1894 in music

See also: \n1893 in music,\nother events of 1894,\n1895 in music\nand the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

\n* March 14 - Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen\n* December 22 - Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris\n* Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut\n* George W. Johnson is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records

Published popular music

\n\n* "Airy, Fairy Lillian" w. Tony Raymond m. Maurice Levi \n* "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon \n* "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" w.m. Fred Gilbert \n* "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operatta Der Obersteiger\n* "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles \n* "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern \n* "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey \n* "Humoresque" m. Anton Dvorák \n* "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie \n* "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn \n* "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans \n* "I've Been Working On The Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)\n* "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora \n* "Little Kinkies" w.m. M. Tobias\n* "The Little Lost Child" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern \n* "Long Ago In Alcala" w. Frederick Edward Weatherley & Adrian Ross m. André Messager \n* "My Friend The Major" w.m. E. W. Rogers \n* "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack \n* "Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Harry Champion \n* "The Owls Serenade" w. Arthur J. Lamb, m. H.W. Petrie\n* "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray \n* "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton \n* "The Sidewalks Of New York" w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake\n* ""Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan\n* "Yale Society Two-Step" by C. VanBaar\n* "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney

Classical music

\n* Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Caucasian Sketches\n* Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 1 in G minor

Opera

\n* Hamish MacCunn - Jeanie Deans

Musical theater

\n* A Gaiety Girl - Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances\n* Der Obersteiger - Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien on January 5\n* The Passing Show - Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5 \n* The Shop Girl - London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on November 24 and ran for 546 performances\n* A Trip To Chinatown - London production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances

Births

\n* February 11 - Alfonso Leng\n* April 3 - Dooley Wilson\n* April 15 - Bessie Smith\n* April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky\n* May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born US composer, pianist and conducter\n* May 29 -Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer\n* June 4 - La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Quebecois singer (d. 1941)\n* June 10 - Punch Miller\n* July 10 - Jimmy McHugh, US composer and pianist\n* September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)

Deaths

\n* February 4 - Adolphe Sax\n* February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera\n* June 9 - Juventino Rosas\n* November 20 - Anton Rubinstein