Editing 1896 in music (section)

== Events ==
*[[March 18]] – Danish composer [[Carl Nielsen]] conducts a performance of his [[Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen)|First Symphony]] in Dresden; the event marks the beginning of his international success.<ref>[http://carlnielsen.dk/pages/biography/symphonist-and-opera-composer.php Carl Nielsen Society]. Accessed 4 August 2013</ref>
*[[March 19]] – [[Leo Stern]] is soloist in the première of [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák's]] [[Cello Concerto (Dvořák)|Cello Concerto]], in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, at the [[Queen's Hall]] in London.
*[[April 13]] – [[Jean Sibelius]] conducts the world première of his ''[[Lemminkäinen Suite]]'' in [[Helsinki]].
*[[December 27]] – Formal première of [[Ernest Chausson]]'s ''[[Poème (Chausson)|Poème]]'' for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, with [[Eugène Ysaÿe]] as soloist, at [[Nancy, France]].
*[[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]] is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
*[[Gabriel Fauré]] takes over from [[Théodore Dubois]] as organist of the church of [[La Madeleine, Paris]].
*In Moscow, Mariya Kerzina and her husband Arkadiy Kerzin form the Circle of Russian Music Lovers, a performance society.