1892 in music

Events in the year 1892 in music.

Specific locations

 * 1892 in Norwegian music

Events

 * April 28 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Kullervo Symphony in Helsinki.
 * May 26 – A statue of Felix Mendelssohn, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it is re-dedicated in 2008.
 * September 24 – Opening of the Theater Unter den Linden, Berlin with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.
 * September 26 – Antonín Dvořák arrives in the United States to take up his post as artistic director of the National Conservatory of Music.
 * December 18
 * Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Richter conducting at the Stadttheater, Leipzig.
 * December 6 O.S. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and opera Iolanta are premiered in a double bill at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
 * "After the Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year).
 * Erik Satie composes his first pieces in his own compositional system.
 * Sergei Diaghilev graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
 * Ferdinand Praeger's controversial biography Wagner As I Knew Him is published posthumously in London.
 * Sudrophone patented by François Sudre in France.

Published popular music

 * "After the Ball"    w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "The Bowery"    w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
 * "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow"    w.m. Joseph Tabrar
 * "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two")    w.m. Harry Dacre
 * "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
 * "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
 * "The Holy City"    w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
 * "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
 * "Liebestraum Nocturne" m. Virginia Field
 * "Molly And I And The Baby"    w.m. Harry Kennedy
 * "My Old Dutch"    w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
 * "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon"    w.m. James Thornton
 * "The Sweetest Story Ever Told"    w.m. R. M. Stults
 * "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld

Recorded popular music

 * "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Dan W. Quinn
 * "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Silas Leachman
 * "Esquimeau Dance" – William Tuson
 * "Grover Cleveland March" – Gilmore's Band
 * "Michael Casey At The Telephone" – Russell Hunting
 * "Michael Casey Taking The Census" – Russell Hunting
 * "Pat Brady as President" – Dan Kelly
 * "Parody of "We'll Never Turn His Picture Toward The Wall'" – Al Reeves
 * "Riding through the Glen" – Issler's Orchestra
 * "Take Your Time Gentlemen" – Press Eldridge
 * "The Blind Boy" – Richard Jose
 * "The Bowery" – Dan W. Quinn
 * "The Laughing Darkie" – George W. Johnson (singer)
 * "The Night Alarm" – Holding's Military Band
 * "The Old Folks at Home" – Len Spencer
 * "Uncle Ned's Dream" – George W. Johnson (singer)

Classical music

 * Johannes Brahms – Intermezzos Opus number 117
 * Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
 * Alexander Glazunov – String Quintet in A major (Opus 39)
 * Gustav Mahler – Das himmlische Leben (later incorporated into his fourth symphony)
 * Miguel Marqués – El Centinelo
 * Carl Nielsen – First Symphony
 * Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Prelude in C-sharp Minor
 * Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
 * Max Reger
 * Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 5
 * Twelve Waltz-Caprices, Op. 9, four-hand piano
 * 20 German Dances, Op. 10, four-hand piano
 * Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, opus 6
 * Jean Sibelius – Kullervo Symphony
 * Josef Suk – Serenade for Strings in E-flat major
 * Alexander von Zemlinsky – Symphony in D minor

Opera

 * Herman Bemberg – Elaine
 * Karel Bendl – Dite Tabora
 * Alfredo Catalani – La Wally
 * Gialdino Gialdini – I due soci premiered February 24 at the Teatro Brunetti, Bologna
 * Umberto Giordano – Mala Vita
 * Isidore de Lara – The Light of Asia
 * Ruggiero Leoncavallo – I Pagliacci
 * Jules Massenet – Werther (Composed 1887)
 * Adolf Neuendorff – The Minstrel
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Iolanta
 * The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones are the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall

Ballet

 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker

Musical theater

 * Blue-Eyed Susan, libretto by George Robert Sims, on London stage
 * "Maid Marian" (retitled version of "Robin Hood"); London production
 * "Maid Marian" (sequel to "Robin Hood"); Broadway production
 * The Wicklow Postman; initial production in Boston, Massachusetts

