboard 1931 #25, US #3 for 1 week, 11 total weeks, 26,928 sales
26Ted Lewis and His Band"Just a Gigolo"Columbia 2378-DUS Billboard 1931 #26, US #1 for 2 weeks, 8 total weeks

Top Blues Recordings

Classical music

  • Jean Absil – Trio for violin, cello, and piano, op. 7
  • Joseph Achron – Quartet for Cello, Trumpet, Horn, and Piano, Golem
  • Jehan Alain
  • *Dans le rêve laissé par la ballade des pendus de Villon, for piano
  • *En dévissant mes chaussettes, for piano
  • *Heureusement, la bonne fé sa marraine y mit bon ordre, for piano
  • *Histoire dur des tapis, entre des murs blancs, for piano
  • *Lumière qui tombe d'un vasistas, for piano
  • *Mélodie-sandwich, for piano
  • *Nocturne, for piano
  • *Petite rhapsodie, for piano
  • *Verset-choral, for piano
  • *26 septembre, 1931, for piano
  • Karel Albert – Oedipus a Colonus, incidental music for the play by Sophocles
  • Franco Alfano
  • *Due intermezzi, for strings
  • *Vesuvius , ballet, for orchestra
  • Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsody No. 3 , for orchestra, op. 47
  • Hendrik Andriessen
  • *Hymnus "Te Joseph celebrent", for soprano, baritone, and organ
  • *Missa pro defunctis, for three voices and organ
  • *"O quam suavis est", for two voices and organ
  • *Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
  • George Antheil – Six Little Pieces, for string quartet
  • Hans Erich Apostel – Fünf Lieder, for low voice and piano or orchestra, op. 3
  • Dina Appeldoorn – Zes kantoj
  • Blaž Arnič – Concerto for Organ and Percussion
  • Kurt Atterberg – Suite No. 8, for orchestra, op. 34
  • Georges Auric
  • *À nous la liberté,
  • *La concurrence
  • *Le quatorze juillet
  • Daniel Ayala
  • *Radiogramma, for piano
  • *Uchben X'coholte, for soprano and chamber orchestra
  • Grażyna Bacewicz – Suite, for string orchestra
  • Henk Badings
  • *Sextet, for alto voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and piano
  • *Sonata, for violin and piano
  • *String Quartet No. 1
  • Samuel Barber
  • *Dover Beach, for mezzo-soprano or baritone and string quartet, op. 3
  • *Pieces for Carillon: Round, Allegro, Legend
  • *The School for Scandal, for orchestra, op. 5
  • Béla Bartók
  • *Duos (Forty-four), for two violins
  • *Hungarian Sketches, for orchestra
  • *Piano Concerto No. 2
  • *Transylvanian Dances, for orchestra
  • Marion Bauer – "Here at High Morning", for male chorus, op. 27
  • Arnold Bax
  • *Northern Ballad No. 1, for orchestra
  • *Red Autumn, for piano duo
  • *Symphony No. 4
  • *The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew, for orchestra
  • *Valse, for harp
  • Amy Beach
  • *"Christ in the universe", for alto, tenor, four-part choir, and orchestra, or organ, op. 132
  • *"Juni", for four-part choir and piano, op. 51, no. 3
  • *Prelude, for violin, cello, and piano
  • *Sea Fever and The Last Prayer, for four-part male choir and piano, op. 126, nos. 1 and 2
  • *"When the last sea is sailed", for four-part male choir and piano, op. 127
  • Paul Ben-Haim
  • *Concerto Grosso, for orchestra
  • *Entrückung, for baritone and piano
  • *Pan, symphonic poem for soprano and orchestra
  • Lennox Berkeley
  • *La poulette grise, for two children's choirs, trumpet, and two pianos
  • *Sonata No.1, for violin and piano
  • Boris Blacher
  • *Concerto, for two trumpets and string orchestra
  • *Concert Overture, for orchestra
  • *Fünf Sinnsprüche Omars des Zeltmachers, for mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano, op. 3
  • *Toccatas, for piano
  • *Trio, for violin, viola, and cello
  • *Zwei estnische Nationaltänze, for piano
  • Marc Blitzstein – Piano Concerto
  • Paul Bowles
  • *In the Platinum Forest, for medium voice and piano
  • *Sonata, for oboe and clarinet
  • *Tamanar, for piano
  • Luis de Freitas Branco – Lembrança, for four-part male choir
  • Havergal Brian –
  • *The Battle Song, symphonic poem for brass band
  • *Symphony No. 2 in E minor
  • Frank Bridge – Phantasm, for piano and orchestra
  • Benjamin Britten
  • *Christ's Nativity, Christmas Suite, for SATB choir
  • *Fugue in A major, for piano
  • *Plymouth Town, ballet, for orchestra
  • *Rhapsodies, for violin, viola, and piano
  • *String Quartet in D
  • *Tit for Tat , for voice and piano
  • *Twelve Variations, for piano
  • Willy Burkhard
  • *Fantasie, for organ, op. 32
  • *Kleine Stücke, for piano, op. 31
  • *Te Deum, for two-voice chorus, trumpet, trombone, timpani, and organ, op. 33
  • *Vierundzwanzig Melodien aus den Hassler'schen Choralgesängen, for four-voice choir, op. 30
  • John Alden Carpenter – Song of Faith, for SATB choir and orchestra
  • Julián Carrillo
  • *Estudio , for -tone guitar
  • *Estudios, for -tone arpa-citara
  • *Preludios, for mictotonal arpa-citara
  • *Sonata "Amanecer en Berlin 13", for -tone arpa-citara
  • *Symphony No. 3 "Colombia"
  • Elliott Carter – Philoctetes, for tenor, baritone, male chorus, oboe, and percussion
  • Alfredo Casella
  • *La donna serpente, Suite No. 1, op. 50 bis
  • *La donna serpente, Suite No. 2, op. 50 ter
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
  • *Ballade des biens immeubles, for voice and piano, op. 68
  • *Concerto "I profeti", for violin and orchestra, op. 66
  • *The Lark, for violin and piano, op. 64
  • *Mi–la, for piano
  • *Film Studies, for piano, op. 67
  • Juan José Castro – Symphony No. 1
  • Abram Chasins – Parade, for orchestra
  • Francesco Cilea – Suite No. 2, for orchestra
  • Philip Greeley Clapp
  • *A Highly Academic Diversion on Seven Notes, for orchestra
  • *Symphony No. 9 in E major
  • Arnold Cooke – Passacaglia, Scherzo, and Finale, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet
  • Aaron Copland – Miracle at Verdun, incidental music for the play by Hans Chlumberg, chamber orchestra
  • Henry Cowell
  • *479, for piano
  • *Competitive Sport, for piano
  • *Heroic Dance, for ten instruments
  • *"How Old Is Song?", for voice and piano
  • *Rhythmicana, for rhythmicon and orchestra
  • *Steel and Stone, original version, for piano?
  • Jean Cras – Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
  • Ruth Crawford Seeger – String Quartet
  • Nancy Dalberg – Tre danske Duetter, for voices
  • Georges Dandelot – Chansons de Bilitis, for voice and piano, second set
  • Johann Nepomuk David – Kleine Präludien und Fugen, in A minor and G major, for organ
  • Maurice Delage – Deux fables de Jean de La Fontaine, for voice, flute, oboe, two clarinets, bassoon, horn, trumpet, piano, and string quartet
  • Frederick Delius
  • *Fantastic Dance, for orchestra
  • *Irmelin Prelude, for orchestra
  • Marcel Dupré
  • *Chorales, for organ, op. 28
  • *Pieces, for organ, op. 27
  • Vernon Duke
  • *Ballade, for piano and chamber orchestra
  • *Printemps, for piano
  • George Dyson – The Canterbury Pilgrims, for soprano, tenor, baritone, choir, and orchestra
  • Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté
  • *Piano Concerto No. 1
  • *Grave funèbre, for violin and chamber orchestra
  • Werner Egk
  • *Blasmusik No. 1, for wind orchestra
  • *Blasmusik No. 2, for wind orchestra
  • *Furchtlosigkeit und Wohlwollen, oratorio for tenor, mixed chorus, and orchestra
  • *Musica per banda, for wind orchestra
  • Hanns Eisler
  • *Lied der roten Flieger, for voice and small orchestra or piano
  • *Das Lied vom vierten Mann, for voice and small orchestra or piano
  • *Die Mutter, for choir and orchestra, op. 25
  • *Songs from the film Niemandsland
  • *Songs from the film Kuhle Wampe, oder Wem gehört die Welt?, op. 27
