1936 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1936.

1936 in music
By location
By genre
By topic
List of years in music (table)

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Biggest hit songs

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1936.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart Entries
1Bing CrosbyPennies From Heaven1936US Billboard 1 – 1936 (15 weeks), US BB 1 of 1936, Your Hit Parade 1 of 1936, Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004 (1936), POP 1 of 1936, Oscar in 1936 (film 'Pennies from Heaven') (Nominated), Music Imprint 8 of 1930s, nuTsie 23 of 1930s, Europe 32 of the 1930s (1936), RYM 41 of 1936, RIAA 129, Acclaimed 1222 (1936)
2Fred AstaireThe Way You Look Tonight1936US Billboard 1 – 1936 (17 weeks), Oscar in 1936 (film 'Swing Time'), Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998 (1936), US BB 2 of 1936, Your Hit Parade 2 of 1936, POP 2 of 1936, Brazil 26 of 1937, nuTsie 38 of 1930s, RYM 40 of 1936, AFI 43, Europe 94 of the 1930s (1936), Song of 1936
3Billie HolidaySummertime1936Europe 1 of the 1930s (1936), RYM 2 of 1936, US Billboard 12 – 1936 (2 weeks), nuTsie 70 of 1930s, Scrobulate 84 of jazz
4Benny GoodmanGoody Goody1936US Billboard 1 – 1936 (13 weeks), Your Hit Parade 5 of 1936, US BB 6 of 1936, POP 6 of 1936, Brazil 32 of 1936, nuTsie 71 of 1930s
5Benny GoodmanGlory of Love1936US Billboard 1 – 1936 (15 weeks), Your Hit Parade 3 of 1936, US BB 10 of 1936, POP 10 of 1936, Brazil 67 of 1936, nuTsie 96 of 1930s

Top hit recordings

Classical music

Premieres
Sortable table
ComposerCompositionDateLocationPerformers
Barber, SamuelString Quartet1936-12-14 RomePro Arte Quartet [2]
Barber, SamuelSymphony in One Movement (Symphony No. 1)1936-12-13 RomeAugusteo Philharmonic – Molinari [2]
Berg, AlbanViolin Concerto1936-04-19 Barcelona (ISCM)Krasner / Pau Casals Orchestra – Scherchen [3]
Britten, BenjaminThree Divertimenti for String Quartet1936-02-25 LondonStratton Quartet [4]
Britten, BenjaminOur Hunting Fathers1936-09-25 NorwichWyss / London Philharmonic – Britten [5]
Britten, BenjaminSuite for Violin and Piano1936-04-21 Barcelona (ISCM)Brosa, Britten [6]
Britten, BenjaminTemporal Variations1936-12-12 LondonCaine, Hallis [7]
Chávez, CarlosSinfonía india (Symphony No. 2)1936-04-10 BostonBoston Symphony – Chávez [8]
Copland, AaronStatements1936-01-09 MinneapolisMinneapolis Symphony
Dallapiccola, LuigiMusica per tre pianoforti1936-03-30 GenevaDallapiccola, Orloff, Pasche [9]
Diamond, DavidPsalm for Orchestra1936-12-10 Rochester, NYRochester Philharmonic – Hanson [10]
George EnescuSonata No. 2 for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 21936-3-4 ParisAlexanian, Enescu[11]
Gershwin, GeorgeCatfish Row1936-01-21 PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia Orchestra – Smallens [12]
Hindemith, PaulTrauermusik1936-01-21 LondonHindemith / BBC Symphony – Boult [13]
Ifukube, AkiraJapanese Rhapsody1936-04-05 BostonBoston Symphony – Sevitzky [14]
Jolivet, AndréAndante for Strings1936-05-25 ParisJane Evrard Orchestra [15]
Jolivet, AndréDanse incantatoire1936-06-03 ParisParis Symphony – Désormière [16]
Jolivet, AndréPrélude apocalyptique1936-12-06 ParisMessiaen [17]
Kabalevsky, DmitriPiano Concerto No. 21936-05-12 Moscow [18][Unknown performers]
Kodály, ZoltánBudavári Te Deum1936-09-02 BudapestRitter, Kisfaludy, Laczó, Mezey, Varhelyi / St. Matthew Church – Sugár [19]
Krenek, ErnstFragment from Karl V1936-04-19 Barcelona (ISCM)Meyer / Pau Casals Orchestra – Ansermet [20]
Lambert, ConstantSummer's Last Will and Testament1936-01-29 LondonHenderson / Philharmonic Choir, BBC Symphony – Lambert [21]
Martinů, BohuslavConcerto for Flute, Violin and Chamber Orch.1936-12-27 ParisM. Moyse, B. Moyse / Paris Concerts Society Orchestra – Gaubert [22]
Messiaen, OlivierPièce pour le tombeau de Paul Dukas1936-04-25 ParisNin-Culmell [23]
Messiaen, OlivierVocalise-Étude1936-05-18 ParisQuéru-Bedel, Messiaen [24]
Myaskovsky, NikolayAviation Symphony (Symphony No. 16)1936-10-24 MoscowMoscow Philharmonic – Szenkar [25]
Prokofiev, SergeiPeter and the Wolf1936-05-02 MoscowMoscow Philharmonic – Prokofiev [26]
Prokofiev, SergeiSuite No. 1 from Romeo and Juliet1936-11-24 MoscowMoscow Philharmonic – Sebestyén [27][28]
Rachmaninoff, SergeiSymphony No. 31936-11-06 PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia Orchestra – Stokowski [29]
Revueltas, SilvestreHomenaje a Federico García Lorca1936-11-14 Mexico CityMusicians from the National Conservatory – Revueltas [30]
Strauss, RichardOlympische Hymne1936-08-01 Berlin (Olympics)Berlin Philharmonic, National Socialist Symphony – Strauss [31]
Varèse, EdgardDensity 21.51936-02-16 New York CityBarrère [32]
Vaughan Williams, RalphDona nobis pacem1936-10-02 HuddersfieldFlynn, Henderson / Huddersfield Society, Hallé Orchestra – Coates [33]

Compositions

Opera

Jazz
Main article: 1936 in jazz

Musical theater

Musical films

Births

Deaths

References
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  2. Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works
  3. Style and Idea in the Lyric Suite of Alban Berg
  4. Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938
  5. Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938
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  8. Boston Symphony Orchestra
  9. IRCAM
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  14. Akira Ifukube official website
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  17. IRCAM
  18. Naxos Records
  19. Universal Edition
  20. IRCAM
  21. Musicweb International
  22. Hyperion Records
  23. IRCAM
  24. IRCAM
  25. Onno van Rijen's Shostakovich & other Soviet composers page
  26. Orchestra Toronto
  27. Sikorski
  28. Prokofiev, by Israel V. Nestyev
  29. Culture Catch
  30. Oregon Symphony Orchestra|Oregon Symphony
  31. Sport, Music, Identities
  32. "Carnegie Hall". Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  33. A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works
  34. Rimgaila Salys (2009). The Musical Comedy Films of Grigorii Aleksandrov: Laughing Matters. Intellect Books. pp. 121–197. ISBN 978-1-841-50282-3.
  35. "Death of Miss Florence Smithson". The Times. London. February 13, 1936. p. 10.
  36. "Gorter, Albert" (in German). Retrieved February 24, 2016.
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