1897 in music

See also: \n1896 in music,\nother events of 1897,\n1898 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* The Cakewalk matures into Ragtime music\n* John Philip Sousa's band makes phonograph recordings of Cakewalks and early Ragtime\n* early publications by Scott Joplin

Published popular music

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\n* "Asleep In The Deep"     w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie\n* "At A Georgia Camp Meeting"     w.m. Kerry Mills \n* "Badinage"     m. Victor Herbert \n* "Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere"     w. Mrs Jessie Brown Pounds m. John S. Fearis \n* "Break The News To Mother"     w.m. Charles K. Harris \n* "Danny Deever"     w. Rudyard Kipling m. Walter Damrosch \n* "Harlem Rag"     m. Tom Turpin \n* "Louisiana Rag" m. Theodore H. Northrup\n* "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away"     w.m. Paul Dresser \n* "Our Lodger's Such A Nice Young Man"     w.m. Fred Murray & Laurence Barclay \n* "Roustabout Rag"     m. Paul Sarebresole \n* "The Shuffling Coon" by J. R. Todd \n* "Song Of India"     m. Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov \n* "Stars And Stripes Forever"     m. John Philip Sousa \n* "Syncopated Sandy" by Wayburn & Whiting\n* "Take Back Your Gold"     w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld \n* "There's A Little Star Shining For You"     w.m. James Thornton \n* "Ye Boston Tea Party" by Arthur Pryor

Classical music

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice m. Paul Dukas\n*Symphony No. 2- Alexander Zemlinsky

Opera

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Musical theater

• The Charlatan     Broadway production\n* The Circus Girl     Broadway production\n* The Glad Hand     Broadway production\n* Pousse Café     Broadway production

Births

\n*January 22 - Leslie Sarony, English singer, comedian and songwriter\n* April 19 - Vivienne Segal, US actress and singer\n*May 2 - J. Fred Coots - US composer\n* May 14 - Sidney Bechet \n* July 11 - Blind Lemon Jefferson\n*July 11 - Johnny Marvin, US singer & songwriter\n* September 8 - Jimmie Rodgers\n* November 2 - Dennis King, British singer and actor\n* Aileen Stanley

Deaths

\n* April 3 - Johannes Brahms