  • *Songs from the film Das Lied vom Leben, op. 36
  • *Streiklied, for voice and small orchestra or piano
  • *Suite No. 2, for orchestra,, op. 24
  • *Suite No. 3, for orchestra, op. 26
  • Edward Elgar
  • *Nursery Suite, for orchestra
  • *Soliloquy, for oboe and orchestra
  • Heino Eller
  • *Elegy, for harp and string orchestra
  • *String Quartet No. 2
  • Ulvi Cemal Erkin – Beş damla, for piano
  • Ferenc Farkas
  • *Alla danza ungherese, for orchestra
  • *Canephorae, five pieces for piano or organ
  • *Passacaglia, for organ
  • *Pastorali, for voice and piano or chamber orchestra
  • *Quaderno Romano, six pieces for piano
  • *Sonatina No. 2, for violin and piano
  • Samuel Feinberg – Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Jacobo Ficher – Sonata, for flute, viola, and piano, op. 18
  • Gerald Finzi – To Joy, for voice and piano, op. 13
  • Wolfgang Fortner
  • *Grenzen der Menschheit, for baritone, five-part choir, and orchestra
  • *Lied der Welt, for male choir
  • Isadore Freed – String Quartet
  • Noël Gallon – Sonatine, for piano
  • Alejandro García Caturla
  • *El caballo blanco, for four-part mixed choir
  • *Rumba, for chamber orchestra
  • *Suite cubana No. 1, for chamber orchestra
  • *Yamba-O, for orchestra
  • *Acalanto, for soprano and piano
  • *Aquela china, for voice and piano
  • *Balada para os carreteiros, for baritone and piano
  • *Mãe d'agua canta, for violin and piano, or for string quartet
  • Roberto Gerhard – Sis cançons populars catalanes, for soprano or tenor and orchestra
  • George Gershwin – Second Rhapsody, for piano and orchestra
  • Vittorio Giannini
  • *Madrigal, for four solo voice and string quartet
  • *Quintet, for two violins, viola, cello, and piano
  • *Suite, for orchestra
  • *Trio, for violin, cello, and piano
  • Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
  • *The Flooded Stream, for voice and piano
  • *The Orchard Sings to the Child, for voice and piano
  • *Padraic the Fidiler, for voice and piano, with violin ad libitum
  • *Pieces, for clarinet and piano
  • Alexander Glazunov – "Concerto ballata" in C major, for cello and orchestra, op. 108
  • Reinhold Glière – Comedians
  • Radamés Gnattali
  • *Para meu Rancho, for voice and piano
  • *Poemas, for voice and piano
  • *Rapsódia brasileira, for piano
  • Leopold Godowsky
  • *Capriccio, for piano left-hand
  • *Etude, in F major, for piano, op. 2 no. 6
  • Berthold Goldschmidt
  • *Die Herde sucht
  • *Zwei Betrachtungen, for speaker, chamber choir, piano, and percussion, op. 15
  • Eugene Aynsley Goossens –
  • Percy Grainger –
  • Alexander Gretchaninov – Sonata, for piano, op. 129
  • Ferde Grofé –
  • *Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra
  • *Knute Rockne, symphonic poem for orchestra
  • Camargo Guarnieri
  • *Piano Concerto No. 1
  • *Poemas de Macunaíma, for voice and orchestra
  • *Cello Sonata No. 1
  • *Trio for violin, viola, and cello
  • Alois Hába
  • *Fantazie No. 1, for nonet, op. 40
  • *Toccata quasi una fantasia, for piano, op. 38
  • Henry Hadley
  • *Aurora Borealis, overture for orchestra
  • *San Francisco, suite for orchestra in C major, op. 121
  • *Youth Triumphant, overture for band
  • Johan Halvorsen – Danses norvégiennes Nos. 3–6, for violin and orchestra
  • Roy Harris
  • *American Portrait
  • *Andantino, for orchestra
  • *Concert Piece, for orchestra
  • *Toccata, for orchestra
  • Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • *Sonatina, for piano
  • *Tanzsuite, for wind quintet
  • Alfred Hill – Mass in E major
  • Paul Hindemith
  • *Duette, for two violins
  • *Einige Klavierstücke, for piano
  • *Fünf-und-Vierzig Stücke, for 1 and 2 violins
  • *Konzertstück, for trautonium and strings
  • *Musik zu einem abstrakten Fischinger-Film, for string trio
