1890 in music

none December 2017 1890 1890 music film Events in the year 1890 in music. Specific locations 1890 in Norwegian music Events January 15 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) premieres at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. January–June period – George W. Johnson becomes the first African American to record phonograph cylinders, in New York. June 21 – Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of his symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration at the Eisenach Festival. September 3 – Carl Nielsen makes the first entry in his diary. September 9 – Edward Elgar's concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. December 6 – 7 – First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera Les Troyens takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death. Charles-Marie Widor succeeds César Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire. The New York Phonograph Company opens the first recording studio. thumbnail|250px|right|1890 sheet music cover Published popular music "The Commodore Song" "I was Dreaming" – August Junckerhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an7877393 I was dreaming [music]http://malcolm.nfsa.gov.au/olcmedia/audio/00009108.mp3 Archived copy 2017-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20180928031957/http://malcolm.nfsa.gov.au/olcmedia/audio/00009108.mp3 2018-09-28 dead "Little Pig Went To Market" by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker "Maggie Murphy's Home" w. Edward Harrigan m. David Braham "Passing By" w. Robert Herrick m. Edward C. Purcell "Star of the East" w. George Cooper m. Amanda Kennedy "Throw Him Down McCloskey" w.m. John W. Kelly "You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber Recorded popular music "Banjo Duet" – Bohee Minstrelshttps://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/about-this-program/donations/lost-recording-list/ Lost Recording List – National Recording Preservation Board The Library of Congress 2017-10-09 en The Charge of the Light Brigade (bugle charge) – Trumpeter Martin Landfriedhttps://archive.org/details/EDIS-SWDPC-01-04 Trumpeter Landfrey's Charge of the Light Brigade 2004-06-22 Internet Archive 2024-05-29 "Down upon the Suwannee River" – Professor Baton's Brass and String Military Bandhttp://www.phonozoic.net/following-record.pdf Making Sense of Phonographic Performance, 1877–1908 Feaster Patrick April 2007 "Everybody's Darling" – Duffy and Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band "La Media Noche" – United States Marine Bandhttp://www.tinfoil.com/vo-bwna.htm The Cylinder Music Shop at Tinfoil.com – 1888–1894, The North American Phonograph Company Era www.tinfoil.com 2017-10-14 "Semper Fidelis" – United States Marine Band "The Song That Reached My Heart" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Bandhttps://archive.org/stream/FirstBookOfPhonographRecords/First%20Book%20of%20Phonograph%20Records#page/n193/mode/2up The First Book Of Phonograph Records archive.org 4 April 2017 2017-10-14 "The Thunderer" – United States Marine Band "The Washington Post" – United States Marine Band "The Whistling Coon" – George W. Johnson Classical music Ferruccio Busoni – Violin Sonata No. 1, Opus 29 Ernest Chausson – Chansons de Shakespeare Antonín Dvořák – Requiem Symphony No. 8 Edward Elgar – Froissart Alexander Glazunov – Symphony No. 3, Opus 33 Armas Järnefelt – Ouverture Lyrique Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 2 in F minor Hans Pfitzner – Sonata in F-sharp minor for cello and piano Alexander Scriabin – Romance for Horn and Piano Jean Sibelius – Piano Quintet in G minor Johann Strauss II – Rathausball-Tänze Sergei Taneyev – String Quartet No. 1 Opus 4 William Robert Knox – Gladys Gavotte Opera Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni Prince Igor begun by Alexander Borodin, completed by Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Thorgrim by Frederic H. Cowen with libretto by Joseph BennettThorgrim (Cowen, Frederic Hymen) Thorgrim Musical theater The Gondoliers     Broadway production Love And Law     Broadway production Robin Hood     Chicago production The Sentry     London production Reilly And The 400 Broadway production Births February 25 – Myra Hess, pianist (d. 1965) February 27 – Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist (d. 1933) March 12 – Evert Taube, writer, artist, composer and singer (d. 1976) March 17 – Harold Morris, pianist and composer (d. 1964) March 20 Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor (d. 1957) Lauritz Melchior, operatic tenor (d. 1973) March 28 – Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967) April 17 – Gussie Mueller, jazz clarinetist (d. 1965) May 21 – Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of "Irene" and "Rio Rita" (d. 1965) June 6 – Ted Lewis, bandleader (d. 1971) June 26 – Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star (d. 1929) July 18 – Victor Dolidze, Soviet-Georgian composer (d. 1933) August 12 – Lillian Evanti, operatic soprano (d. 1967) August 15 – Jacques Ibert, composer (d. 1962) August 28 – Ivor Gurney, poet and composer (d. 1937) September 9 – Francis Bousquet, French composer of classical music (d. 1942) September 15 – Frank Martin, composer (d. 1974) September 26 – Papanasam Sivan, Carnatic music composer (d. 1973) October 1 – Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (d. 1982) October 8 – Samuel Hoffenstein, screenwriter and composer (d. 1947) October 13 – Gösta Nystroem, composer (d. 1966) October 20 – Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941) November 10 – Mischa Bakaleinikoff, musical director (d. 1960) December 8 – Bohuslav Martinů, classical composer (d. 1959) Deaths January 8 – Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (b. 1810) January 16 – Arthur Byron, operatic tenor (b. 1846)Byron, Arthur (Edward George) Victorian Vocalists Kurt Ganzl 2017 93-98 9781351593663 Taylor & Francis January 17 – Salomon Sulzer, cantor and composer (b. 1804) January 20 – Franz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1803) February 14 – Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, cellist and music teacher (b. 1848) March 13 – Henry Wylde, conductor, composer, music teacher and critic (b. 1822) April 16 – John Barnett, composer and music writer (b. 1802) May 6 – Hubert Léonard, violinist (b. 1819) May 28 – Viktor Nessler, composer (b. 1841) June 3 – Oskar Kolberg, folklorist and composer (b. 1814) June 30 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (b. 1819) July 22 – Caterina Canzi, opera singer (b. 1805) October 7 – John Hill Hewitt, songwriter (b. 1801) October 17 – Prosper Sainton, violinist (b. 1813) October 28 – Alexander John Ellis, music theorist (b. 1814) November 8 – César Franck, composer (b. 1822) December 21 – Niels Gade, composer (b. 1817) date unknown – Ostap Veresai, minstrel and kobzar (b. 1803) References Category:1890s in music Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year