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- November 20 - Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
's Symphony No. 1Symphony No. 1 (Mahler)The Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler was mainly composed between late 1887 and March 1888, though it incorporates music Mahler had composed for previous works. It was composed while Mahler was second conductor at the Leipzig Opera, Germany...
is premiered in BudapestBudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter... - Emile BerlinerEmile BerlinerEmile Berliner or Emil Berliner was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for developing the disc record gramophone...
markets first commercial gramophone recordGramophone recordA gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
s - Joseph KekukuJoseph Kekuku-Biography:Kekuku was born in Lāie, a village on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii. As a boy, he would experiment with guitar technique, sliding ordinary household objects across the strings to see what sounds could be produced. By the time he was an adult, he had developed a unique style of playing...
is credited with inventing the Hawaiian steel guitarSteel guitarSteel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...
Published popular music
- "Ask A Policeman" w. E. W. Rogers m. A. E. Duran Deau
- "Down Went McGinty" w.m. Joseph Flynn
- "Four Little Curly Headed Coons" by James W. Wheeler
- "Little Annie RooneyLittle Annie RooneyLittle Annie Rooney was a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero. King Features Syndicate launched the strip on January 10, 1927, not long after it was apparent that the Chicago Tribune Syndicate had scored a huge hit with Little Orphan Annie.Although the King...
(Is My Sweetheart)" w.m. Michael Nolan - "Oh, Promise MeOh Promise MeOh Promise Me is a song with music by Reginald De Koven and lyrics by Clement Scott. The song was written in 1887 and first published in 1889 as an art song. De Koven may have based the melody partly on an aria by Stanislao Gastaldon, "Musica Proibita". In 1890, De Koven wrote his most...
" w. Clement Scott m. Reginald de KovenReginald de KovenHenry Louis Reginald De Koven was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.-Biography:... - "Playmates" w.m. Harry DacreHarry DacreHarry Dacre was an English songwriter.Dacre had a hit in 1892 with the song "Daisy Bell" , made famous by Katie Lawrence, and then in 1899 with the song "I'll Be Your Sweetheart"....
- "Slide Kelly Slide" w.m. John W. Kelly
- "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" w. W. S. GilbertW. S. GilbertSir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
m. Arthur SullivanArthur SullivanSir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado... - "The ThundererThe Thunderer"The Thunderer" is one of John Philip Sousa's marches. It was written in 1889.The origin of the name is not officially known, though it is speculated that it gets its name from the "pyrotechnic [effects] of the drum and bugle in [the] score."...
" m. John Philip SousaJohn Philip SousaJohn Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J.... - "The Washington PostThe Washington PostThe Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
" m. John Philip SousaJohn Philip SousaJohn Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
Classical music
- Edward ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
- "Queen Mary's SongQueen Mary's Song”Queen Mary's Song” is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are from Lute Song by Tennyson.It was composed between 14 June and 1 July 1889, and dedicated to 'J. H. Meredith'....
" - Enrique GranadosEnrique GranadosEnrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
- Danzas españolas - Augusta HolmèsAugusta HolmèsAugusta Mary Anne Holmès was a French composer of Irish descent. At first she published under the pseudonym Hermann Zenta. In 1871, Holmès became a French citizen and added the accent to her last name...
- Ode triomphale
OperaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
- Francesco CileaFrancesco CileaFrancesco Cilea was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas L'arlesiana and Adriana Lecouvreur.-Biography:...
- Gina - Robert FuchsRobert FuchsRobert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime....
- Die Königsbraut - Miguel MarquésMiguel MarquésPedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García was a Spanish composer and violinist.-Life:He was the son of a chocolate maker...
- El plato del día (libretto by Andrés Ruesga, Manuel Lastra and Enrique Prieto, premiered in Madrid)
Musical theater
- The GondoliersThe GondoliersThe Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances , closing on 30 June 1891...
(Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book & Lyrics: W. S. GilbertW. S. GilbertSir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
) LondonWest End theatreWest End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
production opened at the Savoy TheatreSavoy TheatreThe Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,...
on December 7 and ran for 554 performances - Love's Trickery London production
Births
- February 7 - Claudia MuzioClaudia MuzioClaudia Muzio was an Italian operatic soprano, whose international career was among the most successful of the early 20th century.-Early years:...
