1899 in music
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Events in the year 1899 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- January 25 â Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström.[1]
- March 3 â Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of Ein Heldenleben with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester.
- April 26
- Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 1 in Helsinki.
- Tenor Antonio Paoli makes his début in Rossini's William Tell in Paris.
- May 27 â Maurice Ravel conducts the first public performance of his 1898 Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris; it receives a critical reception and is not published in his lifetime.[2]
- June 19 â Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) are premiered at St James's Hall in London conducted by Hans Richter. A revised version is first heard on September 13 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester Cathedral with Elgar conducting.[3]
- September 18 â Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States.
- October 19 â Claude Debussy marries Rosalie Texier,[4] having lived for nine years with her best friend; the marriage lasts only five years.
- December 30 â Samuel Coleridge-Taylor marries Jessie Walmisley.[5]
- date unknown
- Charles Hale's song "At a Darktown Cakewalk" includes an early appearance of the riff "Shave and a Haircut".[6]
- Billy Murray makes his singing debut.
Published popular music

- "Absent" w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf
- "Always!" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
- "Cake Walk in The Sky" by Ben Harney
- "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do a Thing to You" w.m. Paul Dresser
- "A Coon Band Contest" m. Arthur Pryor
- "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun
- "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey" w.m. Alfred W. Noll
- "Hands Across the Sea" m. John Philip Sousa
- "Hearts and Flowers" w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani
- "Hello! Ma Baby" w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard
- "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You" w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "If Only You Were Mine" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
- "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" w.m. Harry Dacre
- "Impecunious Davis" by Kerry Mills
- "Keep on the Sunny Side", w. A. Blenkhorn, m. J.H. Entwisle
- "Mandy Lee" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
- "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
- "Mosquito Parade" m. Howard Whitney
- "My Little Georgia Rose" w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
- "My Wild Irish Rose" w.m. Chauncey Olcott
- "'O sole mio!" w. Giovanni Capurro m. Eduardo di Capua
- "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" w.m. J. Fred Helf
- "She Was Happy Till She Met You" w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
- "Smoky Mokes" m. Abe Holzmann
- "Stay in Your Own Back Yard" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
- "The Story of the Rose" (aka "Heart Of My Heart") w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack
- "Telephone Me, Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
- "There's Where My Heart Is Tonight" w.m. Paul Dresser
- "When most I wink" m. Frank Bridge
- "Where the Sweet Magnolias Grow" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
- "Whistling Rufus" w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills
- "You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine" w. Seymore Rice & Albert H. Brown, m. Charles N. Daniels
Recorded popular music
- "Abide With Me" (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk)
â Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records - "Always!" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers)
â May Kelso on Edison Records
â Harry Macdonough on Edison Records - "Asleep In The Deep" (w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie)
â William Hooley on Edison Records - "Ave Maria" (w. (Fr) Paul Bernard m. Charles Gounod)
â M. A. Guarini on Edison Records
â W. D. McFarland on Berliner Records - "Because" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Records - "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
â J. J. Fisher on Edison Records - "The Boy Guessed Right" (w.m. Lionel Monckton)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records & Berliner Records - "The Cake Walk" (trad US)
â Eugene Stratton with piano Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone - "Calvary" (w. Henry Vaughan m. Paul Rodney)
â Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records - "Comin' Thro' The Rye" (w. Robert Burns m. trad)
â Syria Lamonte with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone - "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall)
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone - "Curse of the Dreamer"
â Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records - "Down The Road" (w.m. Fred Gilbert)
â Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone - "Eli Green's Cakewalk" (w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky)
â banjo Vess L. Ossman on Edison Records - "Emmet's Lullaby" (w.m. J. K. Emmet)
â George P. Watson on Edison Records - "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza)
â Hotel Cecil Orchestra on Berliner Gramophone - "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier)
â Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone - "God Save The Queen"
â Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Records - "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
â Eugene Cowles on Berliner Records
â William Hooley on Edison Records - "Hands Across The Sea March" (m. John Philip Sousa)
â Peerless Orchestra on Edison Records
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Records - "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani)
â violin Chris De Arth on Berliner Records - "Hello! Ma Baby" (w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard)
â Arthur Collins on Edison Records
â Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
â Imperial Minstrels on Berliner
- "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams)
â Harry Macdonough on Edison Records - "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
â whistling John Yorke Atlee on Berliner Records - "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
â J. W. Myers on Berliner Records - "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" (w.m. George M. Cohan)
â Arthur Collins on Edison Records
â Edward M. Favor on Berliner Records
â George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records - "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer)
â Arthur Collins on Edison Records - "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn)
â Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone - "If Only You Were Mine" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records - "It's A Great Big Shame" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn)
â Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone - "Jack's The Boy" (Greenbank, Jones)
â H. Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone - "Just As The Sun Went Down" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall)
â J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
â S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records - "Just One Girl" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall)
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
â H. Scott Russell with p. Amy Williams on Berliner Gramophone
â J. W. Myers on Columbia Records - "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch)
â William F. Hooley on Edison Records - "Kiss Me, Honey Do" (w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg)
â Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
â Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
â Arthur Collins on Edison Records - "Little Dolly Daydream" (w.m. Leslie Stuart)
â Eugene Stratton on Berliner Gramophone - "Little Old New York is Good Enough For Me"
â Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Records - "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
â William F. Hooley on Berliner Records - "Mandy Lee" (w.m. Thurland Chattaway)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
â Arthur Collins on Edison Records - "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
â Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
â S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
â George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records - "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney)
â John Terrell on Berliner Records - "Molly's The Girl For Me"
â J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records - "The Moth And The Flame" (w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
â J. J. Fisher on Edison Records - "My Little Georgia Rose" (w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt)
â Jere Mahoney on Edison Records - "My Old Dutch" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle)
â Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone - "My Old New Hampshire Home" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer)
â Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
â Byron G. Harlan & A. D. Madeira on Edison Records
â Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
â George J. Gaskin on Berliner Records
â The Greater New York Quartette on Columbia Records - "My Wild Irish Rose" (w.m. Chauncey Olcott)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records - "Night Hymn At Sea"
â Clara Butt & Kennerley Rumford on Berliner Gramophone - "The Old Brigade" (w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Orlando Barri)
â H. Scott Russell with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone - "Old Man's Story"
â J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia records - "The Old Oaken Bucket" (w. Samuel Woodworth m. E. Kaillmark)
â Haydn Quartette on Berliner Records - "The Organ Grinder's Serenade"
â J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records - "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" (w.m. J. Fred Helf)
â Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
â George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records - "She Is The Belle Of New York" (w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker)
â Frank Lawton with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone - "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
â Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
â George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records - "She Was Happy Till She Met You" (w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld)
â Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
â Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records - "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
â Len Spencer on Columbia Records
â Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
â Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records - "The Soldiers Of The Queen" (w.m. Leslie Stuart)
â Albert Christian with p. Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone - "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent)
â Lil Hawthorne on Berliner Gramophone - "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" (w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
â Herbert Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone - "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (w. Thomas Moore m. Richard Alfred Milliken)
â J. W. Myers on Berliner Records - "Toreador Song" (w. H. Meilac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet)
â Montague Borwell on Berliner Gramophone - "Whistling Rufus" (w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills)
â Len Spencer on Berliner Records
â Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
â banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records & Berliner Records
â Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records - "Yes, Let Me Like A Soldier Fall" (w. Edward Fitzball m. Vincent Wallace)
â Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner Records - "You've Been A Good Old Wagon" (Harney)
â Len Spencer on Columbia Records & Berliner Records
Classical music
- Hugo Alfvén â Symphony No. 2 in D
- Tor Aulin â 4 Aquarellen for Violin and Piano, Op. 12 or 15
- Amy Beach â Piano Concerto in C⯠minor, Op. 45 (198/9)
- Joseph Callaerts â Toccata, Op.29
- Frederick Delius â Paris, Nocturne
- Friedrich Diethe â Romanze for Bass Clarinet
- ErnÅ von Dohnányi â Sonata for Cello and Piano in Bâ minor
- Edward Elgar
- Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36
- Dry Those Fair, Those Crystal Eyes
- Sérénade lyrique, for orchestra
- George Enescu â Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6
- Axel Gade â Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra in F major
- Louis Glass â Symphony No. 2 in C minor
- Reinhold Glière â Symphony No. 1
- Leopold Godowsky â 3 Concert Studies, Op.11
- Theodore Gouvy â Paraphrases symphoniques, Op.89
- Edvard Grieg â Ave maris stella, EG 150
- Johan Halvorsen â Norwegian Festival Overture
- Siegmund von Hausegger â Barbarossa
- Hans Huber â Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra
- Scott Joplin â Maple Leaf Rag
- Ferdinand Kühne â Geburstags-Marsch, Op.41
- Max Laurischkus
- Elegie, Op.2
- Duos, Op.3
- Luise Adolpha Le Beau â Elegy, Op.44
- Ernst Mielck â Finnish Suite, Op. 10
- Ethelbert Nevin â En Passant, Op.30
- Maurice Ravel â Pavane pour une Infante défunte, for piano
- Vladimir Rebikov
- 3 Morceaux, Op.7
- Suite de ballet, Op.14
- Jean Sibelius â Symphony No. 1 in E minor
- Josef Suk â Symphony No. 1 in E major
- Arnold Schoenberg â Verklärte Nacht
Opera
- Eugen d'Albert â Kain
- AntonÃn DvoÅák â The Devil and Kate
- Josef Bohuslav Foerster â Eva
- Victor Herbert â The Ameer, premiered October 10 in Scranton
- Isidore de Lara â Messaline
- Jules Massenet â Cendrillon (composed 1894â5, premiered 1899)
- Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov â The Tsar's Bride, (premiered November 3 in Moscow)
- Max von Schillings â Der Pfeifertag, Op.10 (premiered February 26 in Schwerin)
Musical theater

- Die Landstreicher â Karl Michael Ziehrer
- El Capitan London production
- Florodora (Music: Leslie Stuart Lyrics: Sidney Jones & Paul Rubens Book: Owen Hall) London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on November 11
- A Gaiety Girl London revival opened at Daly's Theatre on June 5
- Helter-Skelter Broadway production
- The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street Broadway production
- The Rose of Persia (music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 29
- San Toy London production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 21
Births
- January 7
- Al Bowlly, South African-born British singer (died 1941)
- Francis Poulenc, French composer (died 1963)
- January 10 â Daniel Guilet, French-born American violinist (died 1990)
- January 14 â Herbert Sumsion, English composer and organist (died 1995)
- January 21 â Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian pianist and composer (died 1977)
- February 15 â Georges Auric, French composer (died 1983)
