# 1896 in music

Events in the year 1896 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1896 in Norwegian music

## Events

* March 18 – Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts a performance of his First Symphony in Dresden; the event marks the beginning of his international success.
* March 19 – Leo Stern is soloist in the première of Dvořák's Cello Concerto, in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, at the Queen's Hall in London.
* April 13 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Lemminkäinen Suite in Helsinki.
* December 27 – Formal première of Ernest Chausson's Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, with Eugène Ysaÿe as soloist, at Nancy, France.
* Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
* Gabriel Fauré takes over from Théodore Dubois as organist of the church of La Madeleine, Paris.
* In Moscow, Mariya Kerzina and her husband Arkadiy Kerzin form the Circle of Russian Music Lovers, a performance society.

## Published popular music

* "All Coons Look Alike to Me" w.m. Ernest Hogan
* "Årstiderna" w.m. Alice Tegnér
* "The Amorous Goldfish" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
* "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
* "El Capitan March" m. John Philip Sousa
* "Eli Green's Cakewalk" w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky
* "Elsie From Chelsea" w.m. Harry Dacre
* "Going For A Pardon" w. James Thornton & Clara Havenschild m. James Thornton
* "Happy Days In Dixie" m. Kerry Mills
* "Hot Tamale Alley" by George M. Cohan
* "A Hot Time In The Old Town" w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz
* "I Love You In The Same Old Way – Darling Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
* "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" w.m. Gussie L. Davis
* "A Jovial Monk Am I" w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran
* "Kentucky Babe" w. Richard Henry Buck m. Adam Geibel
* "Laugh And The World Laughs With You" w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk
* "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" w. Clyde Fitch m. arr. William Furst
* "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" w.m. Ben Harney
* "Mother Was A Lady" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
* "Musetta's Waltz Song" m. Giacomo Puccini
* "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders
* "Remus Takes the Cake" by J. H. Ellis
* "The Saint Louis Cyclone" by Ren Shields & George Evans
* "Sambo at the Cakewalk" by Alfred E. Marks
* "Stars & Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa
* "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" w.m. Maude Nugent
* "To A Wild Rose" m. Edward MacDowell
* "Warmest Baby in the Bunch" by George M. Cohan
* "When the Saints Are Marching In" w. Katharine E. Purvis m. James M. Black
* "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" w.m. Ben Harney

