1895 in music
Events in the year 1895 in music.
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Specific locations
    
    
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
    
- "Girl Wanted" 
– Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records - "The Band Played On" 
– Dan W. Quinn, Columbia Records - "The Sidewalks of New York" 
– Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records 
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)
 - March 23 – Dane Rudhyar, composer (died 1985)
 - March 31 – Lizzie Miles, singer (died 1963)
 - April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer (died 1984)[4]
 - April 3
- Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer (died 1968)[5]
 - Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (died 1971)
 
 - April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer (died 1976)[6]
 - April 23 – Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
 - April 29 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)[7]
 - May 1 – Leo Sowerby, composer (died 1968)
 - May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (died 1943)[8]
 - May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor (died 1926)
 - May 11 – William Grant Still, composer (died 1978)
 - June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress (died 1952)
 - June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer (died 1946)
 - June 21 – Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer (died 1992)[9]
 - July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist (died 1996)[10]
 - July 5 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (died 1984)
 - July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)[11]
 - July 12 
- Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (died 1982)[12]
 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (died 1960)
 
 - July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)[13]
 - July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)[14]
 - 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)
 - September 26 – George Raft, Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer
 - 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 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
    
- Philadelphia Orchestra (1955). Programs. p. 513.
 - David Ewen (1963). Encyclopedia of the Opera. Hill and Wang. p. 211.
 - Gerald Bordman (March 2001). American Musical Theater: A Chronicle. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-19-513074-4.
 - Down Beat. Maher Publications. 1980. p. 22.
 - Nicolas Slonimsky (1938). Music Since 1900. W.W. Norton, Incorporated. p. 446.
 - Michael Gray (2000). Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan. Continuum. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8264-5150-7.
 - Charles Reid (1968). Malcolm Sargent: A Biography. Hamilton. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-241-91316-1.
 - 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.
 - The Record Collector. Record Collector. 1983. p. 5.
 - David Ewen (1987). American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. H.W. Wilson. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8242-0744-1.
 - Mark Morris (1996). A Guide to 20th-century Composers. Methuen. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-413-45601-4.
 - The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art. 1962. p. 20.
 - Steve Evans; Ron Middlebrook (June 2002). Cowboy Guitars. Centerstream Publications. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-57424-102-0.
 - Recorded Sound. British Institute of Recorded Sound. 1967. p. 309.
 
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