1891 in music

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Events in the year 1891 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1891 in Scandinavian music

Events

  • February 23 – Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona.[1]
  • March 16 – A performance of the Budapest Opera is interrupted by a spontaneous demonstration in support of musical director Gustav Mahler, at the time in conflict with intendant Géza Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere.
  • May 5 – The Music Hall in New York City (which becomes Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky guest-conducting his own work.
  • May 10 – Danish classical composer Carl Nielsen marries his compatriot, the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, Italy, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.[2]
  • June 24 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished his ballet The Nutcracker
  • October 16 – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert.
  • The Peabody Mason Concerts are inaugurated with a performance by Ferruccio Busoni.
  • The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.[3]
  • "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" w. George Horncastle m. Felix McGlennon
  • "Don't mind, my Darling!" w.m. Paul Steinmark
  • "Hey, Rube!" w. J. Sherrie Matthews m. Harry Bulger
  • "High School Cadets March" m. John Philip Sousa
  • "Little Boy Blue" w. Eugene Field m. Ethelbert Nevin
  • "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" w.m. Fred Gilbert
  • "The Miner's Dream Of Home" w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden
  • "Molly O!" w.m. William J. Scanlan
  • "Narcissus" m. Ethelbert Nevin
  • "The Pardon Came Too Late" w.m. Paul Dresser
  • "The Picture That's Turned To The Wall" w.m. Charles Graham
  • "Reuben And Cynthia" w.m. Percy Gaunt
  • "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" w.m. Henry J. Sayers
  • "Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
  • "Bell Buoy" – J. W. Myers
  • "The Church Across The Way" – Len Spencer
  • "The Cobbler" – George J. Gaskin[4]
  • "College Songs" – Gilmore's Band[5]
  • "Cujus Animam" – David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano)[6]
  • "Dance of the Owls" – A. T. Van Winkle (Xylophone) & Edward Issler (Piano)[7]
  • "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" – George J. Gaskin
  • "Farewell to Dresden" – United States Marine Band
  • "Five Minutes With The Minstrels" – Voss' First Regiment Band[8]
  • "Home, Sweet, Home" – John York AtLee
  • "La Media Noche (Mexican Dance)" – United States Marine Band
  • "The Laughing Song" – George W. Johnson
  • "Little 'Liza Loves You" – Len Spencer
  • "Michael Casey as a Physician" – Russell Hunting[9]
  • "The Mocking Bird" – John York AtLee and Fred Gaisberg
  • "Nannon Waltz" – Issler's Orchestra[10]
  • "One Minute Too Late" – Voss' First Regiment Band[11]
  • "Paddy's Wedding" – Dan Kelly[12]
  • "Pat Brady as a Police Justice" – Dan Kelly[13]
  • "Pat Brady on a Spree" – Dan Kelly[14]
  • "The Picture Turned to the Wall" – George J. Gaskin
  • "The Picture Turned to the Wall" – Manhansett Quartette[15]
  • "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" – Holding's Parlor Orchestra[16]
  • "Sally in Our Alley" – Manhansett Quartette[17]'
  • "Saving Them All for Mary" – Al Reeves[18]
  • "Sweet Marie" – George J. Gaskin[4]
  • "Third verse of Mary & John, The Lover's Quarrel" – Will White[19]
  • "Turkey in the Straw" – Billy Golden
  • "Uncle Jefferson – Billy Golden
  • "Vienna Dudes March" – Duffy and Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band[20]

Classical music

  • Anton Arensky – Cantata on the 10th Anniversary of the Coronation
  • Claude Debussy – Two Arabesques
  • Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
  • Max Bruch – Concerto for Violin No. 3
  • Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Requiem, Op. 72
  • Carl Nielsen – Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano
  • Ethelbert Nevin – Water Scenes
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Africa, Op. 89
  • Erik Satie – 6 Gnossiennes for piano
  • Alphons Czibulka – Wintermärchen Waltzes Op. 366 (source of Hearts and Flowers)

Opera

  • Frederick Delius – Irmelin
  • Robert Fuchs – Die Teufelsglocke
  • Miguel Marqués – El monaguillo (libretto by Emilio Sánchez Pastor, premiered in Madrid)
  • Pietro Mascagni – L'amico Fritz
  • Emile Pessard – Les folies amoureuses premiered on April 15 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris

Musical theater

  • Robin Hood, Broadway production
  • The Tyrolean, Broadway production
  • Der Vogelhändler (The Tyrolean), Vienna production

