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1894 in music

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1894 in music

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Events in the year 1894 in music.

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Events

  • March 14 – Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen.
  • April 19 – Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" is staged in New York City.
  • September 22 – Opening of the Teatro Lirico Internazionale in Milan.
  • December 22 – Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris

Classical music

  • Anton Arensky – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
  • Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
    • Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33
    • Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34
    • 3 Claverstykker, Op.35
  • Johannes Brahms – Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
  • Claude Debussy
    • Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
    • Proses lyriques
  • Antonín Dvořák
    • Biblical Songs, Op.99
    • Humoresques (Dvořák) Op. 101 (B. 187) for piano
    • American Suite for piano (orchestrated a year later)
  • Robert Fuchs – Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
  • Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
  • Edvard Grieg
    • 5 Songs of Norway, Op.58
    • 5 Songs, Op.60
  • 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
  • August Klughardt – String Quintet, Op.62
  • Alexander Kopylov – String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
  • Theodor Leschetizky – 2 Pieces, Op.43
  • Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2
  • Carl Nielsen
    • Symphony No. 1 in G minor
    • Snefrid, CNW 4
    • Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
  • Josef Rheinberger – Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-flat major
  • Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – 2 Pieces, Op.38
  • Adolphe Samuel – Symphony No. 7 Opus 48
  • Alexander Scriabin – 12 Études, Op. 8
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op.53
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar
    • Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1, premiered March 17 in Stockholm
    • String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
  • Sigismond Stojowski – 2 Orientales, Op.10
  • 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
    • La Navarraise
    • Le portrait de Manon
    • Thaïs (opera) 16 March at the Opéra Garnier
  • Emile Pessard – Le muet
  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek – Donna Diana
  • Sergei Taneyev – Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)

[[Musical theater]]

  • A Gaiety Girl – Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
  • The Mine Foreman – Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien on January 5
  • The Passing Show – Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5
  • Rob Roy, premiered in Detroit on October 1; Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on October 29 and ran for 168 performances
  • The Shop Girl – London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
  • A Trip To Chinatown – London production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances

Births

  • January 3 – Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
  • January 31 – Isham Jones, American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
  • February 1 – James P. Johnson, American jazz pianist and composer.
  • February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
  • February 20 – Jimmy Yancey, American jazz pianist
  • April 3 – Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
  • April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
  • April 27 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
  • May 10 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
  • May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
  • June 1 – Percival Mackey, English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
  • June 4 – La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
  • June 10 – Punch Miller, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
  • July 10 – Jimmy McHugh, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
  • August 15 – Harry Akst, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
  • August 26 – Arthur Loesser, pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
  • September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
  • September 18 – Willard Robison, American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
  • September 25 – J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
  • September 26 – Vaughn De Leath, American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
  • December 31 – Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)

Deaths

  • January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
  • January 21 – Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
  • January 24 - Laura Schirmer Mapleson, American opera singer (b. 1862)
  • January 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830)
  • February 4
    • Louis Lewandowski, composer (b. 1821)
    • Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
  • February 11 – Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
  • February 12 – Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
  • February 18 – Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
  • March 21 – Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
  • April 12 – Ludwig Pfau, lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
  • April 13
    • Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
    • Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
  • June 5 – Marcelina Czartoryska, pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
  • June 9 – Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
  • June 23 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
  • July 17 – Leconte de Lisle, lyricist (born 1818)
  • July 26 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
  • September 13 – Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
  • September 21 – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
  • October 16 – Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
  • October 27 – Carl Ploug, Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
  • October 28 – Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
  • November 4 – Eugène Oudin, composer (b. 1858)
  • November 20 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)

Notes

References

  1. Sullivan, Steve. (2017-05-17). "Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings". Rowman & Littlefield.
  2. Sullivan, Steve. (2017-05-17). "Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings". Rowman & Littlefield.
  3. {{IMSLP. Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33
  4. {{IMSLP. Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34
  5. {{IMSLP. 3 Claverstykker, Op.35
  6. "Symphonist and opera composer".
  7. Dewilde, Jan. (2006). "Notes to Samuel Symphony 6". Musikproduktion Hoeflich.
  8. {{IMSLP. Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1
  9. Edition Silvertrust Online Notes for this Score
  10. "Le portrait de Manon (Massenet, Jules) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download".
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