  • *Musik zu einen Trickfilm, for piano
  • *Reklamefilm Clermont de Fouet, for string trio
  • *Spiel- und Hörschule
  • *"Der Tod", for TTBB choir
  • *Das Unaufhörliche, for soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, mixed choir, children's choir, orchestra, and organ
  • Vagn Holmboe
  • *Allegro affettuoso, for piano
  • *Allegro sostenuto, for violin and piano
  • *Chamber Music No. 1, for chamber orchestra
  • *Choral Pieces, for children's chorus
  • *Concerto for chamber orchestra
  • *Concerto, for solo piano
  • *Duets, for two recorders
  • *Provinsen, for soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, choir, flute, oboe, violin, and cello
  • *Requiem, for children's voices, children's chorus, and chamber orchestra
  • Gustav Holst – Twelve Welsh Folk Songs, for choir, H183
  • Arthur Honegger – Cris du monde, for solo voices, children's chorus, mixed chorus, and orchestra
  • Alan Hovhaness – Boreas and Mount Wildcat, for orchestra op. 2a
  • Mary Howe
  • *Dirge, for orchestra
  • *Der Einsame, for voice and piano
  • *Liebeslied, for voice and piano
  • *Mailied, for voice and piano
  • *Schlaflied, for voice and piano
  • *Suite mélancolique, for violin, cello, and piano
  • *Whimsy, for piano
  • Herbert Howells
  • *"Delicates so dainty", unison voices and piano
  • *"A Maid Peerless", for SSAA choir and orchestra
  • *Severn, for SATB choir
  • *"Sweet Content", for unison voices and piano
  • *Three Folksongs, for voice and piano
  • Jacques Ibert
  • *Les cinq gentlemen maudits, music for the film by J. Duvivier
  • *S.O.S. Foch, music for the film by J. Arroy
  • *Symphonie marine, for orchestra
  • Vincent d'Indy
  • *Chanson en forme de canon à l'octave, for soprano and baritone, op. 102
  • *Chant de nourrice, for three equal voices, op. 103
  • *Cinq chansons folkloriques et deux rigaudons à une voix, for voice and piano
  • *Le forgeron, for three-part choir and string quartet, op. 104
  • *String Quartet No. 4
  • *La vengeance du mari, soprano, two tenors, four-part choit, small wind band or piano, op. 105
  • John Ireland – Songs Sacred and Profane, for voice and piano
  • Charles Ives – The Fourth of July, from A Symphony: New England Holidays
  • Gordon Jacob
  • *Passacaglia on a Well-Known Theme, for orchestra
  • *Songs, for soprano and clarinet
  • Dorothy James – Symphonic Fragments, for orchestra
  • André Jolivet
  • *Études, for piano
  • *Mélodies sur des poésies anciennes, for voice and piano or chamber orchestra
  • *Prière des 13 hommes dans la mine, for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano
  • *Rondels de François Villon, for voice and piano
  • *Suite, for viola and piano
  • Joseph Jongen
  • *Pièces en trio, for violin, cello, and piano, op. 95,
  • *String Quartet No. 5, op. 95
  • Manolis Kalomiris – Symphony No. 2 "Of the Good and Simple People", for choir and orchestra
  • Edvin Kallstenius – Dalarapsodi
  • Sigfrid Karg-Elert
  • *Music for Organ, op. 145
  • *Passacaglia and Fugue on BACH, op. 150
  • *Sempre semplice, for organ, op. 142, no. 2
  • Albert Ketèlbey – In the Mystic Land of Egypt
  • Aram Khachaturian – Double Fugue, for string quartet
  • Uuno Klami
  • *Hommage à Haendel, for orchestra
  • *Scenes from a Puppet Theatre, for orchestra
  • *Rag-Time and Blues, for two violins, clarinet, trumpet, and piano
  • *Cheremis Fantasia, for cello and orchestra
  • Lev Knipper – Little Negro Sebi, ballet for orchestra, op. 24
  • Zoltán Kodály
  • *Mátrai képek, for mixed choir
  • *Nagyszalontai köszöntő, for mixed choir or treble choir
  • *Prelude, for organ
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Piano Sonata No. 3 in C major, op. 25
  • Charles Koechlin
  • *Chorals, op. 117