## Recorded popular music

* "A Hot Time In The Old Town" – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
* "A Hot Time On The Levee" – Len Spencer & Vess Ossman on Columbia Records
* "All Coons Look Alike to Me" (w.m. Ernest Hogan) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records – George J. Gaskin on Berliner – Len Spencer on Columbia
* "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
* "Anchored" – J.W. Myers on Berliner
* "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" (w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon) – Maud Foster on Berliner Records
* "Annie Laurie" (w. William Douglas m. Lady John Douglas Scott) – George J. Gaskin on Edison – Edison Male Quartette on Edison
* "The Anvil Chorus" – Banta's Popular Orchestra
* "A Summer Evening" – Baldwin's Cadet Band of Boston
* "Beautiful Star" – Mozart Quartette
* "The Belle of Avenoo A" (w.m. Safford Waters) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
* "The Belle of New York March" – United States Marine Band
* "Ben Bolt" (w. Thomas Dunn English m. Nelson Kneass) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "The Blue Danube" (m. Johann Strauss) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison
* "Commodore Polka" – W. Paris Chambers on Berliner
* "Darkies BBQ" – Vess Ossman on Columbia
* "The Darkies Temptation" – John Philip Sousa on Edison
* "Dear Kind Doctor" – Russell Hunting
* "La Donna è Mobile" (w. Francesco Piave m. Giuseppe Verdi) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
* "Don't You Hear Dem Bells?" (w.m. D. S. McCosh) – Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
* "Down in Poverty Row" (w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner – George J. Gaskin on Edison
* "Elsie from Chelsea" (w.m. Harry Dacre) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison
* "Flower Song" – Maud Foster on Berliner
* "Funiculì, Funiculà" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
* "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "The Girl I Left Behind" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "The Gladiators" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "Hallelujah Chorus" (w. Charles Jennes m. George Frideric Handel) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "Henrietta, Have You Met Her?" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Her Name is Jane" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
* "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop) – George J. Gaskin on Edison
* "The Honeymoon" (m. George Rosey) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" (w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie) – Maud Foster on Berliner
* "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" (w.m. Gussie L. Davis) – George J. Gaskin on Edison – Dan W. Quinn
* "Isabelle" – Maud Foster on Berliner
* "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White) – Brilliant Quartet on Berliner – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "I've Been Hoodoed" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
* "I Want Yer, Ma Honey - The Widow Jones" – Dan W. Quinn
* "I Wonder Why?" – Russell Hunting
* "Just One Girl" – William F. Denny
* "Just Say Goodbye Again" – George J. Gaskin
* "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" (w.m. Paul Dresser) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
* "Kathleen" (w.m. Helene Mora) – George J. Gaskin on Edison
* "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Kentucky Jubilee Singers" – Issler's Orchestra
* "King Cotton March" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "La Paloma" (w. anon m. Sebastian Yradier) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner*"The Anvil Chorus" – Banta's Popular Orchestra
* "Leonore" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Listen to the Mocking Bird" (w. Alice Hawthorne m. Richard Milburn) – whistling Billy Golden on Edison
* "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan) – Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "Love's Old Sweet Song" – George J. Gaskin
* "March from Carmen" – Issler's Orchestra
* "Marching Through Georgia" (w.m. Henry Clay Work) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner – J.W. Myers on Berliner
* "La Marseillaise" (w.m. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
* "Massa's In De Cold Cold Ground" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "McKinley Is Our Man" – Dan W. Quinn on U.S. Phonograph Records
* "Moonlight On The Lake" – Mozart Quartette
* "My Angeline" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert) – Frank Daniels on Berliner
* "My Best Girl's a New Yorker" (w.m. John Stromberg) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
* "My Gal Is a High Born Lady" (w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders) – George J. Gaskin on Edison – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
* "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" (w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Nearer, My God, To Thee" (w. Sarah F. Adams m. Lowell Mason) – J. W. Myers on Berliner – Len Spencer & Roger Harding on Columbia
* "The New Bully" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner – J.W. Myers on Berliner
* "Oh! Uncle John" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Old Folks At Home" – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "On The Mill Dam" – Stephen B. Clements on Berliner
* "Onward, Christian Soldiers" (w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "The Palms" (Jean-Baptiste Faure) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
* "Princess Bonnie Waltzes" – Fred Gaisberg on Berliner
* "Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Put Me Off at Buffalo" (Dillon Brothers, w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
* "Remember Poor Mother At Home" – Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
* "Rock of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "Roll on De Ground" – Billy Golden on Berliner
* "'Round His Bed I'm Goin' to Creep" – Len Spencer on Columbia
* "Sally in Our Alley" (w. Henry Carey m. trad) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "She Is More to Be Pitied Than Censured" (w.m. William B. Gray) – Steve Porter on Columbia
* "She May Have Seen Better Days" (w.m. James Thornton) – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Star Light, Star Bright" – J.W. Myers on Berliner
* "Rastus On Parade" – Stephen B. Clements on Berliner
* "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" (w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" (w.m. Walter Kittredge) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
* "There's Only One Girl in the World for Me" (w.m. Dave Marion) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "They Are the Best Friends of All" – Helene Mora on US Phonograph Records
* "The Thunderer" – United States Marine Band
* "Toreador Song" (w. Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Trilby Song" – Maurice Farkoa with piano Frank Lambert on Berliner
* "Uncle Harry, What is Love" – William F. Denny
* "The Virginia Skedaddle" – Columbia Orchestra on Columbia
* "Watchman Tell Us of the Night" (Bowring, Mason) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "'Way Down Yonder in the Cornfield" – Columbia Quartette on Columbia – Mozart Quartette on Berliner
* "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "Where Is My Wandering Boy, Tonight?" (w.m. Rev. R. Lowry) – J. W. Myers on Berliner
* "Wot Cher!" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle) – George J. Gaskin on Berliner
* "The Wreck of The Maine" – George J. Gaskin

## Classical music

* Eyvind Alnæs – Symphony No. 1
* Amy Beach
** Symphony in E minor "Gaelic"
** Violin Sonata
* Johannes Brahms
** Vier ernste Gesänge
** Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ
* Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 9 (finished three movements, sketches of finale)
* Ernest Chausson – Poème for violin and orchestra
* Cornelis Dopper – Symphony No. 1
* Antonín Dvořák
** The Water Goblin
** The Noon-Day Witch (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London)
** Quartet in A-flat major Op. 105
** The Wild Dove, Op.110
* Louis Ganne – Extase
* Gustav Holst – Quintet for piano and winds
* Vincent d'Indy – Istar
* Charles Ives – String Quartet no. 1, From the Salvation Army
* Edward MacDowell – Woodland Sketches
* Albéric Magnard – Symphony No. 3 Opus 11 (1895–96)
* Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3 completed
* Hans Pfitzner – Piano Trio in F Opus 8
* Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 1 (1895–96)
* Maurice Ravel
** "D'Anne jouant de l'espinette"
** La parade
** "Sainte"
* Camille Saint-Saëns
** Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian")
** Violin Sonata No. 2
* Alexander Scriabin
** 24 Preludes for Piano, Op. 11
** 5 Preludes for Piano, Op. 15
** Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, Op. 20
* Jean Sibelius – Coronation Cantata
* Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra
* George Templeton Strong – 4 Poems, Op.36
* Francisco Tárrega – Recuerdos de la Alhambra
* Alexander von Zemlinsky
** String Quartet No. 1
** Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