- February 21 â Clara Clairbert, Belgian operatic soprano (died 1970)
- March 5 â Patrick Hadley, British composer (died 1973)
- March 10 â Finn Høffding, Danish composer (died 1997)
- March 13 â Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian composer (died 1978)
- March 26 â William Baines, English composer and pianist (died 1922)
- April 5
- Leonard Falcone, Italian-born American baritone/euphonium virtuoso, director of bands at Michigan State (died 1985)
- Bernhard Kaun, American Hollywood filmscore composer (died 1980)
- April 7 â Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (died 1972)
- April 29 â Duke Ellington, American jazz musician and composer (died 1974)
- May 1 â Jón Leifs, Icelandic composer (died 1968)
- May 6 â Billy Cotton, English bandleader (died 1969)
- May 10 â Fred Astaire, American dancer, actor and singer (died 1987)
- May 25 â Panka Pelishek, Bulgarian pianist and music teacher (died 1990)[7]
- May 30 â Jack Little, British-born American singer and songwriter (died 1956)
- June 1 â Werner Janssen, American conductor and composer (died 1990)
- June 9 â Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (died 1987)
- June 11 â George Frederick McKay, American composer (died 1970)
- June 13 â Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor
- June 16 â Helen Traubel, American opera singer (died 1972)
- June 19 â Pat Ballard, American songwriter (died 1960)
- June 21 â Pavel Haas, Czech composer (killed 1944)
- June 30 â Harry Shields, American jazz musician (died 1971)
- July 1 â Thomas A. Dorsey, American "father of gospel music" (died 1993)
- July 3 â Benny Nawahi, American ukulele player (died 1985)
- July 10 â André Souris, Belgian composer and writer (died 1970)
- July 17 â James Cagney, American actor, singer and dancer (died 1986)
- July 18 â Felipe Pinglo Alva, Peruvian composer (died 1938)
- July 30 â John Woods Duke, American composer (died 1984)
- August 6 â Margarete Klose, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 1968)
- September 6 â Billy Rose, Broadway producer and lyricist (died 1966)
- September 9 â Maria Yudina, pianist (died 1970)
- September 11 â Jimmie Davis, country and gospel singer-songwriter and politician (died 2000)
- September 13 â Ephraim Amu, composer, musicologist and music teacher (died 1995)
- September 25 â Ricard Lamote de Grignon, conductor and composer (died 1965)
- September 26 â William L. Dawson, composer (died 1990)
- October 9 â Mary Jarred, opera singer (died 1993)
- October 19 â Sidonie Goossens, harpist (died 2004)
- October 31 â Ted Shapiro, songwriter and pianist (died 1980)
- November 9 â Mezz Mezzrow, jazz musician (died 1972)
- November 17 â Toscha Seidel, violinist (died 1962)
- November 18 â Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor (died 1985)
- November 22 â Hoagy Carmichael, composer, pianist and singer (died 1981)
- November 29 â Gustave Reese, musicologist (died 1977)
- November 30 â Hans Krása, Czech-German composer (killed 1944)
- December 2 â Sir John Barbirolli, conductor (died 1970)
- December 11 â Julio de Caro, composer (died 1980)
- December 16 â Noël Coward, dramatist, actor, singer and composer (died 1973)
- December 18 â Muriel Brunskill, operatic contralto (died 1980)
- December 21 â Silvestre Revueltas, composer (died 1940)
- date unknown â Sadettin Heper, composer (died 1980)
Deaths
- January 10 â Albert Becker, composer, 64
- February 3 â Amalie Joachim, contralto and voice teacher (born 1839)
- February 4 â Eduard Holst, Danish composer, playwright, actor, dancer and dance master, 52
- April 17 â Hans Balatka, composer, 72
- April 23 â Lucien Delormel, lyricist (born 1847)
- May 21 â Louise Tunison, composer and organist, 26
- May 29 â Frantz Jehin-Prume, violinist, composer, and music educator, 60
- June 3 â Johann Strauss II, composer, 73
- June 10 â Ernest Chausson, composer, 44 (bicycle accident)
- June 16 â August Winding, composer, 64
- August 17 â Erik Bøgh, journalist, dramatist and songwriter, 77
- August 28 â Guillermo Morphy, musicologist, 63
- October 10 â Allan James Foley, operatic bass, 62
- October 11 â John Troutbeck, musicologist (b. 1832)
- October 13 â Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ-builder, 88
- October 15 â Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, conductor and composer, 57
- October 18 â Gussie Davis, songwriter, 36
- October 22 â Ernst Mielck, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
- October 23 â Ludwig Straus, violinist, 64
- October 31 â Hugh Talbot, singer and actor, 54
- November 16 â Vincas Kudirka, lyricist of the Lithuanian national anthem, 40 (tuberculosis)
- November 25 â Robert Lowry, hymn writer, 73
- December 7 â Anton de Kontski, pianist and composer, 82
- December 10 â Hans von Milde, operatic baritone, 78
- December 20 â Romain Bussine, poet, baritone, and voice teacher, 69
- December 21
- Joseph Dupont, violinist, theatre director and conductor, 61
- Charles Lamoureux, conductor and violinist, 65
- December 23 â Marietta Piccolomini, operatic soprano, 65
- December 31 â Carl Millöcker, conductor and composer, 57