1893 in music

Events

* February 9 - Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera "Falstaff" in La Scala in Milan
*August 14-15 - America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition
* December 29 - Claude Debussy's "String Quartet" premiered in Paris
* Song "Happy Birthday To You" by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill first published in the book "Song Stories for the Kindergarten"

Published popular music

Selected compositions (words/music indicated by "w.m."):
* "Can't Lose Me, Charlie" w.m. Harry S. Miller
* "The Cat Came Back" w.m. Henry S. Miller
* "December And May" w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine
* "Do Do My Huckleberry Do" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
* "The Fatal Wedding" w. W. H. Windom m. Gussie L. Davis
* "Good Morning to All" w. Patty Smith Hill m. Mildred J. Hill
* "I Long to See The Girl I Left Behind" w.m. John T. Kelly
* "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa
* "Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey" w.m. May Irwin
* "Marguerite" by Charles A. White
* "Oh! Mr Porter" w. Thomas Le Brunn m. George Le Brunn
* "Private Tommy Atkins" w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter
* "Say 'Au Revoir', But Not 'Good-Bye'" by Harry Kennedy
* "Sweet Marie" w. Cy Warman m. Raymond Moore
* "Two Little Girls in Blue" w.m. Charles Graham
* "The Volunteer Organist" w. William G. Gray m. Henry Lamb
* "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" w.m. James M. Black
* "Zacatecas" by Genaro Codina

Recorded popular music

*"Daisy Bell"
- Dan W. Quinn

Classical music

*Amy Beach - "Gaelic Symphony"
*Antonín Dvořák - "Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World"
*Edward German - "Symphony in A minor, "Norwich"
*Johan Halvorsen - "Entry of the Boyars"
*Josef Suk - "Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor"
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - "Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"

Opera

*Granville Bantock - "Caedmar"
*Julius Bechgaard - "Frode" premiered on May 11 at Copenhagen
*Engelbert Humperdinck - "Hansel and Gretel"
*Isidore de Lara - "Amy Robsart"
*Emile Pessard
**"Une nuit de Noël" premiered at the Ambigu, Paris
**"Mam'zelle Carabin" premiered on November 3 at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
*Giacomo Puccini - "Manon Lescaut"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Falstaff"

Musical theater

* "A Gaiety Girl" London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 14 and ran for 413 performances
* "Jane Annie" London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on May 13 and ran for 50 performances
* "Little Christopher Columbus" London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 10 and ran for 279 performances
* "Morocco Bound" (music Frank Osmond Carr lyrics: Adrian Ross) London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 13 and transferred to the Trafalgar Square Theatre on January 8, 1894 for a total run of 295 performances.
* "A Trip To Chinatown" Broadway production
* "Utopia Limited" London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on October 7 and ran for 245 performances

Births

*February 10 - Jimmie Durante
*February 15 - Walter Donaldson
*April 16 - Federico Mompou, composer
*June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy
*June 28 - Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor
*July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt
*August 22 - Dorothy Parker, US writer, poet and lyricist
*September 13 - Larry Shields
*October 1 - Cliff Friend US composer
*November 8 - Clarence Williams

Deaths

*January 18 - Julius Eichberg, composer (b. 1824)
*May 25 - Johann Rufinatscha, composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
*June 10 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel (b. 1843)
*June 25 - Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (b. 1810)
*July 16 - Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (b. 1824)
*August 7 - Alfredo Catalani, composer (b. 1854)
*August 31 - William George Cusins, instrumentalist, conductor and composer
*September 8 - Michel Lentz, lyricist of the national anthem of Luxembourg (b. 1820)
*October 18 - Charles Gounod, composer (b. 1818)
*November 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1840)
*"date unknown" - Felix Battanchon, cellist (b. 1814)

See also

* 1893
* list of years in music