1899 in music

Events in the year 1899 in music.

Specific locations

 * 1899 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 25 – Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström.
 * March 3 – Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of Ein Heldenleben with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester.
 * April 26
 * Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 1 in Helsinki.
 * Tenor Antonio Paoli makes his début in Rossini's William Tell in Paris.
 * May 27 – Maurice Ravel conducts the first public performance of his 1898 Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris; it receives a critical reception and is not published in his lifetime.
 * June 19 – Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) are premiered at St James's Hall in London conducted by Hans Richter. A revised version is first heard on September 13 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester Cathedral with Elgar conducting.
 * September 18 – Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States.
 * October 19 – Claude Debussy marries Rosalie Texier, having lived for nine years with her best friend; the marriage lasts only five years.
 * December 30 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor marries Jessie Walmisley.
 * date unknown
 * Charles Hale's song "At a Darktown Cakewalk" includes an early appearance of the riff "Shave and a Haircut".
 * Billy Murray makes his singing debut.

Published popular music



 * "Absent"    w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf
 * "Always!"    w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
 * "Cake Walk in The Sky" by Ben Harney
 * "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do a Thing to You"    w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "A Coon Band Contest"    m. Arthur Pryor
 * "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun
 * "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey"    w.m. Alfred W. Noll
 * "Hands Across the Sea"    m. John Philip Sousa
 * "Hearts and Flowers"    w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani
 * "Hello! Ma Baby"    w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard
 * "I'd Leave My Happy Home for You"    w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "If Only You Were Mine"    w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
 * "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" w.m. Harry Dacre
 * "Impecunious Davis" by Kerry Mills
 * "Keep on the Sunny Side", w. A. Blenkhorn, m. J.H. Entwisle
 * "Mandy Lee" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
 * "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
 * "Mosquito Parade"    m. Howard Whitney
 * "My Little Georgia Rose"    w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
 * "My Wild Irish Rose"    w.m. Chauncey Olcott
 * "'O sole mio!"    w. Giovanni Capurro m. Eduardo di Capua
 * "A Picture No Artist Can Paint"    w.m. J. Fred Helf
 * "She Was Happy Till She Met You"    w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
 * "Smoky Mokes"    m. Abe Holzmann
 * "Stay in Your Own Back Yard"    w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
 * "The Story of the Rose" (aka "Heart Of My Heart")     w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack
 * "Telephone Me, Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "There's Where My Heart Is Tonight"    w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "When most I wink" m. Frank Bridge
 * "Where the Sweet Magnolias Grow"    w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Whistling Rufus"    w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills
 * "You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine" w. Seymore Rice & Albert H. Brown, m. Charles N. Daniels

