Events in the year 1889 in music.

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1889 in Norwegian music The following is a list of notable events and releases of the year 1889 in Norwegian music. Events Deaths ; January * 10 – Martin Andreas Udbye, composer and organist (born 1820). Births ; May * 25 – Sverre Jordan, composer, orchestra ...

Events

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...

– Anton Seidl conducts Das Rheingold at the Metropolitan Opera, commencing the first performance of the

Ring Cycle (''The Ring of the Nibelung''), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, namely Norse legendary sagas and the ''Nibelung ...

in the United States. *

February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...

– César Franck's Symphony in D minor is premièred at the Paris Conservatory under the direction of Jules Garcin. * May 28 – The first ever pre-recorded wax cylinders of songs, instrumental music, and humorous monologues were introduced by Edison Records. *

November 20 Events Pre-1600 * 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor. * 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels. *1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry ...

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Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (; 7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th-century Austro-German tradition and the modernism ...

premieres his Symphony No. 1 in Budapest at the Vigadó Concert Hall, at this time described as a "Symphonic-Poem in 2 Parts"; it is not favourably received in this form. * Emile Berliner markets the first commercial gramophone records. *

Joseph Kekuku Joseph Kekuku (1874–1932) is reportedly the inventor of the steel guitar. Biography Kekuku, also known as Joseph Kekuku’upenakana’iaupuniokamehameha Apuakehau, was born in Lāie, a village on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaii. When Joseph was ...

is credited with inventing the Hawaiian

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

Published popular music

* "Ask A Policeman" w. E. W. Rogers m. A. E. Duran Deau * "

Down Went McGinty "Down Went McGinty" (sometimes referred to as "Down Went Dan McGinty"
at The Traditional Ballad Index Version ...

" w.m. Joseph Flynn * "Four Little Curly Headed Coons" by James W. Wheeler * "

Little Annie Rooney ''Little Annie Rooney'' is a comic strip about a young orphaned girl who traveled about with her dog, Zero. King Features Syndicate launched the strip on January 10, 1927, not long after it was apparent that the Chicago Tribune Syndicate had sc ...

(Is My Sweetheart)" w.m. Michael Nolan * " Oh, Promise Me" w. Clement Scott m. Reginald de Koven * "Playmates" w.m. Harry Dacre * "Slide Kelly Slide" w.m. John W. Kelly * "

Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes A take is a single continuous recorded performance. The term is used in film and music to denote and track the stages of production. Film In cinematography, a take refers to each filmed "version" of a particular shot or "setup". Takes of each s ...

" w. W. S. Gilbert m.

Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera, operatic Gilbert and Sullivan, collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinaf ...

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The Thunderer "The Thunderer" is a march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889. The origin of the name is not officially known, though it is speculated that it gets its name from the "pyrotechnic ffectsof the drum and bugle in hescore." It is also one of Sou ...

" m. John Philip Sousa * "

The Washington Post (march) "The Washington Post" (often called "The Washington Post March") is a March (music), march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889. Since then, it has remained as one of his most popular marches throughout the United States and many other countrie ...

" m. John Philip Sousa

Recorded popular music

* "22nd Regiment March" – Frank Goede * "Ain't Going to Rain No More" – Will Lyle (banjo) * "Amusement Polka" – John Mitthauer * "And the Phonograph is Listening" – Will Lyle (banjo) * "Anniversary March" – Max Franlin * "Arbucklenian Polka" – David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano) * "The Beggar Student" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band * "Colonel Wellington's March" – Voss' First Regiment Band * "

Comin' Thro' the Rye "Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–1796). The words are put to the melody of the Scottish Minstrel "Common' Frae The Town". This is a variant of the tune to which " Auld Lang Syne" is usually sung—the melodi ...

" – George Schweinfest (flute) & Edward Issler (piano) * "Cujus Animam" – David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano) * "Dream After the Ball" – George Schweinfest (flute) & Edward Issler (piano) * "Dream of Love" – William Tuson (clarinet) & Edward Issler (piano) * "Down Went McGinty" –

Issler's Orchestra Issler's Orchestra was an early recording ensemble, and perhaps the first popular band. The group formed in the fall of 1889 at the Edison Laboratory Because the purpose of the group was only to make recordings, it had only four or five performe ...

* "For Right & Liberty" –

* "Hoboken Pioneers" –

* "Honeymoon Waltz" – Frank Goede * "Hornpipe Polka" – United States Marine Band * "Kentucky Jubilee" –

* " Jingle Bells" – Will Lyle (banjo) * "Jubilee March" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band * "The Men of Wall Street" – George Schweinfest (flute) *"The Minstrel Boy" – Theodore Hoch * "The Night Alarm" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band * "The Pattison Waltz" – Effie Stewart (vocal) &

Theo Wangemann Adelbert Theodor Edward Wangemann (February 13, 1855 – June 1906), known as Theo, was a German who emigrated to the United States. In 1888, he began working for Thomas Edison as an assistant at his laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey. In 1889, ...

