1891 in music

Events in the year 1891 in music.

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1891 in Scandinavian music

Events

February 23 â Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona.^[1]
March 16 â 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 GÃ©za Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere.
May 5 â 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 â 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.^[2]
June 24 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished his ballet The Nutcracker
October 16 â 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.^[3]

Published popular music

"Actions Speak Louder Than Words" w. George Horncastle m. Felix McGlennon
"Don't mind, my Darling!" w.m. 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 Miner's Dream Of Home" w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden
"Molly O!" w.m. William J. Scanlan
"Narcissus" m. Ethelbert Nevin
"The Pardon Came Too Late" w.m. Paul Dresser
"The Picture That's Turned To The Wall" w.m. Charles Graham
"Reuben And Cynthia" w.m. Percy Gaunt
"Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" w.m. Henry J. Sayers
"Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle

Recorded popular music

"Bell Buoy" â J. W. Myers
"The Church Across The Way" â Len Spencer
"The Cobbler" â George J. Gaskin^[4]
"College Songs" â Gilmore's Band^[5]
"Cujus Animam" â David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano)^[6]
"Dance of the Owls" â A. T. Van Winkle (Xylophone) & Edward Issler (Piano)^[7]
"Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" â George J. Gaskin
"Farewell to Dresden" â United States Marine Band
"Five Minutes With The Minstrels" â Voss' First Regiment Band^[8]
"Home, Sweet, Home" â John York AtLee
"La Media Noche (Mexican Dance)" â United States Marine Band
"The Laughing Song" â George W. Johnson
"Little 'Liza Loves You" â Len Spencer
"Michael Casey as a Physician" â Russell Hunting^[9]
"The Mocking Bird" â John York AtLee and Fred Gaisberg
"Nannon Waltz" â Issler's Orchestra^[10]
"One Minute Too Late" â Voss' First Regiment Band^[11]
"Paddy's Wedding" â Dan Kelly^[12]
"Pat Brady as a Police Justice" â Dan Kelly^[13]
"Pat Brady on a Spree" â Dan Kelly^[14]
"The Picture Turned to the Wall" â George J. Gaskin
"The Picture Turned to the Wall" â Manhansett Quartette^[15]
"Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" â Holding's Parlor Orchestra^[16]
"Sally in Our Alley" â Manhansett Quartette^[17]'
"Saving Them All for Mary" â Al Reeves^[18]
"Sweet Marie" â George J. Gaskin^[4]
"Third verse of Mary & John, The Lover's Quarrel" â Will White^[19]
"Turkey in the Straw" â Billy Golden
"Uncle Jefferson â Billy Golden
"Vienna Dudes March" â Duffy and Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band^[20]

Classical music

Anton Arensky â Cantata on the 10th Anniversary of the Coronation
Claude Debussy â Two Arabesques
Johannes Brahms â Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Max Bruch â Concerto for Violin No. 3
Heinrich von Herzogenberg â Requiem, Op. 72
Carl Nielsen â Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano
Ethelbert Nevin â Water Scenes
Camille Saint-SaÃ«ns â Africa, Op. 89
Erik Satie â 6 Gnossiennes for piano
Alphons Czibulka â WintermÃ¤rchen Waltzes Op. 366 (source of Hearts and Flowers)

Opera

Frederick Delius â Irmelin
Robert Fuchs â Die Teufelsglocke
Miguel MarquÃ©s â El monaguillo (libretto by Emilio SÃ¡nchez Pastor, premiered in Madrid)
Pietro Mascagni â L'amico Fritz
Emile Pessard â Les folies amoureuses premiered on April 15 at the ThÃ©Ã¢tre de l'OpÃ©ra-Comique, Paris

Musical theater

Robin Hood, Broadway production
The Tyrolean, Broadway production
Der VogelhÃ¤ndler (The Tyrolean), Vienna production

Births

January 25 â Wellman Braud, jazz musician (died 1966)
February 5 â Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (died 1960)
March 22 â Alexis Roland-Manuel, French composer and critic (died 1966)
March 28 â Leah Frances Russell, Australian opera singer (died 1983)
April 2 â Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (died 1957)
April 15 â VÃ¤inÃ¶ Raitio, Finnish composer (died 1945)
April 23 â Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (died 1953)
May 16 â Richard Tauber, Austrian singer (died 1948)
May 26 â Mamie Smith, blues singer (died 1946)
May 30 â Ben Bernie, US bandleader (died 1943)
June 3 â Georges Guibourg, French singer, actor and writer (died 1970)
June 9 â Cole Porter, songwriter (died 1964)
June 10 â Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (died 1945)
June 21 â Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
July 16 â Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974)
August 2 â Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975)
September 11 â NoÃ«l Gallon, French composer and music educator (died 1966)
September 14 â CzesÅaw Marek, Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher (died 1985)
September 16 â Milton Schwarzwald, American film director and composer (died 1950)
September 26 â Charles Munch, Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist (died 1968)
October 1 â Morfydd Llwyn Owen, Welsh singer and composer (died 1918)
October 29 â Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (died 1951)
November 27 â Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (died 1982)
date unknown
- Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist (died 1919)
- Margaret Morris, dancer and choreographer (died 1980)

Deaths

January 5 â Emma Abbott, singer (born 1850)
January 8 â Fredrik Pacius, composer and conductor (born 1809)
January 17 â Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (born 1816)
May 23 â Ignace Leybach, pianist, organist and composer (born 1817)
June 14 â Count NicolÃ² Gabrielli, Italian opera composer (born 1814
July 3 â Stefano Golinelli, pianist and composer (born 1818)
July 21 â Franco Faccio, composer and conductor (born 1840)
August 5/6 â Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (born 1818)
September 2 â Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (b. 1815)
October 27
- Charles Constantin, conductor (born 1835)
- Johann Dubez, Viennese violinist and composer (born 1828)
November 9 â Frederick Mathushek, piano maker (born 1814)
November 20 â Franz Hitz, Swiss pianist and composer (born 1828)
December 28 â Alfred Cellier, composer (born 1844)
date unknown
- Harvey B. Dodworth, bandmaster and conductor (born 1822)^[21]
- Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, operatic soprano (born c.1815)

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