Editing 1895 in music

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Events in the year '''1895 in music'''.

==Specific locations==
*[[1895 in Norwegian music]]

== Events ==
*[[March 4]] – [[Gustav Mahler]] conducts the première of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in [Berlin] – the first three movements only.<ref>{{cite book|author=Philadelphia Orchestra|title=Programs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9gEAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|page=513}}</ref>
*[[May 18]] – Australian [[contralto]] [[Ada Crossley]] makes her London début at the [[Queen's Hall]].
*[[August 10]] – The first ever indoor [[promenade concert]], origin of [[The Proms]], is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario [[Robert Newman (impresario)|Robert Newman]] with 26-year-old [[Henry Wood]] as sole conductor. The first concert opens with the overture to [[Wagner]]'s ''[[Rienzi]]''. The orchestra tunes to the "French A" or ''diapason normal'' [[concert pitch]].
*[[December 13]] – The first complete performance of [[Gustav Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]], in Berlin with the composer conducting the [[Berlin Philharmonic]] orchestra (first three movements premièred on March 4).
*''unknown dates''
**Composer [[Sidney Homer]] marries contralto [[Louise Homer|Louise Dilworth Beatty]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=Encyclopedia of the Opera|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HPcKAQAAIAAJ|year=1963|publisher=Hill and Wang|page=211}}</ref>
**Composer [[Zdeněk Fibich]] separates from his wife, the contralto [[Betty Fibichová]], and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.
**Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer [[Teresa Carreño]] divorces her husband, pianist [[Eugen d'Albert]]. It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

== Published popular music ==
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* "[[America the Beautiful]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. [[Katherine Lee Bates]] m. [[Samuel A. Ward]]
* "[[The Band Played On]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
* "The Belle of Avenoo A"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Safford Waters
* "Down In Poverty Row"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. [[Gussie L. Davis]] m. Arthur Trevelyan
* "A Dream"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
* "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
* "He's Not Dead Yet!"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. [[T. W. Connor]]
* "It's a Great Big Shame"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
* "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Paul Dresser]]
* "[[King Cotton (march)]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;m. [[John Philip Sousa]]
* "[[La Pas Ma La]]"  w.m. [[Ernest Hogan]]
* "My Angeline"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Harry B. Smith m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "My Best Girl's a New Yorker"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. John Stromberg
* "[[Put Me Off at Buffalo]]"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon ([[Dillon Brothers]])
* "Rastus on Parade"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. George Marion m. [[Kerry Mills]]
* "She Was One of the Early Birds"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. T. W. Connor
* "Sleep Little Rosebud"  w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
* "The Soldiers of the Queen"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[Leslie Stuart]]
* "The Streets of Cairo"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. [[James Thornton (songwriter)|James Thornton]]
* "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton

== Recorded popular music ==

*"Belles of Virginia" <br> –  Stephen B. Clements, Berliner Records
*"Bully Song" <br> –  [[May Irwin]]
*"Bye Bye Ma Honey" <br> –  [[Billy Golden]], United States Phonograph Company
*"Carnival of Venice" <br> –  [[Charles P. Lowe]]
*"Cavalry" <br> –  [[J. W. Myers]], Brown Wax Cylinder Home Recording
*"Dancing on the Housetops" <br> –  [[Issler's Orchestra]], United States Phonograph Company
*"Dixie" <br> –  [[Issler's Orchestra]], United States Phonograph Company
*"El Captain March" <br> –  Sousa's Band, Columbia Phonograph Company
*"Girl Wanted" <br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]], Berliner Records
*"Handicap March" <br> –  Sousa's Band
*"Henrietta Have You Met Her?" <br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]], Berliner Records
*"Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Diamonds" <br> –  [[George J. Gaskin]], Berliner Records
*"Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down" <br> –  Banta's Orchestra
*"I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" <br> –  [[George J. Gaskin]], Berliner Records
*"Just One Girl" <br> –  [[J. W. Myers]], Berliner Records
*"Love Me Little Love Me Long" <br> –  Alice Raymond
*"Michael Casey as a Hotel Clerk" <br> –  [[Russell Hunting]], Berliner Records
*"Michael Casey as Judge" <br> –  [[Russell Hunting]], Berliner Records
*"Michael Casey's Plans For Freeing Ireland" <br> –  [[Russell Hunting]], Berliner Records
*"My Blackbird" <br> –  [[Len Spencer]]
*"My Old Kentucky Home" <br> –  [[George J. Gaskin]], Berliner Records
*"My Pearl Is A Bowery" <br> –  [[Issler's Orchestra]], United States Phonograph Company
*"Nellie Bly" <br> –  [[W. Paris Chambers]], Berliner Records
*"Nightingale Waltz" <br> –  [[Issler's Orchestra]], United States Phonograph Company
*"The Band Played On" <br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]], Columbia Phonograph Company
*"The Sidewalks of New York" <br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]], Berliner Records
*"The Sidewalks of New York" <br> –  [[George J. Gaskin]], Edison & Berliner Records
*"The Streets of Cairo" <br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]], Berliner Records
*"Washington Post March" <br> –  Sousa's Band, Columbia Phonograph Company
*"When You Know The Girl You Love Loves You" <br> –  [[George J. Gaskin]], Berliner Records
*"Who Broke The Lock" <br> –  [[Unique Quartette]], Edison Phonograph Co
*"Yazoo Dance" <br> –  Sousa's Band

