1898 in music

Events

*Scott Joplin publishes "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano).
*January 7 - "Sadko" premiered at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow

Published popular music

* "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
* "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton
* "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Albert 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"
* "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 m. John Stromberg
* "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart
* "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris
* "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
* "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt
* "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald DeKoven
* "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin
* "Salome" m. William Lorraine
* "She is the Belle of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter
* "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton
* "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion

Christmas songs

* "Nu tändas tusen juleljus", by Emmy Köhler

Recorded popular music

* "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Syria Lamonte on Berliner Gramophone Records
* "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
- Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
* "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- John Terrell on Berliner
* "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. Charles K. Harris)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison Records
* "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- James T. Powers on Berliner
* "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner
* "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert)
- Jessie Bartlett Davis & W. H. MacDonald on Berliner
* "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills)
- Arthur Collins on Edison
* "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "A Hot Time In The Old Town" (w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner
- Len Spencer with banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
- Roger Harding on Edison
* "In The Gloaming" (w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison)
- Roger Harding on Berliner
* "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
* "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- Frank C. Stanley on Edison
* "Killarney" (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe)
- Arthur Gladstone on Berliner
* "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. Giaocchino Rossini)
- Alberto Del Campo on Berliner
* "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lyman Molloy)
- Annie Carter on Berliner
* "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden)
- Leo Dryden on Berliner Gramophone
* "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. Dave Reed Jr)
- Press Eldridge on Edison
* "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney)
- Marguerite Newton on Edison
- Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on Columbia
* "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
- Diamond Four on Berliner
- Edison Male Quartette onEdison
* "Oh, Promise Me" (w. Clement Scott m. Reginald DeKoven)
- Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner
* "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
- Diamond Four on Berliner
* "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
- Annie Carter on Berliner
* "Orange Blossoms" (m. Arthur Pryor)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner
* "The Palms" (m. Gabriel Fauré)
- Diamond Four on Berliner
* "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight)
- William Hooley on Edison
*"She Never Did the Same Thing Twice"
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Records

* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
- Albert C. Campbell on Edison
*"She was Happy Til She Met You"
- Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
* "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
- banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia
* "Stars And Stripes Forever" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner
* "Sweet And Low" (w. Alfred, Lord Tennyson m. Sir Joseph Barnby)
- Ladies Brass Quartette of Boston Fadettes on Berliner
* "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker)
- Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner
* "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent)
- Steve Porter on Berliner
* "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. R. M. Stults)
- Diamond Four on Berliner
- George J. Gaskin onEdison
* "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
- James Norrie on Berliner Gramophone
- Annie Carter on Berliner
* "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison
* "The Thunderer" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner
* "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- Frank C. Stanley on Edison
* "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert)
- Frank C. Stanley on Edison
* "Yankee Doodle" (trad)
- Frank C. Stanley on Edison

Classical music

*Samuel Coleridge Taylor - "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast"
*Alexander Glazunov - "Ruses d'Amour" (ballet)
*Paul Juon - "Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major"
*Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński - "Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor"
*Christian Sinding - "Concerto for Violin in A major" [cite web|title=Christian Sinding Page|url=http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/sinding|accessdate=2008-06-18]

Opera

*Antônio Francisco Braga - "Jupyra"
*Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - "The Gitanos"
*Umberto Giordano - "Fedora"
*Ivar Hallstrom - "Little Karin"
*Pietro Mascagni - "Iris"
*Emile Pessard - "La dame de trèfle" premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
*Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - "Boyarinya Vera Sheloga"

Musical theater

* "The Belle of New York" London production
* "The Bride Elect" Broadway production
* "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 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 20 - Jimmy Yancey, US jazz pianist
*April 3 - George Jessel, US actor, singer & songwriter
*April 9 - Paul Robeson, singer
*May 14 - Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
*May 15 - Arletty, actress and singer
*May 28 - Andy Kirk, jazz musician
*June 1 - Molly Picon, Broadway star
*June 6 - Dame 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 15 - Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
*August 24 - 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, 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
*January 16 - Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher
*March 28 - Anton Seidl, conductor
*April 21 - Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer
*May 15 - Ede Reményi, violinist
*August 17 - Karl Zeller, Austrian composer
*September 11 - Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer
*November 7 - Max Alvary, operatic tenor
*December 29 - Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer
*"date unknown" - Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem

References

See also

* 1898
* list of years in music