1895 in music

Events

* August 10 - The first ever Promenade Concert is held at the Queen's Hall in London.
* December 13 - The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 2" in Berlin

Published popular music

* "America The Beautiful" w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
* "The Band Played On" w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
* "The Belle Of Avenoo A" w.m. Safford Waters
* "Down In Poverty Row" w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
* "A Dream" w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
* "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
* "It's A Great Big Shame" w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
* "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" w.m. Paul Dresser
* "King Cotton March" m. John Philip Sousa
* "My Angeline" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "My Best Girl's A New Yorker" w.m. John Stromberg
* "Put Me Off At Buffalo" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
* "Rastus On Parade" w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
* "She Was One Of The Early Birds" w.m. T. W. Connor
* "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
* "The Soldiers Of The Queen" w.m. Leslie Stuart
* "The Streets Of Cairo" w.m. James Thornton
* "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton

Recorded popular music

*"Girl Wanted"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
*"The Band Played On"
- Dan W. Quinn, Columbia Records
*"The Sidewalks of New York"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records

Classical music

*Léon Boëllmann - "Suite Gothique for Organ"
*Antonín Dvořák - "Cello Concerto in B minor", thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets

Opera

*Isaac Albéniz - "Henry Clifford"
*Enrique Fernandez Arbos - "El Centro de la Tierra"

Musical theater

* "An Artist's Model" London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances
* "Dandy Dick Whittington" London production
* "The Shop Girl" Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances
* "The Tyrolean" London production

Births

*January 7 - Clara Haskil, pianist
*January 27 - Buddy De Sylva, songwriter
*February 7 - Irving Aaronson
*February 28 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
*March 4 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist (d. 1978)
*March 23 - Dane Rudhyar, composer (d. 1985)
*March 31 - Lizzie Miles, singer
*April 1 - Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
*April 3:
**Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer
**Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (d. 1971)
*April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer
*April 23 - Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
*April 29 - Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor
*May 1 - Leo Sowerby, composer
*May 2 - Lorenz Hart, US lyricist
*May 6 - Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor
*May 11 - William Grant Still, composer (d. 1978)
*June 10 - Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress
*June 16 - Lew Pollack, US composer
*July 4 - Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist
*July 5 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984)
*July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
*July 12 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist
*July 13 - Bradley Kincaid, folk singer
*July 25 - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (d. 1977)
*August 10 - Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer
*August 13 - Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer
*September 9 - Harry Tobias, US lyric writer
*September 16 - Karol Rathaus, Austrian composer (from what is now the Ukraine) (d. 1954)
*September 22 - Herbert Janssen, German baritone (d. 1965)
*September 26 - George Raft, Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer
*October 11 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1982)
*October 12 - Tubby Hall, jazz drummer
*October 17 - Doris Humphrey, dancer
*October 29 - Harry Ruby, songwriter
*November 5 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
*November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
*November 28 - José Iturbi, pianist (d. 1980)
*November 29 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (d. 1976)
*November 30 - Johann Nepomuk David, composer
*December 2 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967)
*December 16 - Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (d. 1973)

Deaths

*January 10 - Benjamin Godard, composer (b. 1849)
*February 16 - Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter (b. 1816)
*February 25 - Ignaz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1807)
*March 18 - Priscilla Horton, singer and actress (b. 1818)
*May 21 - Franz von Suppé, composer (b. 1819)
*August 6 - George Frederick Root, US composer (b. 1820)
*August 13 - Ludwig Abel, violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1834)
*September - Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label
*October 12 - Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer (b. 1818)
*October 25 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
*November 1 - Aleksander Zarzycki, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1834)
*"date unknown" - Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco (b. 1817)