1894 in music explained
Events in the year 1894 in music.
Specific locations
Events
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
Classical music
- Anton Arensky – Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
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- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34
- 3 Claverstykker, Op.35
- Johannes Brahms – Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
- Antonín Dvořák
- Robert Fuchs – Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
- Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
- Victor Herbert – Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Caucasian Sketches
- Joseph Jongen – Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, op. 3
- August Klughardt – String Quintet, Op.62
- Alexander Kopylov – String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
- Theodor Leschetizky – 2 Pieces, Op.43
- Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2
- Carl Nielsen
- Josef Rheinberger – Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-flat major
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov – 2 Pieces, Op.38
- Adolphe Samuel – Symphony No. 7 Opus 48[3]
- Alexander Scriabin – 12 Études, Op. 8
- Charles Villiers Stanford – 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op.53
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- String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2[4]
- Sigismond Stojowski – 2 Orientales, Op.10
- Louis Vierne – String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)
Births
- January 3 – Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
- January 31 – Isham Jones, American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
- February 1 – James P. Johnson, American jazz pianist and composer.
- February 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
- February 20 – Jimmy Yancey, American jazz pianist
- April 3 – Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
- April 15 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- April 27 – Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
- May 10 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
- May 29 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
- June 1 – Percival Mackey, English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
- June 4 – La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
- June 10 – Punch Miller, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
- July 10 – Jimmy McHugh, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
- August 15 – Harry Akst, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
- August 26 – Arthur Loesser, pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
- September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
- September 18 – Willard Robison, American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
- September 25 – J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
- September 26 – Vaughn De Leath, American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
- December 31 – Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)
Deaths
- January 13 – Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- January 21 – Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
- January 24 - Laura Schirmer Mapleson, American opera singer (b. 1862)
- January 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830)
- February 4
- February 11 – Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
- February 12 – Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
- February 18 – Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
- March 21 – Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
- April 12 – Ludwig Pfau, lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
- April 13
- June 5 – Marcelina Czartoryska, pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
- June 9 – Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
- June 23 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
- July 17 – Leconte de Lisle, lyricist (born 1818)
- July 26 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
- September 13 – Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
- September 21 – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
- October 16 – Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
- October 27 – Carl Ploug, Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
- October 28 – Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
- November 4 – Eugène Oudin, composer (b. 1858)
- November 20 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
Notes and References
- Book: Sullivan, Steve. Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. 2017-05-17. Rowman & Littlefield. 9781442254497. en.
- Book: Sullivan, Steve. Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. 2017-05-17. Rowman & Littlefield. 9781442254497. en.
- Web site: 2006 . Dewilde . Jan . Schrooten, Marjan . Notes to Samuel Symphony 6 . Musikproduktion Hoeflich . 2009-01-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060923090450/http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/S-Z/samuel_sym6.html . 2006-09-23 .
- Edition Silvertrust Online Notes for this Score
- Web site: Le portrait de Manon (Massenet, Jules) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download. imslp.org. 2019-08-29.
