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1890 in music
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Events in the year 1890 in music. June 21 - Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of his symphonic poem Death, September 9 - Edward Elgars concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester George W. The New York Phonograph Company opens the first recording studio, the Commodore Song Little Pig Went To Market by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker Maggie Murphys Home w. Edward Harrigan m. David Braham Passing By w. Robert Herrick m. Edward C. Purcell Star of the East w. George Cooper m, amanda Kennedy Throw Him Down McCloskey w. m. John W. Kelly Youll Miss Lots of Fun When Youre Married by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber Ferruccio Busoni - Violin Sonata No. 1, Opus 29 Ernest Chausson - Chansons de Shakespeare Antonín Dvořák - Requiem,3, Opus 33 Armas Järnefelt - Ouverture Lyrique Carl Nielsen - String Quartet No
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1891 in music
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February 23 - Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona. May 5 - The Music Hall in New York City has its opening and first public performance. 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, actions Speak Louder Than Words w. George Horncastle m. Felix McGlennon Dont mind, my Darling, paul Steinmark Hey, Rube. w. J. Sherrie Matthews m. Harry Bulger High School Cadets March m. John Philip Sousa Little Boy Blue w. Eugene Field m, ethelbert Nevin The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo w. m. Fred Gilbert The Miners Dream Of Home w. m, will Godwin & Leo Dryden Molly O. w. m. Ethelbert Nevin The Pardon Came Too Late w. m, paul Dresser The Picture Thats Turned To The Wall w. m. Charles Graham Reuben And Cynthia w. m, dodworth, bandmaster and conductor Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, operatic soprano
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1892 in music
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April 28 - Jean Sibeliuss symphonic suite Kullervo is premiered. May 26 - A statue of Felix Mendelssohn, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it was re-dedicated in 2008. September 24 - Opening of the Theater Unter den Linden, Berlin with Adolf Ferrons operetta Daphne and Gaul, september 26 - Antonín Dvořák arrives in the United States to take up his post as artistic director of the National Conservatory of Music. December 18 Anton Bruckners Symphony No.8 in C minor is premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Richter conducting at the Stadttheater, - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskys ballet The Nutcracker and opera Iolanta are premiered in a double bill at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After the Ball becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies, erik Satie composes his first pieces in his own compositional system. Sergei Diaghilev graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, ferdinand Praegers controversial biography Wagner As I Knew Him is published posthumously in London. Charles K. Harris The Bowery w. Charles H. Hoyt m, percy Gaunt Daddy Wouldnt Buy Me a Bow Wow w. m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters Future Mrs. Awkins by Albert Chevalier The Holy City w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams La Sultana Turkish March m, Virginia Field Molly And I And The Baby w. m. Harry Kennedy My Old Dutch w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle My Sweethearts The Man In The Moon w. m, james Thornton The Sweetest Story Ever Told w. m. R. M. Stults The Virginia Skedaddle w. m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld Daddy Wouldnt Buy Me a Bow-wow - Dan W. Quinn The Bowery - Dan W.1 in F-sharp minor, Op.1 Max Reger Cello Sonata No. 1, Op.5 Twelve Waltz-Caprices, Op.9, four-hand piano 20 German Dances, Op.10, four-hand piano Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No
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1893 in music
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Events in the year 1893 in music. February 9 - Première of Giuseppe Verdis final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan, August 14-15 - Americas oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the Worlds Columbian Exposition. October 28 - In Saint Petersburg, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74, Pathétique, the second performance takes place 21 days later at a memorial concert conducted by Eduard Nápravník, incorporating minor revisions. Tchaikovsky wrote it between February and the end of August at Klin, December 16 - Antonín Dvořáks Symphony No.9 From the New World receives its première at Carnegie Hall in New York City. December 29 - Claude Debussys String Quartet is premièred in Paris, american sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill publish Song Stories for the Kindergarten including Good Morning to All, which later becomes known as Happy Birthday to You. Selected compositions, Cant Lose Me, Charlie w. m, Harry S. Miller The Cat Came Back w. m. Henry S. Miller December And May w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine Do Do My Huckleberry Do w. Harry Dillon m, John Dillon The Fatal Wedding w. W. H. Windom m. Gussie L. Davis Good Morning to All w. Patty Smith Hill m, Mildred J. Hill I Long to See The Girl I Left Behind w. m. John T. Kelly The Liberty Bell by John Philip Sousa Mamie, may Irwin Marguerite by Charles A. White Oh. Charles Graham The Volunteer Organist w. William G. Gray m. Henry Lamb When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder w. m
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1894 in music
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March 14 - Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsens Symphony No.1 in Copenhagen. March 16 - Jules Massenets opera Thaïs is premiered in Paris, april 19 - Jules Massenets opera Werther is premiered in New York City. September 22 - Opening of the Teatro Lirico Internazionale in Milan, december 22 - Claude Debussys Prélude à laprès-midi dun faune is premiered in Paris Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut. George W. Johnson is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records The National College of Music, the college still exists today as an examination board for music and drama. George H. Thomas develops the first illustrated song to promote The Little Lost Child, 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 Dont Be Cross by Karl Zeller from the operetta Der Obersteiger Forgotten w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles Hes Got To Keep A-Movin w. m. T. W. Connor His Last Thoughts Were Of You w. Edward B, George Evans Ive Been Working on the Railroad w. m. trad I Cant Change It. 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, H. W. Petrie She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured w. m. Gray She May Have Seen Better Days w. m, James Thornton The Sidewalks of New York w. m. Lawlor & James W. Blake Why Did Nellie Leave Home, by George M. Cohan Yale Society Two-Step by C
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1895 in music
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May 18 - Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queens Hall. The first concert opens with the overture to Wagners Rienzi, the orchestra tunes to the French A or diapason normal concert pitch. December 13 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahlers Symphony No,2, in Berlin with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. 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. Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband and it marks the end of her third marriage and his second. America the Beautiful w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward The Band Played On w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward The Belle Of Avenoo A w. m. Safford Waters Down In Poverty Row w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan A Dream w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett The Hand That Rocks The Cradle w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes Hes Not Dead Yet. W. T. W. Connor Its A Great Big Shame w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn Just Tell Them That You Saw Me w. m, paul Dresser King Cotton March m. John Philip Sousa My Angeline w. Harry B. Smith m, victor Herbert My Best Girls A New Yorker w. m. John Stromberg Put Me Off at Buffalo w. Harry Dillon m, John Dillon Rastus On Parade w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills She Was One Of The Early Birds w. m, T. W. Connor Sleep Little Rosebud w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton The Soldiers Of The Queen w. m. Leslie Stuart The Streets Of Cairo w. m, james Thornton The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley w. Walter H. Ford m. 2, Resurrection in – the first three movement only, on March 4, and the symphony on December 13
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1896 in music
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February 1 - Giacomo Puccinis opera La bohème receives its première at the Teatro Regio in Turin. March 18 - Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts a performance of his First Symphony in Dresden, March 19 - Leo Stern is soloist in the première of Dvořáks Cello Concerto, in B minor, Op.104, B. 191, at the Queens Hall in London, december 27 - Formal première of Ernest Chaussons 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, all Coons Look Alike To Me w. m. Alice Tegnér The Amorous Goldfish w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones Chin, Chin, John Philip Sousa Eli Greens 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. 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 Musettas Waltz Song m. Giacomo Puccini My Gal Is A High Born Lady w. m. 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 OGrady w. m. - J. W. Myers on Berliner Wot Cher
