10 June:PUNCH MILLER = American jazz trumpeter = [died: 1971]
10 July:JIMMY MCHUGH = American composer and pianist = [died: 1969]
25 July:YVONNE PRINTEMPS = French singer and actress = [died: 1977]
15 August:HARRY AKST = American composer and pianist = [died: 1963]
3 September:MARIE DUBAS = French music-hall singer = [died: 1972]
18 September:WILLARD ROBISON = American songwriter and bandleader = [died: 1968]
26 September:VAUGHN DE LEATH = American singer and radio pioneer = [died: 1943]
31 December:ERNEST JOHN MOERAN = British composer = [died: 1950]
Timeline of Musical Events
14 March:JOHAN SVENDSEN conducts the world premiere of CARL NIELSEN'sSymphony No. 1 in Copenhagen
22 December:CLAUDE DEBUSSY'sPrélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris
Undated:
ENRICO CARUSO makes his operatic debut
GEORGE W. JOHNSON is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records
The National College of Music, London, was formed by the Moss Family. The college still exists today as an examination board for music and drama.
GEORGE H. THOMAS develops the first illustrated song to promote The Little Lost Child, which goes on to sell more than two million copies of its sheet music nationwide.
Published Popular Music
"Airy, Fairy Lillian" = lyrics by TONY RAYMOND; music by MAURICE LEVI
"And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" = lyrics by MONROE H. ROSENFELD; music by FELIX McGLENNON
"At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" = lyrics & music by FRED GILBERT
"Don't Be Cross" (from the operetta Der Obersteiger) = by KARL ZELLER
"Forgotten" = lyrics by FLORA WULSCHNER; music by EUGENE COWLES
"His Last Thoughts Were Of You" = lyrics by EDWARD B. MARKS; music by JOSEPH W. STERN
"The Honeymoon" = music by GEORGE ROSEY
"Humoresque" = music by ANTONÍN DVORÁK
"I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" = lyrics by PHILIP WINGATE; music by HENRY W. PETRIE
"If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" = lyrics by EDGAR BATEMAN; music by GEORGE LE BRUNN
"I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" = lyrics & music by GEORGE EVANS
"I've Been Working On The Railroad" = lyrics & music by (trad) (first copyright 1894)
"Kathleen" = lyrics & music by HELENE MORA
"Little Kinkies" = lyrics & music by M. TOBIAS
"The Little Lost Child" = lyrics by EDWARD B. MARKS; music by JOSEPH W. STERN
"Long Ago In Alcala" = lyrics by FREDERICK EDWARD WEATHERLEY & ADRIAN ROSS; music by ANDRÉ MESSAGER
"My Friend The Major" = lyrics & music by E. W. ROGERS
"My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by ANDREW MACK
"Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" = lyrics by FRED W. LEIGH; music by HARRY CHAMPION
"The Owls Serenade" = lyrics by ARTHUR J. LAMB; music by H.W. PETRIE
"She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM B. GRAY
"She May Have Seen Better Days" = lyrics & music by JAMES THORNTON
"The Sidewalks of New York" = lyrics & music by CHARLES B. LAWLOR & JAMES W. BLAKE
"Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" = by GEORGE M. COHAN
"Yale Society Two-Step" = by C. VANBAAR
"You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" = by BEN HARNEY
Recorded Popular Music
"And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back"
recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner Records
"My Pearl is a Bowery Girl"
recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner Records
Classical Music
ANTON ARENSKY
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
ROBERT FUCHS
Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
ALEXANDER GRETCHANINOV
String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
VICTOR HERBERT
Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
MIKHAIL IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
Caucasian Sketches
JOSEPH JONGEN
Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, op. 3
ALEXANDER KOPYLOV
String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
CARL NIELSEN
Symphony No. 1 in G minor; Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
JOSEF RHEINBERGER
Sonata for Horn and Piano in E flat major
ADOLPHE SAMUEL
Symphony No. 7 Opus 48
WILHELM STENHAMMAR
String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
LOUIS VIERNE
String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)
Opera
GRANVILLE BANTOCK
The Pearl of Iran
JULIUS BECHGAARD
Frau Inge
HERMAN BEMBERG
Cleopatra
FREDERICK DELIUS
The Magic Fountain
CHARLES-ÉDOUARD LEFEBVRE
Djelma
premiered on May 25 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris
HAMISH MacCUNN
Jeanie Deans
JULES MASSENET
Thaïs (opera)
EMILE PESSARD
Le muet
SERGEI TANEYEV
Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)
Musical Theatre
Opening: 5 January 1894 @ the Theater an der Wien, Vienna
DER OBERSTEIGER [Austrian production]
(Operetta)
Music by: Carl Zeller; Libretto by: Ludwig Held and Moritz West
Closing: date unknown
Opening: 12 May 1894 @ Casino Theatre, New York, NY
THE PASSING SHOW [Original "Broadway" production]
(Musical, Extravaganza, Revue)
Music by: Ludwig Englander; Book by: Sydney Rosenfeld; Lyrics by: Sydney Rosenfeld
Closing: November 1894 Performance Count: 145
Opening: 14 May 1894 @ Broadway Theatre, New York, NY