# 1893 in music

Events in the year 1893 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1893 in Norwegian music

## Events

* February 9 – Première of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan with Victor Maurel in the title rôle.
* Summer – Gustav Mahler's first summer composing at his Komponierhäuschen ("composition hut") at Steinbach am Attersee in the Salzkammergut region of Austria.
* August 14–15 – America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition.
* October 16–28 – In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique (Патетическая), nine days before his death (attributed to cholera). The second performance takes place 21 days later at a memorial concert conducted by Eduard Nápravník, incorporating minor revisions. Tchaikovsky wrote it between February and the end of August at Klin.
* December 16 – Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" receives its première at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
* December 29 – Claude Debussy's String Quartet is premièred in Paris.
* American sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill publish Song Stories for the Kindergarten including "Good Morning to All", which later becomes known as "Happy Birthday to You".
* The first sousaphone is built by James Welsh Pepper at the request of bandmaster John Philip Sousa in the United States.

## 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. Harry S. Miller
* "Daisy Bell" – Edward M. Favor (Edison Records)
* "December And May" w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine
* "Do Do My Huckleberry Do" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon (the Dillon Brothers)
* "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
* "The Liberty Bell" 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
* "They All Take After Me" w. T. W. Connor m. Harry Randall
* "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

* "After the Ball (song)" – George J. Gaskin
* "After the Fair (Parody)" – George H. Diamond
* "Anvil Chorus" – John York AtLee
* "Beau Ideal March" – Baldwin's Cadet Band of Boston
* "Blind Tom" – Brilliant Quartette
* "The Cat Came Back" – George H. Diamond
* "Chinese Picnic" – Vess Ossman
* "Cocoanut Dance" – Vess Ossman
* "The Commodore Song" – Edward M. Favor
* "Daisy Bell" – Dan W. Quinn
* "Darkie Tickle" – Vess Ossman
* "Down On The Farm" – Edward Clarance
* "Forge in the Forest" – Voss' First Regiment Band
* "Grover Cleveland March" – Issler's Orchestra
* "High School Cadets" – Vess Ossman
* "If I Was Only Just Behind Her" – George H. Diamond
* "The King's Song" – Edward M. Favor
* "Lanciers With Figures Called" – Issler's Orchestra
* "The Liberty Bell (march)" – John Philip Sousa
* "Love's Sweet Honor" – Vess Ossman
* "Lovely Woman" – Al Reeves
* "Mama's Black Baby Boy" – Unique Quartette
* "The Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” – George H. Diamond
* "Marriage Bells" – Vess Ossman
* "Mary Ann Medley" – Brilliant Quartette (Columbia Records)
* "O Promise Me" – George J. Gaskin
* "Parody On "After the Ball" – George H. Diamond
* "Pat Brady and the World Fair at Chicago" – Dan Kelly
* "Wang's Gavotte" – Issler's Orchestra
* "The Washington Post (march)" – Vess Ossman
* "When Summer Comes Again" – George H. Diamond
* "Why Should I Keep From Whistling?" – John York AtLee & Fred Gaisberg

## Classical music

* Amy Beach – Gaelic Symphony
* Johannes Brahms
** Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
** Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119
* Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor
* 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
* Sergei Rachmaninoff
** Fantaisie-Tableaux, for two pianos, Op. 5
** Morceaux de salon for violin and piano, Op. 6
* Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite
* William Stanley – Bay View Gavotte in A major
* Josef Suk – Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"
* Charles-Marie Widor - Symphony no. 3 for organ & orchestra, Op. 69

## Opera

* Granville Bantock – Caedmar
* Julius Bechgaard – Frode premiered on May 11 in Copenhagen
* Engelbert Humperdinck – Hänsel und 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
* Camille Saint-Saëns – Phryné
* 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 – Jimmy Durante, American comedian and singer (died 1980)
* February 15 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (died 1947)
* February 21 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist (died 1987)
* March 8 – Mississippi John Hurt, American country blues singer and guitarist (died 1966)
* March 18 – Jean Goldkette, French-born American jazz pianist and bandleader (died 1962)
* April 2 – Sergei Protopopov, Russian composer and music theorist (died 1954)
* April 16 – Federico Mompou, Spanish classical composer (died 1987)
* April 18 – Georges Boulanger, Romanian violinist (died 1958)
* June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress (died 1952)
* June 26 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 1958)
* June 28 – Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor (died 1931)
* July 25 – Dorothy Dickson, American-born British singer and actress (died 1995)
* July 28 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (died 1952)
* August 21 – Lili Boulanger, French composer (died 1918)
* August 22 – Dorothy Parker, American writer, poet and lyricist (died 1953)
* September 13 – Larry Shields, American Dixieland jazz clarinetist (died 1953)
* September 24 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (died 1929)
* October 1 – Cliff Friend, American Tin Pan Alley songwriter (died 1974)
* October 23 – Jean Absil, Belgian composer and organist (died 1974)
* November 8 – Clarence Williams, American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer and publisher (died 1965)
* December 7 — Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
* December 24 – Harry Warren, born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, American film songwriter (died 1981)

## Deaths

* January 18 – Julius Eichberg, composer (b. 1824)
* February 13 – George Lichtenstein, pianist and music teacher (b. 1827)
* May 2 – Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing [de], composer (b.1809)
* 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 – Sir William Cusins, instrumentalist, conductor and composer; Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1833)
* September 8 – Michel Lentz, lyricist of the national anthem of Luxembourg (b. 1820)
* September 13 – Carl Ludvig Gerlach, opera singer and composer
* October 16 – Carlo Pedrotti, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
* October 18 – Charles Gounod, composer (b. 1818)
* November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1840)
* December 23 – Benedict Randhartinger, composer (b. 1802)
* date unknown – Félix Battanchon, cellist (b. 1814)