1895 in music

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Events in the year 1895 in music.

## Specific locations

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* 1895 in Norwegian music

## Events

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* March 4 – Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in Berlin – the first three movements only.[1]
* May 18 – Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queen's Hall.
* August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor. The first concert opens with the overture to Wagner's Rienzi. The orchestra tunes to the "French A" or diapason normal concert pitch.
* December 13 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in Berlin with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra (first three movements premièred on March 4).
* unknown dates
* Composer Sidney Homer marries contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty.[2]
* Composer Zdeněk Fibich separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová, and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.
* Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d'Albert. It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

## Published popular music

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* "America the Beautiful" w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
* "The Band Played On" w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
* "The Belle of Avenoo A" w.m. Safford Waters
* "Down In Poverty Row" w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
* "A Dream" w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
* "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
* "He's Not Dead Yet!" w. T. W. Connor
* "It's a Great Big Shame" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
* "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" w.m. Paul Dresser
* "King Cotton (march)" m. John Philip Sousa
* "La Pas Ma La" w.m. Ernest Hogan
* "My Angeline" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "My Best Girl's a New Yorker" w.m. John Stromberg
* "Put Me Off at Buffalo" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon (Dillon Brothers)
* "Rastus on Parade" w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
* "She Was One of the Early Birds" w.m. T. W. Connor
* "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
* "The Soldiers of the Queen" w.m. Leslie Stuart
* "The Streets of Cairo" w.m. James Thornton
* "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton

## Recorded popular music

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* "Belles of Virginia"
– Stephen B. Clements, Berliner Records
* "Bully Song"
– May Irwin
* "Bye Bye Ma Honey"
– Billy Golden, United States Phonograph Company
* "Carnival of Venice"
– Charles P. Lowe
* "Cavalry"
– J. W. Myers, Brown Wax Cylinder Home Recording
* "Dancing on the Housetops"
– Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
* "Dixie"
– Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
* "El Captain March"
– Sousa's Band, Columbia Phonograph Company
* "Girl Wanted"
– Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
* "Handicap March"
– Sousa's Band
* "Henrietta Have You Met Her?"
– Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
* "Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Diamonds"
– George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
* "Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down"
– Banta's Orchestra
* "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard"
– George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
* "Just One Girl"
– J. W. Myers, Berliner Records
* "Love Me Little Love Me Long"
– Alice Raymond
* "Michael Casey as a Hotel Clerk"
– Russell Hunting, Berliner Records
* "Michael Casey as Judge"
– Russell Hunting, Berliner Records
* "Michael Casey's Plans For Freeing Ireland"
– Russell Hunting, Berliner Records
* "My Blackbird"
– Len Spencer
* "My Old Kentucky Home"
– George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
* "My Pearl Is A Bowery"
– Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
* "Nellie Bly"
– W. Paris Chambers, Berliner Records
* "Nightingale Waltz"
– Issler's Orchestra, United States Phonograph Company
* "The Band Played On"
– Dan W. Quinn, Columbia Phonograph Company
* "The Sidewalks of New York"
– Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
* "The Sidewalks of New York"
– George J. Gaskin, Edison & Berliner Records
* "The Streets of Cairo"
– Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
* "Washington Post March"
– Sousa's Band, Columbia Phonograph Company
* "When You Know The Girl You Love Loves You"
– George J. Gaskin, Berliner Records
* "Who Broke The Lock"
– Unique Quartette, Edison Phonograph Co
* "Yazoo Dance"
– Sousa's Band

## Classical music

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* Béla Bartók
* Capriccio in B minor, for piano, Op. 4
* Fantasia in A minor, for piano, Op. 2
* Fantasia, for violin, Op. 9
* Pieces, for violin, Op. 7
* Sonata No. 2 in F major, for piano, Op. 3
* Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, Op. 5
* Sonata No. 3 in C major, for piano, Op. 6
* Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
* Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets
* Edward Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 27
* George Enescu – "Study" Symphony No. 1 in D minor
* Gabriel Fauré
* Allegro symphonique, for piano four-hands, Op. 68
* Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat major, for piano, Op. 70
* Theme and Variations, for piano, Op. 73
* Anatoly Lyadov
* Etude in F major, for piano, Op. 37
* Mazurka in F major, for piano, Op. 38
* Preludes (3), for piano, Op. 36
* Preludes (4), for piano, Op. 39
* Henrique Oswald – Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18
* Camille Saint-Saëns
* Fantasy No. 2 in D♭ major, for organ, Op. 101
* La Mort de Thaïs, Paraphrase de concert sur l'opéra de J. Massenet, for piano
* Souvenir d'Ismaïlia, for piano, Op. 100
* Richard Strauss
* Songs (3), for high voice and piano, Op. 29
* Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, for orchestra, Op. 28
* Alexander von Zemlinsky – Serenade (Suite), for violin and piano

## Opera

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* Isaac Albéniz – Henry Clifford
* Enrique Fernández Arbós – El Centro de la Tierra
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve, 10 December, in St. Petersburg.

