1900 in music

Events

• January 14 - Giacomo Puccini's Tosca premieres in Rome.
• February 2 - Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise premieres in Paris; Mary Garden makes her public debut in the title role in April.
• October 3 - Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius is premiered in Birmingham
• The Philadelphia Orchestra is founded.
• The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra is founded.

Published popular music

• "Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder" w.m. Fred Fisher, Arthur Gillespie & Herbert Dillea
• "The Blue And The Gray" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "Bridge Of Sighs" w.m. James Thornton
• "Calligan - Call Again!" w.m. Herbert Rutter & Harry Lauder
• "Calling To Her Boy Just Once Again" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "Creole Belles" w. George Sidney m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
• "The Duchess Of Central Park" w. J. Cheaver Goodwin m. Maurice Levi
• "Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon" w.m. Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf
• "Eyes Of Blue" m. Andrew Mack
• "The Fatal Rose of Red" - J. Fred Helf
• "The Flight Of The Bumble Bee" m. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• "A Flower From The Garden Of Life" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
• "For Old Time's Sake" w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "The Gladiators' Entry" m. Julius Fučík
• "Hail To The Spirit Of Liberty" w.m. John Philip Sousa
• "Hunky Dory" m. Abe Holzmann
• "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "I Love You, Ma Cherie" w.m. Paul Rubens
• "I Must Have Been A-Dreamin' " w.m. Bob Cole
• "I Need The Money" w.m. Raymond A. Browne
• "I Won't Be an Actor No More" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "In The House Of Too Much Trouble" w.m. Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf
• "I've A Longing In My Heart For You Louise" w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes" w.m. John Queen & Hughie Cannon
• "Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing" w. James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
• "Little Tommy Murphy" w. Matthew Woodward m. Andrew Mack
• "A Love-Lorn Lily" w. Louis Harrison & George V. Hobart m. A. B. Sloane
• "Ma Blushin' Rosie" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "Midnight Fire-Alarm" - H.J. Lincoln
• "My Charcoal Charmer" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
• "My Drowsy Babe" w. George Totten Smith m. George A. Nichols
• "My Sunflower Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
• "Nothing Doing" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "Off To Philadelphia" w. Gordon Temple m. Walter B. Haynes
• "Oh! Wouldn't That Jar You?" w.m. Will D. Cobb
• "The Old Flag Never Touched The Ground" w.m. James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson
• "Song Of The Flea" - w. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; m. Modest Moussorgsky
• "Strike Up the Band - Here Comes a Sailor" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Charles B. Ward
• "Swipesy" (Cakewalk) m. Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall
• "The Tale Of The Kangaroo" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustave Luders
• "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" w. Owen Hall m. Leslie Stuart
• "That Old Sunny Window" w.m. Shelley
• "There Are Two Sides To A Story" w.m. Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf
• "Violets" w. Julian Fane m. Ellen Wright
• "Wait" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick W. Bowers
• "When Reuben Comes To Town" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Maurice Levi
• "When The Birds Go North Again" w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
• "When The Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie Dear" w. Howard Graham m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs Murphy's Chowder?" w.m. George L. Giefer
• "You Never Miss The Water Till The Well Runs Dry" w.m. Rowland Howard

Recorded popular music

• "American Patrol"
  - John Sousa's Band
• "A Bird In A Gilded Cage"
  - Harry Macdonough
• "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey"
  - S. H. Dudley
• "The Duchess Of Central Park"
  - Harry Macdonough
• "For Old Time's Sake"
  - Will F. Denny
• "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes"
  - Dan W. Quinn
• "Lead, Kindly Light"
  - Haydn Quartet
• "A Love-Lorn Lily"
  - Harry Macdonough
• "Ma Blushin' Rosie"
  - Albert C. Campbell
• "My Sunflower Sue"
  - Arthur Collins with The Metropolitan Orchestra
• "O! That We Two Were Maying"
  - Harry Macdonough & Florence Hayward
• "Strike Up the Band"
  - Dan W. Quinn
• "Tell Me Pretty Maiden"
  - Lyric Theatre Chorus p. Paul Rubens
• "When Reuben Comes To Town"
  - Dan W. Quinn on Victor Records
• "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"
  - Jere Mahoney
• "Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow"
  - Haydn Quartet

