1896 in music

Events

* February 1 - Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" debuts in Turin
* March - Leo Stern plays in the premiere of Dvořák's second cello concerto in London
*Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.

Published popular music

* "All Coons Look Alike To Me" w.m. Ernest Hogan
* "The Amorous Goldfish" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
* "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
* "El Capitan March" m. John Philip Sousa
* "Eli Green's Cakewalk" w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky
* "Elsie From Chelsea" w.m. Harry Dacre
* "Going For A Pardon" w. James Thornton & Clara Havenschild m. James Thornton
* "Happy Days In Dixie" m. Kerry Mills
* "Hot Tamale Alley" by George M. Cohan
* "A Hot Time In The Old Town" w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz
* "I Love You In The Same Old Way - Darling Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
* "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" w.m. Gussie L. Davis
* "A Jovial Monk Am I" w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran
* "Kentucky Babe" w. Richard Henry Buck m. Adam Geibel
* "Laugh And The World Laughs With You" w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk
* "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" w. Clyde Fitch m. arr. William Furst
* "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" w.m. Ben Harney
* "Mother Was A Lady" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
* "Musetta's Waltz Song" m. Giacomo Puccini
* "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders
* "Remus Takes the Cake" by J. H. Ellis
* "The Saint Louis Cyclone" by Ren Shields & George Evans
* "Sambo at the Cakewalk" by Alfred E. Marks
* "Stars & Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
* "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" w.m. Maude Nugent
* "To A Wild Rose" m. Edward MacDowell
* "Warmest Baby in the Bunch" by George M. Cohan
* "When the Saints Go Marching In" w. Katherine E. Purvis m. James M. Black

Recorded popular music

*"All Coons Look Alike To Me" (w.m. Ernest Hogan)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
*"The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
*"And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" (w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon)
- Maud Foster on Berliner Records
*"Annie Laurie" (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
*"Auld Lang Syne" (w. adapted Robert Burns)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
*"The Band Played On" (w. John Palmer m. Charles B. Ward)
- Dan W. Quinn on Columbia records and Berliner
*"The Belle Of Avenoo A" (w.m. Safford Waters)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"Ben Bolt" (w. Thomas Dunn English m. Nelson Kneass)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"The Blue Danube" (m. Johann Strauss)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
*"Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison
*"La Donna è Mobile" (w. Francesco Piave m. Giuseppe Verdi)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"Don't You Hear Dem Bells?" (w.m. D. S. McCosh)
- Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
*"Down In Poverty Row" (w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
*"Elsie From Chelsea" (w.m. Harry Dacre)
- Dan W. Quinn on Edison
*"Funiculì, Funiculà" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"The Gladiators" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
*"Hallelujah Chorus" (w. Charles Jennes m. George Frideric Handel)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
*"The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
*"The Honeymoon" (m. George Rosey)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
*"I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" (w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- Maud Foster on Berliner
*"In The Baggage Coach Ahead" (w.m. Gussie L. Davis)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Dan W. Quinn
*"I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
- Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
*"I've Been Hoodoed"
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner

*"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" (w.m. Paul Dresser)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"Kathleen" (w.m. Helene Mora)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
*"Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"King Cotton March" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
*"Listen To The Mocking Bird" (w. Alice Hawthorne m. Richard Milburn)
- whistling Billy Golden on Edison
*"The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
- Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
*"Marching Through Georgia" (w.m. Henry Clay Work)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"La Marseillaise" (w.m. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"McKinley is our Man"
- Dan W. Quinn on U.S. Phonograph Records

*"My Angeline" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert)
- Frank Daniels on Berliner
*"My Best Girl's A New Yorker" (w.m. John Stromberg)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"My Gal Is A High Born Lady" (w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" (w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"Nearer, My God, To Thee" (w. Sarah F. Adams m. Lowell Mason)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
- Len Spencer & Roger Harding on Columbia
*"Onward, Christian Soldiers" (w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
*"The Palms" (Jean-Baptiste Faure)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"La Paloma" (w. anon m. Sebastian Yradier)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"Put Me Off At Buffalo" (w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"Rock Of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
*"'Round His Bed I'm Goin' To Creep" ()
- Len Spencer on Columbia
*"Sally In Our Alley" (w. Henry Carey m. trad)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" (w.m. William B. Gray)
- Steve Porter on Columbia
*"She May Have Seen Better Days" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"The Sidewalks Of New York" (w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake)
- George J. Gaskin on Edison and on Berliner
*"The Streets Of Cairo" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
*"The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" (w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"Tenting On The Old Camp Ground" (w.m. Walter Kittredge)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
- Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
*"There's Only One Girl In the World For Me" (w.m. Dave Marion)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
*"They Are The Best Friends Of All"
- Helene Mora on US Phonograph Records
*"Toreador Song" (w. Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
*"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"Trilby Song"
- Maurice Farkoa with piano Frank Lambert on Berliner
*"Watchman Tell Us Of The Night" (Bowring, Mason)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
*"'Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield"
- Columbia Quartette on Columbia
*"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner
*"Where Is My Wandering Boy, Tonight?" (w.m. Rev. R. Lowry)
- J. W. Myers on Berliner
*"Wot Cher!" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle)
- George J. Gaskin on Berliner

