1894 in music
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[edit] Events
- March 14 - Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen
- December 22 - Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris
- Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut
- George W. Johnson is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records
- The National College of Music, London, was formed by the Moss Family. The college still exists today as an examination board for music and drama.
- George H. Thomas develops the first illustrated song to promote The Little Lost Child, which goes on to sell more than two million copies of its sheet music nationwide.
[edit] Published popular music
- "Airy, Fairy Lillian" w. Tony Raymond m. Maurice Levi
- "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon
- "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" w.m. Fred Gilbert
- "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operetta Der Obersteiger
- "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles
- "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey
- "Humoresque" m. Antonín Dvořák
- "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie
- "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
- "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans
- "I've Been Working on the Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)
- "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora
- "Little Kinkies" w.m. M. Tobias
- "The Little Lost Child" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "Long Ago In Alcala" w. Frederick Edward Weatherley & Adrian Ross m. André Messager
- "My Friend The Major" w.m. E. W. Rogers
- "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack
- "Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Harry Champion
- "The Owls Serenade" w. Arthur J. Lamb, m. H.W. Petrie
- "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray
- "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton
- "The Sidewalks of New York" w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
- ""Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan
- "Yale Society Two-Step" by C. VanBaar
- "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney
[edit] Recorded popular music
- "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records - "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
[edit] Classical music
- Anton Arensky - Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
- Johannes Brahms - Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
- Claude Debussy - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
- Robert Fuchs - Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
- Alexander Gretchaninov - String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
- Victor Herbert - Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Caucasian Sketches
- Joseph Jongen - Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, op. 3
- Alexander Kopylov - String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
- Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 1 in G minor; Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
- Josef Rheinberger - Sonata for Horn and Piano in E flat major
- Adolphe Samuel - Symphony No. 7 Opus 48[1]
- Wilhelm Stenhammar - String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2[2]
- Louis Vierne - String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)
[edit] Opera
- Granville Bantock - The Pearl of Iran
- Julius Bechgaard - Frau Inge
- Herman Bemberg - Cleopatra
- Frederick Delius - The Magic Fountain
- Charles-Édouard Lefebvre - Djelma premiered on May 25 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris
- Hamish MacCunn - Jeanie Deans
- Jules Massenet - Thaïs (opera)
- Emile Pessard - Le muet
- Sergei Taneyev - Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)
[edit] Musical theater
- A Gaiety Girl - Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
- Der Obersteiger - Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien on January 5
- The Passing Show - Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5
- Rob Roy Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on October 29 and ran for 168 performances
- The Shop Girl - London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
- A Trip To Chinatown - London production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances
[edit] Births
- January 31 - Isham Jones, US bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
- February 11 - Alfonso Leng, dentist and part-time composer (d. 1974)
- April 3 - Dooley Wilson, pianist and singer (d. 1953)
- April 15 - Bessie Smith, blues singer (d. 1937)
- April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky, conductor and composer (d. 1995)
- May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born US composer, pianist and conductor
- May 29 -Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
- June 4 - La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
- June 10 - Punch Miller, jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
- July 10 - Jimmy McHugh, US composer and pianist
- August 15 - Harry Akst, US composer and pianist
- September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
- September 18 - Willard Robison, US songwriter and bandleader
- September 26 - Vaughn De Leath, US singer and radio pioneer
- December 31 - Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- January 21 - Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
- February 4
- Louis Lewandowski, composer (b. 1821)
- Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
- February 11 - Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
- February 12 - Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
- February 18 - Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
- March 21 - Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
- April 13
- Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
- Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
- June 9 - Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
- June 23 - Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
- July 9 - Juventino Rosas, violinist, bandleader and composer (b. 1868)
- July 26 - Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
- September 13 - Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
- September 21 - Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
- October 16 - Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
- October 28 - Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
- November 4 - Eugène Oudin, composer (b. 1858)
- November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
[edit] See also
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Dewilde, Jan; Schrooten, Marjan, transl. (2006). "Notes to Samuel Symphony 6". Musikproduktion Hoeflich. http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/S-Z/samuel_sym6.html. Retrieved 2009-01-19.
- ^ Edition Silvertrust Online Notes for this Score