  • *Chorals dans les modes du moyen-âge, for orchestra, op. 117bis
  • Ernst Krenek
  • *Bagatelles, for piano four-hands, op. 70
  • *Durch die Nacht, song cycle, for soprano and orchestra, op. 67a
  • *Die Nachtigall, concert aria, for coloratura soprano and orchestra, op. 68a
  • *Gesänge des späten Jahres, for voice and piano, op. 71
  • *Theme and Thirteen Variations, for orchestra, op. 69
  • Paul Ladmirault – En Fôret
  • László Lajtha – Violin Concerto, op. 15
  • Constant Lambert
  • *Concerto for Piano & 9 Instruments
  • *Salome, for clarinet, trumpet, cello, and percussion
  • Lars-Erik Larsson – Duo, for violin and viola, op. 6
  • Marc Lavry – Jewish Suite, for string quartet
  • Jón Leifs
  • *Íslendingaljóð, for male choir, op. 15a
  • *Íslenskir söngdansar, for voices with ad lib instrumental accompaniment, op. 17a
  • *Ný rímnadanslög, for piano, op. 14b
  • *Preludes, for organ, op. 16
  • *Sjávarvísur, for male choir, op. 15b
  • George Frederick McKay – Trio, for violin, cello, and piano
  • Alexander Mackenzie – Partsongs, for four-part mixed choir and piano, op. 92
  • Elizabeth Maconchy
  • *A Hymn to Christ, A Hymn to God the Father, for double choir
  • *The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo, for choir and orchestra
  • *The Willow Plate
  • Gian Francesco Malipiero
  • *Concerti, for orchestra
  • *Epitaffio, for piano
  • *String Quartet No. 3 "Cantari alla madrigalesca"
  • Igor Markevitch – Serenade for Three Instruments
  • Frank Martin – La nique à Satan, for baritone, children's choir, female choir, male choir, wind instruments, 2 pianos, percussion, and contrabass
  • Bohuslav Martinů
  • *Borova, for oboe, clarinet, trumpet, piano, and strings
  • *Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra
  • *Doux esquisses, for piano
  • *Jeux, for piano
  • *Partita, for string orchestra
  • *Sept études rhythmiques, for violin and piano
  • *Seven Arabesques, for violin and piano
  • *Slavnostní ouvertura k sokolskému sletu, for orchestra
  • *Sonata No. 2, for violin and piano
  • *"Staročeská říkadla", for women's choir
  • *Untitled Pieces, for piano
  • Nikolai Medtner
  • *Leichte Klavierstücke, in B major and A minor, for piano
  • *Sonata minacciosa in F minor, for piano, op. 53, no. 2
  • Erkki Melartin
  • *Festliches Präludium, for organ
  • *Höstkvällen, for voice and piano, op. 170, no. 2
  • *Hvarje årstid, for voice and piano, op. 171
  • *Långt från land, for voice and piano
  • *Lohdutus, for chamber orchestra, op. 168
  • *Muistathan, for voice and piano
  • *Runebergsånger, for voice and piano, op. 172
  • *Sånger till ord av Jarl Hemmer, for voice and piano, op. 162
  • *Sonata, for flute and harp, op. 135b
  • *Sonatina No. 2, for piano, op. 135a
  • *Törnet, for voice and piano, op. 170, no. 3
  • Olivier Messiaen
  • *L'ensorceleuse, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, and piano or orchestra
  • *Fugue sur un sujet de Georges Hüe, for four unspecified instruments
  • *Le tombeau resplendissant, for orchestra
  • Darius Milhaud – Sonata for organ, op. 112
  • Ernest John Moeran
  • *Suffolk Folksongs, for voice and piano
  • *Trio, for violin, viola, and cello
  • *Whythorne's Shadow, for orchestra
  • Federico Mompou – Comptines I–III, for voice and piano
  • Carl Nielsen
  • *Allegretto, in F major, for two recorders
  • *Commotio, for organ, op. 50
  • *"Det som lysner over vangen", for voice and piano
  • *Klaverstykke, for piano
  • *"Kvadet om Nordens harpe", for TTBB choir
  • *Ligbraendings–Kantate, for choir and orchestra
  • *Paaske-aften
  • Gösta Nystroem – Sinfonia breve
  • Carl Orff
  • *Cantata, for choir, piano, and percussion
  • *Catulli Carmina II, for choir
  • Leo Ornstein – Preludes, for cello and piano
  • Paul Paray – Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
