1896 in music

Events in the year 1896 in music.

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1896 in Norwegian music

Events

January 4 – The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra plays its first concert under this name, when Dvořák conducts his own compositions in Prague (Austro-Hungarian Empire).
March 18 – Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts a performance of his First Symphony in Dresden; the event marks the beginning of his international success.
March 19 – Dvořák's Cello Concerto is premiered, with Leo Stern as soloist, at the Queen's Hall in London.
April 13 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world premiere of his Lemminkäinen Suite in Helsinki.
December 27 – Formal premiere of Ernest Chausson's Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, with Eugène Ysaÿe as soloist, at Nancy, France.
Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
Gabriel Fauré takes over from Théodore Dubois as organist of the church of La Madeleine, Paris.
In Moscow, Mariya Kerzina and her husband Arkadiy Kerzin form the Circle of Russian Music Lovers, a performance society.

Published popular music

thumb|Sambo at the Cakewalk, sheet music cover

thumb|John Bull and Uncle Sam (words by Wm. Allan; music by J.B. Herbert)

"All Coons Look Alike to Me"     w.m. Ernest Hogan
"Årstiderna"     w.m. Alice Tegnér
"The Amorous Goldfish"     w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
"Chin, Chin, Chinaman"     w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
"El Capitan March"     m. John Philip Sousa
"Eli Green's Cakewalk"     w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky
"Elsie From Chelsea"     w.m. Harry Dacre
"Going For A Pardon"     w. James Thornton & Clara Havenschild m. James Thornton
"Happy Days In Dixie"     m. Kerry Mills
"Hot Tamale Alley" by George M. Cohan
"A Hot Time In The Old Town"     w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz
"I Love You In The Same Old Way – Darling Sue"     w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
"In The Baggage Coach Ahead"     w.m. Gussie L. Davis
"A Jovial Monk Am I"     w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran
"Kentucky Babe"     w. Richard Henry Buck m. Adam Geibel
"Laugh And The World Laughs With You"     w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk
"Love Makes The World Go 'Round"     w. Clyde Fitch m. arr. William Furst
"Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose"     w.m. Ben Harney
"Mother Was A Lady"     w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
"Musetta's Waltz Song"     m. Giacomo Puccini
"My Gal Is A High Born Lady"     w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders
"Remus Takes the Cake" by J. H. Ellis
"The Saint Louis Cyclone" by Ren Shields & George Evans
"Sambo at the Cakewalk" by Alfred E. Marks
"Stars & Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
"Sweet Rosie O'Grady" w.m. Maude Nugent
"To A Wild Rose"     m. Edward MacDowell
"Warmest Baby in the Bunch" by George M. Cohan
"When the Saints Are Marching In"     w. Katharine E. Purvis m. James M. Black
"You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" w.m. Ben Harney

