1898 in music

See also: \n1897 in music, \nother events of 1898, \n1899 in music and the \nlist of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Recorded popular music 4 Classical music 5 Opera 6 Musical theater 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

\n*Scott Joplin publishes "Swipsy Cakewalk"

Published popular music

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\n* "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers \n* "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton \n* "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Albert Pestalozza \n* "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld \n* "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes \n* "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy \n* "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Fortune Teller\n* "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan\n* "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan \n* "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall \n* "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall \n* "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg \n* "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart \n* "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris \n* "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr \n* "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt \n* "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer \n* "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald DeKoven\n* "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert \n* "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin \n* "Salome" m. William Lorraine \n* "She Is The Belle Of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker \n* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter \n* "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton \n* "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion

Recorded popular music

• "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
  - Syria Lamonte on Berliner Gramophone Records
  \n* "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
  \n* "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
  - John Terrell on Berliner
  \n* "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner
  \n* "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
  - George J. Gaskin on Edison Records
  \n* "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
  - James T. Powers on Berliner
  \n* "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner
  \n* "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert)
  - Jessie Bartlett Davis & W. H. MacDonald on Berliner
  \n* "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills)
  - Arthur Collins on Edison
  \n* "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner
  \n* "A Hot Time In The Old Town" (w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner
  - Len Spencer with banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
  - Roger Harding on Edison
  \n* "In The Gloaming" (w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison)
  - Roger Harding on Berliner
  \n* "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
  - Edison Male Quartette on Edison
  \n* "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison
  \n* "Killarney" (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe)
  - Arthur Gladstone on Berliner
  \n* "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. Giaocchino Rossini)
  - Alberto Del Campo on Berliner
  \n* "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lyman Molloy)
  - Annie Carter on Berliner
  \n* "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden)
  - Leo Dryden on Berliner Gramophone
  \n* "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. Dave Reed Jr)
  - Press Eldridge on Edison
  \n* "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney)
  - Marguerite Newton on Edison
  - Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on Columbia
  \n* "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
  - Diamond Four on Berliner
  - Edison Male Quartette onEdison
  \n* "Oh, Promise Me" (w. Clement Scott m. Reginald DeKoven)
  - Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner
  \n* "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
  - Diamond Four on Berliner
  \n* "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
  - Annie Carter on Berliner
  \n* "Orange Blossoms" (m. Arthur Pryor)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner
  \n* "The Palms" (m. Gabriel Fauré)
  - Diamond Four on Berliner
  \n* "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight)
  - William Hooley on Edison
  \n* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
  - Albert C. Campbell on Edison
  \n* "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
  - banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia
  \n* "Stars And Stripes Forever" (m. John Philip Sousa)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner
  \n* "Sweet And Low" (w. Alfred, Lord Tennyson m. Sir Joseph Barnby)
  - Ladies Brass Quartette of Boston Fadettes on Berliner
  \n* "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker)
  - Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner
  \n* "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent)
  - Steve Porter on Berliner
  \n* "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. R. M. Stults)
  - Diamond Four on Berliner
  - George J. Gaskin onEdison
  \n* "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
  - James Norrie on Berliner Gramophone
  - Annie Carter on Berliner
  \n* "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. James Thornton)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Edison
  \n* "The Thunderer" (m. John Philip Sousa)
  - Sousa's Band on Berliner
  \n* "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison
  \n* "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert)
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison
  \n* "Yankee Doodle" (trad)
  - Frank C. Stanley on Edison
  

Classical music

\n*Alexander Glazunov - Ruses d'Amour (ballet)

Opera

\n*Pietro Mascagni - Iris (opera)

Musical theater

\n*The Bride Elect Broadway production\n* The Fortune Teller Toronto production\n* The Fortune Teller London production\n* A Greek Slave London production\n* Hurly-Burly Broadway production\n* A Runaway Girl London production\n* A Runaway Girl Broadway production\n* The Skirt Dancer London production\n* Véronique Paris production

Births

\n*February 20 - Jimmy Yancey, US jazz pianist\n*April 3 - George Jessel, US actor, singer & songwriter\n*July 4 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer\n*July 15 - Noel Gay, English songwriter\n*September 26 - George Gershwin\n*December 24 - Baby Dodds\n*Zutty Singleton

Deaths

\n*August 17 - Karl Zeller, Austrian composer