Recorded popular music

 * "Abide With Me" (w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records
 * "Always!" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers) – May Kelso on Edison Records – Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
 * "Asleep In The Deep" (w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Henry W. Petrie) – William Hooley on Edison Records
 * "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m. Kerry Mills) – John Terrell on Berliner Records – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
 * "Ave Maria" (w. (Fr) Paul Bernard m. Charles Gounod) – M. A. Guarini on Edison Records – W. D. McFarland on Berliner Records
 * "Because" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
 * "Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w. Thomas Moore m. trad) – J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
 * "The Boy Guessed Right" (w.m. Lionel Monckton) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records & Berliner Records
 * "The Cake Walk" (trad US) – Eugene Stratton with piano Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Calvary" (w. Henry Vaughan m. Paul Rodney) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records
 * "Comin' Thro' The Rye" (w. Robert Burns m. trad) – Syria Lamonte with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Curse of the Dreamer" – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
 * "Down The Road" (w.m. Fred Gilbert) – Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Eli Green's Cakewalk" (w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky) – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Edison Records
 * "Emmet's Lullaby" (w.m. J. K. Emmet) – George P. Watson on Edison Records
 * "Funiculi-Funicula" (w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza) – Hotel Cecil Orchestra on Berliner Gramophone
 * "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" (w.m. Albert Chevalier) – Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
 * "God Save The Queen" – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
 * "Gypsy Love Song" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert) – Eugene Cowles on Berliner Records – William Hooley on Edison Records
 * "Hands Across The Sea March" (m. John Philip Sousa) – Peerless Orchestra on Edison Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records
 * "Hearts And Flowers" (w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani) – violin Chris De Arth on Berliner Records
 * "Hello! Ma Baby" (w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records – Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records
 * "The Holy City" (w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams) – Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
 * "Home Sweet Home" (w. John Howard Payne m. Sir Henry Rowley Bishop) – whistling John Yorke Atlee on Berliner Records
 * "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
 * "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" (w.m. George M. Cohan) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records – Edward M. Favor on Berliner Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
 * "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
 * "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn) – Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
 * "If Only You Were Mine" (w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
 * "It's A Great Big Shame" (w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn) – Gus Elen on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Jack's The Boy" (Greenbank, Jones) – H. Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Just As The Sun Went Down" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Records – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records
 * "Just One Girl" (w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall) – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – H. Scott Russell with p. Amy Williams on Berliner Gramophone – J. W. Myers on Columbia Records
 * "Kathleen Mavourneen" (w. Annie Crawford (Barry) m. Frederick William Nichols Crouch) – William F. Hooley on Edison Records
 * "Kiss Me, Honey Do" (w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – Len Spencer on Berliner Records & Columbia Records – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
 * "Little Dolly Daydream" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) – Eugene Stratton on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Little Old New York is Good Enough For Me" – Dan W. Quinn on Berliner Records
 * "The Lost Chord" (w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan) – William F. Hooley on Berliner Records
 * "Mandy Lee" (w.m. Thurland Chattaway) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – Arthur Collins on Edison Records
 * "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Edison Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
 * "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m. Ben Harney) – John Terrell on Berliner Records
 * "Molly's The Girl For Me" – J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
 * "The Moth And The Flame" (w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – J. J. Fisher on Edison Records
 * "My Little Georgia Rose" (w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt) – Jere Mahoney on Edison Records
 * "My Old Dutch" (w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle) – Albert Chevalier on Berliner Gramophone
 * "My Old New Hampshire Home" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Jere Mahoney on Edison Records – Byron G. Harlan & A. D. Madeira on Edison Records – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – George J. Gaskin on Berliner Records – The Greater New York Quartette on Columbia Records
 * "My Wild Irish Rose" (w.m. Chauncey Olcott) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records
 * "Night Hymn At Sea" – Clara Butt & Kennerley Rumford on Berliner Gramophone
 * "The Old Brigade" (w. Fred E. Weatherly m. Orlando Barri) – H. Scott Russell with piano Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Old Man's Story" – J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia records
 * "The Old Oaken Bucket" (w. Samuel Woodworth m. E. Kaillmark) – Haydn Quartette on Berliner Records
 * "The Organ Grinder's Serenade" – J. Aldrich Libbey on Columbia Records
 * "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" (w.m. J. Fred Helf) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
 * "She Is The Belle Of New York" (w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker) – Frank Lawton with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
 * "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter) – Albert C. Campbell on Berliner Records – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records
 * "She Was Happy Till She Met You" (w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld) – Jere Mahoney on Edison Records – Dan W. Quinn on Columbia Records
 * "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann) – Len Spencer on Columbia Records – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records – Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
 * "The Soldiers Of The Queen" (w.m. Leslie Stuart) – Albert Christian with p. Leslie Stuart on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent) – Lil Hawthorne on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" (w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan) – Herbert Scott Russell with p. Fred Gaisberg on Berliner Gramophone
 * "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (w. Thomas Moore m. Richard Alfred Milliken) – J. W. Myers on Berliner Records
 * "Toreador Song" (w. H. Meilac, Ludovic Halévy m. Georges Bizet) – Montague Borwell on Berliner Gramophone
 * "Whistling Rufus" (w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills) – Len Spencer on Berliner Records – Sousa's Band on Berliner Records – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records & Berliner Records – Dan W. Quinn on Edison Records
 * "Yes, Let Me Like A Soldier Fall" (w. Edward Fitzball m. Vincent Wallace) – Ferruccio Giannini on Berliner Records
 * "You've Been A Good Old Wagon" (Harney) – Len Spencer on Columbia Records & Berliner Records