== Classical music ==
*[[Béla Bartók]]
**Capriccio in B minor, for piano, Op. 4
**Fantasia in A minor, for piano, Op. 2
**Fantasia, for violin, Op. 9
**Pieces, for violin, Op. 7
**Sonata No. 2 in F major, for piano, Op. 3
**Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, Op. 5
**Sonata No. 3 in C major, for piano, Op. 6
*[[Léon Boëllmann]] – ''Suite Gothique for Organ''
*[[Antonín Dvořák]] – [[Cello Concerto (Dvořák)|Cello Concerto in B minor]],  [[String Quartet No. 13 (Dvořák)|thirteenth]] and [[String Quartet No. 14 (Dvořák)|fourteenth]] string quartets
*[[Edward Elgar]] – ''[[From the Bavarian Highlands]]'', for chorus and orchestra, Op. 27
*[[George Enescu]] – "Study" Symphony No. 1 in D minor
*[[Gabriel Fauré]]
**''Allegro symphonique'', for piano four-hands, Op. 68
**Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat major, for piano, Op. 70
**Theme and Variations, for piano, Op. 73
*[[Anatoly Lyadov]]
**Etude in F major, for piano, Op. 37
**Mazurka in F major, for piano, Op. 38
**Preludes (3), for piano, Op. 36
**Preludes (4), for piano, Op. 39
*[[Henrique Oswald]] – [[Piano Quintet (Oswald)|Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18]]
*[[Camille Saint-Saëns]]
**Fantasy No. 2 in D{{music|flat}} major, for organ, Op. 101
**''La Mort de Thaïs, Paraphrase de concert sur l'opéra de J. Massenet'', for piano
**''Souvenir d'Ismaïlia'', for piano, Op. 100
*[[Richard Strauss]]
**Songs (3), for high voice and piano, Op. 29
**''[[Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks]]'', for orchestra, Op. 28
*[[Alexander von Zemlinsky]] – Serenade (Suite), for violin and piano

==Opera==
*[[Isaac Albéniz]] – ''Henry Clifford''
*[[Enrique Fernández Arbós]] – ''El Centro de la Tierra''
*[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] – ''[[Christmas Eve (opera)|Christmas Eve]]'', 10 December, in St. Petersburg.

