1894 in music
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Events in the year 1894 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- March 14 â Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen.
- April 19 â Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" is staged in New York City.
- September 22 â Opening of the Teatro Lirico Internazionale in Milan.
- December 22 â Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris
Published popular music


- "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
- "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operetta Der Obersteiger
- "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles
- "He's Got To Keep A-Movin'" w.m. T. W. Connor
- "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "The Honeymoon March" m. George Rosey
- "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie
- "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
- "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans
- "I've Been Working on the Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)
- "I Can't Change It!" w.m. T.W. Connor
- "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora
- "Little Kinkies" w.m. 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, m. H.W. Petrie
- "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray
- "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton
- "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" w.m. Anita Owen
- "The Sidewalks of New York" w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
- "Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan
- "Yale Society Two-Step" by Chas. L. Van Baar
- "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney
Recorded popular music
- "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" â Dan W. Quinn (Berliner Records)
- "Daisy Bell" â Edward M. Favor (Edison Records)
- "Keep Movin'" â Standard Quartette (Columbia Records)[1]
- "The Liberty Bell (march)" â United States Marine Band (Columbia Records)[1]
- âMarc Anthony's Curseâ - David C. Bangs (Berliner Records)
- "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl" â Dan W. Quinn (Berliner Records)
- "The Black Knights Templar" â George J. Gaskin (Berliner Records)
- âThe Sword of Bunker Hillâ â Samuel Ross (Berliner Records)
- âThe Village Blacksmithâ â David C. Bangs (Berliner Records)
- "Yankee Doodle" â Vess Ossman (Edison Records)[2]
Classical music
- Anton Arensky â Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
- Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
- Johannes Brahms â Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
- Claude Debussy
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
- Proses lyriques
- AntonÃn DvoÅák
- Biblical Songs, Op. 99
- Humoresques (DvoÅák) Op. 101 (B. 187) for piano
- American Suite for piano (orchestrated a year later)
- Robert Fuchs â Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
- Alexander Gretchaninov â String Quartet No. 1 in G major, Op. 2
- Edvard Grieg
- 5 Songs of Norway, Op. 58
- 5 Songs, Op. 60
- Victor Herbert â Concerto for Cello No. 2 in E minor
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov â Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10
- Joseph Jongen â Quartet for Strings No. 1 in C minor, Op. 3
- August Klughardt â String Quintet, Op. 62
- Alexander Kopylov â String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 23
- Theodor Leschetizky â 2 Pieces, Op. 43
- Gustav Mahler â Symphony No. 2
- Carl Nielsen
- Symphony No. 1 in G minor[6]
- Snefrid, CNW 4
- Symphonisk Suite, Op. 8
- Josef Rheinberger â Horn Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 178
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov â 2 Piano Pieces, Op. 38
- Adolphe Samuel â Symphony No. 7, Op. 48[7]
- Alexander Scriabin â 12 Ãtudes, Op. 8
- Charles Villiers Stanford â 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op. 53
- Wilhelm Stenhammar
- Sigismond Stojowski â 2 Orientales, Op. 10
- Louis Vierne â String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12
Opera
- Granville Bantock â The Pearl of Iran
- Julius Bechgaard â Frau Inge
- Herman Bemberg â Cleopatra
- Frederick Delius â The Magic Fountain
- Charles-Ãdouard Lefebvre â Djelma premiered on May 25 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris
- Hamish MacCunn â Jeanie Deans
- Jules Massenet
- La Navarraise
- Le portrait de Manon[10]
- Thaïs (opera) 16 March at the Opéra Garnier
- Emile Pessard â Le muet
- Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek â Donna Diana
- Sergei Taneyev â Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)
Musical theater
- A Gaiety Girl â Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
- The Mine Foreman â Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien on January 5
- The Passing Show â Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5
- Rob Roy, premiered in Detroit on October 1; Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on October 29 and ran for 168 performances
- The Shop Girl â London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
- A Trip To Chinatown â London production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances
Births
- January 3 â Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
- January 31 â Isham Jones, American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
- February 1 â James P. Johnson, American jazz pianist and composer.
- February 11 â Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
- February 20 â Jimmy Yancey, American jazz pianist
- April 3 â Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
- April 15 â Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- April 27 â Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
- May 10 â Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
- May 29 â Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
- June 1 â Percival Mackey, English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
- June 4 â La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
- June 10 â Punch Miller, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
- July 10 â Jimmy McHugh, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
- August 15 â Harry Akst, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
- August 26 â Arthur Loesser, pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
- September 3 â Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
- September 18 â Willard Robison, American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
- September 25 â J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
- September 26 â Vaughn De Leath, American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
- December 31 â Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)
Deaths
- January 13 â Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- January 21 â Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
- January 24 - Laura Schirmer Mapleson, American opera singer (b. 1862)
- January 30 â Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830)
- February 4
- Louis Lewandowski, composer (b. 1821)
- Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
- February 11 â Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
- February 12 â Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
- February 18 â Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
- March 21 â Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
- April 12 â Ludwig Pfau, lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
- April 13
- Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
- Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
- June 5 â Marcelina Czartoryska, pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
- June 9 â Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
- June 23 â Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
- July 17 â Leconte de Lisle, lyricist (born 1818)
- July 26 â Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
- September 13 â Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
- September 21 â Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
- October 16 â Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
- October 27 â Carl Ploug, Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
- October 28 â Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
- November 4 â Eugène Oudin, composer (b. 1858)
- November 20 â Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
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