Classical music

 * Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 2 in D
 * Tor Aulin – 4 Aquarellen for Violin and Piano, Op. 12 or 15
 * Amy Beach – Piano Concerto in C♯ minor, Op. 45 (198/9)
 * Joseph Callaerts – Toccata, Op.29
 * Frederick Delius – Paris, Nocturne
 * Friedrich Diethe – Romanze for Bass Clarinet
 * Ernő von Dohnányi – Sonata for Cello and Piano in B♭ minor
 * Edward Elgar
 * Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma), Op. 36
 * Dry Those Fair, Those Crystal Eyes
 * Sérénade lyrique, for orchestra
 * George Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6
 * Axel Gade – Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra in F major
 * Louis Glass – Symphony No. 2 in C minor
 * Reinhold Glière – Symphony No. 1
 * Leopold Godowsky – 3 Concert Studies, Op.11
 * Theodore Gouvy – Paraphrases symphoniques, Op.89
 * Edvard Grieg – Ave maris stella, EG 150
 * Johan Halvorsen – Norwegian Festival Overture
 * Siegmund von Hausegger – Barbarossa
 * Hans Huber – Concerto No. 3 for piano and orchestra
 * Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag
 * Ferdinand Kühne – Geburstags-Marsch, Op.41
 * Max Laurischkus
 * Elegie, Op.2
 * Duos, Op.3
 * Luise Adolpha Le Beau – Elegy, Op.44
 * Ernst Mielck – Finnish Suite, Op. 10
 * Ethelbert Nevin – En Passant, Op.30
 * Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une Infante défunte, for piano
 * Vladimir Rebikov
 * 3 Morceaux, Op.7
 * Suite de ballet, Op.14
 * Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 1 in E minor
 * Josef Suk – Symphony No. 1 in E major
 * Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht

Opera

 * Eugen d'Albert – Kain
 * Antonín Dvořák – The Devil and Kate
 * Josef Bohuslav Foerster – Eva
 * Victor Herbert – The Ameer, premiered October 10 in Scranton
 * Isidore de Lara – Messaline
 * Jules Massenet – Cendrillon (composed 1894–5, premiered 1899)
 * Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Tsar's Bride, (premiered November 3 in Moscow)
 * Max von Schillings – Der Pfeifertag, Op.10 (premiered February 26 in Schwerin)

Musical theater



 * Die Landstreicher – Karl Michael Ziehrer
 * El Capitan    London production
 * Florodora (Music: Leslie Stuart Lyrics: Sidney Jones & Paul Rubens Book: Owen Hall)    London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on November 11
 * A Gaiety Girl London revival opened at Daly's Theatre on June 5
 * Helter-Skelter    Broadway production
 * The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street    Broadway production
 * The Rose of Persia (music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, libretto by Basil Hood) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 29
 * San Toy    London production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 21

