# 1899 in music

Events in the year 1899 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1899 in Norwegian music

## Events

* January 25 – Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström.
* March 3 – Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of Ein Heldenleben with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester.
* April 26
** Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 1 in Helsinki.
** Tenor Antonio Paoli makes his début in Rossini's William Tell in Paris.
* May 27 – Maurice Ravel conducts the first public performance of his 1898 Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris; it receives a critical reception and is not published in his lifetime.
* June 19 – Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) are premiered at St James's Hall in London conducted by Hans Richter. A revised version is first heard on September 13 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester Cathedral with Elgar conducting.
* September 18 – Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States.
* October 19 – Claude Debussy marries Rosalie Texier, having lived for nine years with her best friend; the marriage lasts only five years.
* December 30 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor marries Jessie Walmisley.
* date unknown
** Charles Hale's song "At a Darktown Cakewalk" includes an early appearance of the riff "Shave and a Haircut".
** Billy Murray makes his singing debut.

## Published popular music

* "Absent" w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf
* "Always!" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
* "Cake Walk in The Sky" by Ben Harney
* "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do a Thing to You" w.m. Paul Dresser
* "A Coon Band Contest" m. Arthur Pryor
* "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun
* "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey" w.m. Alfred W. Noll
* "Hands Across the Sea" m. John Philip Sousa
* "Hearts and Flowers" w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani
* "Hello! Ma Baby" w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard
* "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You" w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "If Only You Were Mine" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
* "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" w.m. Harry Dacre
* "Impecunious Davis" by Kerry Mills
* "Keep on the Sunny Side", w. A. Blenkhorn, m. J.H. Entwisle
* "Mandy Lee" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
* "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
* "Mosquito Parade" m. Howard Whitney
* "My Little Georgia Rose" w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
* "My Wild Irish Rose" w.m. Chauncey Olcott
* "'O sole mio!" w. Giovanni Capurro m. Eduardo di Capua
* "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" w.m. J. Fred Helf
* "She Was Happy Till She Met You" w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
* "Smoky Mokes" m. Abe Holzmann
* "Stay in Your Own Back Yard" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
* "The Story of the Rose" (aka "Heart Of My Heart") w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack
* "Telephone Me, Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
* "There's Where My Heart Is Tonight" w.m. Paul Dresser
* "When most I wink" m. Frank Bridge
* "Where the Sweet Magnolias Grow" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
* "Whistling Rufus" w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills
* "You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine" w. Seymore Rice & Albert H. Brown, m. Charles N. Daniels

## Recorded popular music

* "Abide With Me" (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
* "Always!" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers) – May Kelso on Edison Records – Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
* "Asleep In The Deep" (w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie) – William Hooley on Edison Records
* "Ave Maria" (w. (Fr) Paul Bernard m. Charles Gounod) – M. A. Guarini on Edison Records – W. D. McFarland on Berliner Records
* "Because" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
* "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) – J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
* "The Boy Guessed Right" (w.m. Lionel Monckton) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records & Berliner Records
* "The Cake Walk" (trad US) – Eugene Stratton with piano Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
* "Calvary" (w. Henry Vaughan m. Paul Rodney) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
* "Comin' Thro' The Rye" (w. Robert Burns m. trad) – Syria Lamonte with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
* "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
* "Curse of the Dreamer" – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
* "Down The Road" (w.m. Fred Gilbert) – Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
* "Eli Green's Cakewalk" (w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky) – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Edison Records
* "Emmet's Lullaby" (w.m. J. K. Emmet) – George P. Watson on Edison Records
* "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza) – Hotel Cecil Orchestra on Berliner Gramophone
* "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier) – Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
* "God Save The Queen" – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
* "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert) – Eugene Cowles on Berliner Records – William Hooley on Edison Records
* "Hands Across The Sea March" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Peerless Orchestra on Edison Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
* "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani) – violin Chris De Arth on Berliner Records
* "Hello! Ma Baby" (w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records – Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records – Imperial Minstrels on Berliner
* "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams) – Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
* "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop) – whistling John Yorke Atlee on Berliner Records
* "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
* "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" (w.m. George M. Cohan) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records – Edward M. Favor on Berliner Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
* "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
* "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn) – Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
* "If Only You Were Mine" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
* "It's A Great Big Shame" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn) – Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
* "Jack's The Boy" (Greenbank, Jones) – H. Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
* "Just As The Sun Went Down" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Records – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
* "Just One Girl" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – H. Scott Russell with p. Amy Williams on Berliner Gramophone – J. W. Myers on Columbia Records
* "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch) – William F. Hooley on Edison Records
* "Kiss Me, Honey Do" (w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
* "Little Dolly Daydream" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) – Eugene Stratton on Berliner Gramophone
* "Little Old New York is Good Enough For Me" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Records
* "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan) – William F. Hooley on Berliner Records
* "Mandy Lee" (w.m. Thurland Chattaway) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
* "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
* "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney) – John Terrell on Berliner Records
* "Molly's The Girl For Me" – J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
* "The Moth And The Flame" (w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
* "My Little Georgia Rose" (w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt) – Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
* "My Old Dutch" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle) – Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
* "My Old New Hampshire Home" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Jere Mahoney on Edison Records – Byron G. Harlan & A. D. Madeira on Edison Records – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – George J. Gaskin on Berliner Records – The Greater New York Quartette on Columbia Records
* "My Wild Irish Rose" (w.m. Chauncey Olcott) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
* "Night Hymn At Sea" – Clara Butt & Kennerley Rumford on Berliner Gramophone
* "The Old Brigade" (w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Orlando Barri) – H. Scott Russell with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
* "Old Man's Story" – J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia records
* "The Old Oaken Bucket" (w. Samuel Woodworth m. E. Kaillmark) – Haydn Quartette on Berliner Records
* "The Organ Grinder's Serenade" – J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
* "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" (w.m. J. Fred Helf) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
* "She Is The Belle Of New York" (w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker) – Frank Lawton with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
* "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
* "She Was Happy Till She Met You" (w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld) – Jere Mahoney on Edison Records – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
* "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann) – Len Spencer on Columbia Records – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records – Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
* "The Soldiers Of The Queen" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) – Albert Christian with p. Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
* "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent) – Lil Hawthorne on Berliner Gramophone
* "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" (w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan) – Herbert Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
* "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (w. Thomas Moore m. Richard Alfred Milliken) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
* "Toreador Song" (w. H. Meilac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet) – Montague Borwell on Berliner Gramophone
* "Whistling Rufus" (w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills) – Len Spencer on Berliner Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records & Berliner Records – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
* "Yes, Let Me Like A Soldier Fall" (w. Edward Fitzball m. Vincent Wallace) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner Records
* "You've Been A Good Old Wagon" (Harney) – Len Spencer on Columbia Records & Berliner Records

