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Events in the year 1898 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1898 in Norwegian music

Events

  • Otilie Dvořáková, daughter of Antonín Dvořák, marries her father's pupil, composer Josef Suk.
  • Dame Marie Tempest marries the actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, grandson of the Duke of Richmond.
  • Lorenzo Perosi is appointed Maestro Perpetuo della Cappella Sistina in Rome, an office which he holds until his death in 1956.

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  • "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
  • "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton
  • "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Alberto Pestalozza
  • "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
  • "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes
  • "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy
  • "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Fortune Teller
  • "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
  • "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
  • "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
  • "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
  • "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
  • "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart
  • "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris
  • "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
  • "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald De Koven
  • "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
  • "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin
  • "She is the Belle of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
  • "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter
  • "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano) c. Scott Joplin
  • "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton

Christmas songs

  • "Nu tändas tusen juleljus", by Emmy Köhler
  • "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) <br> – Syria Lamonte on Berliner Gramophone
  • "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills) <br> – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone<br> – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
  • "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. George Frederick Root) <br> – John Terrell on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) <br> – J. W. Myers on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) <br> – George J. Gaskin on Edison Records
  • "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) <br> – James T. Powers on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert) <br> – Jessie Bartlett Davis & W. H. MacDonald on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills) <br> – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
  • "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) <br> – J. W. Myers on Berliner Gramophone
  • "A Hot Time In The Old Town" (w. Joe Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz) <br> – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone<br> – Roger Harding on Edison Records
  • "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White) <br> – Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records
  • "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root) <br> – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  • "Killarney" (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe) <br> – Arthur Gladstone on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. Giaocchino Rossini) <br> – Alberto Del Bassini on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lyman Molloy) <br> – Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone
  • "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden) <br> – Leo Dryden on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. Dave Reed Jr) <br> – Press Eldridge on Edison Records
  • "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney) <br> – Marguerite Newton on Edison Records<br> – Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
  • "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster) <br> – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone<br> – Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records
  • "Oh, Promise Me" (w. Clement Scott m. Reginald DeKoven) <br> – Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster) <br> – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone
  • "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. Paul Dresser) <br> – Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Orange Blossoms" (m. Arthur Pryor) <br> – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
  • "The Palms" (m. Gabriel Fauré) <br> – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone
  • "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight) <br> – William Hooley on Edison Records
  • "She Never Did the Same Thing Twice" <br> – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Gramophone
  • "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter) <br> – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
  • "She was Happy Til She Met You" <br> – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records <br> – S. H. Dudley (singer)
  • "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann) <br> – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
  • "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker) <br> – Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone
  • "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. R. M. Stults) <br> – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone<br> – George J. Gaskin on Edison Records
  • "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) <br> – James Norrie on Berliner Gramophone<br>- Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone
  • "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. James Thornton) <br> – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
  • "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root) <br> – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  • "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert) <br> – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  • "Yankee Doodle" (trad) <br> – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
  • "Zizzy Ze Zum Zum" <br> – Arthur Collins

Classical music

  • Ernest Chausson – String Quartet (completed posthumously)
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
  • Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op.30
  • Ballade, Op.33 (premiered September 12 in Gloucester)
  • African Suite for piano, Op.35
  • Edward Elgar – Caractacus
  • George Enescu
  • Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4
  • Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major, for piano, Op. 5
  • Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Fantaisie, Op. 79
  • Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
  • Alexander Glazunov – Ruses d'Amour (ballet)
  • Paul Juon – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
  • Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
  • Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
  • Henrique Oswald
  • Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21
  • Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Barcarolle in F major
  • Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major

Opera

  • Francisco Braga – Jupyra
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The Gitanos
  • Umberto Giordano – Fedora
  • Pietro Mascagni – Iris
  • Emile Pessard – La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
  • Sadko, premiered January 7 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow.

Musical theater

  • The Belle of New York London production
  • The Bride Elect Broadway production
  • The Fortune Teller Toronto and London productions
  • A Greek Slave London production
  • Hurly-Burly Broadway production
  • A Runaway Girl London and Broadway productions
  • The Skirt Dancer London production
  • Véronique (operetta) (André Messager) – Paris production

Births

  • January 7 – Al Bowlly, big band singer
  • January 9 – Gracie Fields, singer and actress
  • January 28 – Vittorio Rieti, composer
  • February 3 – Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
  • February 7 – Dock Boggs, banjo player
  • February 12 – Roy Harris, composer
  • February 15 – Totò, actor and composer
  • February 28 – Molly Picon, Broadway star
  • March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
  • April 3 – George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
  • April 9 – Paul Robeson, singer
  • May 14 – Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
  • May 15 – Arletty, actress and singer
  • May 26 – Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)
  • May 28 – Andy Kirk, jazz musician
  • June 6 – Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
  • June 29 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
  • July 4 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
  • July 6 – Hanns Eisler, composer
  • July 15 – Noel Gay, English songwriter
  • August 2 – Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
  • August 15 – Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
  • August 24 – Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
  • September 1
  • Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancer
  • Violet Carson, actress, singer and pianist
  • September 26 – George Gershwin, US composer
  • September 27 – Vincent Youmans, US composer
  • October 7 – Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
  • October 8 – Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
  • October 18 – Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt Weill
  • November 1 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer
  • December 3 (n.s.) – Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and NKVD agent)
  • December 5 – Grace Moore, operatic soprano
  • December 14 – Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
  • December 24 – Baby Dodds, jazz drummer

Deaths

  • January 7 – Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
  • January 8 – Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
  • January 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
  • February 15 – Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)
  • March 11 – Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
  • March 15 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
  • March 28 – Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
  • April 21 – Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
  • May 15 – Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
  • May 16 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
  • August 14 – John Comfort Fillmore, American music educator, organist, arranger, and ethnomusicologist, 55
  • August 17 – Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
  • August 21 – Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)
  • September 9 – William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
  • September 11 – Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
  • November 7 – Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
  • December 13 – George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
  • December 29 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74

References

See also

  • 1898
  • list of years in music