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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918. ==Events== * January 18 - The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers at the Konzerthaus, Vienna. *February 13 - May Mukle and Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall in New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge, and Clarke herself. It includes the premiėre of ''Morpheus'', written by Clarke under the pen-name "Anthony Trent".〔(''Morpheus'': holograph listing at WorldCat. )〕 *March 3 - Béla Bartók's ''String Quartet No. 2'' is premièred in Budapest. *April 30/May 1 - Composer Toivo Kuula is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War. *May 24 - Béla Bartók's opera ''Duke Bluebeard's Castle'' (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest. *September 29 - First performance of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite ''The Planets'', before an invited audience at the Queen's Hall in London, conducted by Adrian Boult. *November 15 - Rosa Ponselle makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdi's ''La forza del destino'', opposite Enrico Caruso. *November 30 - Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the ''Orchestre de la Suisse Romande''. *Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army (United Kingdom). *First documented racially integrated jazz recording session. *Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1918 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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