1938 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1938.

1938 in music
By location
By genre
By topic
  • List of albums released
List of years in music (table)
Composer and jazz pianist Fats Waller in 1938

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Albums released

Biggest hit songs

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1938.[1]

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1Artie ShawBegin the Beguine1938USAUS BB 2 of 1938, POP 2 orof 1938, RYM 10 of 1938, RIAA 91, Acclaimed 1163
2Bob Hope & Shirley RossThanks For the Memory1938USAOscar in 1938, AFI 63, RIAA 170, Acclaimed 1316
3Seven DwarfsWhistle While You Work1938USAUS BB 1 of 1938, POP 1 of 1938
4The Andrews SistersBei Mir Bist Du Schoen1938USAUS BB 5 of 1938, RYM 5 of 1937, POP 5 of 1938, Europe 6 of the 1930s
5Fred AstaireNice Work If You Can Get It1938USAUS BB 13 of 1938, POP 13 of 1938, RYM 20 of 1937, Europe 79 of the 1930s

Top hit recordings

Top Christmas hits
  • "Don't Wait 'Till The Night Before Christmas" – Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra

Top blues records

Classical music

Premieres
Sortable table
ComposerCompositionDateLocationPerformers
Barber, SamuelAdagio for Strings1938-11-05 New York CityNBC Symphony – Toscanini [3]
Britten, BenjaminPiano Concerto1938-08-18 London (BBC Proms)Britten / BBC Symphony – Wood [4]
Bush, AlanPiano Concerto, with baritone and chorus1938-03-04 LondonBush, Noble / BBC Symphony – Boult [5]
Copland, AaronAn Outdoor Overture1938-12-16 New York CityNew York High School of Music and Art Orchestra – Richter [6]
Copland, AaronSignature1938-02-23 New York CityHigh-Low Chamber Orchestra – Karman [7]
Dallapiccola, LuigiSei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane1938-04-26 Prague[unknown ensemble] – Kabelác [8]
Enescu, GeorgePiano Sonata No. 31938-12-06 Salle Gaveau, ParisMarcel Ciampi[9]
Ginastera, AlbertoCantos del Tucumán1938-07-26 Buenos AiresFrías de López Buchardo, [unknown ensemble] [10]
Jolivet, AndréOuverture Rondeau for four ondes Martenot, two pianos and percussion1938-06-02 ParisLesur, Steytler, Berthier, Breitner, Stein, Chapiro, Carasso – Evrard [11]
Jolivet, AndréPoèmes pour le enfant1938-05-12 ParisCroiza / [unknown ensemble] – Désormière [12]
Jolivet, AndréSuite for String Trio1938-11-24 ParisTrio Pasquier [13]
Krenek, ErnstPiano Concerto No. 21938-03-17 AmsterdamKrenek / Concertgebouw Orchestra – Walter [14][15]
Piston, WalterSymphony No. 11938-04-08 BostonBoston Symphony – Piston [16]
Revultas, SilvestreSensemayá1938-12-15 Mexico City[unknown orchestra] – Revueltas [17]
Rubbra, EdmundSymphony No. 21938-12-16 LondonBBC Symphony – Rubbra [18]
Schoenberg, ArnoldOrchestration of Johannes Brahms' Piano Quartet1938-05-07 Los AngelesLos Angeles Philharmonic – Klemperer [19]
Shostakovich, DmitriString Quartet No. 11938-10-10 LeningradGlazunov Quartet [20]
Shostakovich, DmitriSuite for Jazz Orchestra No. 21938-11-28 MoscowUSSR State Jazz Band [21]
Stravinsky, IgorDumbarton Oaks Concerto1938-05-08 Washington DC[unknown ensemble] – Boulanger [22]
Tippett, MichaelPiano Sonata No. 11938-11-11 LondonSellick [23]
Webern, AntonDas Augenlicht1938-06-17 London (ISCM 38)BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus – Scherchen [24]