## Musical theater

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* An Artist's Model London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances
* Dandy Dick Whittington London production
* The Shop Girl Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances[3]
* The Tyrolean London production

## Births

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* January 7 – Clara Haskil, pianist (died 1960)
* January 27 – Buddy De Sylva, songwriter (died 1950)
* February 7 – Irving Aaronson, jazz pianist and big band leader (died 1963)
* February 28 – Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
* March 4 – Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist (died 1978)[4]
* March 23 – Dane Rudhyar, composer (died 1985)
* March 31 – Lizzie Miles, singer (died 1963)
* April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer (died 1984)[5]
* April 3
* Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer (died 1968)[6]
* Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (died 1971)
* April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer (died 1976)[7]
* April 23 – Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
* April 29 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)[8]
* May 1 – Leo Sowerby, composer (died 1968)
* May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (died 1943)[9]
* May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor (died 1926)
* May 11 – William Grant Still, composer (died 1978)
* June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer (died 1946)
* June 21 – Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer (died 1992)[10]
* June 28 – Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer (died 1986)[11]
* July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist (died 1996)[12]
* July 5 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (died 1984)
* July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)[13]
* July 12
* Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (died 1982)[14]
* Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (died 1960)
* July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)[15]
* July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)[16]
* August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (died 1963)
* August 10 – Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer (died 1972)
* August 13 – Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer (died 1967)
* September 9 – Harry Tobias, US lyric writer (died 1994)
* September 16 – Karol Rathaus, Austrian (Ukrainian) composer (died 1954)
* September 22 – Herbert Janssen, German baritone (died 1965)
* October 11 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (died 1982)
* October 12 – Tubby Hall, jazz drummer (died 1945)
* October 17 – Doris Humphrey, dancer (died 1958)
* October 29 – Harry Ruby, songwriter (died 1974)
* November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
* November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (died 1963)
* November 28
* José Iturbi, pianist (died 1980)
* Jacobo Rubalcaba, Cuban musician and bandleader (died 1960)
* November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (died 1976)
* November 30 – Johann Nepomuk David, composer (died 1977)
* December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist (died 1967)
* December 16 – Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (died 1973)

## Deaths

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* January 10 – Benjamin Godard, composer (born 1849)
* January 22 – Edward Solomon, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1855) (typhoid)
* February 6 – Otto Mahler, composer (born 1873) (suicide)
* February 16 – Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter (born 1816)
* February 24 – Ignaz Lachner, conductor and composer (born 1807)
* March 16 – Richard Corney Grain, entertainer and songwriter (born 1844) (influenza)
* March 18 – Priscilla Horton, singer and actress (born 1818)
* April 28 – Jean Joseph Bott, violinist and composer (born 1826)
* May 21 – Franz von Suppé, composer (born 1819)
* June 15 – Richard Genée, librettist and composer (born 1823)
* June 28 – Ján Koehler, operatic baritone
* July 13 – John Tiplady Carrodus, violinist (born 1836)
* August 2 – Ernest Appy, US cellist and composer (born 1834)
* August 6 – George Frederick Root, US composer (born 1820)
* August 13 – Ludwig Abel, violinist, composer and conductor (born 1834)
* October 12 – Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer (born 1818)
* October 25 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (born 1819)
* November – Raffaele Mirate, operatic tenor (born 1815)
* November 1 – Aleksander Zarzycki, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1834)
* date unknown
* Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco (born 1817)
* Basilio Basili, operatic tenor and composer (born 1804)
* Angelique Magito, opera and concert singer (born 1809)
* Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label (born 1884)

## References

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1. ^ Philadelphia Orchestra (1955). Programs. p. 513.
2. ^ David Ewen (1963). Encyclopedia of the Opera. Hill and Wang. p. 211.
3. ^ Gerald Bordman (March 2001). American Musical Theater: A Chronicle. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 159\. ISBN 978-0-19-513074-4.
4. ^ Nesheim, Elef. "Bjarne Brustad". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
5. ^ Down Beat. Maher Publications. 1980. p. 22.
6. ^ Nicolas Slonimsky (1938). Music Since 1900. W.W. Norton, Incorporated. p. 446.
7. ^ Michael Gray (2000). Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan. Continuum. p. 38\. ISBN 978-0-8264-5150-7.
8. ^ Charles Reid (1968). Malcolm Sargent: A Biography. Hamilton. p. 12\. ISBN 978-0-241-91316-1.
9. ^ Caryl Brahms; Ned Sherrin (1984). Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers. R. Anderson Publications. p. 236\. ISBN 978-0-86360-013-5.
10. ^ The Record Collector. Record Collector. 1983. p. 5.
11. ^ Kazimierz Sikorski (in Polish)
12. ^ David Ewen (1987). American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. H.W. Wilson. p. 76\. ISBN 978-0-8242-0744-1.
13. ^ Mark Morris (1996). A Guide to 20th-century Composers. Methuen. p. 191\. ISBN 978-0-413-45601-4.
14. ^ The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art. 1962. p. 20.
15. ^ Steve Evans; Ron Middlebrook (June 2002). Cowboy Guitars. Centerstream Publications. p. 13\. ISBN 978-1-57424-102-0.
16. ^ Recorded Sound. British Institute of Recorded Sound. 1967. p. 309.

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