1890 in music

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Events in the year 1890 in music.

Events

June 21 - Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of his symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration at the Eisenach Festival
September 3 - Carl Nielsen makes the first entry in his diary.
September 9 - Edward Elgar's concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester
George W. Johnson records phonograph cylinders
First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens, takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death
Charles-Marie Widor succeeds César Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
The New York Phonograph Company opens the first recording studio.

"The Commodore Song"
"Little Pig Went To Market" by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker
"Maggie Murphy's Home" w. Edward Harrigan m. David Braham
"Passing By" w. Robert Herrick m. Edward C. Purcell
"Star of the East" w. George Cooper m. Amanda Kennedy
"Throw Him Down McCloskey" w.m. John W. Kelly
"You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber

February 25 - Myra Hess, pianist (d. 1965)
February 27 - Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist (d. 1933)
March 12 - Evert Taube, writer, artist, composer and singer (d. 1976)
March 17 - Harold Morris, pianist and composer (d. 1964)
March 20
- Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor (d. 1957)
- Lauritz Melchior, operatic tenor (d. 1973)
March 28 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
April 17 - Gussie Mueller, jazz clarinetist (d. 1965)
May 21 - Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of "Irene" and "Rio Rita" (d. 1965)
June 6 - Ted Lewis, bandleader (d. 1971)
June 26 - Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star (d. 1929)
August 12 - Lillian Evanti, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
August 15 - Jacques Ibert, composer (d. 1962)
August 28 - Ivor Gurney, poet and composer (d. 1937)
September 15 - Frank Martin, composer (d. 1974)
September 26 - Papanasam Sivan, Carnatic music composer (d. 1973)
October 1 - Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
October 8 - Samuel Hoffenstein, screenwriter and composer (d. 1947)
October 13 - Gösta Nystroem, composer (d. 1966)
November 10 - Mischa Bakaleinikoff, musical director (d. 1960)
December 8 - Bohuslav Martinů, classical composer (d. 1959)