, operatic soprano (d. 1936) - March 2 - Harald AgersnapHarald AgersnapHarald Søltoft Agersnap was a Danish composer, conductor, cellist, and pianist. He studied with Otto Malling and Carl Nielsen, as well as with his father, Hans Agersnap....
, Danish classical musician (d. 1982) - March 15 - Billy JonesBilly Jones (singer)William Reese Jones was a tenor who recorded during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program....
, singer (d. 1940) - March 16 - Elsie JanisElsie JanisElsie Janis was an American singer, songwriter, actress, and screenwriter. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "the sweetheart of the AEF" .-Early career:...
, musical comedy star and songwriter (d. 1956) - April 8 - Sir Adrian BoultAdrian BoultSir Adrian Cedric Boult CH was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was...
, conductor (d. 1983) - April 11 - Nick LaRoccaNick LaRoccaDominic James "Nick" LaRocca , was an early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band. He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time, "Tiger Rag"...
- jazz bandleader (d. 1961) - April 30 - Rudolph SimonsenRudolph SimonsenRudolph Hermann Simonsen was a Danish composer who studied under Otto Malling.In 1928, he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Symphony No. 2: Hellas....
- composer (d. 1947) - May 15 - Graziella ParetoGraziella ParetoGraziella Pareto was a Spanish soprano leggiero, one of the leading sopranos of the inter-war years. She is considered one of the great coloratura sopranos of the "Spanish School" of the early 20th century, alongside Maria Barrientos, Maria Galvany and Mercedes Capsir.-Life and career:Pareto was...
, operatic soprano (d. 1973) - May 20 - Felix ArndtFelix ArndtFelix Arndt was an American pianist and composer of popular music. His mother was the Countess Fevrier, related to Napoleon III....
, pianist & composer (d. 1918) - May 25 - Gilardo GilardiGilardo GilardiGilardo Gilardi was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires....
, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1962) - July 4 - Joe Young, US lyricist and singer (d. 1939)
- July 10 - Noble SissleNoble SissleNoble Sissle was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer and playwright.-Early life:...
, bandleader and singer (d. 1975) - August 10 - Cecil Armstrong GibbsCecil Armstrong GibbsCecil Armstrong Gibbs was an English composer. A monument on the north chancel wall of the church of St John the Baptist, Danbury, Essex states that "He lived, worked and is buried in Danbury".He studied with Edward Dent at Trinity College, Cambridge, and with Charles Wood and Ralph Vaughan Williams...
, composer (d. 1960) - September 10 - Vilém PetrželkaVilém PetrželkaVilém Petrželka was a prominent Czech composer and conductor.Petrželka was a pupil of Leoš Janáček, Vítězslav Novák and Karel Hoffmeister...
, conductor and composer (d. 1967) - September 26 - Frank CrumitFrank CrumitFrank Crumit was an American singer, composer. radio entertainer and vaudeville star. He shared his radio programs with his wife, Julia Sanderson, and the two were sometimes called "the ideal couple of the air."...
, singer (d. 1943) - October 3 - Manuel ManettaManuel ManettaManuel "Fess" Manetta was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. He was a fixture of the New Orleans jazz scene for much of the 20th century....
, jazz musician & teacher (d. 1969) - October 28 - Juliette BéliveauJuliette BéliveauJuliette Béliveau was a French Canadian actress and singer, who starred in various radio and television comedies and dramas, as well as in theatre productions...
, actress and singer (d. 1975) - December 11 - Ben BlackBen BlackBen Black was an English composer of popular song and an impresario.Born in Dudley, England, Black worked as music director in Paramount Pictures' cinemas across the US, before moving on to theatrical production in his own right...
, composer and impresario (d. 1950) - December 25 - Nathaniel ShilkretNathaniel ShilkretNathaniel Shilkret was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director born in New York City, New York to an Austrian immigrant family.-Early career:...
, composer and musician (d. 1982) - December 28 - Vaslav NijinskyVaslav NijinskyVaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, cited as the greatest male dancer of the 20th century. He grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations...
, Ballet dancer (d. 1950) - date unknown
- Nellie BriercliffeNellie BriercliffeNellie Briercliffe was an English singer and actress best known for her performances in the mezzo-soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company....
, singer and actress (d. 1966) - Michael ColemanMichael Coleman (musician)-Early years:Michael Coleman was born in Knockgrania, in the rural Killavil district, near Ballymote, County Sligo, Ireland. His father, James Coleman, was from Banada in County Roscommon, and a respected flute player...
