Editing 1894 in music

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Events in the year '''1894 in music'''.

==Specific locations==
*[[1894 in Norwegian music]]

== Events ==
* [[March 14]] – [[Johan Svendsen]] conducts the world premiere of [[Carl Nielsen]]'s [[Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen)|Symphony No. 1]] in [[Copenhagen]].
* [[April 19]] – [[Jules Massenet]]'s opera "[[Werther]]" is staged in [[New York City]].
* [[September 22]] – Opening of the [[Teatro Lirico (Milan)|Teatro Lirico Internazionale]] in Milan.
* [[December 22]] – [[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune]]'' is premiered in Paris

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

== Recorded popular music ==
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 |description  = 1894 [[Edison Phonograph Company]] brown [[wax cylinder]] recording of "[[Daisy Bell]]", composed by [[Harry Dacre]].
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* "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back" – [[Dan W. Quinn]] ([[Berliner Records]])
* "[[Daisy Bell]]" – [[Edward M. Favor]] ([[Edison Phonograph Company|Edison Records]]) 
* "Keep Movin'" – Standard Quartette ([[Columbia Records]])<ref name="popular_song_recordings">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQglDwAAQBAJ&q=vess+ossman+1894&pg=PA1|title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings|last=Sullivan|first=Steve|date=2017-05-17|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442254497|language=en}}</ref> 
* "[[The Liberty Bell (march)]]" – [[United States Marine Band]] ([[Columbia Records]])<ref name="popular_song_recordings" /> 
* ”Marc Anthony's Curse” - David C. Bangs ([[Berliner Records]]) 
* "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl"  – [[Dan W. Quinn]] ([[Berliner Records]])
* "The Black Knights Templar" – [[George J. Gaskin]] ([[Berliner Records]])
* ”The Sword of Bunker Hill” – Samuel Ross ([[Berliner Records]])
* ”The Village Blacksmith” – David C. Bangs ([[Berliner Records]])
* "[[Yankee Doodle]]" – [[Vess Ossman]] ([[Edison Records]])<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQglDwAAQBAJ&q=vess+ossman+1893&pg=PA1|title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings|last=Sullivan|first=Steve|date=2017-05-17|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9781442254497|language=en}}</ref>

== Classical music ==
* [[Anton Arensky]] – [[Piano Trio No. 1 (Arensky)|Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor]], Op. 32
* [[Agathe Backer Grøndahl|Agathe Backer-Grøndahl]] 
**''Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse'', Op.33<ref>{{IMSLP|work=Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33|cname=Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33}}</ref>
**''Norwegian Folk Songs'', Op.34<ref>{{IMSLP|work=Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34|cname=Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34}}</ref>
**''3 Claverstykker'', Op.35<ref>{{IMSLP|work=3 Claverstykker, Op.35|cname=3 Claverstykker, Op.35}}</ref>
* [[Johannes Brahms]] – [[Clarinet Sonatas (Brahms)|Two Clarinet Sonatas]], Op. 120
* [[Claude Debussy]] 
** [[Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune]]
** Proses lyriques
* [[Antonín Dvořák]]
** Biblical Songs, Op.99
** [[Humoresques (Dvořák)]] Op. 101 (B. 187) for piano
** [[American Suite]] for piano (orchestrated a year later)
* [[Robert Fuchs (composer)|Robert Fuchs]] – Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
* [[Alexander Gretchaninov]] – String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
* [[Edvard Grieg]] 
** 5 Songs of Norway, Op.58
** 5 Songs, Op.60
* [[Victor Herbert]] – Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
* [[Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov]] – ''Caucasian Sketches''
* [[Joseph Jongen]] – Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, op. 3
* [[August Klughardt]] – String Quintet, Op.62
* [[Alexander Kopylov]] – String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23 <!-- pub 1894 -->
* [[Theodor Leschetizky]] – 2 Pieces, Op.43
* [[Gustav Mahler]] – [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]]
* [[Carl Nielsen]]
** [[Symphony No. 1 (Nielsen)|Symphony No. 1 in G minor]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.carlnielsen.dk/gb/symfoniker-og-operakomponist/|title=Symphonist and opera composer|website=Carl Nielsen Society|access-date=17 February 2025}}</ref>
** Snefrid, CNW 4
** Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
* [[Josef Rheinberger]] – Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-flat major
* [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov]] – 2 Pieces, Op.38
* [[Adolphe Samuel]] – Symphony No. 7 Opus 48<ref>{{cite web|year=2006 |last=Dewilde |first=Jan |translator=Schrooten, Marjan |title=Notes to Samuel Symphony 6 |publisher=Musikproduktion Hoeflich |url=http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/S-Z/samuel_sym6.html |accessdate=2009-01-19 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923090450/http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/S-Z/samuel_sym6.html |archivedate=2006-09-23 }}</ref>
* [[Alexander Scriabin]] – 12 Études, Op. 8
* [[Charles Villiers Stanford]] – 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op.53
* [[Wilhelm Stenhammar]] 
** Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1, premiered March 17 in [[Stockholm]]<ref>{{IMSLP|work=Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1|cname=Piano Concerto No.1}}</ref>
** String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2<ref>Edition Silvertrust Online Notes for this Score</ref>
* [[Zygmunt Stojowski|Sigismond Stojowski]] – 2 Orientales, Op.10
* [[Louis Vierne]] – String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)

