1895 in music
# 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 10 – Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress (died 1952)
* June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer (died 1946)
* June 21 – Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer (died 1992)
* 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)
