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- Scott JoplinScott JoplinScott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
publishes "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano). - January 7 - SadkoSadko (opera)Sadko is an opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. Rimsky-Korsakov was first inspired by the bylina of Sadko in 1867, when he completed a tone poem on the subject, his Op. 5...
premiered at the Solodovnikov Theatre in MoscowMoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
Published popular music
- "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
- "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel MoncktonLionel MoncktonLionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
- "CiribiribinCiribiribin"Ciribiribin" is a merry Italian ballad in three quarter time, composed by Alberto Pestalozza in 1898 with lyrics by Carlo Tiochet. . It quickly became popular and has come to be recorded by many artists. The distinguishing feature of the song is repeated use of the five note phrase that forms the...
" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Alberto PestalozzaAlberto PestalozzaAlberto Pestalozza composed and published a popular Italian song, "Ciribiribin", in 1898.Born and died in Turin.-References:* *... - "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
- "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. CobbWill D. CobbWill D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
m. Paul Barnes - "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy
- "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor HerbertVictor HerbertVictor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
from the musical The Fortune TellerThe Fortune Teller (operetta)The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B. Smith. After a brief tryout in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances... - "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
- "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. CohanGeorge M. CohanGeorge Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....
- "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
- "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
- "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
- "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie StuartLeslie StuartLeslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
- "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. HarrisCharles K. HarrisCharles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
- "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
- "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt
- "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von TilzerHarry Von TilzerHarry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
- "Recessional" w. Rudyard KiplingRudyard KiplingJoseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
m. Reginald De KovenReginald de KovenHenry Louis Reginald De Koven was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas.-Biography:... - "Romany Life" w. Harry B. SmithHarry B. SmithHarry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
m. Victor HerbertVictor HerbertVictor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I... - "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin
- "Salome" m. William Lorraine
- "She is the Belle of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
- "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter
- "When You Were Sweet SixteenWhen You Were Sweet Sixteen"When You Were Sweet Sixteen" is a popular song. It was written by James Thornton. The song was published in 1898. Its chorus:- Early recordings :*George J. Gaskin *Jere Mahoney *Henry Macdonough *J. W. Myers *Al Jolson...
" w.m. James Thornton - "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion
Recorded popular music
- "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry GreenbankHarry GreenbankHarry Greenbank was an English author and dramatist best known for contributing lyrics to the successful series musicals produced at Daly's Theatre by George Edwardes in the 1890s.-Life and career:...
m. Sidney JonesSidney JonesJames Sidney Jones , usually credited as Sidney Jones, was an English conductor and composer, most famous for producing the musical scores for a series of musical comedy hits in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods....
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- Syria Lamonte on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry MillsKerry MillsKerry Mills was an American composer of popular music during the Tin Pan Alley era. His stylistically diverse music ranged from ragtime to cakewalk to marches. He was most prolific between 1895 and 1918....
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- Sousa's BandJohn Philip SousaJohn Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
- Dan W. QuinnDan W. QuinnDan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
on Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... - "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. George Frederick RootGeorge Frederick RootGeorge Frederick Root was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
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- John Terrell on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
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- J. W. Myers on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. Charles K. HarrisCharles K. HarrisCharles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
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- George J. GaskinGeorge J. Gaskin-Career:Born in Belfast, Ireland, he became one of the most popular singers the United States in the 1890s and was nicknamed the "Silver Voiced Irish Tenor". His earliest known recordings were done for the Edison North American Phonograph Company on June 2, 1891...
on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
- James T. Powers on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert)
- Jessie Bartlett DavisJessie Bartlett DavisJessie Bartlett Davis was an American operatic singer and actress from Morris, Illinois, who was billed as "America's Representative Contralto".-Opera and acting:...
& W. H. MacDonald on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills)
- Arthur Collins on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
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- J. W. Myers on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "A Hot Time In The Old TownThere'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"A Hot Time in the Old Town" is an American ragtime song, composed in 1896 by Theodore August Metz with lyrics by Joe Hayden. Metz was the band leader of the McIntyre and Heath Minstrels....