== [[Opera]] ==
* [[Granville Bantock]] – ''The Pearl of Iran''
* [[Julius Bechgaard]] – ''Frau Inge''
* [[Herman Bemberg]] – ''Cleopatra''
* [[Frederick Delius]] – ''The Magic Fountain''
* [[Charles-Édouard Lefebvre]] – ''Djelma'' premiered on May 25 at the [[Palais Garnier|Théâtre de l'Opéra]] in Paris
* [[Hamish MacCunn]] – ''Jeanie Deans''
* [[Jules Massenet]] 
**''[[La Navarraise]]''
**''[[Le portrait de Manon]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://imslp.org/wiki/Le_portrait_de_Manon_(Massenet,_Jules)|title=Le portrait de Manon (Massenet, Jules) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download|website=imslp.org|access-date=2019-08-29}}</ref>
**''[[Thaïs (opera)]]'' 16 March at the [[Palais Garnier|Opéra Garnier]]
* [[Emile Pessard]] – ''Le muet''
* [[Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek]] – ''[[Donna Diana]]''
* [[Sergei Taneyev]] – ''Oresteia'' (completed 1894, premiered 1895)

== [[Musical theater]] ==
* ''[[A Gaiety Girl]]'' – [[Broadway production]] opened at [[Daly's Theatre]] on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
* ''[[The Mine Foreman (operetta)|The Mine Foreman]]'' – Austrian production opened at the [[Theater an der Wien]] on January 5
* ''[[The Passing Show]]'' – [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production opened at the [[Casino Theatre (New York, New York)|Casino Theatre]] on May 5
* ''[[Rob Roy (operetta)|Rob Roy]]'', premiered in Detroit on October 1; Broadway production opened at the [[Herald Square Theatre]] on October 29 and ran for 168 performances
* ''[[The Shop Girl]]'' – [[West End theatre|London production]] opened at the [[Gaiety Theatre, London|Gaiety Theatre]] on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
* ''[[A Trip To Chinatown]]'' – [[West End theatre|London]] production opened at [[Toole's Theatre]] on September 29 and ran for 125 performances

== Births ==
* [[January 3]] – [[Benito Canónico]], Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
* [[January 31]] – [[Isham Jones]], American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
* [[February 1]] – [[James P. Johnson]], American jazz pianist and composer. 
* [[February 11]] – [[Alfonso Leng]], Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
* [[February 20]] – [[Jimmy Yancey]], American jazz pianist
* [[April 3]] – [[Dooley Wilson]], African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
* [[April 15]] – [[Bessie Smith]], American blues singer (d. 1937)
* [[April 27]] – [[Nicolas Slonimsky]], Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
* [[May 10]] – [[Dimitri Tiomkin]], Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
* [[May 29]] – [[Beatrice Lillie]], Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
* [[June 1]] – [[Percival Mackey]], English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
* [[June 4]] – [[La Bolduc]] (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
* [[June 10]] – [[Punch Miller]], American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
* [[July 10]] – [[Jimmy McHugh]], American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
* [[August 15]] – [[Harry Akst]], American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
* [[August 26]] – [[Arthur Loesser]], pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
* [[September 3]] – [[Marie Dubas]], French music-hall singer  (d. 1972)
* [[September 18]] – [[Willard Robison]], American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
* [[September 25]] – [[J. Mayo Williams]], African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
* [[September 26]] – [[Vaughn De Leath]], American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
* [[December 31]] – [[Ernest John Moeran]], British composer (d. 1950)

== Deaths ==
* [[January 13]] – [[Nadezhda von Meck]], patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
* [[January 21]] – [[Guillaume Lekeu]], composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
* [[January 24]] - [[Laura Schirmer Mapleson]], American opera singer (b. 1862)
* [[January 30]] – [[Giovanni Masutto]], Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830) 
* [[February 4]]
** <!--February 4-->[[Louis Lewandowski]], composer (b. 1821)
** <!--February 4-->[[Adolphe Sax]], Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
* [[February 11]] – [[Emilio Arrieta]], composer (b. 1823)
* [[February 12]] – [[Hans von Bülow]], pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
* [[February 18]] – [[Camillo Sivori]], violinist and composer (b. 1815)
* [[March 21]] – [[Jakob Rosenhain]], pianist and composer (b. 1813)
* [[April 12]] – [[Ludwig Pfau]], lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
* [[April 13]]
** <!--April 13-->[[Marie Carandini]], opera singer (b. 1826)
** <!--April 13-->[[Philipp Spitta]], musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
*[[June 5]] – [[Marcelina Czartoryska]], pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
* [[June 9]] – [[Juventino Rosas]], violinist and composer (b. 1868)
* [[June 23]] – [[Marietta Alboni]], operatic contralto (b. 1826)
* [[July 17]] – [[Leconte de Lisle]], lyricist (born 1818)
* [[July 26]] – [[Eduard Tauwitz]], composer (b. 1812)
* [[September 13]] – [[Emmanuel Chabrier]], composer (b. 1841)
* [[September 21]] – [[Emma Fursch-Madi]], operatic soprano (b. 1847)
* [[October 16]] – [[Johanna Jachmann-Wagner]], opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
* [[October 27]] – [[Carl Ploug]], Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
* [[October 28]] – [[Rudolf Hildebrand]], historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
* [[November 4]] – [[Eugène Oudin]], composer (b. 1858)
* [[November 20]] – [[Anton Rubinstein]], pianist and composer (b. 1829)

== See also ==
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== Notes ==
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