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Events in the year 1895 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1895 in Norwegian music

Events

  • March 4 – Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in Berlin – the first three movements only.
  • May 18 – Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queen's Hall.
  • August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor. The first concert opens with the overture to Wagner's Rienzi. The orchestra tunes to the "French A" or diapason normal concert pitch.
  • December 13 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in Berlin with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra (first three movements premièred on March 4).
  • unknown dates
  • Composer Sidney Homer marries contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty.
  • Composer Zdeněk Fibich separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová, and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.
  • Flautist Nicholas Laucella emigrates with his family to the United States from his home town of Nusco, Italy.
  • Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d'Albert. It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

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  • "America the Beautiful"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
  • "The Band Played On"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
  • "The Belle of Avenoo A"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Safford Waters
  • "Down In Poverty Row"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
  • "A Dream"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
  • "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
  • "He's Not Dead Yet!"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. T. W. Connor
  • "It's a Great Big Shame"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
  • "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Paul Dresser
  • "King Cotton (march)"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;m. John Philip Sousa
  • "La Pas Ma La" w.m. Ernest Hogan
  • "My Angeline"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  • "My Best Girl's a New Yorker"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. John Stromberg
  • "Put Me Off at Buffalo"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon (Dillon Brothers)
  • "Rastus on Parade"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
  • "She Was One of the Early Birds"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. T. W. Connor
  • "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
  • "The Soldiers of the Queen"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Leslie Stuart
  • "The Streets of Cairo"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. James Thornton
  • "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
  • "Belles of Virginia" <br> – Stephen B. Clements, Berliner Records
  • "Bully Song" <br> – May Irwin
  • "Bye Bye Ma Honey" <br> – Billy Golden, United States Phonograph Company
  • "Carnival of Venice" <br> – Charles P. Lowe
  • "Cavalry" <br> – J. W. Myers, Brown Wax Cylinder Home Recording
  • "Dancing on the Housetops" <br> – Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
  • "Dixie" <br> – Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
  • "El Captain March" <br> – Sousa's Band, Columbia Phonograph Company
  • "Girl Wanted" <br> – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
  • "Handicap March" <br> – Sousa's Band
  • "Henrietta Have You Met Her?" <br> – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
  • "Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Diamonds" <br> – George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
  • "Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down" <br> – Banta's Orchestra
  • "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" <br> – George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
  • "Just One Girl" <br> – J. W. Myers, Berliner Records
  • "Love Me Little Love Me Long" <br> – Alice Raymond
  • "Michael Casey as a Hotel Clerk" <br> – Russell Hunting, Berliner Records
  • "Michael Casey as Judge" <br> – Russell Hunting, Berliner Records
  • "Michael Casey's Plans For Freeing Ireland" <br> – Russell Hunting, Berliner Records
  • "My Blackbird" <br> – Len Spencer
  • "My Old Kentucky Home" <br> – George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
  • "My Pearl Is A Bowery" <br> – Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
  • "Nellie Bly" <br> – W. Paris Chambers, Berliner Records
  • "Nightingale Waltz" <br> – Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
  • "The Band Played On" <br> – Dan W. Quinn, Columbia Phonograph Company
  • "The Sidewalks of New York" <br> – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
  • "The Sidewalks of New York" <br> – George J. Gaskin, Edison & Berliner Records
  • "The Streets of Cairo" <br> – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
  • "Washington Post March" <br> – Sousa's Band, Columbia Phonograph Company
  • "When You Know The Girl You Love Loves You" <br> – George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
  • "Who Broke The Lock" <br> – Unique Quartette, Edison Phonograph Co
  • "Yazoo Dance" <br> – Sousa's Band

Classical music

  • Béla Bartók
  • Capriccio in B minor, for piano, Op. 4
  • Fantasia in A minor, for piano, Op. 2
  • Fantasia, for violin, Op. 9
  • Pieces, for violin, Op. 7
  • Sonata No. 2 in F major, for piano, Op. 3
  • Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, Op. 5
  • Sonata No. 3 in C major, for piano, Op. 6
  • Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
  • Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets
  • Edward Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 27
  • George Enescu – "Study" Symphony No. 1 in D minor
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Allegro symphonique, for piano four-hands, Op. 68
  • Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat major, for piano, Op. 70
  • Theme and Variations, for piano, Op. 73
  • Anatoly Lyadov
  • Etude in F major, for piano, Op. 37
  • Mazurka in F major, for piano, Op. 38
  • Preludes (3), for piano, Op. 36
  • Preludes (4), for piano, Op. 39
  • Henrique Oswald – Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Fantasy No. 2 in D major, for organ, Op. 101
  • La Mort de Thaïs, Paraphrase de concert sur l'opéra de J. Massenet, for piano
  • Souvenir d'Ismaïlia, for piano, Op. 100
  • Richard Strauss
  • Songs (3), for high voice and piano, Op. 29
  • Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, for orchestra, Op. 28
  • Alexander von Zemlinsky – Serenade (Suite), for violin and piano

