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Overview of the events of 1896 in music
Overview of the events of 1896 in music
Events in the year 1896 in music .
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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.
April 13 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Lemminkäinen Suite in Helsinki .
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 [ edit ]
Sambo at the Cakewalk , sheet music cover
John Bull and Uncle Sam (words by Wm. Allan; music by J.B. Herbert)
Recorded popular music [ edit ]
"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 [ edit ]
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 9 – Steffy Goldner , harpist (d. 1962)
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 , blues and gospel singer and instrumentalist (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 (d. 1971)
September 25 – Roberto Gerhard , composer (d. 1970)
October 7 – Phil Ohman , US bandleader (d. 1954)
October 17 – Fernando Obradors , composer (d. 1945)
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)
January 28 – Sir Joseph Barnby , conductor and composer (b. 1838)
February 5 – Henry David Leslie , conductor and composer (b. 1822)
February 6 – Juliette Dorus-Gras , operatic soprano (born 1896)
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 13 – Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski , musicologist, conductor, and composer (b. 1822)
December 17 – Richard Pohl , writer, critic and composer (b. 1826)
December 24 – Anders Ljungqvist , fiddler (b. 1815)
date unknown
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