Events in the year 1897 in music.
- Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 1
- Ferruccio Busoni – Violin Concerto
- Ernest Chausson
- Chant funèbre, for four female voices (1897)
- Piano Quartet in A, Op. 30
- Vêpres pour le commun des vierges, for organ, Op. 31
- String Quartet, Op. 35
- Piece for cello or viola, and piano, Op. 39
- Felix Draeseke – String Quintet in A "Stelzner"-Quintet
- Paul Dukas – The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- George Enescu –
- Piano Suite No. 1 in G minor, "Dans le style ancien" Op. 3
- Poème roumain, Op. 1
- Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano in D major, Op. 2
- Trio in G minor for piano, violin, and cello
- August Enna – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
- Asger Hamerik – Symphony no. 6 ("Spirituelle) for string orchestra
- Alexander Mackenzie – Piano Concerto
- Carl Nielsen – Hymnus amoris
- Dora Pejačević – Berceuse, Op. 2, for solo piano
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphony No. 2 "Antar" (final version)
- Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet in D major
- Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 2
- Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Alexander von Zemlinsky – Symphony No. 2
Births
- January 2 – Jane Green, US singer (died 1931)
- January 10 – Sam Chatmon, blues musician (died 1983)
- January 22
- February 27 – Marian Anderson, contralto (died 1993)
- March 3 – Sandy MacPherson, theatre organist (died 1975)
- March 9 – Pedro Flores, composer (died 1979)
- March 11 – Henry Cowell, composer (died 1965)
- March 13 – Maria Nemeth, Hungarian operatic soprano (died 1967)
- March 26 – David McCallum, Sr., violinist and father of David McCallum (died 1972)
- April 1 – Lucille Bogan, blues singer (died 1979)
- April 8 – John Frederick Coots, US composer (died 1985)
- April 17 – Harald Sæverud, composer (died 1992)
- April 19 – Vivienne Segal, US actress and singer (died 1992)
- April 23 – Pixinguinha, choro composer and woodwind player (died 1973)
- May 14 – Sidney Bechet, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer (died 1959)
- May 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer (died 1957)
- June 3 – Memphis Minnie, blues singer (died 1973)
- June 12 – Alexandre Tansman, pianist and composer (died 1986)
- June 15 – Mary Ellis, actress and singer (died 2003)
- June 22 – Bulbul, opera and folk singer (died 1961)
- July 11 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (died 1929)
- June 27 – Maceo Pinkard, composer, lyricist and music publisher (died 1962)
- August 4 – Abe Lyman, US bandleader, composer and drummer (died 1957)
- August 29 – Helge Rosvaenge, operatic tenor (died 1972)
- September 3 – Francisco Mignone, composer (died 1986)
- September 8 – Jimmie Rodgers, country singer (died 1933)
- September 18
- October 11 – Leo Reisman, violinist and bandleader (died 1961)
- October 26 – Tiana Lemnitz, operatic soprano (died 1994)
- November 2 – Dennis King, British singer and actor (died 1971)
- November 12 – Karl Marx, conductor and composer (died 1985))
- November 20 – Margaret Sutherland, composer (died 1984)
- November 25 – Willie 'The Lion' Smith, US jazz pianist (died 1973)
- December 9 – Hermione Gingold, actress and singer (died 1987)
- December 18 – Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (died 1952)
- December 30 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian lyricist (died 1976)
- date unknown – Aileen Stanley, singer (died 1982)
Deaths
- January 24 – Sarah Edith Wynne, operatic soprano and concert singer, 54
- February 10 – Antonio Bazzini, violinist, composer and music, 78
- February 23 – Woldemar Bargiel, composer and teacher, 68
- February 25 – Cornélie Falcon, opera singer, 83
- March 7 – Leonard Labatt, operatic tenor, 58
- April 3 – Johannes Brahms, composer, 63
- April 8 – George Garrett, composer, 62
- April 23 – Clement Harris, pianist and composer, 25 (killed in the Greco-Turkish war)
- May 21 – Carl Mikuli, pianist and composer, 77
- June 9
- June 18 – Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher, 81
- August 1 – Gaetano Antoniazzi, violin-maker, 71
- September 16 – Edward Edwards, choirmaster and composer, 81
- September 20
- October 11 – Léon Boëllmann, organist and composer, 35
- November 6 – Edouard Deldevez, conductor, composer and violinist, 80
- November 14 – Giuseppina Strepponi, operatic soprano, 82
- December – Slavka Atanasijević, Serbian pianist and composer, 47[2]
- December 4 – Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist, 54
References
- ↑ La Grange, Henry-Louis de (1995). Gustav Mahler Volume 2: Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897–1904). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
ISBN 0-19-315159-6. p. 54
- ↑ Ma. St. [Marijanović, Stanislav]. 1983. "Atanasijević, Slavka (Aloysia)". In Croatian biographical lexicon (Hrvatski biografski leksikon), Vol. 1, ed. Nikica Kolumbić. Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, p. 261