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- Sousa's Band on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
- Len SpencerLen SpencerLeonard Garfield Spencer was an early American recording artist. He recorded numerous popular songs in the pre-1920s, the most popular of which was "Arkansaw Traveler" . The song is an early novelty record and consists of a back-and-forth banter with an Arkansas local who is playing a fiddle...
with banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
- Roger Harding on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "In The Gloaming" (w. Meta OrredMeta OrredMeta Caroline Orred was an author and poet. She lived most of her life in England, where she produced her literature and poetry.Some of her works include:*Poems...
m. Annie Fortescue HarrisonAnnie Fortescue HarrisonAnnie Fortescue Harrison was an English composer of songs and piano pieces.In 1877 she married and became known as Lady Arthur Hill.Two of her piano instrumentals are:*The Elfin Waltzes*Our Favourite Galop...
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- Roger HardingRoger HardingRoger Harding is a former center in the National Football League.-Career:Harding was drafted in the fifth round of the 1945 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Rams and played with the team for two seasons, including during the franchise's move to Los Angeles, California...
on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
- Frank C. StanleyFrank C. StanleyFrank C. Stanley was a bass-baritone singer, stage performer and banjoist who made many early gramophone recordings on disc and cylinder during the 1890s and the 1900s. His real name was William Stanley Grinsted. He was born on 29 December 1868 in Orange, New Jersey...
on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Killarney" (w. Edmund FalconerEdmund FalconerEdmund Falconer , also known as Edmund O'Rourke, was an Irish-born 19th century poet, actor, theatre manager, songwriter and playwright, known for his keen wit and outstanding acting skills.-Early life:...
m. Michael William BalfeMichael William BalfeMichael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works...
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- Arthur Gladstone on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. Giaocchino Rossini)
- Alberto Del Campo on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lyman Molloy)
- Annie Carter on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. Will Godwin & Leo DrydenLeo DrydenGeorge Dryden Wheeler , was an English music hall 'vocal comic'. In 1892, he met Hannah Chaplin , mother of Charlie, and also a music hall performer. They had an affair, and a son, George Dryden Wheeler , leading to the breakdown of her marriage to Charles Chaplin, Sr...
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- Leo DrydenLeo DrydenGeorge Dryden Wheeler , was an English music hall 'vocal comic'. In 1892, he met Hannah Chaplin , mother of Charlie, and also a music hall performer. They had an affair, and a son, George Dryden Wheeler , leading to the breakdown of her marriage to Charles Chaplin, Sr...
on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. Dave Reed Jr)
- Press Eldridge on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben HarneyBen HarneyBenjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is regarded as one of the first published ragtime songs...
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- Marguerite Newton on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
- Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... - "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
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- Diamond Four on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
- Edison Male Quartette on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Oh, Promise Me" (w. Clement ScottClement ScottClement Scott was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 19th century...
m. Reginald DeKoven)
- Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
- Diamond Four on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. Paul DresserPaul DresserJohann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
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- Annie Carter on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Orange Blossoms" (m. Arthur PryorArthur PryorArthur Willard Pryor was a trombone virtuoso, bandleader, and soloist with the Sousa Band. In later life, he was an American Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served on the Monmouth County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders during the 1930s.Pryor was born on the second floor of...
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- Sousa's Band on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "The Palms" (m. Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
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- Diamond Four on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight)
- William Hooley on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "She Never Did the Same Thing Twice"
- Dan W. QuinnDan W. QuinnDan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
- Albert C. Campbell on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "She was Happy Til She Met You"
- Dan W. QuinnDan W. QuinnDan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
on Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... - "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe HolzmannAbe HolzmannAbe Holzmann was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian immigrant and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany...
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- banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia RecordsColumbia RecordsColumbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company... - "Stars And Stripes Forever" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Sweet And Low" (w. Alfred, Lord Tennyson m. Sir Joseph BarnbyJoseph BarnbySir Joseph Barnby , English musical composer and conductor, son of Thomas Barnby, an organist, was born at York. He was a chorister at York Minster from the age of seven, was educated at the Royal Academy of Music under Cipriani Potter and Charles Lucas, and was appointed in 1862 organist of St...
