1897 in music
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| Years in music: | 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 |
| Centuries: | 18th Century · 19th century · 20th century |
| Decades: | 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s |
| Years: | 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 |
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[edit] Events
- March 27 - Premiere of Sergei Rachmaninoff's First Symphony. The premiere was a complete disaster and left many wondering if Alexander Glazunov, the conductor for the event, was drunk or just disliked the music so much that he didn't care about a good performance. It would be years before Rachmaninoff would compose a major piece of music again.
- The Cakewalk matures into Ragtime music
- John Philip Sousa's band makes phonograph recordings of Cakewalks and early Ragtime
- Early publications by Scott Joplin.
- Gustav Mahler becomes director of the Vienna Court Opera, and is obliged to convert from Judaism to Roman Catholicism.
[edit] Published popular music
- "Asleep In The Deep" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie
- "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" w.m. Kerry Mills
- "Badinage" m. Victor Herbert
- "Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere" w. Mrs Jessie Brown Pounds m. John S. Fearis
- "Break The News To Mother" w.m. Charles K. Harris
- "Danny Deever" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Walter Damrosch
- "Harlem Rag" m. Tom Turpin
- "Louisiana Rag" m. Theodore H. Northrup
- "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" w.m. Paul Dresser
- "Our Lodger's Such A Nice Young Man" w.m. Fred Murray & Laurence Barclay
- "Roustabout Rag" m. Paul Sarebresole
- "The Shuffling Coon" by J. R. Todd
- "Song Of India" m. Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
- "Stars And Stripes Forever" m. John Philip Sousa
- "Syncopated Sandy" by Wayburn & Whiting
- "Take Back Your Gold" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
- "There's A Little Star Shining For You" w.m. James Thornton
- "Ye Boston Tea Party" by Arthur Pryor
[edit] Classical music
- Hugo Alfvén - Symphony No. 1
- Ferruccio Busoni - Violin Concerto
- Ernest Chausson - String Quartet
- Felix Draeseke - String Quintet in A "Stelzner-Quintett"
- Paul Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- August Enna - Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
- Asger Hamerik - Symphonie no. 6 (Spirituelle) for string orchestra
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Symphony No. 2 "Antar" (final version)
- Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet in D major
- Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Alexander von Zemlinsky - Symphony No. 2
[edit] Opera
- Frederick Delius - Koanga
- August Enna - The Little Match Girl
- Zdeněk Fibich - Sarka
- Wilhelm Kienzl - Don Quixote
- Luigi Mancinelli - Ero e Leandro
- Jules Massenet - Sapho
[edit] Musical theater
- The Belle of New York Broadway production
- The Charlatan Broadway production
- The Circus Girl Broadway production
- The Glad Hand Broadway production
- Pousse Café Broadway production
[edit] Births
- January 2 - Jane Green, US singer
- January 10 - Sam Chatmon, blues musician
- January 22 - Leslie Sarony, English singer, comedian and songwriter
- February 27 - Marian Anderson, contralto
- March 9 - Pedro Flores, composer
- March 11 - Henry Cowell, composer
- March 26 - David McCallum, Sr., violinist and father of David McCallum
- April 1 - Lucille Bogan, blues singer
- April 17 - Harald Sæverud, composer
- April 19 - Vivienne Segal, US actress and singer
- May 2 - J. Fred Coots - US composer
- May 14 - Sidney Bechet
- May 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer
- June 3 - "Memphis Minnie", blues singer
- June 12 - Alexandre Tansman, pianist and composer
- July 11
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Johnny Marvin, US singer & songwriter
- August 4 - Abe Lyman, US bandleader, composer and drummer
- August 24 - Fred Rose, US composer, singer and pianist
- August 29 - Helge Rosvaenge, operatic tenor
- September 3 - Francisco Mignone, composer
- September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers
- September 18 - Sam H. Stept, Russian-born US composer, pianist and conductor
- October 11 - Leo Reisman
- November 2 - Dennis King, British singer and actor
- November 25 - Willie 'The Lion' Smith, US jazz pianist
- December 9 - Hermione Gingold, actress and singer
- December 18 - Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician
- December 30 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian lyricist
- date unknown - Rosa Ponselle, soprano
- date unknown - Aileen Stanley, singer
[edit] Deaths
- February 23 - Woldemar Bargiel, composer and teacher
- March 7 - Leonard Labatt, operatic tenor
- April 3 - Johannes Brahms, composer
- May 21 - Carl Mikuli, pianist and composer
- June 9 - Pavel Pabst, pianist and composer
- September 20 - Karel Bendl, composer
- November 6 - Edouard Deldevez, conductor, composer and violinist
- date unknown - Marie-Cornélie Falcon, opera singer
