1896 in music

Events

• February 1 - Giacomo Puccini's La bohème debuts in Turin
• March - Leo Stern plays in the premiere of Dvořák's second cello concerto in London
• Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
• Gabriel Fauré takes over from Théodore Dubois as organist of the Église de la Madeleine.

Published popular music

• "All Coons Look Alike To Me"     w.m. Ernest Hogan
• "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 Go Marching In"     w. Katherine E. Purvis m. James M. Black

Recorded popular music

• "All Coons Look Alike To Me" (w.m. Ernest Hogan)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
• "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
• "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
• "Auld Lang Syne" (w. adapted Robert Burns)
  - Edison Male Quartette on Edison
• "The Band Played On" (w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Columbia records and Berliner
• "The Belle Of Avenoo A" (w.m. Safford Waters)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
• "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
• "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
• "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 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
• "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)
  - George J. Gaskin on Berliner
  - Maud Foster on Berliner
• "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" (w.m. Gussie L. Davis)
  - George J. Gaskin on Edison
  - Dan W. Quinn
• "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
  - Brilliant Quartet on Berliner
• "I've Been Hoodoed"
  - Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
• "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
• "King Cotton March" (m. John Philip Sousa)
  - Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
• "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
• "Marching Through Georgia" (w.m. Henry Clay Work)
  - George J. Gaskin on Berliner
• "La Marseillaise" (w.m. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)
  - Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
• "McKinley is our Man"
  - Dan W. Quinn on U.S. Phonograph Records
• "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
• "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
• "La Paloma" (w. anon m. Sebastian Yradier)
  - Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner
• "Private Tommy Atkins" (w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter)
  - George J. Gaskin on Berliner
• "Put Me Off At Buffalo" (w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon)
  - Dan W. Quinn on Berliner
• "Rock Of Ages" (w. Augustus Montague Toplady m. Thomas Hasting)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner
• "'Round His Bed I'm Goin' To Creep" ()
  - Len Spencer on Columbia
• "Sally In Our Alley" (w. Henry Carey m. trad)
  - Edison Male Quartette on Edison
  - 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
• "The Sidewalks Of New York" (w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake)
  - George J. Gaskin on Edison and on Berliner
• "The Streets Of Cairo" (w.m. James Thornton)
  - Dan W. Quinn 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
• "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
• "Watchman Tell Us Of The Night" (Bowring, Mason)
  - J. W. Myers on Berliner
• "'Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield"
  - Columbia Quartette on Columbia
• "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

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)
• Antonín Dvořák - The Water Goblin, The Noon-Day Witch (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London); also the Quartet in A-flat major op. 105
• 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)
• Hans Pfitzner - Piano Trio in F Opus 8
• Sergei Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 1 (1895–96) ([1])
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Egyptian), Violin Sonata No. 2
• Alexander Scriabin - 24 Preludes for Piano Opus 11, Five Preludes for Piano Opus 15
• Jean Sibelius - Coronation Cantata
• Richard Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - String Quartet No. 1 and Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Opera

• August Enna - Aucassin og Nicolette
• Gialdino Gialdini - La Pupilla premiered October 23 at the Societá Filarmonica Drammatica, Trieste
• Umberto Giordano - Andrea Chénier
• Paul Juon - Aleko
• Ruggero Leoncavallo - Chatterton
• Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Sadko
• 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 28 - Elsie Carlisle, English singer (d. 1977)
• February 3 - Kid Thomas Valentine, jazz trumpeter (d. 1987)
• 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 (d. 1972)
• June 20 - Wilfrid Pelletier, conductor (d. 1982)
• 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 - Ambrose, English bandleader and violinist
• September 25 - Roberto Gerhard, composer (d. 1970)
• October 7 - Phil Ohman, US bandleader (d. 1954)
• 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 28 - Roger Sessions, composer (d. 1985)

Deaths

• February 12 - Ambroise Thomas, composer (b. 1811)
• 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 22 - Sir Augustus Harris, librettist and impresario (b. 1852)
• August 18 - Frederick Nicholls Crouch, cellist and composer (b. 1808)
• September 16 - Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer (b. 1836)
• September 22 - Katharina Klafsky, Wagnerian soprano (b. 1855)
• October 11 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (b. 1824)
• October 17 - Henry Eugene Abbey, theatre manager (b. 1846)
• December 3 - László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• date unknown
  • Luigia Abbadia, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1821)
  • Kurmangazy, Khazakh musician and composer (b. 1823)

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