## Opera

* August Enna – Aucassin og Nicolette
* Zdeněk Fibich – Hedy, premiered February 12 in Prague
* Gialdino Gialdini – La Pupilla premiered October 23 at the Societá Filarmonica Drammatica, Trieste
* Umberto Giordano – Andrea Chénier
* Paul Juon – Aleko
* Ruggiero Leoncavallo – Chatterton
* Friedrich Lux – The Duchess of Athens
* Giacomo Puccini – La Bohème, Teatro Regio in Turin.
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Sadko
* Charles Villiers Stanford – Shamus O'Brien (revised 1907)
* Hugo Wolf – Der Corregidor

## Musical theater

* The Art Of Maryland Broadway production
* El Capitan Broadway production
* The Circus Girl London production
* The Gay Parisienne London production
* The Geisha London production
* The Geisha Broadway production
* The Girl From Paris London production
* The Grand Duke London production

## Births

* January 20 – Elmer Diktonius, poet and composer (d. 1961)
* January 25 – Florence Mills, cabaret and jazz performer (d. 1927)
* January 28 – Elsie Carlisle, English singer (d. 1977)
* February 3 – Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter (d. 1987)
* February 9 – Steffy Goldner, harpist (d. 1962)
* February 22 – Nacio Herb Brown, US songwriter (d. 1964)
* March 1 – Dimitris Mitropoulos, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1960)
* April 10 – Edith Day, US actress, singer and dancer (d. 1971)
* April 30 – Reverend Gary Davis, blues and gospel singer and instrumentalist (d. 1972)
* June 1 – Sydney Kyte, British bandleader and violinist (d. 1981)
* June 20 – Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian conductor (d. 1982)
* July 10
** Stefan Askenase, Polish-Belgian classical pianist and pedagogue (d. 1985)
** Maurice Zbriger, Ukrainian-born Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1981)
* August 2 – Lorenzo Herrera, singer and composer (d. 1960)
* August 15 – Léon Theremin, Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him (d. 1993)
* September 2 – Amanda Randolph, actress and singer (d. 1967)
* September 8 – Howard Dietz, lyricist (d. 1983)
* September 10 – Adele Astaire, US dancer and singer (d. 1981)
* September 15 – Bert Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist (d. 1971)
* September 25 – Roberto Gerhard, composer (d. 1970)
* October 7 – Phil Ohman, US bandleader (d. 1954)
* October 17 – Fernando Obradors, composer (d. 1945)
* October 18 – Friedrich Hollaender, composer (d. 1976)
* October 28 – Howard Hanson, composer (d. 1981)
* October 31 – Ethel Waters, singer (d. 1977)
* November 23 – Ruth Etting, US singer (d. 1978)
* November 25 – Virgil Thomson, composer and critic (d. 1989)
* December 6 – Ira Gershwin, lyricist (d. 1983)
* December 12 – Jenö Ádám, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1982)
* December 21 – Leroy Robertson, composer and music teacher (d. 1971)
* December 28 – Roger Sessions, composer (d. 1985)

## Deaths

* January 28 – Sir Joseph Barnby, conductor and composer (b. 1838)
* February 5 – Henry David Leslie, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
* February 6 – Juliette Dorus-Gras, operatic soprano (born 1896)
* February 12 – Ambroise Thomas, composer (b. 1811)
* February 13 – Carl Martin Reinthaler, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
* March 5 – Hiromori Hayashi, composer (b. 1831)
* April 12 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (b. 1833)
* May 12 – Juan Morel Campos, danza composer (b. 1857)
* May 20 – Clara Schumann, Austrian composer (b. 1819)
* June 7 – Pavlos Carrer, composer (b. 1829)
* June 22 – Sir Augustus Harris, librettist and impresario (b. 1852)
* June 28 – Jenny Hill, music hall performer (b. 1848; tuberculosis)
* July 14 – Luther Whiting Mason, music educator (b. 1818)
* July 17 – Alfred Novello, music publisher (b. 1810)
* July 26 – Théodore Salomé, organist and composer (b. 1834)
* August 1 – Wilhelm Herman Barth, violinist, composer and music theorist (b. 1813)
* August 18 – Frederick Crouch, cellist and composer (b. 1808)
* September 16 – Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer (b. 1836)
* September 22 – Katharina Klafsky, Wagnerian soprano (b. 1855)
* September 23 – Gilbert Duprez, operatic tenor (b. 1806)
* October 11 – Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
* October 17 – Henry Eugene Abbey, theatre manager (b. 1846)
* November 25 – Spyridon Xyndas, composer (b. 1812)
* December 3 – László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
* December 13 – Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski, musicologist, conductor, and composer (b. 1822)
* December 17 – Richard Pohl, writer, critic and composer (b. 1826)
* December 24 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (b. 1815)
* date unknown
** Luigia Abbadia, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1821)
** Gopalakrishna Bharati, poet and Carnatic music composer (b. 1810)