## Classical music

* Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 2 in D
* Tor Aulin – 4 Aquarellen for Violin and Piano, Op. 12 or 15
* Amy Beach – Piano Concerto in C♯ minor, Op. 45 (198/9)
* Joseph Callaerts – Toccata, Op.29
* Frederick Delius – Paris, Nocturne
* Friedrich Diethe – Romanze for Bass Clarinet
* Ernő von Dohnányi – Sonata for Cello and Piano in B♭ minor
* Edward Elgar
** Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36
** Dry Those Fair, Those Crystal Eyes
** Sérénade lyrique, for orchestra
* George Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6
* Axel Gade – Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra in F major
* Louis Glass – Symphony No. 2 in C minor
* Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 1
* Leopold Godowsky – 3 Concert Studies, Op.11
* Theodore Gouvy – Paraphrases symphoniques, Op.89
* Edvard Grieg – Ave maris stella, EG 150
* Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Festival Overture
* Siegmund von Hausegger – Barbarossa
* Hans Huber – Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra
* Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag
* Ferdinand Kühne – Geburstags-Marsch, Op.41
* Max Laurischkus
** Elegie, Op.2
** Duos, Op.3
* Luise Adolpha Le Beau – Elegy, Op.44
* Ernst Mielck – Finnish Suite, Op. 10
* Ethelbert Nevin – En Passant, Op.30
* Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante défunte, for piano
* Vladimir Rebikov
** 3 Morceaux, Op.7
** Suite de ballet, Op.14
* Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 1 in E minor
* Josef Suk – Symphony No. 1 in E major
* Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht

## Opera

* Eugen d'Albert – Kain
* Antonín Dvořák – The Devil and Kate
* Josef Bohuslav Foerster – Eva
* Victor Herbert – The Ameer, premiered October 10 in Scranton
* Isidore de Lara – Messaline
* Jules Massenet – Cendrillon (composed 1894–5, premiered 1899)
* Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Tsar's Bride, (premiered November 3 in Moscow)
* Max von Schillings – Der Pfeifertag, Op.10 (premiered February 26 in Schwerin)

## Musical theater

* Die Landstreicher – Karl Michael Ziehrer
* El Capitan London production
* Florodora (Music: Leslie Stuart Lyrics: Sidney Jones & Paul Rubens Book: Owen Hall) London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on November 11
* A Gaiety Girl London revival opened at Daly's Theatre on June 5
* Helter-Skelter Broadway production
* The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street Broadway production
* The Rose of Persia (music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 29
* San Toy London production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 21

