1895 in music

Events in the year 1895 in music.

Specific locations

 * 1895 in Norwegian music

Events

 * March 4 – Gustav Mahler conducts the première of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in [Berlin] – the first three movements only.
 * May 18 – Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queen's Hall.
 * August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor. The first concert opens with the overture to Wagner's Rienzi. The orchestra tunes to the "French A" or diapason normal concert pitch.
 * December 13 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in Berlin with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra (first three movements premièred on March 4).
 * unknown dates
 * Composer Sidney Homer marries contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty.
 * Composer Zdeněk Fibich separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová, and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.
 * Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d'Albert. It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

Published popular music



 * "America the Beautiful"    w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
 * "The Band Played On"    w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
 * "The Belle of Avenoo A"    w.m. Safford Waters
 * "Down In Poverty Row"    w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
 * "A Dream"    w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
 * "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"    w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
 * "He's Not Dead Yet!"    w. T. W. Connor
 * "It's a Great Big Shame"    w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
 * "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"    w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "King Cotton (march)"    m. John Philip Sousa
 * "La Pas Ma La" w.m. Ernest Hogan
 * "My Angeline"    w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
 * "My Best Girl's a New Yorker"    w.m. John Stromberg
 * "Put Me Off at Buffalo"    w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon (Dillon Brothers)
 * "Rastus on Parade"    w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
 * "She Was One of the Early Birds"    w.m. T. W. Connor
 * "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
 * "The Soldiers of the Queen"    w.m. Leslie Stuart
 * "The Streets of Cairo"    w.m. James Thornton
 * "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley"    w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton

Recorded popular music

 * "Girl Wanted" – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
 * "The Band Played On" – Dan W. Quinn, Columbia Records
 * "The Sidewalks of New York" – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records

Classical music

 * Béla Bartók
 * Capriccio in B minor, for piano, Op. 4
 * Fantasia in A minor, for piano, Op. 2
 * Fantasia, for violin, Op. 9
 * Pieces, for violin, Op. 7
 * Sonata No. 2 in F major, for piano, Op. 3
 * Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, Op. 5
 * Sonata No. 3 in C major, for piano, Op. 6
 * Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
 * Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets
 * Edward Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 27
 * George Enescu – "Study" Symphony No. 1 in D minor
 * Gabriel Fauré
 * Allegro symphonique, for piano four-hands, Op. 68
 * Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat major, for piano, Op. 70
 * Theme and Variations, for piano, Op. 73
 * Anatoly Lyadov
 * Etude in F major, for piano, Op. 37
 * Mazurka in F major, for piano, Op. 38
 * Preludes (3), for piano, Op. 36
 * Preludes (4), for piano, Op. 39
 * Henrique Oswald – Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18
 * Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Fantasy No. 2 in D♭ major, for organ, Op. 101
 * La Mort de Thaïs, Paraphrase de concert sur l'opéra de J. Massenet, for piano
 * Souvenir d'Ismaïlia, for piano, Op. 100
 * Richard Strauss
 * Songs (3), for high voice and piano, Op. 29
 * Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, for orchestra, Op. 28
 * Alexander von Zemlinsky – Serenade (Suite), for violin and piano

Opera

 * Isaac Albéniz – Henry Clifford
 * Enrique Fernández Arbós – El Centro de la Tierra
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve, 10 December, in St. Petersburg.

Musical theater

 * An Artist's Model    London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances
 * Dandy Dick Whittington    London production
 * The Shop Girl    Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances
 * The Tyrolean    London production

Births

 * January 7 – Clara Haskil, pianist (died 1960)
 * January 27 – Buddy De Sylva, songwriter (died 1950)
 * February 7 – Irving Aaronson, jazz pianist and big band leader (died 1963)
 * February 28 – Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
 * March 4 – Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist (died 1978)
 * March 23 – Dane Rudhyar, composer (died 1985)
 * March 31 – Lizzie Miles, singer (died 1963)
 * April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer (died 1984)
 * April 3
 * Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer (died 1968)
 * Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (died 1971)
 * April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer (died 1976)
 * April 23 – Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
 * April 29 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor (died 1967)
 * May 1 – Leo Sowerby, composer (died 1968)
 * May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist (died 1943)
 * May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor (died 1926)
 * May 11 – William Grant Still, composer (died 1978)
 * June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer (died 1946)
 * June 21 – Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer (died 1992)
 * June 28 – Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer (died 1986)
 * July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist (died 1996)
 * July 5 – Gordon Jacob, English composer (died 1984)
 * July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer (died 1982)
 * July 12
 * Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (died 1982)
 * Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist (died 1960)
 * July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer (died 1989)
 * July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (died 1977)
 * August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (died 1963)
 * August 10 – Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer (died 1972)
 * August 13 – Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer (died 1967)
 * September 9 – Harry Tobias, US lyric writer (died 1994)
 * September 16 – Karol Rathaus, Austrian (Ukrainian) composer (died 1954)
 * September 22 – Herbert Janssen, German baritone (died 1965)
 * October 11 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (died 1982)
 * October 12 – Tubby Hall, jazz drummer (died 1945)
 * October 17 – Doris Humphrey, dancer (died 1958)
 * October 29 – Harry Ruby, songwriter (died 1974)
 * November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
 * November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (died 1963)
 * November 28
 * José Iturbi, pianist (died 1980)
 * Jacobo Rubalcaba, Cuban musician and bandleader (died 1960)
 * November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (died 1976)
 * November 30 – Johann Nepomuk David, composer (died 1977)
 * December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist (died 1967)
 * December 16 – Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (died 1973)

Deaths

 * January 10 – Benjamin Godard, composer (born 1849)
 * January 22 – Edward Solomon, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1855) (typhoid)
 * February 6 – Otto Mahler, composer (born 1873) (suicide)
 * February 16 – Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter (born 1816)
 * February 24 – Ignaz Lachner, conductor and composer (born 1807)
 * March 16 – Richard Corney Grain, entertainer and songwriter (born 1844) (influenza)
 * March 18 – Priscilla Horton, singer and actress (born 1818)
 * April 28 – Jean Joseph Bott, violinist and composer (born 1826)
 * May 21 – Franz von Suppé, composer (born 1819)
 * June 15 – Richard Genée, librettist and composer (born 1823)
 * June 28 – Ján Koehler, operatic baritone
 * July 13 – John Tiplady Carrodus, violinist (born 1836)
 * August 2 – Ernest Appy, US cellist and composer (born 1834)
 * August 6 – George Frederick Root, US composer (born 1820)
 * August 13 – Ludwig Abel, violinist, composer and conductor (born 1834)
 * October 12 – Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer (born 1818)
 * October 25 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (born 1819)
 * November – Raffaele Mirate, operatic tenor (born 1815)
 * November 1 – Aleksander Zarzycki, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1834)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco (born 1817)
 * Basilio Basili, operatic tenor and composer (born 1804)
 * Angelique Magito, opera and concert singer (born 1809)
 * Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label (born 1884)