Classical music

* Amy Beach - "Symphony in E minor Gaelic", "violin sonata"
* Johannes Brahms - "Vier ernste Gesänge", "Eleven Chorale Preludes" for organ
* Anton Bruckner - "Symphony No. 9" (finished three movements, sketches of finale)
* Antonín Dvořák - "The Water Goblin", "The Noon-Day Witch" (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London); also the "Quartet in A-flat major op. 105"
* Gustav Holst - "Quintet for piano and winds"
* Vincent d'Indy - "Istar"
*Charles Ives - String Quartet no. 1, "From the Salvation Army"
*Edward MacDowell - "Woodland Sketches"
*Albéric Magnard - "Symphony No. 3" Opus 11 (1895–96)
*Hans Pfitzner - "Piano Trio in F" Opus 8
*Sergei Rachmaninoff - "Symphony No. 1" (1895–96) ( [http://rachmaninoff.co.uk/biography/works_orchestral.php] )
*Camille Saint-Saëns - "Piano Concerto No. 5 (Egyptian)", "Violin Sonata No. 2"
*Alexander Scriabin - "24 Preludes for Piano" Opus 11, "Five Preludes for Piano" Opus 15
*Jean Sibelius - "Coronation Cantata"
*Richard Strauss - "Also sprach Zarathustra"
*Alexander von Zemlinsky - "String Quartet No. 1" and "Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano"

Opera

*August Enna - "Aucassin og Nicolette"
*Gialdino Gialdini - "La Pupilla" premiered October 23 at the Societá Filarmonica Drammatica, Trieste
*Umberto Giordano - "Andrea Chenier"
*Paul Juon - "Aleko"
*Ruggero Leoncavallo - "Chatterton"
*Giacomo Puccini - "La Bohème"
*Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - "Sadko"
*Hugo Wolf - "Der Corregidor"

Musical theater

* "The Art Of Maryland" Broadway production
* "El Capitan" Broadway production
* "The Circus Girl" London production
* "The Gay Parisienne" London production
* "The Geisha" London production
* "The Geisha" Broadway production
* "The Girl From Paris" London production
* "The Grand Duke" London production

Births

*January 28 - Elsie Carlisle, English singer
*February 3 - Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter
*February 22 - Nacio Herb Brown, US songwriter
*March 1 - Dimitris Mitropoulos, pianist, conductor and composer
*April 10 - Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer
*April 30 - Reverend Gary Davis
*June 20 - Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor
*August 15 - Léon Theremin, Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him
*September 2 - Amanda Randolph, actress and singer
*September 8 - Howard Dietz, lyricist
*September 10 - Adele Astaire, US dancer and singer
*September 15 - Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist
*September 25 - Roberto Gerhard, composer (d. 1970)
*October 7 - Phil Ohman, US bandleader
*October 28 - Howard Hanson, composer
*October 31 - Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
*November 23 - Ruth Etting, US singer
*November 25 - Virgil Thomson, composer and critic
*December 6 - Ira Gershwin, lyricist
*December 28 - Roger Sessions, composer

Deaths

*February 12 - Ambroise Thomas, composer
*May 12 - Juan Morel Campos, "danza" composer
*May 20 - Clara Schumann, Austrian composer
*June 22 - Sir Augustus Harris, librettist and impresario
*August 18 - Frederick Nicholls Crouch, cellist and composer
*September 16 - Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer
*September 22 - Katharina Klafsky, Wagnerian soprano
*October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
*October 17 - Henry Eugene Abbey, theatre manager
*December 3 - László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
*"date unknown" - Kurmangazy, Khazakh musician and composer

See also

* 1896
* List of musical events