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Overview of the events of 1894 in music
Overview of the events of 1894 in music
Events in the year 1894 in music .
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Events
Published popular music
The Little Lost Child sheet music cover
Owls' Serenade sheet music cover
Recorded popular music
Classical music
Anton Arensky –
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor , Op. 32
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33
Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34
3 Claverstykker, Op.35
Johannes Brahms –
Two Clarinet Sonatas , Op. 120
Claude Debussy
Antonín Dvořák
Robert Fuchs – Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
Alexander Gretchaninov – String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
Edvard Grieg
5 Songs of Norway, Op.58
5 Songs, Op.60
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
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Alexander Scriabin – 12 Études, Op. 8
Charles Villiers Stanford – 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op.53
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1, premiered March 17 in
Stockholm
String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
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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)
See also
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