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Events in the year 1894 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1894 in Norwegian music

Events

  • March 14 – Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen.
  • April 19 – Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" is staged in New York City.
  • September 22 – Opening of the Teatro Lirico Internazionale in Milan.
  • December 22 – Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris

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  • "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
  • "He's Got To Keep A-Movin'" w.m. T. W. Connor
  • "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
  • "The Honeymoon March" m. George Rosey
  • "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)
  • "I Can't Change It!" w.m. T.W. Connor
  • "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
  • "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" w.m. Anita Owen
  • "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 Chas. L. Van Baar
  • "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney
  • "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" – Dan W. Quinn (Berliner Records)
  • "Daisy Bell" – Edward M. Favor (Edison Records)
  • "Keep Movin'" – Standard Quartette (Columbia Records)
  • "The Liberty Bell (march)" – United States Marine Band (Columbia Records)

Classical music

  • Anton Arensky – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
  • Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op. 33
  • Norwegian Folk Songs, Op. 34
  • 3 Claverstykker, Op. 35
  • Johannes Brahms – Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
  • Claude Debussy
  • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
  • Proses lyriques
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Biblical Songs, Op. 99
  • Humoresques (Dvořák) Op. 101 (B. 187) for piano
  • American Suite for piano (orchestrated a year later)
  • Robert Fuchs – Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
  • Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet No. 1 in G major, Op. 2
  • Edvard Grieg
  • 5 Songs of Norway, Op. 58
  • 5 Songs, Op. 60
  • Victor Herbert – Concerto for Cello No. 2 in E minor
  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10
  • Joseph Jongen – Quartet for Strings No. 1 in C minor, Op. 3
  • August Klughardt – String Quintet, Op. 62
  • Alexander Kopylov – String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 23<!-- pub 1894 -->
  • Theodor Leschetizky – 2 Pieces, Op. 43
  • Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2
  • Carl Nielsen
  • Symphony No. 1 in G minor
  • Snefrid, CNW 4
  • Symphonisk Suite, Op. 8
  • Josef Rheinberger – Horn Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 178
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – 2 Piano Pieces, Op. 38
  • Adolphe Samuel – Symphony No. 7, Op. 48
  • Alexander Scriabin – 12 Études, Op. 8
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op. 53
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar
  • Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 1, premiered March 17 in Stockholm
  • String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
  • Sigismond Stojowski – 2 Orientales, Op. 10
  • Louis Vierne – String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12

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
  • La Navarraise
  • Le portrait de Manon
  • Thaïs (opera) 16 March at the Opéra Garnier
  • Emile Pessard – Le muet
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek – Donna Diana
  • Sergei Taneyev – Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)

Musical theater

  • A Gaiety Girl – Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
  • The Mine Foreman – 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, premiered in Detroit on October 1; 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

Births

  • January 3 – Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
  • January 31 – Isham Jones, American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
  • February 1 – James P. Johnson, American jazz pianist and composer.
  • February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
  • February 20 – Jimmy Yancey, American jazz pianist
  • April 3 – Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
  • April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
  • April 27 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
  • May 10 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
  • May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
  • June 1 – Percival Mackey, English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
  • June 4 – La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
  • June 10 – Punch Miller, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
  • July 10 – Jimmy McHugh, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
  • August 15 – Harry Akst, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
  • August 26 – Arthur Loesser, pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
  • September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
  • September 18 – Willard Robison, American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
  • September 25 – J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
  • September 26 – Vaughn De Leath, American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
  • December 31 – Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)

Deaths

  • January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
  • January 21 – Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
  • January 24 - Laura Schirmer Mapleson, American opera singer (b. 1862)
  • January 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830)
  • February 4
  • <!--February 4-->Louis Lewandowski, composer (b. 1821)
  • <!--February 4-->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 12 – Ludwig Pfau, lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
  • April 13
  • <!--April 13-->Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
  • <!--April 13-->Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
  • June 5 – Marcelina Czartoryska, pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
  • June 9 – Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
  • June 23 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
  • July 17 – Leconte de Lisle, lyricist (born 1818)
  • 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 27 – Carl Ploug, Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
  • 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)

See also

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