Compositions

Opera

Jazz
Main article: 1938 in jazz

Musical theater
  • The Boys From Syracuse (Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) – Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 23 and ran for 235 performances
  • Great Lady Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 1 and ran for only 20 performances
  • Maritza aka Countess Maritza, London production opened at the Palace Theatre on July 6
  • The Fleet's Lit Up, London opened at the London Hippodrome and ran for 191 performances
  • Hellzapoppin', Broadway revue opened at the 46th Street Theatre on September 22 and ran for 1404 performances
  • I Married An Angel, Broadway production opened at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre on May 11 and ran for 338 performances
  • Knickerbocker Holiday, Broadway production opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 19 and ran for 168 performances
  • Leave It to Me!, Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on November 9 and ran for 291 performances
  • Nine Sharp, London production opened at The Little Theatre on January 26 and ran for 405 performances
  • Operette, London production opened at His Majesty's Theatre on March 16
  • Right This Way, Broadway production opened at the 46th Street Theatre on January 5 and ran for 14 performances
  • Sing Out The News, Broadway revue opened at the Music Box Theatre on September 24 and ran for 105 performances
  • These Foolish Things London revue opened at the Palladium on September 29
  • You Never Know, Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 21 and ran for 78 performances

Musical films

Births

Deaths

References
  1. "Songs from the Year 1938". tsort.info. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  2. http://theatreorgans.com/hammond/keng/kenhtml/Austroton78UB2135TipiTin&Bumblebee%28b%29.jpg
  3. "Adagio for Strings" (PDF). Library of Congress.
  4. "Piano Concerto n° 1, Benjamin Britten". brahms.ircam.fr.
  5. "Alan Bush Music Trust – Music – Concertos / Solo Instrument and Orchestra". www.alanbushtrust.org.uk.
  6. "An Outdoor Overture, Aaron Copland". brahms.ircam.fr.
  7. "Signature, Aaron Copland". brahms.ircam.fr.
  8. "Sei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane, Luigi Dallapiccola". brahms.ircam.fr.
  9. Elena Zottoviceanu, Adrian Rațiu, and Myriam Marbe, "Premiera Operei Oedip (1934–1936)", in George Enescu: Monografie, 2 vols., edited by Mircea Voicana, 739–876 (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1971): 750.
  10. "Cantos del Tucumán, Alberto Evaristo Ginastera". brahms.ircam.fr.
  11. "Ouverture Rondeau, André Jolivet". brahms.ircam.fr.
  12. "Poèmes pour l'enfant, André Jolivet". brahms.ircam.fr.
  13. "Suite, André Jolivet". brahms.ircam.fr.
  14. "Concerto pour piano et orchestre n° 2, Ernst Krenek". brahms.ircam.fr.
  15. "Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest 1931–1941".
  16. "World Premieres: The 1900s". www.bso.org. Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  17. "Chicago Symphony Orchestra" (PDF).
  18. Schaarwächter, Jürgen (February 27, 2015). "Two Centuries of British Symphonism: From the beginnings to 1945. A preliminary survey. With a foreword by Lewis Foreman. Volume 2". Georg Olms Verlag – via Google Books.
  19. "Johannes Brahms: Klavierquartett g-Moll [original op. 25], Arnold Schoenberg". brahms.ircam.fr.
  20. "Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1". www.quartets.de.
  21. "Suite n° 2, Dimitri Chostakovitch". brahms.ircam.fr.
  22. "Concerto en mi bémol, Igor Stravinsky". brahms.ircam.fr.
  23. "Sonate n° 1, Sir Michael Tippett". brahms.ircam.fr.
  24. "Das Augenlicht, Op. 26, Anton Webern". brahms.ircam.fr.
  25. "Opera Composers: A". opera.stanford.edu.
  26. The Big Broadcast of 1938 on imdb.com
  27. Gundle, Stephen. Mussolini's Dream Factory: Film Stardom in Fascist Italy. Berghahn Books, 2013. p.153
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