Births

 * January 7
 * Al Bowlly, singer (died 1941)
 * Francis Poulenc, composer (died 1963)
 * January 14 – Herbert Sumsion, composer and organist (died 1995)
 * January 21 – Alexander Tcherepnin, pianist and composer (died 1977)
 * February 15 – Georges Auric, composer (died 1983)
 * February 21 – Clara Clairbert, operatic soprano (died 1970)
 * March 5 – Patrick Hadley, composer (died 1973)
 * March 10 – Finn Høffding, composer (died 1997)
 * March 13 – Pancho Vladigerov, composer (died 1978)
 * March 26 – William Baines, English composer and pianist (died 1922)
 * April 5
 * Leonard Falcone, baritone/euphonium virtuoso and director of bands at Michigan State (died 1985)
 * Bernhard Kaun, American Hollywood filmscore composer (died 1980)
 * April 7 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (died 1972)
 * April 29 – Duke Ellington, jazz musician and composer (died 1974)
 * May 1 – Jón Leifs, composer (died 1968)
 * May 6 – Billy Cotton, bandleader (died 1969)
 * May 10 – Fred Astaire, song-and-dance man (died 1987)
 * May 30 – Jack Little, singer and songwriter (died 1956)
 * June 1 – Werner Janssen, conductor and composer (died 1990)
 * June 9 – Signe Amundsen, operatic soprano (died 1987)
 * June 11 – George Frederick McKay, composer (died 1970)
 * June 13 – Carlos Chávez, composer and conductor
 * June 16 – Helen Traubel, opera singer (died 1972)
 * June 19 – Pat Ballard, songwriter (died 1960)
 * June 21 – Pavel Haas, composer (killed 1944)
 * June 30 – Harry Shields, jazz musician (died 1971)
 * July 1 – Thomas A. Dorsey, "father of gospel music" (died 1993)
 * July 3 – Benny Nawahi, ukulele player (died 1985)
 * July 10 – André Souris, composer and writer (died 1970)
 * July 17 – James Cagney, US actor, singer and dancer (died 1986)
 * July 30 – John Woods Duke, composer (died 1984)
 * August 6 – Margarete Klose, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 1968)
 * September 6 – Billy Rose, Broadway producer and lyricist (died 1966)
 * September 9 – Maria Yudina, pianist (died 1970)
 * September 11 – Jimmie Davis, country and gospel singer-songwriter and politician (died 2000)
 * September 13 – Ephraim Amu, composer, musicologist and music teacher (died 1995)
 * September 25 – Ricard Lamote de Grignon, conductor and composer (died 1965)
 * September 26 – William L. Dawson, composer (died 1990)
 * October 9 – Mary Jarred, opera singer (died 1993)
 * October 19 – Sidonie Goossens, harpist (died 2004)
 * October 31 – Ted Shapiro, songwriter and pianist (died 1980)
 * November 9 – Mezz Mezzrow, jazz musician (died 1972)
 * November 17 – Toscha Seidel, violinist (died 1962)
 * November 18 – Eugene Ormandy, violinist and conductor (died 1985)
 * November 22 – Hoagy Carmichael, composer, pianist and singer (died 1981)
 * November 29 – Gustave Reese, musicologist (died 1977)
 * November 30 – Hans Krása, Czech-German composer (killed 1944)
 * December 2 – Sir John Barbirolli, conductor (died 1970)
 * December 11 – Julio de Caro, composer (died 1980)
 * December 16 – Noël Coward, dramatist, actor, singer and composer (died 1973)
 * December 18 – Muriel Brunskill, operatic contralto (died 1980)
 * December 21 – Silvestre Revueltas, composer (died 1940)
 * date unknown – Sadettin Heper, composer (died 1980)

Deaths

 * January 10 – Albert Becker, composer, 64
 * February 3 – Amalie Joachim, contralto and voice teacher (born 1839)
 * February 4 – Eduard Holst, Danish composer, playwright, actor, dancer and dance master, 52
 * April 17 – Hans Balatka, composer, 72
 * April 23 – Lucien Delormel, lyricist (born 1847)
 * May 21 – Louise Tunison, composer and organist, 26
 * May 29 – Frantz Jehin-Prume, violinist, composer, and music educator, 60
 * June 3 – Johann Strauss II, composer, 73
 * June 10 – Ernest Chausson, composer, 44 (bicycle accident)
 * June 16 – August Winding, composer, 64
 * August 17 – Erik Bøgh, journalist, dramatist and songwriter, 77
 * August 28 – Guillermo Morphy, musicologist, 63
 * October 10 – Allan James Foley, operatic bass, 62
 * October 11 – John Troutbeck, musicologist (b. 1832)
 * October 13 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ-builder, 88
 * October 15 – Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, conductor and composer, 57
 * October 18 – Gussie Davis, songwriter, 36
 * October 22 – Ernst Mielck, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
 * October 23 – Ludwig Straus, violinist, 64
 * October 31 – Hugh Talbot, singer and actor, 54
 * November 16 – Vincas Kudirka, lyricist of the Lithuanian national anthem, 40 (tuberculosis)
 * November 25 – Robert Lowry, hymn writer, 73
 * December 7 – Anton de Kontski, pianist and composer, 82
 * December 10 – Hans von Milde, operatic baritone, 78
 * December 20 – Romain Bussine, poet, baritone, and voice teacher, 69
 * December 21
 * Joseph Dupont, violinist, theatre director and conductor, 61
 * Charles Lamoureux, conductor and violinist, 65
 * December 23 – Marietta Piccolomini, operatic soprano, 65
 * December 31 – Carl Millöcker, conductor and composer, 57