1898 in music
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Events in the year 1898 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- Otilie DvoÅáková, daughter of AntonÃn DvoÅák, marries her father's pupil, composer Josef Suk.
- Dame Marie Tempest marries the actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, grandson of the Duke of Richmond.
- Lorenzo Perosi is appointed Maestro Perpetuo della Cappella Sistina in Rome, an office which he holds until his death in 1956.[1]
Published popular music
- "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
- "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton
- "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Alberto Pestalozza
- "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
- "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes
- "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy
- "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Fortune Teller
- "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
- "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
- "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
- "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
- "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
- "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart
- "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris
- "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald De Koven
- "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
- "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin
- "She is the Belle of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
- "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter
- "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano) c. Scott Joplin
- "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton
Christmas songs
Recorded popular music
- "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
â Syria Lamonte on Berliner Gramophone - "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills)
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
â Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records - "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
â John Terrell on Berliner Gramophone - "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
â J. W. Myers on Berliner Gramophone - "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
â George J. Gaskin on Edison Records - "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
â James T. Powers on Berliner Gramophone - "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert)
â Jessie Bartlett Davis & W. H. MacDonald on Berliner Gramophone - "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills)
â Arthur Collins on Edison Records - "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
â J. W. Myers on Berliner Gramophone - "A Hot Time In The Old Town" (w. Joe Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz)
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
â Roger Harding on Edison Records - "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
â Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records - "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
â Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records - "Killarney" (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe)
â Arthur Gladstone on Berliner Gramophone - "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. Giaocchino Rossini)
â Alberto Del Bassini on Berliner Gramophone - "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lyman Molloy)
â Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone - "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden)
â Leo Dryden on Berliner Gramophone - "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. Dave Reed Jr)
â Press Eldridge on Edison Records - "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney)
â Marguerite Newton on Edison Records
â Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records - "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
â Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone
â Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records - "Oh, Promise Me" (w. Clement Scott m. Reginald DeKoven)
â Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone - "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
â Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone - "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
â Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone - "Orange Blossoms" (m. Arthur Pryor)
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone - "The Palms" (m. Gabriel Fauré)
â Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone - "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight)
â William Hooley on Edison Records - "She Never Did the Same Thing Twice"
â Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Gramophone - "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records - "She was Happy Til She Met You"
â Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
â S. H. Dudley (singer) - "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
â banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records - "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker)
â Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone - "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. R. M. Stults)
â Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone
â George J. Gaskin on Edison Records - "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
â James Norrie on Berliner Gramophone
- Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone - "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. James Thornton)
â Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records - "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
â Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records - "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert)
â Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records - "Yankee Doodle" (trad)
â Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records - "Zizzy Ze Zum Zum"
â Arthur Collins
Classical music
- Ernest Chausson â String Quartet (completed posthumously)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op.30
- Ballade, Op.33 (premiered September 12 in Gloucester)
- African Suite for piano, Op.35
- Edward Elgar â Caractacus
- George Enescu
- Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4
- Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in Aâ major, for piano, Op. 5
- Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
- Gabriel Fauré
- Fantaisie, Op. 79
- Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
- Alexander Glazunov â Ruses d'Amour (ballet)
- Paul Juon â Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
- Carl Nielsen â String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
- Henryk Melcer-SzczawiÅski â Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
- Henrique Oswald
- Camille Saint-Saëns â Barcarolle in F major
- Christian Sinding â Concerto for Violin in A major[2]
Opera
- Francisco Braga â Jupyra
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor â The Gitanos
- Umberto Giordano â Fedora
- Pietro Mascagni â Iris
- Emile Pessard â La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
- Sadko, premiered January 7 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow.
Musical theater
- The Belle of New York London production
- The Bride Elect Broadway production
- The Fortune Teller Toronto and London productions
- A Greek Slave London production
- Hurly-Burly Broadway production
- A Runaway Girl London and Broadway productions
- The Skirt Dancer London production
- Véronique (operetta) (André Messager) â Paris production
Births
- January 7 â Al Bowlly, big band singer
- January 9 â Gracie Fields, singer and actress
- January 28 â Vittorio Rieti, composer
- February 3 â Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
- February 7 â Dock Boggs, banjo player
- February 12 â Roy Harris, composer
- February 15 â Totò, actor and composer
- February 28 â Molly Picon, Broadway star
- March 4 â Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
- April 3 â George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
- April 9 â Paul Robeson, singer
- May 14 â Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
- May 15 â Arletty, actress and singer
- May 26 â Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)
- May 28 â Andy Kirk, jazz musician
- June 6 â Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
- June 29 â Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
- July 4 â Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
- July 6 â Hanns Eisler, composer
- July 15 â Noel Gay, English songwriter
- August 2 â Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
- August 15 â Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
- August 24 â Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
- September 1
- Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancer
- Violet Carson, actress, singer and pianist
- September 26 â George Gershwin, US composer
- September 27 â Vincent Youmans, US composer
- October 7 â Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
- October 8 â Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
- October 18 â Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt Weill
- November 1 â Sippie Wallace, blues singer
- December 3 (n.s.) â Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and NKVD agent)
- December 5 â Grace Moore, operatic soprano
- December 14 â Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
- December 24 â Baby Dodds, jazz drummer
Deaths
- January 7 â Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
- January 8 â Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
- January 16 â Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
- February 15 â Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)
- March 11 â Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
- March 15 â Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
- March 28 â Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
- April 21 â Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
- May 15 â Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
- May 16 â Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
- August 14 â John Comfort Fillmore, American music educator, organist, arranger, and ethnomusicologist, 55[3]
- August 17 â Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
- August 21 â Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)
- September 9 â William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
- September 11 â Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
- November 7 â Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
- December 13 â George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
- December 29 â Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74