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- Ladies Brass Quartette of Boston Fadettes on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George CooperGeorge CooperGeorge Stephen Cooper , was an Australian cricket Test match umpire.He umpired two Test matches between 1948 and 1950...
m. Henry Tucker)
- Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude NugentMaude NugentMaude Nugent Nugent, [Jerome], Maude . American singer and composer. She began her career in vaudeville, achieving tremendous success in 1896 with her song Sweet Rosie O’Grady, which became the archetypal waltz ballad of the 1890’s...
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- Steve PorterStephen Porter (singer)Steve Porter was a pioneer recording artist, recording prolifically for numerous recording companies in the 1890s and early 1900s. Mr. Porter's recording career began as a more serious baritone, but by the middle of the first decade of the 20th century, had established himself as a comic artist. ...
on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. R. M. Stults)
- Diamond Four on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
- George J. Gaskin on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
- James Norrie on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:...
- Annie Carter on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. James Thornton)
- Dan W. QuinnDan W. QuinnDan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "The Thunderer" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner GramophoneBerliner GramophoneBerliner Gramophone was an early record label, the first company to produce disc "gramophone records" .-History:... - "Tramp, Tramp, TrampTramp! Tramp! Tramp!"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! " was one of the most popular songs of the American Civil War. George F. Root wrote both the words and music and published it in 1864 to give hope to the Union prisoners of war. The song is written from the prisoner's point of view...
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- Frank C. Stanley on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis LambertPatrick GilmorePatrick Sarsfield Gilmore was an Irish-born composer and bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. Whilst serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", the tune he took from an old Irish antiwar folk...
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- Frank C. Stanley on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :... - "Yankee Doodle" (trad)
- Frank C. Stanley on Edison RecordsEdison RecordsEdison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
Classical music
- Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
- Alexander GlazunovAlexander GlazunovAlexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
- Ruses d'Amour (ballet) - Paul JuonPaul JuonPaul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...
- Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major - Carl NielsenCarl NielsenCarl August Nielsen , , widely recognised as Denmark's greatest composer, was also a conductor and a violinist. Brought up by poor but musically talented parents on the island of Funen, he demonstrated his musical abilities at an early age...
- String Quartet No. 3 in E flat majorString Quartet No. 3 (Nielsen)Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major or Quartet for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in E flat major, Opus 14, was composed in 1897 and 1898... - Henryk Melcer-SzczawińskiHenryk Melcer-SzczawinskiHenryk Melcer-Szczawiński was a Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.-Works:His works include two piano concertos, one in E minor and one in C minor ; a violin sonata , and a piano trio in G minor ; a tragedy "Protesilas i Laodamia" Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński (September 21, 1869...
- Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor - Christian SindingChristian SindingChristian August Sinding was a Norwegian composer.-Personal life:He was born in Kongsberg as a son of mine superindendent Matthias Wilhelm Sinding and Cecilie Marie Mejdell . He was a brother of the painter Otto Sinding and the sculptor Stephan Sinding...
- Concerto for Violin in A major
OperaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
- Antônio Francisco BragaAntônio Francisco BragaAntônio Francisco Braga was a Brazilian music composer.Antônio Francisco Braga studied with Luiz António de Moura and Carlos de Mesquita. In 1886 he founded the Sociedade de Concertos Populares. As the Brazilian Republic was declared in 1889, his composition Hino à bandeira was adopted as the...
- Jupyra - Samuel Coleridge-TaylorSamuel Coleridge-TaylorSamuel Coleridge-Taylor was an English composer who achieved such success that he was once called the "African Mahler".-Early life and education:...
- The Gitanos - Umberto GiordanoUmberto GiordanoUmberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.He was born in Foggia in Puglia, southern Italy, and studied under Paolo Serrao at the Conservatoire of Naples...
- Fedora - Ivar Hallstrom - Little Karin
- Pietro MascagniPietro MascagniPietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music...
- Iris - Emile PessardEmile PessardÉmile Louis Fortuné Pessard was a French composer.He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on February 21, 1867...
- La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris - Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
- Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
Musical theater
- The Belle of New YorkThe Belle of New York (theatre)The Belle of New York is a musical comedy in two acts, with book and lyrics by Hugh Morton and music by Gustave Kerker, about a Salvation Army girl who reforms a spendthrift, makes a great sacrifice and finds true love....