  • Harry Partch
  • *"By the Waters of Babylon", for voice and adapted viola
  • *Potion Scene from Romeo and Juliet, for voice and adapted viola
  • Juan Carlos Paz
  • *Suite for Emperor and Galilean by Henrik Ibsen, for orchestra
  • *Pieces, for orchestra
  • *Sonata, for violin and piano
  • Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
  • *Danslek ur Ran, for choir a capella or choir and piano
  • *Jämtlandssången, for unison choir and piano
  • Hans Pfitzner
  • *Lieder, for voice and piano, op. 40
  • *Sonette, op. 41
  • Willem Pijper – Sonata, for unaccompanied violin
  • Mario Pilati
  • *Canzoni popolari italiane, for small orchestra
  • *String Quartet in A major
  • Walter Piston – Suite, for oboe and piano
  • Ildebrando Pizzetti – Introduzione all'Agamennone, for choir and orchestra
  • Quincy Porter
  • *Songs for Helen on Nursery Rhymes, for voice and piano
  • *String Quartet No. 4
  • Francis Poulenc
  • *Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob, for voice and piano
  • *Concertino, for piano four hands
  • *Quatre poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, for voice and piano
  • *Sonata for Violin and Piano
  • *Trois poèmes de Louise Lalanne, for voice and piano
  • Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 4, for left hand, written for Paul Wittgenstein
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • *Piano Sonata No. 2 in B minor, op. 36
  • *Variations on a Theme of Corelli, for piano, op. 42
  • Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G
  • Ottorino Respighi
  • *Antiche danze ed arie per liuto, Suite No. 3, for string quartet
  • *Belkis, regina di Saba, for orchestra
  • *Maria egiziaca, for voices and orchestra
  • Silvestre Revueltas
  • *Duo para pato y canario, for voice and small orchestra
  • *Esquinas, for orchestra with soprano voice
  • *"Ranas", for voice and piano
  • *"El tecolote", for voice and piano
  • *String Quartet No. 2
  • *String Quartet No. 3
  • *Ventanas, for orchestra
  • Wallingford Riegger
  • *Canons for Woodwinds, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, op. 9
  • *Fantasy and Fugue, for orchestra and organ, op. 10
  • Vittorio Rieti
  • *Preludes, for piano
  • *Serenata, for violin and eleven instruments or chamber orchestra
  • *Symphony No. 2
  • Joaquín Rodrigo – Serenata española, for piano
  • Amadeo Roldán
  • *Tres toques, for orchestra
  • *Curujey, son for choir, two pianos, and two percussionists
  • Guy Ropartz – L'indiscret, ballet, for orchestra
  • Hilding Rosenberg
  • *Female Choruses
  • *Medea, incidental music for the play by Euripides
  • *Song of Mourning and Pastoral, female choir and piano
  • Albert Roussel
  • *A Flower Given to my Daughter, for voice and piano
  • *Idylles, for voice and piano, op. 44
  • *Sonata No. 1, for violin and piano, in D minor, op. 11
  • Carl Ruggles – Sun-Treader, for orchestra
  • Harald Sæverud
  • *Suite, for piano, op. 6
  • *Variazioni piccole, for orchestra, op. 8
  • *Aire de siembra, for orchestra
  • *Canciones románticas peruanas, for voice and piano, no. 1: "Arrullo de muñeca", op. 17, no. 1
  • *Canciones simbólicas, for voice and piano, op. 14
  • *Kcachampa, for orchestra
  • *Prelude, for string quartet, op. 15
  • *Suite peruana, for piano, op. 16
  • Henri Sauguet
  • *Divertissement de chambre, for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola, and piano
  • *Polymètres, for voice and piano
  • Franz Schmidt – Variationen über ein Husarenlied, for orchestra
  • Florent Schmitt
  • *Choeurs, for four-part women's choir, a capella or with orchestra, op. 81
  • *Symphonie concertante, for piano and orchestra, op. 82
  • Othmar Schoeck – Sonata in E major, for violin and piano, op. 46
