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Events in the year 1896 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- March 18 – Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts a performance of his First Symphony in Dresden; the event marks the beginning of his international success.[1]
- March 19 – Leo Stern is soloist in the première of Dvořák's Cello Concerto, in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, at the Queen's Hall in London.
- December 27 – Formal première of Ernest Chausson's Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, with Eugène Ysaÿe as soloist, at Nancy, France.
- Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
- Gabriel Fauré takes over from Théodore Dubois as organist of the church of La Madeleine, Paris.
- In Moscow, Mariya Kerzina and her husband Arkadiy Kerzin form the Circle of Russian Music Lovers, a performance society.
Published popular music
Sambo at the Cakewalk, sheet music cover
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John Bull and Uncle Sam
(words by Wm. Allan; music by J.B. Herbert)
(words by Wm. Allan; music by J.B. Herbert)
- "All Coons Look Alike to Me" w.m. Ernest Hogan
- "Årstiderna" w.m. Alice Tegnér
- "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 Are Marching In" w. Katharine E. Purvis m. James M. Black
- "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" w.m. Ben Harney
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 Records - "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 F. 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 - "Funiculì, Funiculà" (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
– Dan W. Quinn - "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
– Brilliant Quartet on Berliner - "I've Been Hoodoed"
– Dan W. Quinn 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 - "McKinley is our Man"
– Dan W. Quinn on U.S. Phonograph Records - "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" (Jean-Baptiste Faure)
– 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" (Dillon Brothers, 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
Classical music
- Eyvind Alnæs – Symphony No. 1
- 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)
- Ernest Chausson – Poème for violin and orchestra
- Cornelis Dopper – Symphony No. 1
- Antonín Dvořák
- The Water Goblin
- The Noon-Day Witch (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London)
- 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)
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3 (Mahler) completed
- Hans Pfitzner – Piano Trio in F Opus 8
- Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1 (1895–96)[2]
- Maurice Ravel
- "D'Anne jouant de l'espinette"
- La parade
- "Sainte"
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian")
- Violin Sonata No. 2
- Alexander Scriabin
- 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 11
- 5 Preludes for Piano, Op. 15
- Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 20
- Jean Sibelius – Coronation Cantata
- Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra
- Francisco Tárrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra
- Alexander von Zemlinsky
- String Quartet No. 1
- Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
Opera
- August Enna – Aucassin og Nicolette
- Gialdino Gialdini – La Pupilla premiered October 23 at the Societá Filarmonica Drammatica, Trieste
- Umberto Giordano – Andrea Chénier
- Paul Juon – Aleko
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo – Chatterton
- Friedrich Lux – The Duchess of Athens
- Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème, Teatro Regio in Turin.[3]
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Sadko
- Charles Villiers Stanford – Shamus O'Brien (revised 1907)
- Hugo Wolf – Der Corregidor
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
Births
- January 20 – Elmer Diktonius, poet and composer (d. 1961)
- January 25 – Florence Mills, cabaret and jazz performer (d. 1927)
- January 28 – Elsie Carlisle, English singer (d. 1977)
- February 3 – Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter (d. 1987)
- February 22 – Nacio Herb Brown, US songwriter (d. 1964)
- March 1 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1960)
- April 10 – Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1971)
- April 30 – Reverend Gary Davis (d. 1972)
- June 20 – Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor (d. 1982)
- August 2 – Lorenzo Herrera, singer and composer (d. 1960)
- August 15 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him (d. 1993)
- September 2 – Amanda Randolph, actress and singer (d. 1967)
- September 8 – Howard Dietz, lyricist (d. 1983)
- September 10 – Adele Astaire, US dancer and singer (d. 1981)
- September 15 – Bert Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist
- September 25 – Roberto Gerhard, composer (d. 1970)
- October 7 – Phil Ohman, US bandleader (d. 1954)
- October 18 – Friedrich Hollaender, composer (d. 1976)
- October 28 – Howard Hanson, composer (d. 1981)
- October 31 – Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
- November 23 – Ruth Etting, US singer (d. 1978)
- November 25 – Virgil Thomson, composer and critic (d. 1989)
- December 6 – Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983)
- December 12 – Jenö Ádám, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1982)
- December 21 – Leroy Robertson, composer and music teacher (d. 1971)
- December 28 – Roger Sessions, composer (d. 1985)
Deaths
- January 28 – Sir Joseph Barnby, conductor and composer (b. 1838)
- February 5 – Henry David Leslie, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
- February 12 – Ambroise Thomas, composer (b. 1811)
- February 13 – Carl Martin Reinthaler, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
- March 5 – Hiromori Hayashi, composer (b. 1831)
- April 12 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (b. 1833)
- May 12 – Juan Morel Campos, danza composer (b. 1857)
- May 20 – Clara Schumann, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
- June 7 – Pavlos Carrer, composer (b. 1829)
- June 22 – Sir Augustus Harris, librettist and impresario (b. 1852)
- June 28 – Jenny Hill, music hall performer (b. 1848; tuberculosis)[4]
- July 14 – Luther Whiting Mason, music educator (b. 1818)
- July 17 – Alfred Novello, music publisher (b. 1810)[5]
- July 26 – Théodore Salomé, organist and composer (b. 1834)
- August 1 – Wilhelm Herman Barth, violinist, composer and music theorist (b. 1813)
- August 18 – Frederick Crouch, cellist and composer (b. 1808)
- September 16 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer (b. 1836)
- September 22 – Katharina Klafsky, Wagnerian soprano (b. 1855)
- September 23 – Gilbert Duprez, operatic tenor (b. 1806)
- October 11 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
- October 17 – Henry Eugene Abbey, theatre manager (b. 1846)
- November 25 – Spyridon Xyndas, composer (b. 1812)
- December 3 – László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- December 17 – Richard Pohl, writer, critic and composer (b. 1826)
- December 24 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (b. 1815)
- date unknown
- Luigia Abbadia, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1821)
- Gopalakrishna Bharati, poet and Carnatic music composer (b. 1810)
References
- Carl Nielsen Society. Accessed 4 August 2013
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-10-24. Retrieved 2005-06-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Budden, Julian (2002). Puccini: His Life and Works. Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-19-816468-5.
- Senelick, Laurence (2004). "Hill, Jenny (1848–1896)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- "Joseph Alfred Novello Dead; Italy's Organist, Composer, and Scientist Passes Away". The New York Times. 18 July 1896.
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