Classical music

• Reinhold Glière - Symphony No 1 in E flat major, op. 8
• Alexander Goedicke - Piano Concerto
• Joseph Holbrooke - The Raven
• Josef Rheinberger - Requiem in D Minor
• Josef Suk - Pieces for violin and piano

Opera

• Gustave Charpentier - Louise
• César Cui - Feast in Time of Plague
• August Enna - The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Asya
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Zaza
• Giacomo Puccini - Tosca
• George Stephanescu - Cometa

Musical theater

• The Cadet Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on July 25 and ran for 48 performances
• The Casino Girl London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 25
• Chris And The Wonderful Lamp Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on January 1 and ran for 58 performances
• Fiddle-Dee-Dee Broadway production opened at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall on September 6 and ran for 262 performances
• Florodora Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 10 and ran for 505 performances
• Giddy Throng Broadway revue opened at the New York Theatre on December 24 and ran for 164 performances
• The Messenger Boy London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on February 3 and ran for 429 performances
• Miss Prinnt Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on December 25 and ran for 211 performances
• The Rogers Brothers In Central Park Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on September 17 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on April 1, 1901 for a total run of 80 performances
• San Toy Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 1 and ran for 65 performances
• Véronique (operetta) Vienna production opened at the Theater an der Wien on March 10

Births

• January 1 - Xavier Cugat, bandleader (d. 1990)
• January 6 - Pierre-Octave Ferroud, French composer (d. 1936)
• January 13 - Yasuji Kiyose, Japanese composer (d. 1981)
• February 13 - Wingy Manone, U.S. jazz musician (d. 1982)
• March 2 - Kurt Weill, German composer. (d. 1950)
• March 10 - Peter De Rose, US composer (d. 1953)
• April 2 - Anis Fuleihan, Cypriot-born US composer (d. 1970)
• April 11 - Kai Normann Andersen, Danish composer (d. 1967)
• April 23 - Henry Barraud, French composer (d. 1997
• May 17 - Nicolai Berezowsky,Russian composer (d.1953)
• May 28 - Tommy Ladnier, jazz musician (d. 1939)
• June 15 - Paul Mares, jazz musician (d. 1949)
• June 24 - Gene Austin, US singer and composer (d. 1972)
• July 8 - George Antheil, composer (d.1959)
• July 10
  • Evelyn Laye, English actress and singer (d. 1996)
  • Mitchell Parish, US lyricist (d. 1993)
• July 13 - George Lewis, jazz musician (d. 1968)
• July 29 - Don Redman, US arranger, bandleader and saxophonist (d. 1964)
• August 2 - Helen Morgan, US singer and actress (d. 1941)
• August 8 - Lucius "Lucky" Millinder, US bandleader (d. 1966)
• August 23 - Ernst Krenek, composer (d. 1991)
• September 3 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (d. 1959)
• October 9 - Elmer Snowden, banjo player (d. 1973)
• November 14 - Aaron Copland, composer (d. 1990)
• November 25 - Arthur Schwartz, US composer (d. 1984)
• November 27 - Robert Blum, Swiss composer (d. 1994)
• December 12 - Sammy Davis, Sr., vaudeville entertainer (d. 1988)
• December 14 - Juan D'Arienzo, tango musician (d. 1976)
• December 17 - Lucijan Marija Škerjanc, Slovene composer, pedagogue and conductor (d. 1973)
• December 29 - B. H. Haggin, music critic (d. 1987)

Deaths

• January 22 - David E. Hughes, musician and inventor (b.1831)
• February 3 - Ottokar Novacek, violinist and composer (b. 1866)
• March 9 - Charles-Louis Hanon, composer and piano teacher (b.1819)
• March 13 - Alicia Ann Spottiswoode, songwriter (b. 1810)
• April 21 - Charles Beecher, hymn-writer (b. 1815)
• May 28 - George Grove, compiler of the well-known dictionary of music (b. 1820)
• October 9 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, conductor and compoer (b. 1843)
• October 14 - Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich, composer (b. 1850)
• November 7 - Joseph Schalk, pianist, conductor and musicologist (b. 1857)
• November 14 - Adolf Pollitzer, violinist (b. 1832)
• November 17 - Heinrich Porges, choirmaster and music critic (b. 1837)
• November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer (b. 1842)
• date unknown
  • Louis Liebe, conductor and composer (b. 1819)
  • Jovan Sundečić, lyricist of the Montenegro national anthem (b. 1825)

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