Births

  • January 25 – Wellman Braud, jazz musician (died 1966)
  • February 5 – Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (died 1960)
  • March 22 – Alexis Roland-Manuel, French composer and critic (died 1966)
  • March 28 – Leah Frances Russell, Australian opera singer (died 1983)
  • April 2 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (died 1957)
  • April 15 – Väinö Raitio, Finnish composer (died 1945)
  • April 23 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (died 1953)
  • May 16 – Richard Tauber, Austrian singer (died 1948)
  • May 26 – Mamie Smith, blues singer (died 1946)
  • May 30 – Ben Bernie, US bandleader (died 1943)
  • June 3 – Georges Guibourg, French singer, actor and writer (died 1970)
  • June 9 – Cole Porter, songwriter (died 1964)
  • June 10 – Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (died 1945)
  • June 21 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
  • July 14 – Fréhel, French singer and actress (died 1951)
  • July 16 – Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974)
  • August 2 – Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975)
  • September 11 – Noël Gallon, French composer and music educator (died 1966)
  • September 14 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher (died 1985)
  • September 16 – Milton Schwarzwald, American film director and composer (died 1950)
  • September 26 – Charles Munch, Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist (died 1968)
  • October 1 – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, Welsh singer and composer (died 1918)
  • October 29 – Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (died 1951)
  • November 27 – Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (died 1982)
  • date unknown
    • Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist (died 1919)
    • Margaret Morris, dancer and choreographer (died 1980)

Deaths

  • January 5 – Emma Abbott, singer (born 1850)
  • January 8 – Fredrik Pacius, composer and conductor (born 1809)
  • January 17 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (born 1816)
  • January 16 – Léo Delibes, composer (born 1836)
  • January 21 – Calixa Lavallée, composer (born 1842)
  • May 23 – Ignace Leybach, pianist, organist and composer (born 1817)
  • June 14 – Count Nicolò Gabrielli, Italian opera composer (born 1814
  • July 3 – Stefano Golinelli, pianist and composer (born 1818)
  • July 21 – Franco Faccio, composer and conductor (born 1840)
  • August 5/6 – Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (born 1818)
  • September 2 – Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (b. 1815)
  • October 27
    • Charles Constantin, conductor (born 1835)
    • Johann Dubez, Viennese violinist and composer (born 1828)
  • November 9 – Frederick Mathushek, piano maker (born 1814)
  • November 20 – Franz Hitz, Swiss pianist and composer (born 1828)
  • December 28 – Alfred Cellier, composer (born 1844)
  • date unknown
    • Harvey B. Dodworth, bandmaster and conductor (born 1822)[21]
    • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, operatic soprano (born c.1815)

References

  1. ↑ Kirk, H. L. (1974). Pablo Casals: A Biography. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-03-007616-1.
  2. ↑ "Love and marriage". Carl Nielsen Society. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
  3. ↑ Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
  4. 1 2 "Lost Recording List – National Recording Preservation Board". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  5. ↑ "The First Book Of Phonograph Records". archive.org. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
  6. ↑ "The First Book of Phonograph Records". 4 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "The First Book Of Phonograph Records". archive.org. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
  8. ↑ Feaster, Patrick. ""THE FOLLOWING RECORD": MAKING SENSE OF PHONOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE, 1877–1908" (PDF).
  9. ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: numberones1890 (2012-01-08), Michael Casey As A Physician – Russell Hunting (Single Version), retrieved 2017-11-05{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Collections., University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special (2005-11-16). "Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project". cylinders.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "The Cylinder Music Shop at Tinfoil.com – 1888–1894, The North American Phonograph Company Era". www.tinfoil.com. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  12. ↑ "The *Other* Sub-Companies". ARSC Blog. 2017-06-30. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
  13. ↑ "The Recordings of the Columbia Phonograph Company, 1889–1896". archive.org. May 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
  14. ↑ "The Recordings of the Columbia Phonograph Company, 1889–1896". archive.org. May 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-05.
  15. ↑ "The First Book Of Phonograph Records". archive.org. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  16. ↑ Collections., University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special (2005-11-16). "Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project". cylinders.library.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2017-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  17. ↑ "The First Book Of Phonograph Records". archive.org. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-16.
  18. ↑ Al Reeves, Saving Them All for Mary by Al Reeves (1891–1893), retrieved 2018-01-31
  19. ↑ "The Cylinder Music Shop at Tinfoil.com – 1888–1894, The North American Phonograph Company Era". www.tinfoil.com. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  20. ↑ Feaster, Patrick. ""THE FOLLOWING RECORD": MAKING SENSE OF PHONOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE, 1877–1908" (PDF). phonozoic.net/.
  21. ↑ "Harvey B. Dodworth (1822–1891)". Picture History. Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
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