1891 in music

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Events in the year 1891 in music.

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February 23 – Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona.^[1]
March 16 – A performance of the Budapest Opera is interrupted by a spontaneous demonstration in support of musical director Gustav Mahler, at the time in conflict with intendant Géza Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere.
May 5 – The Music Hall in New York City (which becomes Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky guest-conducting his own work.
May 10 – Danish classical composer Carl Nielsen marries his compatriot, the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, Italy, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.
October 16 – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert.
The Peabody Mason Concerts are inaugurated with a performance by Ferruccio Busoni.
The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.^[2]

Anton Arensky – Cantata on the 10th Anniversary of the Coronation
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Max Bruch – Concerto for Violin No. 3
Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Requiem, Op. 72
Carl Nielsen – Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano
Ethelbert Nevin – Water Scenes
Erik Satie – 6 Gnossiennes for piano
Alphons Czibulka – Wintermärchen Waltzes Op. 366 (source of Hearts and Flowers)

Frederick Delius – Irmelin
Robert Fuchs – Die Teufelsglocke
Miguel Marqués – El monaguillo (libretto by Emilio Sánchez Pastor, premiered in Madrid)
Emile Pessard – Les folies amoureuses premiered on April 15 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris

January 25 – Wellman Braud, jazz musician (died 1966)
February 5 – Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (died 1960)
March 22 – Alexis Roland-Manuel, French composer and critic (died 1966)
March 28 – Leah Frances Russell, Australian opera singer (died 1983)
April 2 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (died 1957)
April 23 – Sergei Prokofiev, composer (died 1953)
May 16 – Richard Tauber, Austrian singer (died 1948)
May 30 – Ben Bernie, US bandleader (died 1943)
June 3 – Georges Guibourg, French singer, actor and writer (died 1970)
June 9 – Cole Porter, songwriter (died 1964)
June 10 – Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (died 1945)
June 21 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
July 14 – Fréhel, French singer and actress (died 1951)
July 16 – Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974)
August 2 – Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975)
September 11 – Noël Gallon, French composer and music educator (died 1966)
September 14 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher (died 1985)
September 26 – Charles Munch, Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist (died 1968)
October 1 – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, Welsh singer and composer (died 1918)
October 29 – Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (died 1951)
November 27 – Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (died 1982)
date unknown
- Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist (died 1919)
- Margaret Morris, dancer and choreographer (died 1980)