Recorded popular music

"A Hot Time In The Old Town" – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
"A Hot Time On The Levee" – Len Spencer & Vess Ossman on Columbia Records
"All Coons Look Alike to Me" (w.m. Ernest Hogan) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records – George J. Gaskin on Berliner – Len Spencer on Columbia
"The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
"Anchored" – J.W. Myers on Berliner
"And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" (w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon) – Maud Foster on Berliner Records
"Annie Laurie" (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott) – George J. Gaskin on Edison – Edison Male Quartette on Edison
"The Anvil Chorus" – Banta's Popular Orchestra
"A Summer Evening" – Baldwin's Cadet Band of Boston
"Beautiful Star" – Mozart Quartette
"The Belle of Avenoo A" (w.m. Safford Waters) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
"The Belle of New York March" – United States Marine Band
"Ben Bolt" (w. Thomas Dunn English m. Nelson Kneass) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"The Blue Danube" (m. Johann Strauss) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison
"Commodore Polka" – W. Paris Chambers on Berliner
"Darkies BBQ" – Vess Ossman on Columbia
"The Darkies Temptation" – John Philip Sousa on Edison
"Dear Kind Doctor" – Russell Hunting
"La Donna è Mobile" (w. Francesco Piave m. Giuseppe Verdi) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
"Don't You Hear Dem Bells?" (w.m. D. S. McCosh) – Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
"Down in Poverty Row" (w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner – George J. Gaskin on Edison
"Elsie from Chelsea" (w.m. Harry Dacre) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison
"Flower Song" – Maud Foster on Berliner
"Funiculì, Funiculà" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
"The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"The Girl I Left Behind" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"The Gladiators" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"Hallelujah Chorus" (w. Charles Jennes m. George Frideric Handel) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"Henrietta, Have You Met Her?" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Her Name is Jane" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
"Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop) – George J. Gaskin on Edison
"The Honeymoon" (m. George Rosey) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" (w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie) – Maud Foster on Berliner
"In the Baggage Coach Ahead" (w.m. Gussie L. Davis) – George J. Gaskin on Edison – Dan W. Quinn
"Isabelle" – Maud Foster on Berliner
"I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White) – Brilliant Quartet on Berliner – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"I've Been Hoodoed" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
"I Want Yer, Ma Honey - The Widow Jones" – Dan W. Quinn
"I Wonder Why?" – Russell Hunting
"Just One Girl" – William F. Denny
"Just Say Goodbye Again" – George J. Gaskin
"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" (w.m. Paul Dresser) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
"Kathleen" (w.m. Helene Mora) – George J. Gaskin on Edison
"Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Kentucky Jubilee Singers" – Issler's Orchestra
"King Cotton March" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"La Paloma" (w. anon m. Sebastian Yradier) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner*"The Anvil Chorus" – Banta's Popular Orchestra
"Leonore" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Listen to the Mocking Bird" (w. Alice Hawthorne m. Richard Milburn) – whistling Billy Golden on Edison
"The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
"Love's Old Sweet Song" – George J. Gaskin
"March from Carmen" – Issler's Orchestra
"Marching Through Georgia" (w.m. Henry Clay Work) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner – J.W. Myers on Berliner
"La Marseillaise" (w.m. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
"Massa's In De Cold Cold Ground" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"McKinley Is Our Man" – Dan W. Quinn on U.S. Phonograph Records
"Moonlight On The Lake" – Mozart Quartette
"My Angeline" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert) – Frank Daniels on Berliner
"My Best Girl's a New Yorker" (w.m. John Stromberg) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
"My Gal Is a High Born Lady" (w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders) – George J. Gaskin on Edison – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
"My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" (w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Nearer, My God, To Thee" (w. Sarah F. Adams m. Lowell Mason) – J. W. Myers on Berliner – Len Spencer & Roger Harding on Columbia
"The New Bully" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner – J.W. Myers on Berliner
"Oh! Uncle John" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Old Folks At Home" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"On The Mill Dam" – Stephen B. Clements on Berliner
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" (w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
"The Palms" (Jean-Baptiste Faure) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
"Princess Bonnie Waltzes" – Fred Gaisberg on Berliner
"Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Put Me Off at Buffalo" (Dillon Brothers, w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
"Remember Poor Mother At Home" – Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
"Rock of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
"Roll on De Ground" – Billy Golden on Berliner
"'Round His Bed I'm Goin' to Creep" () – Len Spencer on Columbia
"Sally in Our Alley" (w. Henry Carey m. trad) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"She Is More to Be Pitied Than Censured" (w.m. William B. Gray) – Steve Porter on Columbia
"She May Have Seen Better Days" (w.m. James Thornton) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Star Light, Star Bright" – J.W. Myers on Berliner
"Rastus On Parade" – Stephen B. Clements on Berliner
"The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" (w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" (w.m. Walter Kittredge) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
"There's Only One Girl in the World for Me" (w.m. Dave Marion) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
"They Are the Best Friends of All" – Helene Mora on US Phonograph Records
"The Thunderer" – United States Marine Band
"Toreador Song" (w. Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Trilby Song" – Maurice Farkoa with piano Frank Lambert on Berliner
"Uncle Harry, What is Love" – William F. Denny
"The Virginia Skedaddle" – Columbia Orchestra on Columbia
"Watchman Tell Us of the Night" (Bowring, Mason) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
"'Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield" – Columbia Quartette on Columbia – Mozart Quartette on Berliner
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"Where Is My Wandering Boy, Tonight?" (w.m. Rev. R. Lowry) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
"Wot Cher!" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
"The Wreck of The Maine" – George J. Gaskin

Classical music

Eyvind Alnæs – Symphony No. 1
Amy Beach
Symphony in E minor "Gaelic"
Violin Sonata
Johannes Brahms
Vier ernste Gesänge
Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 (finished three movements, sketches of finale)
Ernest Chausson – Poème for violin and orchestra
Cornelis Dopper – Symphony No. 1
Antonín Dvořák
The Water Goblin
The Noon-Day Witch (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London)
Quartet in A-flat major Op. 105
The Wild Dove, Op.110
Louis Ganne – Extase
Gustav Holst – Quintet for piano and winds
Vincent d'Indy – Istar
Charles Ives – String Quartet no. 1, From the Salvation Army
Edward MacDowell – Woodland Sketches
Albéric Magnard – Symphony No. 3 Opus 11 (1895–96)
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3 completed
Hans Pfitzner – Piano Trio in F Opus 8
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1 (1895–96)
Maurice Ravel
"D'Anne jouant de l'espinette"
La parade
"Sainte"
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian")
Violin Sonata No. 2
Alexander Scriabin
24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 11
5 Preludes for Piano, Op. 15
Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 20
Jean Sibelius – Coronation Cantata
Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra
George Templeton Strong – 4 Poems, Op.36
Francisco Tárrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Alexander von Zemlinsky
String Quartet No. 1
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Opera