Top hits

 * "Slide, Kelly, Slide" by George J. Gaskin
 * "Sally in Our Alley" by Manhansett Quartette

Births

 * January 1 – Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (d. 1958)
 * January 31 – Eddie Cantor, born Isidore Itzkowitz, American singer and entertainer (d. 1964)
 * February 4 – Yrjö Kilpinen, Finnish composer known most for his lieder (d. 1959)
 * February 15 – Ján Valašťan Dolinský, Slovak composer (d. 1965)
 * March 10
 * Arthur Honegger, composer (d. 1955)
 * Eva Turner, operatic soprano (d. 1990)
 * March 27 – Ferde Grofé, composer (d. 1972)
 * April 1 – Renato Zanelli, Chilean baritone, later tenor (d. 1935)
 * April 2 – Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist (d. 1962)
 * April 10 – Victor de Sabata, conductor and composer (d. 1967)
 * April 12 – Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist (d. 1940)
 * April 15 – Manuel Quiroga, violinist (d. 1961)
 * April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, composer (d. 1983)
 * April 21 – Jaroslav Kvapil, composer (d. 1958)
 * May 14 – Arthur Lourié, Russian-born expatriate composer (d. 1966)
 * May 18 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass singer and actor (d. 1957)
 * May 19 – Pops Foster, jazz bass player (d. 1969)
 * June 6 – Ted Lewis, singer and bandleader (d. 1971)
 * June 18 – Eduard Steuermann, pianist (d. 1964)
 * June 21 – Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer (d. 1985)
 * June 23 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (d. 1993)
 * June 30 – László Lajtha, Hungarian symphonist (d. 1963)
 * July 2 – Jack Hylton, British bandleader (d. 1965)
 * July 8 – J. Russel Robinson, dixieland pianist-composer (d. 1963)
 * July 10 – Ján Móry, Slovak composer (d. 1978)
 * July 26 – Philipp Jarnach, composer of German-French origins (d. 1982)
 * August 14 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music critic and pianist (d. 1988)
 * August 15 – Knud Jeppesen, musicologist (d. 1974)
 * September 4 – Darius Milhaud, composer (d. 1974)
 * September 5 – Joseph Szigeti, violinist (d. 1973)
 * September 17 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist (d. 1981)
 * October 17 – Herbert Howells, church music composer (d. 1983)
 * October 19 – Ilmari Hannikainen, composer (d. 1955)
 * October 25 – Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch, Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly sisters (d. 1941 and 1970 respectively)
 * November 11 – Isidor Achron, Polish-American pianist and composer (d. 1948)
 * November 28 – Thomas Wood, English composer (d. 1950)
 * December 9 – Beatrice Harrison, cellist (d. 1965)
 * December 11 – Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, operatic tenor (d. 1979)

Deaths

 * January 10 – Heinrich Dorn, German conductor, composer and journalist (born 1804)
 * February 13 – Lambert Massart, violinist (born 1811)
 * February 20 – Róza Csillag, opera singer (born 1832)
 * March 11 – Caroline Reinagle, pianist, composer and writer (born 1818)
 * March 20 – Arthur Goring Thomas, composer (born 1850) (suicide)
 * April 22 – Édouard Lalo, composer (born 1823)
 * May 2 – Wilhelm Rust, composer (born 1822)
 * May 6 – Ernest Guiraud, composer (born 1837)
 * June 5 – Robert Rees, Welsh tenor (born 1841)
 * August 18 – Jules Perrot, ballet dancer (born 1810)
 * August 19 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, composer, teacher and music theorist (born 1830)
 * September 5 – Henry Christian Timm, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1811)
 * September 24 – Patrick Gilmore, bandmaster and composer (born 1829)
 * October 24 – Robert Franz, composer (born 1815)
 * October 28 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (born 1835)
 * November 4 – Hervé, organist and composer (born 1825)
 * November 19 – Antonio Torres Jurado, guitar maker (born 1817)
 * date unknown – Adolf Rzepko, Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor and pianist (born 1825)