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Events in the year 1895 in music.

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• 1895 in Norwegian music

Events

• March 4 – Gustav Mahler conducts the première 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

• "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

• "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

• 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

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

Musical theater

• 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

• 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

• 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

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.