1893 in music

Events in the year 1893 in music.

Specific locations

 * 1893 in Norwegian music

Events

 * February 9 – Première of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan with Victor Maurel in the title rôle.
 * Summer – Gustav Mahler's first summer composing at his Komponierhäuschen ("composition hut") at Steinbach am Attersee in the Salzkammergut region of Austria.
 * August 14–15 – America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition.
 * October 16–28 – In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique (Патетическая), nine days before his death (attributed to cholera). The second performance takes place 21 days later at a memorial concert conducted by Eduard Nápravník, incorporating minor revisions. Tchaikovsky wrote it between February and the end of August at Klin.
 * December 16 – Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" receives its première at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
 * December 29 – Claude Debussy's String Quartet is premièred in Paris.
 * American sisters Patty and Mildred J. Hill publish Song Stories for the Kindergarten including "Good Morning to All", which later becomes known as "Happy Birthday to You".
 * The first sousaphone is built by James Welsh Pepper at the request of bandmaster John Philip Sousa in the United States.

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. Harry S. Miller
 * "December And May"    w. Edward Marks m. William Lorraine
 * "Do Do My Huckleberry Do"    w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon (the Dillon Brothers)
 * "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
 * "The Liberty Bell" 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
 * "They All Take After Me"    w. T. W. Connor m. Harry Randall
 * "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

 * "After the Ball (song)" – George J. Gaskin
 * "After the Fair (Parody)" – George H. Diamond
 * "Blind Tom" – Brilliant Quartette
 * "The Cat Came Back" – George H. Diamond
 * "Chinese Picnic" – Vess Ossman
 * "Cocoanut Dance" – Vess Ossman
 * "The Commodore Song" – Edward M. Favor
 * "Daisy Bell" – Dan W. Quinn
 * "Darkie Tickle" – Vess Ossman
 * "Down On The Farm" – Edward Clarance
 * "High School Cadets" – Vess Ossman
 * "The King's Song" – Edward M. Favor
 * "Love's Sweet Honor" – Vess Ossman
 * "Lovely Woman" – Al Reeves
 * "The Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo” – George H. Diamond
 * "Marriage Bells" – Vess Ossman
 * "O Promise Me" – George J. Gaskin
 * "Parody On "After the Ball" – George H. Diamond
 * "Pat Brady and the World Fair at Chicago" – Dan Kelly
 * "The Washington Post (march)" – Vess Ossman
 * "When Summer Comes Again" – George H. Diamond
 * "Why Should I Keep From Whistling?" – John York AtLee & Fred Gaisberg

Classical music

 * Amy Beach – Gaelic Symphony
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
 * Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119
 * Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor
 * 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
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff
 * Fantaisie-Tableaux, for two pianos, Op. 5
 * Morceaux de salon for violin and piano, Op. 6
 * Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite
 * William Stanley – Bay View Gavotte in A major
 * Josef Suk – Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"
 * Charles-Marie Widor - Symphony no. 3 for organ & orchestra, Op. 69

Opera

 * Granville Bantock – Caedmar
 * Julius Bechgaard – Frode premiered on May 11 in Copenhagen
 * Engelbert Humperdinck – Hänsel und 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
 * Camille Saint-Saëns – Phryné
 * 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 – Jimmy Durante, American comedian and singer (died 1980)
 * February 15 – Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (died 1947)
 * February 21 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist (died 1987)
 * March 8 – Mississippi John Hurt, American country blues singer and guitarist (died 1966)
 * April 2 – Sergei Protopopov, Russian composer and music theorist (died 1954)
 * April 16 – Federico Mompou, Spanish classical composer (died 1987)
 * April 18 – Georges Boulanger, Romanian violinist (died 1958)
 * June 10 – Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress (died 1952)
 * June 26 – Big Bill Broonzy, American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 1958)
 * June 28 – Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor (died 1931)
 * July 25 – Dorothy Dickson, American-born British singer and actress (died 1995)
 * July 28 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (died 1952)
 * August 21 – Lili Boulanger, French composer (died 1918)
 * August 22 – Dorothy Parker, American writer, poet and lyricist (died 1953)
 * September 13 – Larry Shields, American Dixieland jazz clarinetist (died 1953)
 * September 24 – Blind Lemon Jefferson, blues musician (died 1929)
 * October 1 – Cliff Friend, American Tin Pan Alley songwriter (died 1974)
 * October 23 – Jean Absil, Belgian composer and organist (died 1974)
 * November 8 – Clarence Williams, American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer and publisher (died 1965)
 * December 7 — Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
 * December 24 – Harry Warren, born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, American film songwriter (died 1981)

Deaths

 * January 18 – Julius Eichberg, composer (b. 1824)
 * February 13 – George Lichtenstein, pianist and music teacher (b. 1827)
 * May 2 – Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing, composer (b.1809)
 * May 25 – Johann Rufinatscha, composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
 * June 10 – Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel (b. 1843)
 * June 25 – Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (b. 1810)
 * July 16 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (b. 1824)
 * August 7 – Alfredo Catalani, composer (b. 1854)
 * August 31 – Sir William Cusins, instrumentalist, conductor and composer; Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1833)
 * September 8 – Michel Lentz, lyricist of the national anthem of Luxembourg (b. 1820)
 * September 13 – Carl Ludvig Gerlach, opera singer and composer
 * October 16 – Carlo Pedrotti, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
 * October 18 – Charles Gounod, composer (b. 1818)
 * November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1840)
 * December 23 – Benedict Randhartinger, composer (b. 1802)
 * date unknown – Félix Battanchon, cellist (b. 1814)