1893 in music

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Events

February 9 - Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan
August 14-15 - America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition
December 29 - Claude Debussy's String Quartet premiered in Paris
Song "Happy Birthday To You" by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill first published in the book "Song Stories for the Kindergarten"

Published popular music

Selected compositions (words/music indicated by "w.m."):

"Can't Lose Me, Charlie" w.m. Harry S. Miller
"The Cat Came Back" w.m. Henry S. Miller
"December And May" w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine
"Do Do My Huckleberry Do" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
"The Fatal Wedding" w. W. H. Windom m. Gussie L. Davis
"Good Morning to All" w. Patty Smith Hill m. Mildred J. Hill
"I Long to See The Girl I Left Behind" w.m. John T. Kelly
"Liberty Bell March" by John Philip Sousa
"Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey" w.m. May Irwin
"Marguerite" by Charles A. White
"Oh! Mr Porter" w. Thomas Le Brunn m. George Le Brunn
"Private Tommy Atkins" w. Henry Hamilton m. S. Potter
"Say 'Au Revoir', But Not 'Good-Bye'" by Harry Kennedy
"Sweet Marie" w. Cy Warman m. Raymond Moore
"Two Little Girls in Blue" w.m. Charles Graham
"The Volunteer Organist" w. William G. Gray m. Henry Lamb
"When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" w.m. James M. Black
"Zacatecas" by Genaro Codina

Recorded popular music

"Daisy Bell"
- Dan W. Quinn

Classical music

Amy Beach - Gaelic Symphony
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World"
Edward German - Symphony in A minor, "Norwich"
Johan Halvorsen - Entry of the Boyars
Josef Suk - Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"

Opera

Granville Bantock - Caedmar
Julius Bechgaard - Frode premiered on May 11 at Copenhagen
Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel
Isidore de Lara - Amy Robsart
Emile Pessard

Une nuit de Noël premiered at the Ambigu, Paris
Mam'zelle Carabin premiered on November 3 at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris

Giacomo Puccini - Manon Lescaut
Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff

Musical theater

A Gaiety Girl London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 14 and ran for 413 performances
Jane Annie London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on May 13 and ran for 50 performances
Little Christopher Columbus London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 10 and ran for 279 performances
Morocco Bound (music Frank Osmond Carr lyrics: Adrian Ross) London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 13 and transferred to the Trafalgar Square Theatre on January 8, 1894 for a total run of 295 performances.
A Trip To Chinatown Broadway production
Utopia Limited London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on October 7 and ran for 245 performances

Births

February 10 - Jimmie Durante
February 15 - Walter Donaldson
April 16 - Federico Mompou, composer
June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy
June 28 - Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor
July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt
August 22 - Dorothy Parker, US writer, poet and lyricist
September 13 - Larry Shields
October 1 - Cliff Friend US composer
November 8 - Clarence Williams

Deaths

June 10 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
June 25 - Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer
August 7 - Alfredo Catalani, composer
August 31 - William George Cusins, instrumentalist, conductor and composer
September 8 - Michel Lentz, lyricist of the national anthem of Luxembourg
October 18 - Charles Gounod, composer
November 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
date unknown - Felix Battanchon, cellist

See also

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