, fiddler (d. 1945)
- Nellie Briercliffe
Deaths
- January 23 - Selina DolaroSelina DolaroSelina Dolaro was an English singer, actress, theatre manager and writer. During a career in operetta and other forms of musical theatre, she managed several of her own opera companies and raised four children as a single mother...
, actress and singer (b. 1849) (stroke) - January 31 - Joseph GunglJoseph GunglJoseph Gungl , was a Hungarian composer, bandmaster, and conductor.He was born in Zsámbék, Hungary. After working as a school-teacher in Buda, and learning the elements of music from the school-choirmaster, he became first oboist at Graz, and, at twenty-five, bandmaster of the 4th Regiment of...
, composer and conductor (b. 1810) - March 3 - Sydney SmithSydney Smith (composer)Sydney Smith , was a leading English pianist and composer in Victorian England. Sydney Smith grew up in a family of musicians. His father was the head of a music school and often gave concerts with his two sons, Sydney and his brother Boyton.Smith was born in Dorchester, Dorset...
, English composer and pianist (b. 1839) - March 13 - Felice VaresiFelice VaresiFelice Varesi was a French-born Italian baritone with an illustrious singing career that began in the 1830s and extended into the 1860s...
, operatic baritone (b. 1813) - April 6 - Frederick OuseleyFrederick OuseleySir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, 2nd Baronet was an English composer, organist, and musicologist.He was born in London, the son of Sir Gore Ouseley, and manifested an extraordinary precocity in music, composing an opera at the age of eight years. In 1844, having succeeded to the baronetcy, he...
, organist, composer and musicologist (b. 1825) - April 9 - Jean-Baptiste ArbanJean-Baptiste ArbanJoseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet...
, cornet virtuoso (b. 1825) - April 30 - Carl Rosa, opera impresario (b. 1842)
- May 30 - Silverio FranconettiSilverio FranconettiSilverio Franconetti, also known simply as Silverio was a singer and the leading figure of the period in flamenco history known as The Golden Age, which was marked by the creation and definition of most musical forms or palos, the increasing professionalization of flamenco artists, and the shift...
, flamenco singer (b. 1831) - July 7 - Giovanni BottesiniGiovanni BottesiniGiovanni Bottesini was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso.-Biography:Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist and composer, at a young age and had played timpani in Crema with the Teatro Sociale before...
, double bass player and composer (b. 1821) - October 3 - Karel MiryKarel MiryKarel Miry was a Belgian composer.He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch. He composed the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw the national anthem of Flanders, and for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics...
, Belgian composer (b. 1823) - October 10 - Adolf von HenseltAdolf von HenseltAdolf von Henselt was a German composer and pianist.-Life:Henselt was born at Schwabach, in Bavaria. At the age of three he began to learn the violin, and at five the piano under Frau von Fladt...
, pianist and composer (b. 1814) - November 24 - Frederic ClayFrederic ClayFrederic Emes Clay was an English composer known principally for his music written for the stage. Clay, a great friend of Arthur Sullivan's, wrote four comic operas with W. S...
, composer (b. 1838) (stroke) - November 25 - Alojzy Gonzaga Jazon Żółkowski, actor and singer (b. 1814)
- December 13 - Catherine ChislovaCatherine ChislovaCatherine Gavrilovna Chislova was a Russian ballerina. She was the mistress of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich; they had five children.- Life :...
, ballerina (b. 1846) - December 31 - Giuseppe ApolloniGiuseppe ApolloniGiuseppe Apolloni was an Italian composer born in Vicenza, Italy. He composed a total of 5 operas, only one of which, L'ebreo was successful. He died in Vicenza....
, composer (b. 1822) - date unknown
- Jovo IvaniševićJovo IvaniševicJovan Đurov Ivanišević was a Montenegrin composer from Donji Kraj near Cetinje, Montenegro. While young he showed exquisite talent for music, and is most famous for composing the contemporary anthem of Principality of Montenegro and Kingdom of Montenegro, Ubavoj nam Crnoj Gori...
, composer - Gustaw LewitaGustaw LewitaGustaw Lewita was a pianist from Płock, Poland. He attended the Vienna Conservatory and graduated with distinction, before heading to Paris. There he became a member of the orchestra of the Pas de Loup concerts. In 1882, he became a professor at the Warsaw Conservatory...
, pianist (b. 1855)
- Jovo Ivanišević