1890 in music

Events in the year 1890 in music.

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January 15 â Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
JanuaryâJune period â George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York.
June 21 â Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of his symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration at the Eisenach Festival.
September 3 â Carl Nielsen makes the first entry in his diary.
September 9 â Edward Elgar's concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.
December 6 â 7 â First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death.
Charles-Marie Widor succeeds CÃ©sar Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
The New York Phonograph Company opens the first recording studio.

"The Commodore Song"
"I was Dreaming" â August Juncker^[1]^[2]
"Little Pig Went To Market" by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker
"Maggie Murphy's 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
"You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber

"Banjo Duet" â Bohee Minstrels^[3]
The Charge of the Light Brigade (bugle charge) â Trumpeter Martin Landfried^[4]
"Down upon the Suwannee River" â Professor Baton's Brass and String Military Band^[5]
"Everybody's Darling" â Duffy and Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band
"La Media Noche" â United States Marine Band^[6]
"Semper Fidelis" â United States Marine Band
"The Song That Reached My Heart" â Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band^[7]
"The Thunderer" â United States Marine Band
"The Washington Post" â United States Marine Band
"The Whistling Coon" â George W. Johnson

February 25 â Myra Hess, pianist (d. 1965)
February 27 â Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist (d. 1933)
March 12 â Evert Taube, writer, artist, composer and singer (d. 1976)
March 17 â Harold Morris, pianist and composer (d. 1964)
March 20
- Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor (d. 1957)
- Lauritz Melchior, operatic tenor (d. 1973)
March 28 â Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
April 17 â Gussie Mueller, jazz clarinetist (d. 1965)
May 21 â Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of "Irene" and "Rio Rita" (d. 1965)
June 6 â Ted Lewis, bandleader (d. 1971)
June 26 â Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star (d. 1929)
July 18 â Victor Dolidze, Soviet-Georgian composer (d. 1933)
August 12 â Lillian Evanti, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
August 15 â Jacques Ibert, composer (d. 1962)
August 28 â Ivor Gurney, poet and composer (d. 1937)
September 9 â Francis Bousquet, French composer of classical music (d. 1942)
September 15 â Frank Martin, composer (d. 1974)
September 26 â Papanasam Sivan, Carnatic music composer (d. 1973)
October 1 â Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
October 8 â Samuel Hoffenstein, screenwriter and composer (d. 1947)
October 13 â GÃ¶sta Nystroem, composer (d. 1966)
October 20 â Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
November 10 â Mischa Bakaleinikoff, musical director (d. 1960)
December 8 â Bohuslav MartinÅ¯, classical composer (d. 1959)