# 1894 in music

Events in the year 1894 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1894 in Norwegian music

## Events

* March 14 – Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen.
* April 19 – Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" is staged in New York City.
* September 22 – Opening of the Teatro Lirico Internazionale in Milan.
* December 22 – Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris

## 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
* "He's Got To Keep A-Movin'" w.m. T. W. Connor
* "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
* "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey
* "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)
* "I Can't Change It!" w.m. T.W. Connor
* "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
* "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" w.m. Anita Owen
* "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)
* "Daisy Bell" – Edward M. Favor (Edison Records)
* "Keep Movin'" – Standard Quartette (Columbia Records)
* "The Liberty Bell (march)" – United States Marine Band (Columbia Records)
* ”Marc Anthony's Curse” - David C. Bangs (Berliner Records)
* "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl" – Dan W. Quinn (Berliner Records)
* "The Black Knights Templar" – George J. Gaskin (Berliner Records)
* ”The Sword of Bunker Hill” – Samuel Ross (Berliner Records)
* ”The Village Blacksmith” – David C. Bangs (Berliner Records)
* "Yankee Doodle" – Vess Ossman (Edison Records)

## Classical music

* Anton Arensky – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
* Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
** Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33
** Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34
** 3 Claverstykker, Op.35
* Johannes Brahms – Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
* Claude Debussy
** Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
** Proses lyriques
* Antonín Dvořák
** Biblical Songs, Op.99
** Humoresques (Dvořák) Op. 101 (B. 187) for piano
** American Suite for piano (orchestrated a year later)
* Robert Fuchs – Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
* Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
* Edvard Grieg
** 5 Songs of Norway, Op.58
** 5 Songs, Op.60
* 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, op. 3
* August Klughardt – String Quintet, Op.62
* Alexander Kopylov – String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
* Theodor Leschetizky – 2 Pieces, Op.43
* Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2
* Carl Nielsen
** Symphony No. 1 in G minor
** Snefrid, CNW 4
** Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
* Josef Rheinberger – Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-flat major
* Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – 2 Pieces, Op.38
* Adolphe Samuel – Symphony No. 7 Opus 48
* Alexander Scriabin – 12 Études, Op. 8
* Charles Villiers Stanford – 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op.53
* Wilhelm Stenhammar
** Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1, premiered March 17 in Stockholm
** String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
* Sigismond Stojowski – 2 Orientales, Op.10
* Louis Vierne – String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)

## Opera

* Granville Bantock – The Pearl of Iran
* Julius Bechgaard – Frau Inge
* Herman Bemberg – Cleopatra
* Frederick Delius – The Magic Fountain
* Charles-Édouard Lefebvre – Djelma premiered on May 25 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra in Paris
* Hamish MacCunn – Jeanie Deans
* Jules Massenet
** La Navarraise
** Le portrait de Manon
** Thaïs (opera) 16 March at the Opéra Garnier
* Emile Pessard – Le muet
* Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek – Donna Diana
* Sergei Taneyev – Oresteia (completed 1894, premiered 1895)

## Musical theater

* A Gaiety Girl – Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
* The Mine Foreman – 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, premiered in Detroit on October 1; 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 3 – Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
* January 31 – Isham Jones, American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
* February 1 – James P. Johnson, American jazz pianist and composer.
* February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
* February 20 – Jimmy Yancey, American jazz pianist
* April 3 – Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
* April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
* April 27 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
* May 10 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
* May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
* June 1 – Percival Mackey, English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
* June 4 – La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
* June 10 – Punch Miller, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
* July 10 – Jimmy McHugh, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
* August 15 – Harry Akst, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
* August 26 – Arthur Loesser, pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
* September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
* September 18 – Willard Robison, American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
* September 25 – J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
* September 26 – Vaughn De Leath, American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
* December 31 – Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)

## Deaths

* January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
* January 21 – Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
* January 24 - Laura Schirmer Mapleson, American opera singer (b. 1862)
* January 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830)
* 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)
* March 21 – Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
* April 12 – Ludwig Pfau, lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
* April 13
** Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
** Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
* June 5 – Marcelina Czartoryska, pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
* June 9 – Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
* June 23 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
* July 17 – Leconte de Lisle, lyricist (born 1818)
* 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 27 – Carl Ploug, Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
* October 28 – Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
* November 4 – Eugène Oudin, composer (b. 1858)
* November 20 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)