1894 in music

Events

* March 14 - Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's "Symphony No. 1" in Copenhagen
* December 22 - Claude Debussy's "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" is premiered in Paris
* Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut
* George W. Johnson is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records
* The National College of Music , London, was formed by the Moss Family. The college still exists today as an examination board for music and drama.

Published popular music

* "Airy, Fairy Lillian" w. Tony Raymond m. Maurice Levi
* "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon
* "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" w.m. Fred Gilbert
* "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operetta "Der Obersteiger"
* "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles
* "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
* "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey
* "Humoresque" m. Antonín Dvořák
* "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie
* "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
* "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans
* "I've Been Working On The Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)
* "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora
* "Little Kinkies" w.m. M. Tobias
* "The Little Lost Child" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
* "Long Ago In Alcala" w. Frederick Edward Weatherley & Adrian Ross m. André Messager
* "My Friend The Major" w.m. E. W. Rogers
* "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack
* "Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Harry Champion
* "The Owls Serenade" w. Arthur J. Lamb, m. H.W. Petrie
* "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray
* "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton
* "The Sidewalks Of New York" w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
* ""Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan
* "Yale Society Two-Step" by C. VanBaar
* "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney

Recorded popular music

*"And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
*"My Pearl is a Bowery Girl"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records

Classical music

* Victor Herbert - "Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor"
* Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - "Caucasian Sketches"
* Joseph Jongen - "Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor"
*Alexander Kopylov - "String Quartet no 2"
* Carl Nielsen - "Symphony No. 1 in G minor"
* Josef Rheinberger - "Sonata for Horn and Piano in E flat major"

Opera

*Granville Bantock - "The Pearl of Iran"
*Julius Bechgaard - "Frau Inge"
*Herman Bemberg - "Cleopatra"
*Frederick Delius - "The Magic Fountain"
*Charles Edouard Lefebvre - "Djelma" premiered on May 25 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris
*Hamish MacCunn - "Jeanie Deans"
*Jules Massenet - "Thaïs"
*Emile Pessard - "Le muet"

Musical theater

* "A Gaiety Girl" - Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
* "Der Obersteiger" - Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien on January 5
* "The Passing Show" - Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5
*"Rob Roy" Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on October 29 and ran for 168 performances
* "The Shop Girl" - London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
* "A Trip To Chinatown" - London production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances

Births

*January 31 - Isham Jones, US bandleader and composer
* February 11 - Alfonso Leng
* April 3 - Dooley Wilson
* April 15 - Bessie Smith
* April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky
* May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born US composer, pianist and conductor
* May 29 -Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer
* June 4 - La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
* June 10 - Punch Miller
* July 10 - Jimmy McHugh, US composer and pianist
*August 15 - Harry Akst, US composer and pianist
* September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
*September 18 - Willard Robinson, US songwriter and bandleader
*September 26 - Vaughn De Leath, US singer and radio pioneer

Deaths

*January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
*January 21 - Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
* February 4
** Louis Lewandowski, composer (b. 1821)
** Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
* February 11 - Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
*February 12 - Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
*February 18 - Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
*April 13
** Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
** Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
* June 9 - Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
* June 23 - Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
*July 26 - Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
* September 13 - Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
*September 21 - Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
*October 16 - Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
* October 28 - Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
* November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)

See also

* 1894
* list of years in music