1898 in music

Events in the year 1898 in music.

Specific locations

 * 1898 in Norwegian music

Events

 * Otilie Dvořáková, daughter of Antonín Dvořák, marries her father's pupil, composer Josef Suk.
 * Dame Marie Tempest marries the actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, grandson of the Duke of Richmond.

Published popular music

 * "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
 * "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton
 * "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Alberto Pestalozza
 * "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. 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 Herbert from the musical The Fortune Teller
 * "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
 * "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "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 Stuart
 * "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "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 Tilzer
 * "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald De Koven
 * "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
 * "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
 * "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano) c. Scott Joplin
 * "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton
 * "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion

Christmas songs

 * "Nu tändas tusen juleljus", by Emmy Köhler

Recorded popular music

 * "The Amorous Goldfish" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) – Syria Lamonte on Berliner Gramophone
 * "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
 * "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m. George Frederick Root) – John Terrell on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Break The News To Mother" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) – George J. Gaskin on Edison Records
 * "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones) – James T. Powers on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert) – Jessie Bartlett Davis & W. H. MacDonald on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
 * "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Gramophone
 * "A Hot Time In The Old Town" (w. Joe Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone -  Len Spencer with banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records –  Roger Harding on Edison Records
 * "In The Gloaming" (w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison) – Roger Harding on Berliner Gramophone
 * "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White) – Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records
 * "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
 * "Killarney" (w. Edmund Falconer m. Michael William Balfe) – Arthur Gladstone on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m. Giaocchino Rossini) – Alberto Del Campo on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lyman Molloy) – Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone
 * "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden) – Leo Dryden on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m. Dave Reed Jr) – Press Eldridge on Edison Records
 * "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney) – Marguerite Newton on Edison Records –  Len Spencer with  Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
 * "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster) – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone –  Edison Male Quartette on Edison Records
 * "Oh, Promise Me" (w. Clement Scott m. Reginald DeKoven) – Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster) – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone
 * "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m. Paul Dresser) – Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Orange Blossoms" (m. Arthur Pryor) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
 * "The Palms" (m. Gabriel Fauré) – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w. Mrs Emma Hart Willard m. Joseph Phillip Knight) – William Hooley on Edison Records
 * "She Never Did the Same Thing Twice" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Gramophone
 * "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
 * "She was Happy Til She Met You" – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
 * "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann) – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
 * "Stars And Stripes Forever" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Sweet And Low" (w. Alfred, Lord Tennyson m. Sir Joseph Barnby) – Ladies Brass Quartette of Boston Fadettes on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker) – Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent) – Steve Porter on Berliner Gramophone
 * "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m. R. M. Stults) – Diamond Four on Berliner Gramophone –  George J. Gaskin on Edison Records
 * "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) – James Norrie on Berliner Gramophone -  Annie Carter on Berliner Gramophone
 * "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m. James Thornton) – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
 * "The Thunderer" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
 * "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m. Louis Lambert) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
 * "Yankee Doodle" (trad) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records

Classical music

 * Ernest Chausson – String Quartet (completed posthumously)
 * Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
 * Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op.30
 * Ballade, Op.33 (premiered September 12 in Gloucester)
 * African Suite for piano, Op.35
 * Edward Elgar – Caractacus
 * George Enescu
 * Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4
 * Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major, for piano, Op. 5
 * Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
 * Gabriel Fauré
 * Fantaisie, Op. 79
 * Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
 * Alexander Glazunov – Ruses d'Amour (ballet)
 * Paul Juon – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
 * Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
 * Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
 * Henrique Oswald
 * Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21
 * Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26
 * Camille Saint-Saëns – Barcarolle in F major
 * Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major

Opera

 * Antônio Francisco Braga – Jupyra
 * Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The Gitanos
 * Umberto Giordano – Fedora
 * Ivar Hallstrom – Little Karin
 * Pietro Mascagni – Iris
 * Emile Pessard – La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
 * Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
 * Sadko, premiered January 7 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow.

Musical theater

 * The Belle of New York London production
 * The Bride Elect Broadway production
 * The Fortune Teller Toronto and London productions
 * A Greek Slave London production
 * Hurly-Burly Broadway production
 * A Runaway Girl London and Broadway productions
 * The Skirt Dancer London production
 * Véronique (operetta) (André Messager) – Paris production

Births

 * January 7 – Al Bowlly, big band singer
 * January 9 – Gracie Fields, singer and actress
 * January 28 – Vittorio Rieti, composer
 * February 3 – Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
 * February 7 – Dock Boggs, banjo player
 * February 12 – Roy Harris, composer
 * February 15 – Totò, actor and composer
 * February 28 – Molly Picon, Broadway star
 * March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
 * April 3 – George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
 * April 9 – Paul Robeson, singer
 * May 14 – Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
 * May 15 – Arletty, actress and singer
 * May 26 – Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)
 * May 28 – Andy Kirk, jazz musician
 * June 6 – Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
 * June 29 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
 * July 4 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
 * July 6 – Hanns Eisler, composer
 * July 15 – Noel Gay, English songwriter
 * August 2 – Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
 * August 15 – Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
 * August 24 – Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
 * September 1
 * Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancer
 * Violet Carson, actress, singer and pianist
 * September 26 – George Gershwin, US composer
 * September 27 – Vincent Youmans, US composer
 * October 7 – Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
 * October 8 – Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
 * October 18 – Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt Weill
 * November 1 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer
 * December 3 (n.s.) – Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and NKVD agent)
 * December 5 – Grace Moore, operatic soprano
 * December 14 – Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
 * December 24 – Baby Dodds, jazz drummer

Deaths

 * January 7 – Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
 * January 8 – Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
 * January 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
 * February 15 – Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)
 * March 11 – Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
 * March 15 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
 * March 28 – Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
 * April 21 – Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
 * May 15 – Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
 * May 16 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
 * August 17 – Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
 * August 21 – Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)
 * September 9 – William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
 * September 11 – Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
 * November 7 – Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
 * December 13 – George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
 * December 29 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74