## Births

* January 7
** Al Bowlly, South African-born British singer (died 1941)
** Francis Poulenc, French composer (died 1963)
* January 14 – Herbert Sumsion, English composer and organist (died 1995)
* January 21 – Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian pianist and composer (died 1977)
* February 15 – Georges Auric, French composer (died 1983)
* February 21 – Clara Clairbert, Belgian operatic soprano (died 1970)
* March 5 – Patrick Hadley, British composer (died 1973)
* March 10 – Finn Høffding, Danish composer (died 1997)
* March 13 – Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian composer (died 1978)
* March 26 – William Baines, English composer and pianist (died 1922)
* April 5
** Leonard Falcone, Italian-born American baritone/euphonium virtuoso, director of bands at Michigan State (died 1985)
** Bernhard Kaun, American Hollywood filmscore composer (died 1980)
* April 7 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (died 1972)
* April 29 – Duke Ellington, American jazz musician and composer (died 1974)
* May 1 – Jón Leifs, Icelandic composer (died 1968)
* May 6 – Billy Cotton, English bandleader (died 1969)
* May 10 – Fred Astaire, American dancer, actor and singer (died 1987)
* May 30 – Jack Little, British-born American singer and songwriter (died 1956)
* June 1 – Werner Janssen, American conductor and composer (died 1990)
* June 9 – Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (died 1987)
* June 11 – George Frederick McKay, American composer (died 1970)
* June 13 – Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer and conductor
* June 16 – Helen Traubel, American opera singer (died 1972)
* June 19 – Pat Ballard, American songwriter (died 1960)
* June 21 – Pavel Haas, Czech composer (killed 1944)
* June 30 – Harry Shields, American jazz musician (died 1971)
* July 1 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American "father of gospel music" (died 1993)
* July 3 – Benny Nawahi, American ukulele player (died 1985)
* July 10 – André Souris, Belgian composer and writer (died 1970)
* July 17 – James Cagney, American actor, singer and dancer (died 1986)
* July 18 – Felipe Pinglo Alva, Peruvian composer (died 1938)
* July 30 – John Woods Duke, American composer (died 1984)
* August 6 – Margarete Klose, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 1968)
* September 6 – Billy Rose, Broadway producer and lyricist (died 1966)
* September 9 – Maria Yudina, pianist (died 1970)
* September 11 – Jimmie Davis, country and gospel singer-songwriter and politician (died 2000)
* September 13 – Ephraim Amu, composer, musicologist and music teacher (died 1995)
* September 25 – Ricard Lamote de Grignon, conductor and composer (died 1965)
* September 26 – William L. Dawson, composer (died 1990)
* October 9 – Mary Jarred, opera singer (died 1993)
* October 19 – Sidonie Goossens, harpist (died 2004)
* October 31 – Ted Shapiro, songwriter and pianist (died 1980)
* November 9 – Mezz Mezzrow, jazz musician (died 1972)
* November 17 – Toscha Seidel, violinist (died 1962)
* November 18 – Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor (died 1985)
* November 22 – Hoagy Carmichael, composer, pianist and singer (died 1981)
* November 29 – Gustave Reese, musicologist (died 1977)
* November 30 – Hans Krása, Czech-German composer (killed 1944)
* December 2 – Sir John Barbirolli, conductor (died 1970)
* December 11 – Julio de Caro, composer (died 1980)
* December 16 – Noël Coward, dramatist, actor, singer and composer (died 1973)
* December 18 – Muriel Brunskill, operatic contralto (died 1980)
* December 21 – Silvestre Revueltas, composer (died 1940)
* date unknown – Sadettin Heper, composer (died 1980)

## Deaths

* January 10 – Albert Becker, composer, 64
* February 3 – Amalie Joachim, contralto and voice teacher (born 1839)
* February 4 – Eduard Holst, Danish composer, playwright, actor, dancer and dance master, 52
* April 17 – Hans Balatka, composer, 72
* April 23 – Lucien Delormel, lyricist (born 1847)
* May 21 – Louise Tunison, composer and organist, 26
* May 29 – Frantz Jehin-Prume, violinist, composer, and music educator, 60
* June 3 – Johann Strauss II, composer, 73
* June 10 – Ernest Chausson, composer, 44 (bicycle accident)
* June 16 – August Winding, composer, 64
* August 17 – Erik Bøgh, journalist, dramatist and songwriter, 77
* August 28 – Guillermo Morphy, musicologist, 63
* October 10 – Allan James Foley, operatic bass, 62
* October 11 – John Troutbeck, musicologist (b. 1832)
* October 13 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ-builder, 88
* October 15 – Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, conductor and composer, 57
* October 18 – Gussie Davis, songwriter, 36
* October 22 – Ernst Mielck, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
* October 23 – Ludwig Straus, violinist, 64
* October 31 – Hugh Talbot, singer and actor, 54
* November 16 – Vincas Kudirka, lyricist of the Lithuanian national anthem, 40 (tuberculosis)
* November 25 – Robert Lowry, hymn writer, 73
* December 7 – Anton de Kontski, pianist and composer, 82
* December 10 – Hans von Milde, operatic baritone, 78
* December 20 – Romain Bussine, poet, baritone, and voice teacher, 69
* December 21
** Joseph Dupont, violinist, theatre director and conductor, 61
** Charles Lamoureux, conductor and violinist, 65
* December 23 – Marietta Piccolomini, operatic soprano, 65
* December 31 – Carl Millöcker, conductor and composer, 57