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Events

★ February 9 - Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera ''Falstaff'' in La Scala in Milan

★ August 14-15 - America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition

★ December 29 - Claude Debussy's ''String Quartet'' premiered in Paris

★ Song "Happy Birthday To You" by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill first published in the book "Song Stories for the Kindergarten"

Published popular music

Selected compositions (words/music indicated by "w.m."):

★ "Can't Lose Me, Charlie" w.m. Harry S. Miller

★ "The Cat Came Back"     w.m. Henry S. Miller

★ "December And May"     w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine

★ "Do Do My Huckleberry Do"     w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon

★ "The Fatal Wedding"     w. W. H. Windom m. Gussie L. Davis

★ "Good Morning to All"     w. Patty Smith Hill m. Mildred J. Hill

★ "I Long to See The Girl I Left Behind"     w.m. John T. Kelly

★ "Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa

★ "Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey"     w.m. May Irwin

★ "Marguerite" by Charles A. White

★ "Oh! Mr Porter"     w. Thomas Le Brunn m. George Le Brunn

★ "Private Tommy Atkins"     w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter

★ "Say 'Au Revoir', But Not 'Good-Bye'" by Harry Kennedy

★ "Sweet Marie"     w. Cy Warman m. Raymond Moore

★ "Two Little Girls in Blue"     w.m. Charles Graham

★ "The Volunteer Organist"     w. William G. Gray m. Henry Lamb

★ "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder"     w.m. James M. Black

★ "Zacatecas" by Genaro Codina

Recorded popular music

★ "Daisy Bell"
- Dan W. Quinn

Classical music

★ Amy Beach - ''Gaelic Symphony''

★ Antonín Dvořák - ''Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World"''

★ Edward German - ''Symphony in A minor, "Norwich"''

★ Johan Halvorsen - ''Entry of the Boyars''

★ Josef Suk - ''Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor''

★ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - ''Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"''
==Opera==

★ Granville Bantock - ''Caedmar''

★ Julius Bechgaard - ''Frode'' premiered on May 11 at Copenhagen

★ Engelbert Humperdinck - ''Hansel and Gretel''

★ Isidore de Lara - ''Amy Robsart''

★ Emile Pessard

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★ ''Une nuit de Noël'' premiered at the Ambigu, Paris

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★ ''Mam'zelle Carabin'' premiered on November 3 at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris

★ Giacomo Puccini - ''Manon Lescaut''

★ Giuseppe Verdi - ''Falstaff''
==Musical theater==

★ ''A Gaiety Girl''     London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 14 and ran for 413 performances

★ ''Jane Annie''      London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on May 13 and ran for 50 performances

★ ''Little Christopher Columbus''     London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 10 and ran for 279 performances

★ ''Morocco Bound'' (music Frank Osmond Carr lyrics: Adrian Ross) London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 13 and transferred to the Trafalgar Square Theatre on January 8, 1894 for a total run of 295 performances.

★ ''A Trip To Chinatown''     Broadway production

★ ''Utopia Limited''     London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on October 7 and ran for 245 performances

Births

★ February 10 - Jimmie Durante

★ February 15 - Walter Donaldson

★ April 16 - Federico Mompou, composer

★ June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy

★ June 28 - Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor

★ July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt

★ August 22 - Dorothy Parker, US writer, poet and lyricist

★ September 13 - Larry Shields

★ October 1 - Cliff Friend US composer

★ November 8 - Clarence Williams

Deaths

★ June 10 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel

★ June 25 - Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer

★ August 7 - Alfredo Catalani, composer

★ August 31 - William George Cusins, instrumentalist, conductor and composer

★ September 8 - Michel Lentz, lyricist of the national anthem of Luxembourg

★ October 18 - Charles Gounod, composer

★ November 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer

★ ''date unknown'' - Felix Battanchon, cellist

See also

★ 1893

★ list of years in music