1896 in music
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Years in music: | 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 |
Centuries: | 18th Century · 19th century · 20th century |
Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
Years: | 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 |
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[edit] Events
- February 1 - Giacomo Puccini's La bohème debuts in Turin
- March - Leo Stern plays in the premiere of Dvořák's second cello concerto in London
- Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
[edit] Published popular music
- "All Coons Look Alike To Me" w.m. Ernest Hogan
- "The Amorous Goldfish" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
- "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
- "El Capitan March" m. John Philip Sousa
- "Eli Green's Cakewalk" w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky
- "Elsie From Chelsea" w.m. Harry Dacre
- "Going For A Pardon" w. James Thornton & Clara Havenschild m. James Thornton
- "Happy Days In Dixie" m. Kerry Mills
- "Hot Tamale Alley" by George M. Cohan
- "A Hot Time In The Old Town" w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz
- "I Love You In The Same Old Way - Darling Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
- "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" w.m. Gussie L. Davis
- "A Jovial Monk Am I" w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran
- "Kentucky Babe" w. Richard Henry Buck m. Adam Geibel
- "Laugh And The World Laughs With You" w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk
- "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" w. Clyde Fitch m. arr. William Furst
- "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" w.m. Ben Harney
- "Mother Was A Lady" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "Musetta's Waltz Song" m. Giacomo Puccini
- "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders
- "Remus Takes the Cake" by J. H. Ellis
- "The Saint Louis Cyclone" by Ren Shields & George Evans
- "Sambo at the Cakewalk" by Alfred E. Marks
- "Stars & Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
- "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" w.m. Maude Nugent
- "To A Wild Rose" m. Edward MacDowell
- "Warmest Baby in the Bunch" by George M. Cohan
- "When The Saints Go Marching In" w. Katherine E. Purvis m. James M. Black
[edit] Recorded popular music
- "All Coons Look Alike To Me" (w.m. Ernest Hogan)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records - "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison - "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" (w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon)
- Maud Foster on Berliner Records - "Annie Laurie" (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison - "Auld Lang Syne" (w. adapted Robert Burns)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison - "The Band Played On" (w. John Palmer m. Charles B. Ward)
- Dan W. Quinn on Columbia records and Berliner - "The Belle Of Avenoo A" (w.m. Safford Waters)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "Ben Bolt" (w. Thomas Dunn English m. Nelson Kneass)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "The Blue Danube" (m. Johann Strauss)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison - "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison - "La Donna È Mobile" (w. Francesco Piave m. Giuseppe Verdi)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "Don't You Hear Dem Bells?" (w.m. D. S. McCosh)
- Brilliant Quartet on Berliner - "Down In Poverty Row" (w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- George J. Gaskin on Edison - "Elsie From Chelsea" (w.m. Harry Dacre)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison - "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "The Gladiators" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison - "Hallelujah Chorus" (w. Charles Jennes m. George Frideric Handel)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison - "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison - "The Honeymoon" (m. George Rosey)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison - "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" (w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- Maud Foster on Berliner - "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" (w.m. Gussie L. Davis)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison - "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
- Brilliant Quartet on Berliner - "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "Kathleen" (w.m. Helene Mora)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison - "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "King Cotton March" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison - "Listen To The Mocking Bird" (w. Alice Hawthorne m. Richard Milburn)
- whistling Billy Golden on Edison - "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison - "Marching Through Georgia" (w.m. Henry Clay Work)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "La Marseillaise" (w.m. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "My Angeline" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
