1892 in music

Events

• April 28 - Kullervo by Jean Sibelius is premiered.
• May 26 - A statue of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it will be re-dedicated in 2008.
• September 24 - Opening of the "Theater Unter den Linden" in Berlin with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.
• September 26 - Antonín Dvořák arrives in the USA to take up his post as artistic director of the National Conservatory of Music.
• December 18 (December 6 O.S.) - Iolanta by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is premiered in Saint Petersburg.
• "After the Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year)
• Erik Satie composes his first pieces in his own compositional system.
• Sergei Diaghilev graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
• Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is premiered in Vienna with Hans Richter conducting.

Published popular music

• "After the Ball"     w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "The Bowery"     w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow"     w.m. Joseph Tabrar
• "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two")     w.m. Harry Dacre
• "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
• "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
• "The Holy City"     w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
• "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
• "Liebestraum Nocturne" m. Virginia Field
• "Molly And I And The Baby"     w.m. Harry Kennedy
• "My Old Dutch"     w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
• "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon"     w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sweetest Story Ever Told"     w.m. R. M. Stults
• "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld

Recorded popular music

• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow "
  - Dan W. Quinn
• "The Bowery"
  - Dan W. Quinn

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - Intermezzos opus number 117
• Alexander Glazunov - String Quintet in A major (opus 39)
• Gustav Mahler - Das himmlische Leben (later incorporated into his fourth symphony)
• Miguel Marqués - El Centinelo
• Carl Nielsen - First Symphony
• Joseph Parry - Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Prelude in C-sharp Minor and Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
• Max Reger - Cello Sonata No. 1, opus 5
• Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, opus 6
• Josef Suk - Serenade for Strings in E flat major
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Symphony in D minor

Opera

• Herman Bemberg - Elaine
• Karel Bendl - Dite Tabora
• Alfredo Catalani - La Wally
• Gialdino Gialdini - I due soci premiered February 24 at the Teatro Brunetti, Bologna
• Umberto Giordano - Mala Vita
• Isidore de Lara - The Light of Asia
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci
• Jules Massenet - Werther
• Adolf Neuendorff - The Minstrel
• The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones were the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall

Ballet

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker

Musical theater

• Blue-Eyed Susan by George Robert Sims
• "Dorothy"     London revival
• "Maid Marian" (retitled version of "Robin Hood")     London production
• "Maid Marian" (sequel to "Robin Hood")     Broadway production

Top hits

• "Slide, Kelly, Slide" by George J. Gaskin
• "Sally in Our Alley" by Manhansett Quartette

Births

• January 1 - Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (d. 1958)
• January 31 - Eddie Cantor (d. 1964)
• February 4 - Yrjö Kilpinen, Finnish composer (d. 1959) known most for his lieder
• February 15 - Ján Valašťan Dolinský, Slovak composer (d. 1965)
• March 10 - Arthur Honegger (d. 1955)
• March 27 - Ferde Grofé, composer (d. 1972)
• April 1 - Renato Zanelli, Chilean baritone, later tenor (d. 1935)
• April 2 - Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist (d. 1962)
• April 10 - Victor de Sabata, conductor and composer (d. 1967)
• April 12 - Johnny Dodds (d. 1940)
• April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre (d. 1983)
• April 21 - Jaroslav Kvapil, composer (d. 1958)
• May 14 - Arthur Lourié (d. 1966), Russian-born expatriate composer
• May 18 - Ezio Pinza, Italian singer and actor (d. 1957)
• June 6 - Ted Lewis, singer and bandleader (d. 1971)
• June 18 - Eduard Steuermann, pianist (d. 1964)
• June 21 - Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer (d. 1985)
• June 23 - Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993)
• June 30 - László Lajtha, Hungarian symphonist (d. 1963)
• July 2 - Jack Hylton, British bandleader
• July 8 - J. Russell Robinson (d. 1963)
• July 10 - Ján Móry, Slovak composer (d. 1978)
• July 26 - Philipp Jarnach (d. 1982), composer of German-French origins
• August 14 - Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music critic and pianist (d. 1988)
• August 15 - Knud Jeppesen (d. 1974)
• September 4 - Darius Milhaud (d. 1974)
• September 5 - Joseph Szigeti (d. 1973), violinist
• September 17 - Hendrik Andriessen (d. 1981), Dutch composer and organist
• October 17 - Herbert Howells (d. 1983)
• October 19 - Ilmari Hannikainen (d. 1955)
• October 25 - Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch, Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly sisters.
• November 28 - Thomas Wood, English composer (d. 1950)
• December 9 - Beatrice Harrison, cellist (d. 1965)
• December 11 - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (d. 1979)

Deaths

• January 10 - Heinrich Dorn, German conductor, composer, and journalist (born 1804)
• February 13 - Lambert Massart, violinist (born 1811)
• February 20 - Róza Csillag, opera singer (born 1832)
• March 11 - Caroline Reinagle, pianist, composer and writer (born 1818)
• March 20 - Arthur Goring Thomas, composer (born 1850) (suicide)
• April 22 - Édouard Lalo, composer (born 1823)
• May 2 - Wilhelm Rust, composer (born 1822)
• May 6 - Ernest Guiraud, composer (born 1837)
• August 18 - Jules Perrot, ballet dancer (born 1810)
• August 19 - František Zdeněk Skuherský, composer, teacher and music theorist (born 1830)
• September 24 - Patrick Gilmore, bandmaster and composer (born 1829)
• October 24 - Robert Franz, composer (born 1815)
• October 28 - Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (born 1835)
• November 4 - Hervé, organist and composer (born 1825)
• November 19 - Antonio Torres Jurado, guitar maker (born 1817)
• date unknown
  • Adolf Rzepko, Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor, and pianist (born 1825)
  • Henry Christian Timm, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1811)