1895 in music

See also: \n1894 in music,\nother events of 1895,\n1896 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* December 13 - first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in Berlin

Published popular music

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• "America The Beautiful"     w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward\n* "The Band Played On"     w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward\n* "The Belle Of Avenoo A"     w.m. Safford Waters\n* "Down In Poverty Row"     w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan\n* "A Dream"     w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett\n* "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"     w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes\n* "It's A Great Big Shame"     w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn\n* "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"     w.m. Paul Dresser\n* "King Cotton March"     m. John Philip Sousa\n* "My Angeline"     w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert\n* "My Best Girl's A New Yorker"     w.m. John Stromberg\n* "Put Me Off At Buffalo"     w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon\n* "Rastus On Parade"     w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills\n* "She Was One Of The Early Birds"     w.m. T. W. Connor\n* "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton\n* "The Soldiers Of The Queen"     w.m. Leslie Stuart\n* "The Streets Of Cairo"     w.m. James Thornton\n* "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley"     w. Walter H. Ford m. John W. Bratton

Classical music

\n*Antonin Dvorak - Cello Concerto in B minor

Opera

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Musical theater

• An Artist's Model     London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances\n* Dandy Dick Whittington     London production\n* The Shop Girl     Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances\n* The Tyrolean     London production

Births

\n*January 27 - Buddy De Sylva\n*February 7 - Irving Aaronson\n*March 31 - Lizzy Miles\n*April 1 - Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984) \n*April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer \n*April 23 - Jimmie Noone\n*May 2 - Lorenz Hart, US lyricist\n*June 16 - Lew Pollack, US composer\n*July 4 - Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist\n*July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982) \n*July 25 - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (d. 1977)\n*August 10 - Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer \n*November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer \n*November 29 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (d. 1976) \n*December 2 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967)

Deaths

\n*May 21 - Franz von Suppé, composer \n*August 6 - George Frederick Root, US composer\n*October 25 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor