Editing 1898 in music

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Events in the year '''1898 in music'''.

==Specific locations==
*[[1898 in Norwegian music]]

==Events==
*Otilie Dvořáková, daughter of [[Antonín Dvořák]], marries her father's pupil, composer [[Josef Suk (composer)|Josef Suk]].
*Dame [[Marie Tempest]] marries the actor-playwright [[Cosmo Gordon-Lennox|Cosmo Stuart]], grandson of the Duke of Richmond.

==Published popular music==
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* "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
* "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. [[Lionel Monckton]]
* "[[Ciribiribin]]" w. Carlo Tiochet m. [[Alberto Pestalozza]]
* "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. [[Monroe H. Rosenfeld]]
* "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. [[Will D. Cobb]] m. Paul Barnes
* "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy
* "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry  B. Smith m. [[Victor Herbert]] from the musical ''[[The Fortune Teller (operetta)|The Fortune Teller]]''
* "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
* "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. [[George M. Cohan]]
* "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
* "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
* "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. [[Edgar Smith (librettist) | Edgar Smith]] m. John Stromberg
* "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. [[Leslie Stuart]]
* "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. [[Charles K. Harris]]
* "[[My Old New Hampshire Home]]" w. [[Andrew B. Sterling]] m. [[Harry Von Tilzer]]
* "Recessional" w. [[Rudyard Kipling]] m. [[Reginald De Koven]]
* "Romany Life" w. [[Harry B. Smith]] m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. [[Ethelbert Nevin]]
* "She is the Belle of New York" w. [[C. M. S. McLellan|Hugh Morton]] m. [[Gustave Kerker]]
* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. [[Stanley Carter (composer)|Stanley Carter]]
* "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano) c. [[Scott Joplin]]
* "[[When You Were Sweet Sixteen]]" w.m. [[James Thornton (songwriter)|James Thornton]]

===Christmas songs===
* "[[Nu tändas tusen juleljus]]", by [[Emmy Köhler]]

==Recorded popular music==

* "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. [[Harry Greenbank]] m. [[Sidney Jones (composer)|Sidney Jones]]) <br> –  [[Syria Lamonte]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. [[Kerry Mills]]) <br> –  [[John Philip Sousa|Sousa's Band]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]<br> – [[Dan W. Quinn]] on [[Columbia Records]]
* "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. [[George Frederick Root]]) <br> –  John Terrell on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. [[Thomas Moore]] m. trad) <br> –  [[J. W. Myers]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. [[Charles K. Harris]]) <br> –  [[George J. Gaskin]] on [[Edison Records]]
* "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) <br> –  [[James T. Powers (actor)|James T. Powers]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert) <br> –  [[Jessie Bartlett Davis]] & W. H. MacDonald on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills) <br> –  Arthur Collins on [[Edison Records]]
* "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. [[Thomas Moore]] m. trad) <br> –  J. W. Myers on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "[[There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight|A Hot Time In The Old Town]]" (w. [[Joe Hayden]] m. [[Theodore A. Metz]]) <br> –  Sousa's Band on [[Berliner Gramophone]]<br> –  Roger Harding on [[Edison Records]]
* "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White) <br> –  [[Edison Male Quartette]] on [[Edison Records]]
* "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root) <br> –  [[Frank C. Stanley]] on [[Edison Records]]
* "Killarney" (w. [[Edmund Falconer]] m. [[Michael William Balfe]]) <br> –  [[Arthur Gladstone]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. [[Giaocchino Rossini]]) <br> –  [[Alberto Del Bassini]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. [[George Clifton Bingham]] m. [[James Lyman Molloy]]) <br> –  [[Annie Carter]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. [[Will Godwin]] & [[Leo Dryden]]) <br> –  [[Leo Dryden]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. [[Dave Reed Jr]]) <br> –  [[Press Eldridge]] on [[Edison Records]]
* "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. [[Ben Harney]]) <br> –  [[Marguerite Newton]] on [[Edison Records]]<br> –  Len Spencer with  Vess L. Ossman on [[Columbia Records]]
* "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. [[Stephen Foster|Stephen Collins Foster]]) <br> –  [[Diamond Four]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]<br> –  Edison Male Quartette on [[Edison Records]]
* "Oh, Promise Me" (w. [[Clement Scott]] m. [[Reginald DeKoven]]) <br> –  Jessie Bartlett Davis on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster) <br> –  Diamond Four on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. [[Paul Dresser]]) <br> –  Annie Carter on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Orange Blossoms" (m. [[Arthur Pryor]]) <br> –  Sousa's Band on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "The Palms" (m. [[Gabriel Fauré]]) <br> –  Diamond Four on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. [[Mrs Emma Hart Willard]] m. [[Joseph Phillip Knight]]) <br> –  William Hooley on [[Edison Records]]
*"She Never Did the Same Thing Twice" <br> – [[Dan W. Quinn]] on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. [[Harry Braisted]] m. Stanley Carter) <br> –  [[Albert C. Campbell]] on [[Edison Records]]
*"She was Happy Til She Met You" <br> – [[Dan W. Quinn]] on [[Columbia Records]] <br> – [[S. H. Dudley (singer)]]
* "Smoky Mokes" (m. [[Abe Holzmann]]) <br> –  banjo Vess L. Ossman on [[Columbia Records]]
* "Sweet Genevieve" (w. [[George Cooper (poet)|George Cooper]] m. [[Henry Tucker (musician)|Henry Tucker]]) <br> –  Jessie Bartlett Davis on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. [[Robert Morrison Stults|R. M. Stults]]) <br> –  Diamond Four on [[Berliner Gramophone]]<br> –  George J. Gaskin on [[Edison Records]]
* "[[Then you'll remember me|Then You'll Remember Me]]" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) <br> –  James Norrie on [[Berliner Gramophone]]<br>-  Annie Carter on [[Berliner Gramophone]]
* "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. [[James Thornton (songwriter)|James Thornton]]) <br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]] on [[Edison Records]]
* "[[Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!|Tramp, Tramp, Tramp]]" (w.m. George Frederick Root) <br> –  Frank C. Stanley on [[Edison Records]]
* "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. [[Patrick Gilmore|Louis Lambert]]) <br> –  Frank C. Stanley on [[Edison Records]]
* "Yankee Doodle" (trad) <br> –  Frank C. Stanley on [[Edison Records]]
* "Zizzy Ze Zum Zum" <br> –  Arthur Collins

==Classical music==
*[[Ernest Chausson]] – [[String Quartet (Chausson)|String Quartet]] (completed posthumously)
*[[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]] 
**''Hiawatha's Wedding Feast,'' Op.30
**Ballade, Op.33 (premiered September 12 in Gloucester)
**African Suite for piano, Op.35
*[[Edward Elgar]] – ''Caractacus''
*[[George Enescu]]
**''Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme'', for bass and piano, Op. 4
**''Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major,'' for piano, Op. 5
**Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
*[[Gabriel Fauré]]
**[[Fantaisie, Op. 79 (Fauré)|''Fantaisie'']], Op. 79
**[[Pelléas et Mélisande (Fauré)|''Pelléas et Mélisande'']], Op. 80
*[[Alexander Glazunov]] – ''Ruses d'Amour'' (ballet)
*[[Paul Juon]] – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
*[[Carl Nielsen]] – [[String Quartet No. 3 (Nielsen)|String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major]]
*[[Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński]] – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
*[[Henrique Oswald]]
**[[Cello Sonata No. 1 (Oswald)|Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21]]
**[[Piano Quartet No. 2 (Oswald)|Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26]]
*[[Camille Saint-Saëns]] – [[Barcarolle in F major (Saint-Saëns)|Barcarolle in F major]]
*[[Christian Sinding]] – ''Concerto for Violin in A major''<ref>{{cite web|title=Christian Sinding Page|date=28 October 2005 |url=http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/sinding|accessdate=2008-06-18| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080513220042/http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/sinding| archivedate= 13 May 2008 | url-status= live}}</ref>

==[[Opera]]==
*[[Antônio Francisco Braga]] – ''Jupyra''
*[[Samuel Coleridge-Taylor]] – ''The Gitanos''
*[[Umberto Giordano]] – ''[[Fedora (opera)|Fedora]]''
*[[Pietro Mascagni]] – ''Iris''
*[[Emile Pessard]] – ''La dame de trèfle'' premiered on May 13 at the [[Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens#Salle Choiseul|Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul]], Paris
*[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]
**''Boyarinya Vera Sheloga''
**''[[Sadko (opera)|Sadko]]'', premiered January 7 at the [[Solodovnikov Theatre]] in [[Moscow]].

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[The Belle of New York (theatre)|The Belle of New York]]'' London production
* ''[[The Bride Elect]]'' Broadway production
* ''[[The Fortune Teller (operetta)|The Fortune Teller]]'' Toronto and London productions
* ''[[A Greek Slave]]'' London production
* ''Hurly-Burly'' Broadway production
* ''[[A Runaway Girl]]'' London and Broadway productions
* ''[[The Skirt Dancer]]'' London production
* ''[[Véronique (operetta)]]'' ([[André Messager]]) – Paris production

==Births==
*[[January 7]] – [[Al Bowlly]], big band singer
*[[January 9]] – [[Gracie Fields]], singer and actress
*[[January 28]] – [[Vittorio Rieti]], composer
*[[February 3]] – [[Lil Hardin Armstrong]], wife and musical collaborator of [[Louis Armstrong]]
*[[February 7]] – [[Dock Boggs]], banjo player
*[[February 12]] – [[Roy Harris]], composer
*[[February 15]] – [[Totò]], actor and composer
*[[February 28]] – [[Molly Picon]], Broadway star
*[[March 4]] – [[Robert Schmertz (artist)|Robert Schmertz]], American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
*[[April 3]] – [[George Jessel (actor)|George Jessel]], American actor, singer & songwriter
*[[April 9]] – [[Paul Robeson]], singer
*[[May 14]] – [[Zutty Singleton]], jazz drummer
*[[May 15]] – [[Arletty]], actress and singer
*[[May 26]] – [[Ernst Bacon]], pianist and composer (d. 1990)
*[[May 28]] – [[Andy Kirk (musician)|Andy Kirk]], jazz musician
*[[June 6]] – [[Ninette de Valois]], founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
*[[June 29]] – [[Yvonne Lefébure]], French pianist
*[[July 4]] – [[Gertrude Lawrence]], English actress, singer and dancer
*[[July 6]] – [[Hanns Eisler]], composer
*[[July 15]] – [[Noel Gay]], English songwriter
*[[August 2]] – [[Anthony Franchini]], Italian-born guitarist
*[[August 15]] – [[Charles Tobias]], US songwriter and singer
*[[August 24]] – [[Fred Rose (songwriter)|Fred Rose]], songwriter, music publisher
*[[September 1]]
**[[Marilyn Miller]], US actress, singer and dancer
**[[Violet Carson]], actress, singer and pianist
*[[September 26]] – [[George Gershwin]], US composer
*[[September 27]] – [[Vincent Youmans]], US composer
*[[October 7]] – [[Alfred Wallenstein]], US cellist and conductor
*[[October 8]] – [[Clarence Williams (musician)|Clarence Williams]], US jazz pianist and composer
*[[October 18]] – [[Lotte Lenya]], singer and actress, wife of [[Kurt Weill]]
*[[November 1]] – [[Sippie Wallace]], blues singer
*[[December 3]] (n.s.) – [[Lev Knipper]], Russian composer (and [[NKVD]] agent)
*[[December 5]] – [[Grace Moore]], operatic soprano
*[[December 14]] – [[Lillian Randolph]], actress and singer
*[[December 24]] – [[Baby Dodds]], jazz drummer

==Deaths==
*[[January 7]] – [[Heinrich Lichner]], composer, 68
*[[January 8]] – [[Alexandre Dubuque]], composer, 85
*[[January 16]] – [[Antoine François Marmontel]], pianist and teacher, 81
*[[February 15]] – [[Franz Behr]], composer (b. 1837)
*[[March 11]] – [[Tigran Chukhajian]], conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
*[[March 15]] – [[Julius Schulhoff]], pianist and composer, 72
*[[March 28]] – [[Anton Seidl]], conductor, 47
*[[April 21]] – [[Théodore Gouvy]], composer, 78
*[[May 15]] – [[Ede Reményi]], violinist, 70
*[[May 16]] – [[Jean Antoine Zinnen]], composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
*[[August 17]] – [[Karl Zeller]], Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
*[[August 21]] – [[Niccolò van Westerhout]], composer, 40 (peritonitis)
*[[September 9]] – [[William Chatterton Dix]], hymn-writer, 61
*[[September 11]] – [[Adolphe Samuel]], Belgian composer, 74
*[[November 7]] – [[Max Alvary]], operatic tenor, 42
*[[December 13]] – [[George Frederick Bristow]], composer, 72
*[[December 29]] – [[Georg Goltermann]], cellist and composer, 74

==References==
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==See also==
* [[1898]]
* [[list of years in music]]

[[Category:1898 in music| ]]
[[Category:19th century in music]]
[[Category:Music by year]]