London production - The Bride Elect Broadway production
- The Fortune TellerThe Fortune Teller (operetta)The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B. Smith. After a brief tryout in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances...
Toronto and London productions - A Greek SlaveA Greek SlaveA Greek Slave is a musical comedy in two acts, first performed on 8 June 1898 at Daly's Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes and ran for 349 performances. The score was composed by Sidney Jones with additional songs by Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross. The...
London production - Hurly-Burly Broadway production
- A Runaway GirlA Runaway GirlA Runaway Girl is a musical comedy in two acts written in 1898 by Seymour Hicks and Harry Nicholls. The composer was Ivan Caryll, with additional music by Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Aubrey Hopwood and Harry Greenbank...
London and Broadway productions - The Skirt Dancer London production
- Véronique (operetta)Véronique (operetta)Véronique is an opéra comique or operetta in three acts composed by André Messager. The French libretto was by Georges Duval and Albert Vanloo...
(André MessagerAndré MessagerAndré Charles Prosper Messager , was a French composer, organist, pianist, conductor and administrator. His stage compositions included ballets and 30 opéra comiques and operettas, among which Véronique, had lasting success, with Les p'tites Michu and Monsieur Beaucaire also enjoying international...
) - Paris production
Births
- January 9 - Gracie FieldsGracie FieldsDame Gracie Fields, DBE , was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall.-Early life:...
, singer and actress - January 28 - Vittorio RietiVittorio RietiVittorio Rieti was an Jewish-Italian composer. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Rieti moved to Milan to study economics. He subsequently studied in Rome under Respighi and Casella, and lived there until 1940....
, composer - February 3 - Lil Hardin ArmstrongLil Hardin ArmstrongLil Hardin Armstrong was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, singer, and bandleader, and the second wife of Louis Armstrong with whom she collaborated on many recordings in the 1920s....
, wife and musical collaborator of Louis ArmstrongLouis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana.... - February 7 - Dock BoggsDock BoggsMoran Lee "Dock" Boggs was an influential old-time singer, songwriter and banjo player. His style of banjo playing, as well as his singing, is considered a unique combination of Appalachian folk music and African-American blues...
, banjo player - February 12 - Roy HarrisRoy HarrisRoy Ellsworth Harris , was an American composer. He wrote much music on American subjects, becoming best known for his Symphony No...
, composer - February 15 - TotòTotòPrince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò and nicknamed il principe della risata was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter...
, actor and composer - February 20 - Jimmy YanceyJimmy YanceyJames Edwards "Jimmy" Yancey was an African American boogie-woogie pianist, composer, and lyricist. One reviewer noted him as "one of the pioneers of this raucous, rapid-fire, eight-to-the-bar piano style"....
, US jazz pianist - April 3 - George JesselGeorge Jessel (actor)George Albert Jessel was an American illustrated song "model," actor, singer, songwriter, and Academy Award-winning movie producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that transcended his limited roles in movies...
, US actor, singer & songwriter - April 9 - Paul RobesonPaul RobesonPaul Leroy Robeson was an American concert singer , recording artist, actor, athlete, scholar who was an advocate for the Civil Rights Movement in the first half of the twentieth century...
, singer - May 14 - Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
- May 15 - ArlettyArlettyArletty was a French actress, singer, and fashion model.-Life and career:Arletty was born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat in Courbevoie , to a working-class family. Her early career was dominated by the music hall, and she later appeared in plays and cabaret. Arletty was a stage performer for ten years...
, actress and singer - May 26 - Ernst BaconErnst BaconErnst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific author, Bacon composed over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.-Biography:Ernst Bacon was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May...
, pianist and composer (d. 1990) - May 28 - Andy KirkAndy KirkAndrew Dewey Kirk was a jazz saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader of the "Twelve Clouds of Joy," popular during the swing era....
, jazz musician - June 1 - Molly PiconMolly PiconMolly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller....
, Broadway star - June 6 - Dame Ninette de ValoisNinette de ValoisDame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet...
, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet - June 29 - Yvonne LefébureYvonne LefébureYvonne Lefébure was a French pianist.Born in Ermont, she studied with Alfred Cortot at the Paris Conservatoire, taking a premier prix in piano and numerous other subjects. She soon appeared with the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and the Orchestre des Concerts Colonne and in recital. She...
, French pianist - July 4 - Gertrude LawrenceGertrude LawrenceGertrude Lawrence was an English actress, singer and musical comedy performer known for her stage appearances in the West End theatre district of London and on Broadway.-Early life:...
, English actress, singer and dancer - July 6 - Hanns EislerHanns EislerHanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...
, composer - July 15 - Noel GayNoel GayNoel Gay was born Reginald Moxon Armitage. He also used the name Stanley Hill professionally. He was a successful British composer of popular music of the 1930s and 1940s whose output comprised 45 songs as well as the music for 28 films and 26 London shows...
, English songwriter - August 15 - Charles TobiasCharles Tobias-Biography:Born in New York City, Tobias grew up in Worcester, Massachusetts with brothers Harry Tobias and Henry Tobias, also songwriters.He started his musical career in vaudeville. In 1923, he founded his own music publishing firm and worked on Tin Pan Alley...
, US songwriter and singer - August 24 - Fred RoseFred Rose (musician)Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...
, songwriter, music publisher - September 1
- Marilyn MillerMarilyn MillerMarilyn Miller was one of the most popular Broadway musical stars of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was an accomplished tap dancer, singer and actress, but it was the combination of these talents that endeared her to audiences. On stage she usually played rags-to-riches Cinderella characters who...
, US actress, singer and dancer - Violet CarsonViolet CarsonViolet Helen Carson OBE was an English actress, best known for playing Ena Sharples, one of the original characters in the British soap opera Coronation Street.-Early life and career:...
, actress, singer and pianist
- Marilyn Miller
- September 26 - George GershwinGeorge GershwinGeorge Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
, US composer - September 27 - Vincent YoumansVincent YoumansVincent Youmans was an American popular composer and Broadway producer.- Life :Vincent Millie Youmans was born in New York City on September 27, 1898 and grew-up on Central Park West on the site where the Mayflower Hotel once stood. His father, a prosperous hat manufacturer, moved the family to...
, US composer - October 7 - Alfred WallensteinAlfred WallensteinAlfred Wallenstein was an American cellist and conductor, born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 17, he joined the San Francisco Symphony as a cellist. He subsequently played cello with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra before becoming principal cello of the New...
, US cellist and conductor - October 8 - Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
- October 18 - Lotte LenyaLotte LenyaLotte Lenya was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language film she is remembered for her Academy Award-nominated role in The Roman Spring of Mrs...
, singer and actress, wife of Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht... - November 1 - Sippie WallaceSippie WallaceSippie Wallace was an American singer-songwriter. Her early career in local tent shows gained her the billing "The Texas Nightingale". Between 1923 and 1927, she recorded over 40 songs for Okeh Records, many written by herself or her brothers, George and Hersal Thomas...
, blues singer - December 3 (n.s.) - Lev KnipperLev KnipperLev Konstantinovich Knipper , a Russian composer of partially German descent and an active OGPU - NKVD agent.Lev Knipper was the nephew of the actress Olga Knipper...
, Russian composer (and NKVDNKVDThe People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
agent) - December 5 - Grace MooreGrace MooreGrace Moore was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience.-Early life:...
, operatic soprano - December 14 - Lillian RandolphLillian RandolphLillian Randolph was an American actress and singer, a veteran of radio, film, and television. An African American, she worked in entertainment from the 1930s well into the 1970s, appearing in hundreds of radio shows, motion pictures, short subjects, and television shows.-Early years:Born...
, actress and singer - December 24 - Baby DoddsBaby DoddsWarren "Baby" Dodds was a jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana."Baby" Dodds was the younger brother of clarinetist Johnny Dodds. He is regarded as one of the very best jazz drummers of the pre-big band era, and one of the most important early jazz drummers...