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • *Four-part Mirror Canon
  • *Klavierstück, op. 33b
  • *Mirror Canon, for string quartet
  • *Two-part Mirror Canon for Herrmann Abraham "Spiegle Dich im Werk"
  • Erwin Schulhoff – Suite dansante en jazz, for piano
  • Cyril Scott
  • *Cello Concerto
  • *Trio No. 1, for violin, viola, and cello
  • *Trio No. 2, for violin, viola, and cello
  • Roger Sessions – Waltzes, for orchestra
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
  • *Movement for Voice and Piano
  • *Piano Symphony No. 0
  • Vissarion Shebalin – Lenin, dramatic symphony for narrator, four vocal soloists, choir, and orchestra, op. 16
  • Nikos Skalkottas
  • *"O ti thel ē mana sou?", for voice and piano
  • *Octet, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, two violins, viola, and cello
  • *Piano Concerto No. 1
  • Yngve Sköld – Alla Leggenda
  • Richard Strauss – Kampf und Sieg, for orchestra
  • Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto in D
  • Josef Suk – Mass in B major, for SATB choir, strings, organ, and timpani
  • Karol Szymanowski – Harnasie, op. 55
  • Alexandre Tansman
  • *Concertino, for piano and orchestra
  • *Danses polonaises, for orchestra
  • *Symphony No. 3, for violin, viola, cello, piano, and orchestra
  • Virgil Thomson
  • *La belle en dormant, for voice and piano
  • *Chamber Music, for voice and piano
  • *Serenade, for flute and violin
  • *Stabat mater, for soprano and string quartet
  • *String Quartet No. 1
  • *Symphony No. 2 in C major
  • Randall Thompson – Symphony No. 2 in E minor
  • Michael Tippett – Symphonic Movement, for orchestra
  • Henri Tomasi
  • *Capriccio, for violin and orchestra
  • *Chansons des sables, for voice and orchestra
  • *Chants de Cyrnos, for voice and orchestra or piano
  • *Fantoches, for piano
  • *Tam-tam, symphonic poem, for orchestra
  • Eduard Tubin – Suite on Estoninian Motifs, for orchestra
  • Joaquín Turina
  • *El castillo de Almodóvar, for piano, op. 65
  • *El circo, for piano, op. 68
  • *Jardín de niños, for piano, op. 63
  • *Pieza romántica, for piano, op. 64
  • *Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 67
  • *Radio Madrid, for piano, op. 62,
  • *Rapsodia sinfónica, for piano and strings, op. 66
  • *Guitar Sonata, op. 61
  • Geirr Tveitt – Prillar, for orchestra
  • Edgard Varèse – Ionisation
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams
  • *In Windsor Forest, Cantata for chorus and orchestra, adapted from the opera Sir John in Love
  • *Abinger
  • *Mantegna
  • *Marathon
  • *Piano Concerto in C major
  • *White Gates
  • Louis Vierne
  • *Les Angélus, for voice and organ, op. 57
  • *La ballade du désespéré, for soprano and orchestra, op. 61
  • *Triptyque, for organ, op. 58,
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • *Caixinha de música quebrada, for piano
  • *String Quartet No. 5
  • John Vincent – A Folk Song Symphony, for orchestra
  • William Walton
  • *Belshazzar's Feast
  • *"Make we joy in this fest", set for SATB choir
  • Kurt Weill – Mann ist Mann, incidental music to the play by Bertolt Brecht
  • Jaromir Weinberger
  • *Overture to a Chivalrous Play, for orchestra
  • *Passacaglia, for organ and orchestra
  • Egon Wellesz – Mitte des Lebens, cantata for soprano, choir, and orchestra, op. 45
  • Mark Wessel
  • *Ballade, for violin, oboe and string orchestra
  • *Feminine Conversations and Promenade of Respectable People, for piano
  • *Prelude and Fugue, for string quartet
  • *Scherzo burlesque, for piano and orchestra
  • *Sextet, for woodwinds and piano
  • *String Quartet No. 1
  • Stefan Wolpe
  • *Agitprop Lieder, medium voice
  • *Zwei Lieder von Ernst Ottwald, medium voice
  • *Lieder, for voice and piano