- Frank Daniels on Berliner - "My Best Girl's A New Yorker" (w.m. John Stromberg)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" (w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" (w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "Nearer, My God, To Thee" (w. Sarah F. Adams m. Lowell Mason)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- Len Spencer & Roger Harding on Columbia - "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner - "The Palms" (Gabriel Fauré)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "La Paloma" (w. anon m. Sebastian Yradier)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "Put Me Off At Buffalo" (w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "Rock Of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner - "'Round His Bed I'm Goin' To Creep" ()
- Len Spencer on Columbia - "Sally In Our Alley" (w. Henry Carey m. trad)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" (w.m. William B. Gray)
- Steve Porter on Columbia - "She May Have Seen Better Days" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "The Sidewalks Of New York" (w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison and on Berliner - "The Streets Of Cairo" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner - "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" (w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "Tenting On The Old Camp Ground" (w.m. Walter Kittredge)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner - "There's Only One Girl In the World For Me" (w.m. Dave Marion)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner - "They Are The Best Friends Of All"
- Helene Mora on US Phonograph Records - "Toreador Song" (w. Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner - "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "Trilby Song"
- Maurice Farkoa with piano Frank Lambert on Berliner - "Watchman Tell Us Of The Night" (Bowring, Mason)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner - "'Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield"
- Columbia Quartette on Columbia - "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner - "Where Is My Wandering Boy, Tonight?" (w.m. Rev. R. Lowry)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner - "Wot Cher!" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
[edit] Classical music
- Amy Beach - Symphony in E minor Gaelic, violin sonata
- Johannes Brahms - Vier ernste Gesänge, Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ
- Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 9 (finished three movements, sketches of finale)
- Antonín Dvořák - The Water Goblin, The Noon-Day Witch (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London); also the Quartet in A-flat major op. 105
- Gustav Holst - Quintet for piano and winds
- Vincent d'Indy - Istar
- Charles Ives - String Quartet no. 1, From the Salvation Army
- Edward MacDowell - Woodland Sketches
- Albéric Magnard - Symphony No. 3 Opus 11 (1895–96)
- Hans Pfitzner - Piano Trio in F Opus 8
- Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 1 (1895–96) ([1])
- Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Egyptian), Violin Sonata No. 2
- Alexander Scriabin - 24 Preludes for Piano Opus 11, Five Preludes for Piano Opus 15
- Jean Sibelius - Coronation Cantata
- Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
- Alexander von Zemlinsky - String Quartet No. 1 and Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
[edit] Opera
- August Enna - Aucassin og Nicolette
- Umberto Giordano - Andrea Chenier
- Paul Juon - Aleko
- Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Sadko
- Hugo Wolf - Der Corregidor
[edit] Musical theater
- The Art Of Maryland Broadway production
- El Capitan Broadway production
- The Circus Girl London production
- The Gay Parisienne London production
- The Geisha London production
- The Geisha Broadway production
- The Girl From Paris London production
- The Grand Duke London production
[edit] Births
- January 28 - Elsie Carlisle, English singer
- February 3 - Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter
- February 22 - Nacio Herb Brown, US songwriter
- March 1 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, pianist, conductor and composer
- April 10 - Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer
- April 30 - Reverend Gary Davis
- June 20 - Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor
- August 15 - Léon Theremin, Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him
- September 2 - Amanda Randolph, actress and singer
- September 8 - Howard Dietz, lyricist
- September 10 - Adele Astaire, US dancer and singer
- September 15 - Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist
- September 25 - Roberto Gerhard, composer (d. 1970)
- October 7 - Phil Ohman, US bandleader
- October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer
- October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
- November 23 - Ruth Etting, US singer
- November 25 - Virgil Thomson, composer and critic
- December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist
- December 28 - Roger Sessions, composer
[edit] Deaths
- February 12 - Ambroise Thomas, composer
- May 12 - Juan Morel Campos, danza composer
- May 20 - Clara Schumann, Austrian composer
- June 22 - Sir Augustus Harris, librettist and impresario
- August 18 - Frederick Nicholls Crouch, cellist and composer
- September 16 - Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer
- September 22 - Katharina Klafsky, Wagnerian soprano
- October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
- October 17 - Henry Eugene Abbey, theatre manager
- date unknown - Kurmangazy, Khazakh musician and composer