- 1893 in music
Events
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February 9 - Premiere ofGiuseppe Verdi 's final opera "Falstaff" inLa Scala inMilan
*August 14-15 - America's oldest music organization, theStoughton Musical Society performs at theWorld's Columbian Exposition
*December 29 -Claude Debussy 's "String Quartet" premiered inParis
* 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" byJohn 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 CodinaRecorded popular music
*"Daisy Bell"
-Dan W. Quinn Classical music
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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 atCopenhagen
*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 theThéâtre des Bouffes Parisiens , Salle Choiseul, Paris
*Giacomo Puccini - "Manon Lescaut"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Falstaff"Musical theater * "
A Gaiety Girl " London production opened at thePrince of Wales Theatre onOctober 14 and ran for 413 performances
* "Jane Annie " London production opened at theSavoy Theatre onMay 13 and ran for 50 performances
* "Little Christopher Columbus " London production opened at the Lyric Theatre onOctober 10 and ran for 279 performances
* "Morocco Bound " (musicFrank Osmond Carr lyrics:Adrian Ross ) London production opened at theShaftesbury Theatre onApril 13 and transferred to theTrafalgar Square Theatre onJanuary 8 ,1894 for a total run of 295 performances.
* "A Trip To Chinatown " Broadway production
* "Utopia Limited " London production opened at theSavoy Theatre onOctober 7 and ran for 245 performancesBirths
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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
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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
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1893
*list of years in music
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