August Enna – Aucassin og Nicolette
Zdeněk Fibich – Hedy, premiered February 12 in Prague
Gialdino Gialdini – La Pupilla premiered October 23 at the Societá Filarmonica Drammatica, Trieste
Umberto Giordano – Andrea Chénier
Paul Juon – Aleko
Ruggiero Leoncavallo – Chatterton
Friedrich Lux – The Duchess of Athens
Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème, Teatro Regio in Turin.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Sadko
Charles Villiers Stanford – Shamus O'Brien (revised 1907)
Hugo Wolf – Der Corregidor

Musical theater

The Art Of Maryland     Broadway production
El Capitan     Broadway production
The Circus Girl     London production
The Gay Parisienne     London production
The Geisha     London production
The Geisha     Broadway production
The Girl From Paris     London production
The Grand Duke     London production

Births

January 20 – Elmer Diktonius, poet and composer (d. 1961)
January 25 – Florence Mills, cabaret and jazz performer (d. 1927)
January 28 – Elsie Carlisle, English singer (d. 1977)
February 3 – Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter (d. 1987)
February 9 – Steffy Goldner, harpist (d. 1962)
February 22 – Nacio Herb Brown, US songwriter (d. 1964)
March 1 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1960)
April 10 – Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1971)
April 30 – Reverend Gary Davis, blues and gospel singer and instrumentalist (d. 1972)
June 1 – Sydney Kyte, British bandleader and violinist (d. 1981)
June 20 – Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
July 10
Stefan Askenase, Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue (d. 1985)
Maurice Zbriger, Ukrainian-born Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1981)
August 2 – Lorenzo Herrera, singer and composer (d. 1960)
August 15 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him (d. 1993)
September 2 – Amanda Randolph, actress and singer (d. 1967)
September 8 – Howard Dietz, lyricist (d. 1983)
September 10 – Adele Astaire, US dancer and singer (d. 1981)
September 15 – Bert Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist (d. 1971)
September 25 – Roberto Gerhard, composer (d. 1970)
October 7 – Phil Ohman, US bandleader (d. 1954)
October 17 – Fernando Obradors, composer (d. 1945)
October 18 – Friedrich Hollaender, composer (d. 1976)
October 28 – Howard Hanson, composer (d. 1981)
October 31 – Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
November 23 – Ruth Etting, US singer (d. 1978)
November 25 – Virgil Thomson, composer and critic (d. 1989)
December 6 – Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983)
December 12 – Jenö Ádám, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1982)
December 21 – Leroy Robertson, composer and music teacher (d. 1971)
December 28 – Roger Sessions, composer (d. 1985)

Deaths

January 28 – Sir Joseph Barnby, conductor and composer (b. 1838)
February 5 – Henry David Leslie, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
February 6 – Juliette Dorus-Gras, operatic soprano (born 1896)
February 12 – Ambroise Thomas, composer (b. 1811)
February 13 – Carl Martin Reinthaler, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
March 5 – Hiromori Hayashi, composer (b. 1831)
April 12 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (b. 1833)
May 12 – Juan Morel Campos, danza composer (b. 1857)
May 20 – Clara Schumann, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
June 7 – Pavlos Carrer, composer (b. 1829)
June 22 – Sir Augustus Harris, librettist and impresario (b. 1852)
June 28 – Jenny Hill, music hall performer (b. 1848; tuberculosis)
July 14 – Luther Whiting Mason, music educator (b. 1818)
July 17 – Alfred Novello, music publisher (b. 1810)
July 26 – Théodore Salomé, organist and composer (b. 1834)
August 1 – Wilhelm Herman Barth, violinist, composer and music theorist (b. 1813)
August 18 – Frederick Crouch, cellist and composer (b. 1808)
September 16 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer (b. 1836)
September 22 – Katharina Klafsky, Wagnerian soprano (b. 1855)
September 23 – Gilbert Duprez, operatic tenor (b. 1806)
October 11 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
October 17 – Henry Eugene Abbey, theatre manager (b. 1846)
November 25 – Spyridon Xyndas, composer (b. 1812)
December 3 – László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
December 13 – Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, musicologist, conductor, and composer (b. 1822)
December 17 – Richard Pohl, writer, critic and composer (b. 1826)
December 24 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (b. 1815)
date unknown
Luigia Abbadia, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1821)
Gopalakrishna Bharati, poet and Carnatic music composer (b. 1810)