# 1892 in music

Events in the year 1892 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1892 in Norwegian music

## Events

* April 28 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Kullervo Symphony in Helsinki.
* May 26 – A statue of Felix Mendelssohn, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it is re-dedicated in 2008.
* August 1 – Jef Denyn presents the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
* September 24 – Opening of the Theater Unter den Linden, Berlin with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.
* September 26 – Antonín Dvořák arrives in the United States to take up his post as artistic director of the National Conservatory of Music.
* December 18
** Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Richter conducting at the Stadttheater, Leipzig.
** December 6 O.S. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and opera Iolanta are premiered in a double bill at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
* "After the Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year).
* Erik Satie composes his first pieces in his own compositional system.
* Sergei Diaghilev graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
* Ferdinand Praeger's controversial biography Wagner As I Knew Him is published posthumously in London.
* Sudrophone patented by François Sudre in France.

## Published popular music

* "After the Ball" w.m. Charles K. Harris
* "The Bowery" w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
* "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow" w.m. Joseph Tabrar
* "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two") w.m. Harry Dacre
* "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
* "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
* "The Holy City" w. Frederic Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
* "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
* "Liebestraum Nocturne" m. Virginia Field
* "Molly And I And The Baby" w.m. Harry Kennedy
* "My Old Dutch" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
* "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon" w.m. James Thornton
* "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" w.m. R. M. Stults
* "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld

## Recorded popular music

* "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Dan W. Quinn
* "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Silas Leachman
* "Esquimeau Dance" – William Tuson
* "Grover Cleveland March" – Gilmore's Band
* "Michael Casey At The Telephone" – Russell Hunting
* "Michael Casey Taking The Census" – Russell Hunting
* "Pat Brady as President" – Dan Kelly
* "Parody of "We'll Never Turn His Picture Toward The Wall'" – Al Reeves
* "Riding through the Glen" – Issler's Orchestra
* "Take Your Time Gentlemen" – Press Eldridge
* "The Blind Boy" – Richard Jose
* "The Bowery" – Dan W. Quinn
* "The Laughing Darkie" – George W. Johnson (singer)
* "The Night Alarm" – Holding's Military Band
* "The Old Folks at Home" – Len Spencer
* "Uncle Ned's Dream" – George W. Johnson (singer)

## Classical music

* Johannes Brahms – Intermezzos Opus number 117
* Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
* Alexander Glazunov – String Quintet in A major (Opus 39)
* Gustav Mahler – Das himmlische Leben (later incorporated into his fourth symphony)
* Miguel Marqués – El Centinelo
* Carl Nielsen – First Symphony
* Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
* Sergei Rachmaninoff
** Prelude in C-sharp Minor
** Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
* Max Reger
** Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 5
** Twelve Waltz-Caprices, Op. 9, four-hand piano
** 20 German Dances, Op. 10, four-hand piano
* Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, opus 6
* Jean Sibelius – Kullervo Symphony
* Josef Suk – Serenade for Strings in E-flat major
* Alexander von Zemlinsky – Symphony in D minor

## Opera

* Herman Bemberg – Elaine
* Karel Bendl – Dite Tabora
* Alfredo Catalani – La Wally
* Gialdino Gialdini – I due soci premiered February 24 at the Teatro Brunetti, Bologna
* Umberto Giordano – Mala Vita
* Isidore de Lara – The Light of Asia
* Ruggiero Leoncavallo – I Pagliacci
* Jules Massenet – Werther (Composed 1887)
* Adolf Neuendorff – The Minstrel
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Iolanta
* The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones are the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall

## Ballet

* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker

## Musical theater

* Blue-Eyed Susan, libretto by George Robert Sims, on London stage
* "Maid Marian" (retitled version of "Robin Hood"); London production
* "Maid Marian" (sequel to "Robin Hood"); Broadway production
* The Wicklow Postman; initial production in Boston, Massachusetts

## Top hits

* "Slide, Kelly, Slide" by George J. Gaskin
* "Sally in Our Alley" by Manhansett Quartette

## Births

* January 1 – Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (d. 1958)
* January 31 – Eddie Cantor, born Isidore Itzkowitz, American singer and entertainer (d. 1964)
* February 4 – Yrjö Kilpinen, Finnish composer known most for his lieder (d. 1959)
* February 15 – Ján Valašťan Dolinský, Slovak composer (d. 1965)
* March 10
** Arthur Honegger, composer (d. 1955)
** Eva Turner, operatic soprano (d. 1990)
* March 27 – Ferde Grofé, composer (d. 1972)
* April 1 – Renato Zanelli, Chilean baritone, later tenor (d. 1935)
* April 2 – Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist (d. 1962)
* April 10 – Victor de Sabata, conductor and composer (d. 1967)
* April 12 – Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
* April 15 – Manuel Quiroga, violinist (d. 1961)
* April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, composer (d. 1983)
* April 21 – Jaroslav Kvapil, composer (d. 1958)
* May 14 – Arthur Lourié, Russian-born expatriate composer (d. 1966)
* May 18 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass singer and actor (d. 1957)
* May 19 – Pops Foster, jazz bass player (d. 1969)
* June 6 – Ted Lewis, singer and bandleader (d. 1971)
* June 18 – Eduard Steuermann, pianist (d. 1964)
* June 21 – Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer (d. 1985)
* June 23 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993)
* June 30 – László Lajtha, Hungarian symphonist (d. 1963)
* July 2 – Jack Hylton, British bandleader (d. 1965)
* July 8 – J. Russel Robinson, dixieland pianist-composer (d. 1963)
* July 10 – Ján Móry, Slovak composer (d. 1978)
* July 26 – Philipp Jarnach, composer of German-French origins (d. 1982)
* August 14 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music critic and pianist (d. 1988)
* August 15 – Knud Jeppesen, musicologist (d. 1974)
* September 4 – Darius Milhaud, composer (d. 1974)
* September 5 – Joseph Szigeti, violinist (d. 1973)
* September 17 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)
* October 17 – Herbert Howells, church music composer (d. 1983)
* October 19 – Ilmari Hannikainen, composer (d. 1955)
* October 25 – Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch, Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly sisters (d. 1941 and 1970 respectively)
* November 11 – Isidor Achron, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1948)
* November 28 – Thomas Wood, English composer (d. 1950)
* December 9 – Beatrice Harrison, cellist (d. 1965)
* December 11 – Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, operatic tenor (d. 1979)

## Deaths

* January 10 – Heinrich Dorn, German conductor, composer and journalist (born 1804)
* February 13 – Lambert Massart, violinist (born 1811)
* February 20 – Róza Csillag, opera singer (born 1832)
* March 11 – Caroline Reinagle, pianist, composer and writer (born 1818)
* March 20 – Arthur Goring Thomas, composer (born 1850) (suicide)
* April 22 – Édouard Lalo, composer (born 1823)
* May 2 – Wilhelm Rust, composer (born 1822)
* May 6 – Ernest Guiraud, composer (born 1837)
* June 5 – Robert Rees, Welsh tenor (born 1841)
* August 18 – Jules Perrot, ballet dancer (born 1810)
* August 19 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, composer, teacher and music theorist (born 1830)
* September 5 – Henry Christian Timm, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1811)
* September 24 – Patrick Gilmore, bandmaster and composer (born 1829)
* October 24 – Robert Franz, composer (born 1815)
* October 28 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (born 1835)
* November 4 – Hervé, organist and composer (born 1825)
* November 19 – Antonio Torres Jurado, guitar maker (born 1817)
* date unknown – Adolf Rzepko, Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor and pianist (born 1825)