, jazz drummer
Deaths
- January 7 - Heinrich LichnerHeinrich LichnerHeinrich Lichner was a prolific German composer, best known today for his teaching pieces - simple piano works written for students. He was born in Harpersdorf, Silesia. His sonatinas, including Opp. 4, 49, and 66 are in a light, fluent classical style, although the harmony occasionally betrays...
, composer (b. 1829) - January 8 - Alexandre DubuqueAlexandre DubuqueAlexandre Dubuque, also Alexander and Dubuc , was a 19th century Russian-resident expatriate French pianist, composer and teacher.He was a student of John Field and later gave piano lessons to Mily Balakirev and Nikolai Zverev....
(composer (b. 1812) - January 16 - Antoine François MarmontelAntoine François MarmontelAntoine François Marmontel was a French pianist, teacher and musicographer.Marmontel entered the Paris Conservatory in 1827. His teachers were Pierre Zimmerman in pianoforte, Victor Dourlen in harmony, Jacques Fromental Halévy in fugue and Jean-François Le Sueur in composition...
, pianist and teacher - March 11 - Dikran TchouhadjianDikran TchouhadjianTigran Tchouhadjian was an Armenian composer, conductor, public activist and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire.- Biography :...
, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire (b. 1837) - March 15 - Julius SchulhoffJulius SchulhoffJulius Schulhoff, was a Bohemian pianist and composer of Jewish birth. He was the great-uncle of the 20th century composer Erwin Schulhoff....
, pianist and composer (b. 1825) - March 28 - Anton SeidlAnton SeidlAnton Seidl was a Hungarian conductor.-Biography:He was born at Pest, Hungary. He began the study of music at a very early age, and when only seven years old could pick out at the piano melodies which he had heard at the theatre...
, conductor - April 21 - Louis Théodore GouvyLouis Théodore GouvyLouis Théodore Gouvy was a French composer.- Biography :Gouvy was born into a French speaking family in the Alsatian village of Goffontaine, in the Sarre, a region on the France-Prussia border...
, composer - May 15 - Ede ReményiEde ReményiEduard Remenyi, Reményi Ede, born Eduard Hoffmann was a Hungarian violinist.He studied under Joseph Böhm at the Vienna Conservatory from 1842 to 1845...
, violinist - August 17 - Karl Zeller, Austrian composer
- August 21 - Niccolò van WesterhoutNiccolò van WesterhoutNiccolò van Westerhout was an Italian composer.-History and formal training:Of Flemish origin, the family van Westerhout settled in Apulia in the seventeenth century, first in Bari and then in Monopoli...
, composer (b. 1857) (peritonitis) - September 9 - William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer (b. 1837)
- September 11 - Adolphe SamuelAdolphe SamuelAdolphe-Abraham Samuel was a Belgian music critic, conductor and composer. Samuel was Jewish, and late in life converted to Christianity. He spent much time in Brussels where he was a pupil of François-Joseph Fétis, and where he was a friend of Hector Berlioz...
, Belgian composer - November 7 - Max AlvaryMax AlvaryMax Alvary , originally Maximilian Achenbach, was a German operatic tenor.Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, he was the son of the painter Andreas Achenbach, over whose initial objections he pursued his singing career...
, operatic tenor - December 13 - George Frederick BristowGeorge Frederick BristowGeorge Frederick Bristow was an American composer. He advocated American classical music, rather than favoring European pieces. He was famously involved in a related controversy involving William Henry Fry and the New York Philharmonic Society.-Musical career:Bristow was born into a musical...
, composer (b. 1825) - December 29 - Georg GoltermannGeorg GoltermannGeorg Goltermann was a German cellist and composer.-Life:Goltermann's father was an organist, and therefore he got an early introduction to music...
, cellist and composer - date unknown
- Franz BehrFranz BehrFranz Behr was a prolific, but minor, and now almost forgotten, German composer of songs and salon pieces for piano.He was popular at one time, and many of his works were published . His works include names such as The Camp of the Gypsies, Will o’ the wisp, Valse des Elfes Franz Behr (1837–1898)...
, composer (b. 1837) - Jean Antoine ZinnenJean Antoine ZinnenJean Antoine Zinnen was a Luxembourgian composer, best known for the Luxembourgian national anthem, Ons Hémécht.-Career:...
, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem
- Franz Behr