Opera

  • Isaac Albéniz – Henry Clifford
  • Enrique Fernández Arbós – El Centro de la Tierra
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve, 10 December, in St. Petersburg.

Musical theater

  • An Artist's Model&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances
  • Dandy Dick Whittington&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production
  • The Shop Girl&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances
  • The Tyrolean&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production

Births

  • January 7 – Clara Haskil, pianist (died 1960)
  • January 27 – Buddy De Sylva, songwriter (died 1950)
  • February 7 – Irving Aaronson, jazz pianist and big band leader (died 1963)
  • February 28 – Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
  • March 4 – Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist (died 1978)
  • March 23 – Dane Rudhyar, composer (died 1985)
  • March 31 – Lizzie Miles, singer (died 1963)
  • April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer (died 1984)
  • April 3
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer (died 1968)
  • Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (died 1971)
  • April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer (died 1976)
  • April 23 – Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
  • April 29 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)
  • May 1 – Leo Sowerby, composer (died 1968)
  • May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (died 1943)
  • May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor (died 1926)
  • May 11 – William Grant Still, composer (died 1978)
  • June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer (died 1946)
  • June 21 – Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer (died 1992)
  • June 28 – Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer (died 1986)
  • July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist (died 1996)
  • July 5 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (died 1984)
  • July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)
  • July 12
  • Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (died 1982)
  • Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (died 1960)
  • July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)
  • July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)
  • August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (died 1963)
  • August 10 – Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer (died 1972)
  • August 13 – Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer (died 1967)
  • September 9 – Harry Tobias, US lyric writer (died 1994)
  • September 16 – Karol Rathaus, Austrian (Ukrainian) composer (died 1954)
  • September 22 – Herbert Janssen, German baritone (died 1965)
  • October 11 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (died 1982)
  • October 12 – Tubby Hall, jazz drummer (died 1945)
  • October 17 – Doris Humphrey, dancer (died 1958)
  • October 29 – Harry Ruby, songwriter (died 1974)
  • November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
  • November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (died 1963)
  • November 28
  • José Iturbi, pianist (died 1980)
  • Jacobo Rubalcaba, Cuban musician and bandleader (died 1960)
  • November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (died 1976)
  • November 30 – Johann Nepomuk David, composer (died 1977)
  • December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist (died 1967)
  • December 16 – Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (died 1973)

Deaths

  • January 10 – Benjamin Godard, composer (born 1849)
  • January 22 – Edward Solomon, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1855) (typhoid)
  • February 6 – Otto Mahler, composer (born 1873) (suicide)
  • February 16 – Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter (born 1816)
  • February 24 – Ignaz Lachner, conductor and composer (born 1807)
  • March 16 – Richard Corney Grain, entertainer and songwriter (born 1844) (influenza)
  • March 18 – Priscilla Horton, singer and actress (born 1818)
  • April 28 – Jean Joseph Bott, violinist and composer (born 1826)
  • May 21 – Franz von Suppé, composer (born 1819)
  • June 15 – Richard Genée, librettist and composer (born 1823)
  • June 28 – Ján Koehler, operatic baritone
  • July 13 – John Tiplady Carrodus, violinist (born 1836)
  • August 2 – Ernest Appy, US cellist and composer (born 1834)
  • August 6 – George Frederick Root, US composer (born 1820)
  • August 13 – Ludwig Abel, violinist, composer and conductor (born 1834)
  • October 12 – Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer (born 1818)
  • October 25 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (born 1819)
  • November – Raffaele Mirate, operatic tenor (born 1815)
  • November 1 – Aleksander Zarzycki, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1834)
  • date unknown
  • Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco (born 1817)
  • Basilio Basili, operatic tenor and composer (born 1804)
  • Angelique Magito, opera and concert singer (born 1809)
  • Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label (born 1884)

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