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Events in the year 1892 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1892 in Norwegian music

Events

  • April 28 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Kullervo Symphony in Helsinki.
  • May 26 – A statue of Felix Mendelssohn, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it is re-dedicated in 2008.
  • August 1 – Jef Denyn presents the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
  • September 24 – Opening of the Theater Unter den Linden, Berlin with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.
  • September 26 – Antonín Dvořák arrives in the United States to take up his post as artistic director of the National Conservatory of Music.
  • December 18
  • Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Richter conducting at the Stadttheater, Leipzig.
  • December 6 O.S. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and opera Iolanta are premiered in a double bill at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • "After the Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year).
  • Erik Satie composes his first pieces in his own compositional system.
  • Sergei Diaghilev graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
  • Ferdinand Praeger's controversial biography Wagner As I Knew Him is published posthumously in London.
  • Sudrophone patented by François Sudre in France.

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  • "After the Ball"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Charles K. Harris
  • "The Bowery"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
  • "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Joseph Tabrar
  • "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two")&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Harry Dacre
  • "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
  • "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
  • "The Holy City"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Frederic Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
  • "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
  • "Liebestraum Nocturne" m. Virginia Field
  • "Molly And I And The Baby"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Harry Kennedy
  • "My Old Dutch"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
  • "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. James Thornton
  • "The Sweetest Story Ever Told"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. R. M. Stults
  • "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
  • "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Dan W. Quinn
  • "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Silas Leachman
  • "Esquimeau Dance" – William Tuson
  • "Grover Cleveland March" – Gilmore's Band
  • "Michael Casey At The Telephone" – Russell Hunting
  • "Michael Casey Taking The Census" – Russell Hunting
  • "Pat Brady as President" – Dan Kelly
  • "Parody of "We'll Never Turn His Picture Toward The Wall'" – Al Reeves
  • "Riding through the Glen" – Issler's Orchestra
  • "Take Your Time Gentlemen" – Press Eldridge
  • "The Blind Boy" – Richard Jose
  • "The Bowery" – Dan W. Quinn
  • "The Laughing Darkie" – George W. Johnson (singer)
  • "The Night Alarm" – Holding's Military Band
  • "The Old Folks at Home" – Len Spencer
  • "Uncle Ned's Dream" – George W. Johnson (singer)
  • February 15 – Ján Valašťan Dolinský, Slovak composer (d. 1965)
  • March 10
  • Arthur Honegger, composer (d. 1955)
  • Eva Turner, operatic soprano (d. 1990)
  • March 27 – Ferde Grofé, composer (d. 1972)
  • April 1 – Renato Zanelli, Chilean baritone, later tenor (d. 1935)
  • April 2 – Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist (d. 1962)
  • April 10 – Victor de Sabata, conductor and composer (d. 1967)
  • April 12 – Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
  • April 15 – Manuel Quiroga, violinist (d. 1961)
  • April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, composer (d. 1983)
  • April 21 – Jaroslav Kvapil, composer (d. 1958)
  • May 14 – Arthur Lourié, Russian-born expatriate composer (d. 1966)
  • May 18 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass singer and actor (d. 1957)
  • May 19 – Pops Foster, jazz bass player (d. 1969)
  • June 6 – Ted Lewis, singer and bandleader (d. 1971)
  • June 18 – Eduard Steuermann, pianist (d. 1964)
  • June 21 – Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer (d. 1985)
  • June 23 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993)
  • June 30 – László Lajtha, Hungarian symphonist (d. 1963)
  • July 2 – Jack Hylton, British bandleader (d. 1965)
  • July 8 – J. Russel Robinson, dixieland pianist-composer (d. 1963)
  • July 10 – Ján Móry, Slovak composer (d. 1978)
  • July 26 – Philipp Jarnach, composer of German-French origins (d. 1982)
  • August 14 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music critic and pianist (d. 1988)
  • August 15 – Knud Jeppesen, musicologist (d. 1974)
  • September 4 – Darius Milhaud, composer (d. 1974)
  • September 5 – Joseph Szigeti, violinist (d. 1973)
  • September 17 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)
  • September 26 – Georgios Poniridis, Greek composer and violinist (d. 1982)
  • October 17 – Herbert Howells, church music composer (d. 1983)
  • October 19 – Ilmari Hannikainen, composer (d. 1955)
  • October 25 – Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch, Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly sisters (d. 1941 and 1970 respectively)
  • November 11 – Isidor Achron, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1948)
  • November 28 – Thomas Wood, English composer (d. 1950)
  • December 9 – Beatrice Harrison, cellist (d. 1965)
  • December 11 – Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, operatic tenor (d. 1979)

Deaths

  • January 10 – Heinrich Dorn, German conductor, composer and journalist (born 1804)
  • February 13 – Lambert Massart, violinist (born 1811)
  • February 20 – Róza Csillag, opera singer (born 1832)
  • March 11 – Caroline Reinagle, pianist, composer and writer (born 1818)
  • March 20 – Arthur Thomas (composer)<Arthur Thomas, composer (born 1850) (suicide)
  • April 22 – Édouard Lalo, composer (born 1823)
  • May 2 – Wilhelm Rust, composer (born 1822)
  • May 6 – Ernest Guiraud, composer (born 1837)
  • June 5 – Robert Rees, Welsh tenor (born 1841)
  • August 18 – Jules Perrot, ballet dancer (born 1810)
  • August 19 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, composer, teacher and music theorist (born 1830)
  • September 5 – Henry Christian Timm, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1811)
  • September 24 – Patrick Gilmore, bandmaster and composer (born 1829)
  • October 24 – Robert Franz, composer (born 1815)
  • October 28 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (born 1835)
  • November 4 – Hervé, organist and composer (born 1825)
  • November 19 – Antonio Torres Jurado, guitar maker (born 1817)
  • date unknown – Adolf Rzepko, Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor and pianist (born 1825)

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