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1898 in music

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1898 in music

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Events in the year 1898 in music.

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Events

  • Otilie Dvořáková, daughter of Antonín Dvořák, marries her father's pupil, composer Josef Suk.
  • Dame Marie Tempest marries the actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, grandson of the Duke of Richmond.

Classical music

  • Ernest Chausson – String Quartet (completed posthumously)
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    • Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op.30
    • Ballade, Op.33 (premiered September 12 in Gloucester)
    • African Suite for piano, Op.35
  • Edward Elgar – Caractacus
  • George Enescu
    • Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4
    • Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major, for piano, Op. 5
    • Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
  • Gabriel Fauré
    • Fantaisie, Op. 79
    • Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
  • Alexander Glazunov – Ruses d'Amour (ballet)
  • Paul Juon – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
  • Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
  • Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
  • Henrique Oswald
    • Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21
    • Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Barcarolle in F major
  • Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major

[[Opera]]

  • Francisco Braga – Jupyra
  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The Gitanos
  • Umberto Giordano – Fedora
  • Pietro Mascagni – Iris
  • Emile Pessard – La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    • Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
    • Sadko, premiered January 7 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow.

[[Musical theater]]

  • The Belle of New York London production
  • The Bride Elect Broadway production
  • The Fortune Teller Toronto and London productions
  • A Greek Slave London production
  • Hurly-Burly Broadway production
  • A Runaway Girl London and Broadway productions
  • The Skirt Dancer London production
  • Véronique (operetta) (André Messager) – Paris production

Births

  • January 7 – Al Bowlly, big band singer
  • January 9 – Gracie Fields, singer and actress
  • January 28 – Vittorio Rieti, composer
  • February 3 – Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
  • February 7 – Dock Boggs, banjo player
  • February 12 – Roy Harris, composer
  • February 15 – Totò, actor and composer
  • February 28 – Molly Picon, Broadway star
  • March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
  • April 3 – George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
  • April 9 – Paul Robeson, singer
  • May 14 – Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
  • May 15 – Arletty, actress and singer
  • May 26 – Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)
  • May 28 – Andy Kirk, jazz musician
  • June 6 – Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
  • June 29 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
  • July 4 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
  • July 6 – Hanns Eisler, composer
  • July 15 – Noel Gay, English songwriter
  • August 2 – Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
  • August 15 – Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
  • August 24 – Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
  • September 1
    • Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancer
    • Violet Carson, actress, singer and pianist
  • September 26 – George Gershwin, US composer
  • September 27 – Vincent Youmans, US composer
  • October 7 – Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
  • October 8 – Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
  • October 18 – Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt Weill
  • November 1 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer
  • December 3 (n.s.) – Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and NKVD agent)
  • December 5 – Grace Moore, operatic soprano
  • December 14 – Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
  • December 24 – Baby Dodds, jazz drummer

Deaths

  • January 7 – Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
  • January 8 – Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
  • January 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
  • February 15 – Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)
  • March 11 – Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
  • March 15 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
  • March 28 – Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
  • April 21 – Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
  • May 15 – Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
  • May 16 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
  • August 17 – Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
  • August 21 – Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)
  • September 9 – William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
  • September 11 – Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
  • November 7 – Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
  • December 13 – George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
  • December 29 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74

References

References

  1. (28 October 2005). "Christian Sinding Page".
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