1890 IN MUSIC

Contents

Events

Published popular music

Births

Deaths

See also

Events

★ September 9 - Edward Elgar's concert overture ''Froissart'' is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester

★ George W. Johnson records phonograph cylinders

★ First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera, ''Les Troyens'', takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death

Published popular music

★ "The Commodore Song"

★ "Little Pig Went To Market" by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker

★ "Maggie Murphy's Home" w. Edward Harrigan m. David Braham

★ "Passing By" w. Robert Herrick m. Edward C. Purcell

★ "Throw Him Down McCloskey" w.m. John W. Kelly

★ "You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber
==Classical music==

★ Ferruccio Busoni - ''Violin Sonata No. 1'', Opus 29

★ Ernest Chausson - ''Chansons de Shakespeare''

★ Antonín Dvořák - ''Requiem''

★ Alexander Glazunov - ''Symphony No. 3'', Opus 33

★ Armas Järnefelt - ''Ouverture Lyrique''

★ Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - ''Scheherazade''

★ Alexander Scriabin - ''Romance for Horn and Piano''

★ Jean Sibelius - ''Piano Quintet in G minor''

★ Sergei Taneyev - ''String Quartet No. 1'' Opus 4
==Opera==

★ ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' by Pietro Mascagni

★ ''Prince Igor'' begun by Alexander Borodin, completed by Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

★ ''Queen of Spades'' by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
==Musical theater==

★ ''The Gondoliers''     Broadway production

★ ''Love And Law''     Broadway production

★ ''Robin Hood''     Chicago production

★ ''The Sentry''     London production

★ ''Reilly And The 400'' Broadway production

Births

★ February 25 - Myra Hess, pianist

★ February 27 - Freddie Keppard

★ March 20

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★ Beniamino Gigli, opera singer

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★ Lauritz Melchior, opera singer

★ March 28 - Paul Whiteman

★ April 17 - Gussie Mueller

★ May 21 - Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of ''Irene'' and ''Rio Rita''

★ June 6 - Ted Lewis

★ June 26 - Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star

★ August 12 - Lillian Evanti, opera singer

★ August 15 - Jacques Ibert, composer

★ September 15 - Frank Martin, composer

★ October 1 - Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer

★ December 8 - Bohuslav Martinů

★ ''date unknown'' - Rob Barbecue, jazz musician

Deaths

★ January 17 - Salomon Sulzer, cantor and composer

★ January 20 - Franz Lachner, conductor and composer

★ May 28 - Viktor Nessler, composer

★ June 30 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer

★ October 7 - John Hill Hewitt, songwriter

★ October 17 - Prosper Sainton, violinist

★ October 28 - Alexander John Ellis, music theorist

★ November 8 - César Franck, composer

★ December 21 - Niels Wilhelm Gade, composer

★ ''date unknown'' - John Barnett, composer

★ ''date unknown'' - Hubert Léonard, violinist

★ ''date unknown'' - Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone

See also

★ 1890

★ List of musical events