  • *Die Mausefalle, incidental music for the play by Gustav von Wangenheim
  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky
  • *String Quartet No. 2, Op. 18
  • *Deux études de concert, for two quarter-tone pianos, op. 19
  • *Étude en forme de scherzo, for two quarter-tone pianos, op. 20
  • Riccardo Zandonai – Quadri di Segantini, for orchestra

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America's Sweetheart Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 10 and ran for 135 performances.The Band Wagon Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 3 and ran for 260 performancesBitter Sweet – London revivalThe Cat and the Fiddle Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 15 and ran for 395 performancesCavalcade – London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on October 13 and ran for 405 performancesDie Dubarry Berlin production opened on August 14Folly To Be Wise London revue opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on January 8. Starring Cicely Courtneidge.Here Goes the Bride Broadway production opened at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre on November 3 and ran for 7 performances.Hold My Hand London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on December 23. Starring Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale and Stanley Lupino.The Land of Smiles – London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on May 8The Laugh Parade Broadway revue opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 2 and ran for 231 performancesOf Thee I Sing Broadway production, opened December 26 and ran for 441 performances.The Third Little Show Broadway production opened at the Music Box Theatre on June 1 and ran for 136 performancesVictoria and Her Hussar London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 17 and ran for 100 performancesWhite Horse Inn London production opened at the Coliseum Theatre on April 8 and ran for 651 performancesZiegfeld Follies of 1931 Broadway revue opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on July 1 and ran for 165 performances.

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Alam Ara, starring Master Vithal and Zubeida, with music by Ferozshah M. Mistri and B. IraniA Caprice of Pompadour, starring André BaugéAutumn Roses, starring Francisco Canaro, with music by Guillermo Barbieri and José RialChildren of Dreams starring Margaret Schilling, Paul Gregory and Tom PatricolaCity of Song, starring Jan Kiepura, with music by Paul Abraham, Philip Braham and Ernesto Tagliaferri The Cuban Love Song starring Lawrence Tibbett, Lupe Vélez, Jimmy Durante and Louise FazendaDelicious starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell and El Brendl.Die Fledermaus, starring Anny Ondra, Georg Alexander and Oskar Sima, with music by Johann Strauss II.Her Majesty, Love starring Marilyn MillerThe Hot Heiress starring Ben Lyon and Ona MunsonHuwen op Bevel Kiss Me Again starring Bernice Claire and Edward Everett HortonMadame Pompadour, starring Anny Ahlers, Kurt Gerron and Walter Jankuhn, with music by Eduard Künneke, Rudolf Nelson and Robert Stolz Le Million starring Annabella and René LefèvrePalmy Days starring Eddie Cantor and Charlotte GreenwoodPardon Us starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Directed by James Parrott.The Prodigal starring Lawrence TibbettSally in Our Alley starring Gracie FieldsShowgirl's Luck starring Susan Denis, Arthur Tauchert, Arthur Clarke and Fred BluettThe Private Secretary, starring Renate Müller, Hermann Thimig and Felix Bressart, with music by Paul Abraham and Lajos Lajtai The Smiling Lieutenant starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Miriam HopkinsSunshine Susie starring Renate Müller and Jack Hulbert

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