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[An Artist's Model]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;[[West End theatre|London]] production opened at [[Daly's Theatre]] on February 2 and ran for 392 performances
* ''[[Dandy Dick Whittington]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production
* ''[[The Shop Girl]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Broadway production opened at [[Palmer's Theatre]] on October 28 and ran for 72 performances<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerald Bordman|title=American Musical Theater: A Chronicle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiBaRas9jTwC&pg=PA159|date=March 2001|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-513074-4|pages=159}}</ref>
* ''[[The Tyrolean]]''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production

==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Clara Haskil]], pianist (died [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[January 27]] – [[Buddy De Sylva]], songwriter (died [[1950 in music|1950]])
*[[February 7]] – [[Irving Aaronson]], jazz pianist and big band leader (died [[1963 in music|1963]])
*[[February 28]] – [[Guiomar Novaes]], Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
*[[March 4]] – [[Bjarne Brustad]], Norwegian composer and violinist (died [[1978 in music|1978]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Bjarne Brustad |encyclopedia=[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]]|first=Elef |last=Nesheim |editor=[[Knut Helle|Helle, Knut]]|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Bjarne_Brustad/utdypning |language=Norwegian|access-date=18 February 2025}}</ref>
*[[March 23]] – [[Dane Rudhyar]], composer (died 1985)
*[[March 31]] – [[Lizzie Miles]], singer (died [[1963 in music|1963]])
*[[April 1]] – [[Alberta Hunter]], singer (died 1984)<ref>{{cite book|title=Down Beat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SMUJAQAAMAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Maher Publications|page=22}}</ref>
*[[April 3]]
**[[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], composer (died [[1968 in music|1968]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=Music Since 1900|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ|year=1938|publisher=W.W. Norton, Incorporated|page=446}}</ref>
**[[Zez Confrey]], pianist and composer (died 1971)
*[[April 9]] – [[Mance Lipscomb]], popular singer (died [[1976 in music|1976]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Gray|title=Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jwUwAQAAIAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-5150-7|page=38}}</ref>
*[[April 23]] – [[Jimmie Noone]], jazz musician
*[[April 29]] – Sir [[Malcolm Sargent]], conductor (died [[1967 in music|1967]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles Reid|title=Malcolm Sargent: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1c8AAAAMAAJ|year=1968|publisher=Hamilton|isbn=978-0-241-91316-1|page=12}}</ref>
*[[May 1]] – [[Leo Sowerby]], composer (died [[1968 in music|1968]])
*[[May 2]] – [[Lorenz Hart]], US lyricist (died [[1943 in music|1943]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Caryl Brahms|author2=Ned Sherrin|title=Song by Song: The Lives and Work of 14 Great Lyric Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaMHAQAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=R. Anderson Publications|isbn=978-0-86360-013-5|page=236}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] – [[Rudolph Valentino]], dancer and actor (died [[1926 in music|1926]])
*[[May 11]] – [[William Grant Still]], composer (died 1978)
*[[June 16]] – [[Lew Pollack]], US composer (died [[1946 in music|1946]])
*[[June 21]] – [[Mark Reizen]], Soviet opera singer (died [[1992 in music|1992]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Record Collector|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzxGAQAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Record Collector|page=5}}</ref>
*[[June 28]] – [[Kazimierz Sikorski]], Polish composer (died [[1986 in music|1986]])<ref>[https://culture.pl/pl/tworca/kazimierz-sikorski Kazimierz Sikorski] {{in lang|pl}}</ref>
*[[July 4]] – [[Irving Caesar]], US lyricist and librettist (died [[1996 in music|1996]])<ref>{{cite book|author=David Ewen|title=American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZsYAAAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=H.W. Wilson|isbn=978-0-8242-0744-1|page=76}}</ref>
*[[July 5]] – [[Gordon Jacob]], English composer (died 1984)
*[[July 10]] – [[Carl Orff]], German composer (died 1982)<ref>{{cite book|author=Mark Morris|title=A Guide to 20th-century Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8KAQAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Methuen|isbn=978-0-413-45601-4|page=191}}</ref>
*[[July 12]] 
** [[Kirsten Flagstad]], Norwegian soprano (died [[1982 in music|1982]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Record Collector: A Magazine for Collectors of Recorded Vocal Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Vs5AQAAIAAJ|year=1962|page=20}}</ref>
** [[Oscar Hammerstein II]], lyricist (died [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[July 13]] – [[Bradley Kincaid]], folk singer (died [[1989 in music|1989]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Steve Evans|author2=Ron Middlebrook|title=Cowboy Guitars|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vPK-cbGMpiUC&pg=PA13|date=June 2002|publisher=Centerstream Publications|isbn=978-1-57424-102-0|pages=13}}</ref>
*[[July 25]] – [[Yvonne Printemps]], singer and actress (died 1977)<ref>{{cite book|title=Recorded Sound|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWI5AQAAIAAJ|year=1967|publisher=British Institute of Recorded Sound|page=309}}</ref>
*[[August 6]] – [[Ernesto Lecuona]], Cuban composer (died 1963)
*[[August 10]] – [[Harry Richman]], US singer, actor and composer (died [[1972 in music|1972]])
*[[August 13]] – [[Bert Lahr]], vaudeville performer (died [[1967 in music|1967]])
*[[September 9]] – [[Harry Tobias]], US lyric writer (died [[1994 in music|1994]])
*[[September 16]] – [[Karol Rathaus]], Austrian (Ukrainian) composer (died 1954)
*[[September 22]] – [[Herbert Janssen]], German baritone (died 1965)
*[[October 11]] – [[Jakov Gotovac]], Croatian composer and conductor (died 1982)
*[[October 12]] – [[Tubby Hall]], jazz drummer (died [[1945 in music|1945]])
*[[October 17]] – [[Doris Humphrey]], dancer (died [[1958 in music|1958]])
*[[October 29]] – [[Harry Ruby]], songwriter (died [[1974 in music|1974]])
*[[November 5]] – [[Walter Gieseking]], German pianist and composer
*[[November 16]] – [[Paul Hindemith]], German composer (died [[1963 in music|1963]])
*[[November 28]]
**[[José Iturbi]], pianist (died [[1980 in music|1980]])
**[[Jacobo Rubalcaba]], Cuban musician and bandleader (died [[1960 in music|1960]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Busby Berkeley]], film director, choreographer (died [[1976 in music|1976]])
*[[November 30]] – [[Johann Nepomuk David]], composer (died [[1977 in music|1977]])
*[[December 2]] – [[Harriet Cohen]], pianist (died [[1967 in music|1967]])
*[[December 16]] – [[Andy Razaf]], composer, poet and lyricist (died [[1973 in music|1973]])

== Deaths==
*[[January 10]] – [[Benjamin Godard]], composer (born 1849)
*[[January 22]] – [[Edward Solomon]], pianist, conductor and composer (born 1855) (typhoid)
*[[February 6]] – [[Otto Mahler]], composer (born 1873) (suicide)
*[[February 16]] – [[Fredrik August Dahlgren]], songwriter (born 1816)
*[[February 24]] – [[Ignaz Lachner]], conductor and composer (born 1807)
*[[March 16]] – [[Richard Corney Grain]], entertainer and songwriter (born 1844) (influenza)
*[[March 18]] – [[Priscilla Horton]], singer and actress (born 1818)
*[[April 28]] – [[Jean Joseph Bott]], violinist and composer (born [[1826 in music|1826]])
*[[May 21]] – [[Franz von Suppé]], composer (born 1819)
*[[June 15]] – [[Richard Genée]], librettist and composer (born 1823)
*[[June 28]] – [[Ján Koehler]], operatic baritone
*[[July 13]] – [[John Tiplady Carrodus]], violinist (born [[1836 in music|1836]])
*[[August 2]] – [[Ernest Appy]], US cellist and composer (born 1834)
*[[August 6]] – [[George Frederick Root]], US composer (born 1820)
*[[August 13]] – [[Ludwig Abel]], violinist, composer and conductor (born 1834)
*[[October 12]] – [[Cecil Frances Alexander]], hymn-writer (born 1818)
*[[October 25]] – [[Charles Hallé]], pianist and conductor (born 1819)
*November – [[Raffaele Mirate]], operatic tenor (born 1815)
*[[November 1]] – [[Aleksander Zarzycki]], pianist, conductor and composer (born 1834)
*''date unknown''
**[[Charles Albrecht]], composer of the national anthem of Monaco (born 1817)
**[[Basilio Basili]], operatic tenor and composer (born 1804)
**[[Angelique Magito]], opera and concert singer (born 1809)
**[[Nipper]], the dog on the HMV record label (born [[1884 in music|1884]])

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