(piano) * "Pearl of Pekin" – Henry Giese * "The Phonograph Serenade" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band * "Rattle on a Banjo" – Will Lyle (banjo) * "Right & Liberty March" – George Schweinfest (flute) * "Section from ' The Mikado'" –

* "Song of the Roses" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band * "

Semper Fidelis ''Semper fidelis'' () is a Latin phrase that means "always faithful" or "always loyal" (Fidelis or Fidelity). It is the motto of the United States Marine Corps, usually shortened to Semper Fi. It is also in use as a motto for towns, families, ...

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* "The Warbler" – Frank Goede * "Washington Centennial Parade" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band *"The Wren Polka" – George Schweinfest (flute) & Edward Issler (piano)

Classical music

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

** Piano Quartet No. 2, Op. 87 (B. 162) ** Symphony No. 8, Op. 88 (B. 163) *

Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...

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Queen Mary's Song "Queen Mary's Song" is a song written by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1889. The words are by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tennyson, sung by Queen Mary I of England as she plays a lute in scene 2, act 5 of his 1875 play ''Queen Mary: A Drama''. ...

" * César Franck – " Symphony in D minor" premiers on 2.17.1889 in Paris * Enrique Granados – ''Danzas españolas'' * Augusta Holmès – ''Ode triomphale'' * Hubert Parry **''Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day'' **Symphony No. 3, in C major, "The English" (first performance) **Symphony No. 4, in E minor (first performance, original version) * Guy Ropartz **''Cinq pièces brèves'', for orchestra **''Carnaval'', for orchestra * Johan Wagenaar – ''De Schipbreuk'' (cantata) *

Valentin Zubiaurre Valentin Zubiaurre Urionabarrenechea (13 February 1837 – 13 January 1914) was a Spanish composer who was a professor at the Madrid Royal Conservatory and worked at the Chapel Royal.Brass Wind Publication 4107PA Life Zubiaurre was born in Garay ...

– ''Ecos de Oiz''

Opera

Francesco Cilea Francesco Cilea (; 23 July 1866 – 20 November 1950) was an Italian composer. Today he is particularly known for his operas ''L'arlesiana'' and ''Adriana Lecouvreur''. Biography Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indicatio ...

– ''Gina'' *

– ''Jakobín'' (premieres February 12,1889 at National Theatre in Prague) *

Robert Fuchs Robert Fuchs (15 February 1847 – 19 February 1927) was an Austrian composer and music teacher. As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in hi ...

– ''Die Königsbraut'' * Miguel Marqués – ''El plato del día'' (libretto by Andrés Ruesga, Manuel Lastra and Enrique Prieto, premiered in Madrid) * Louisa Melvin Delos Mars – ''Leoni, the Gypsy Queen'' (premiered in Providence, Rhode Island) * Giacomo Puccini – ''

Edgar Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, rev ...

Musical theater

* '' The Gondoliers'' (Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book & Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on December 7 and ran for 554 performances * ''Love's Trickery'' London production

Births

* January 31 – Michael Coleman, fiddler (d. 1945) * February 7 – Claudia Muzio, operatic soprano (d. 1936) * March 8 –

Ina Boyle Ina Boyle (8 March 1889 – 10 March 1967) was an Irish composer. Her compositions encompass a broad spectrum of genres and include choral, chamber and orchestral works as well as opera, ballet and vocal music. While a number of her works, incl ...

, Irish composer (d. 1967) * March 15 – Billy Jones, singer (d. 1940) * March 16 –

Elsie Janis Elsie Janis (born Elsie Bierbower, March 16, 1889 – February 26, 1956) was an American actress of stage and screen, singer, songwriter, screenwriter and radio announcer. Entertaining the troops during World War I immortalized her as "Forces ...

, musical comedy star and songwriter (d. 1956) * April 3 –

Grigoraș Dinicu Grigoraș Ionică Dinicu (; April 3, 1889 – March 28, 1949) was a Romanian violin virtuoso and composer of Roma ethnicity. He is most famous for his often-played virtuoso violin showpiece "Hora staccato" (1906) and for making popular the tune C ...

, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1948) *

April 8 Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. *1139 – Ro ...

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Adrian Boult Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH (; 8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London ...

, conductor (d. 1983) * April 11 – Nick LaRocca – jazz-band leader (d. 1961) * April 30 – Rudolph Simonsen – composer (d. 1947) * May 15 – Graziella Pareto, operatic soprano (d. 1973) *

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 ...

– Alfred Kalmus, music publisher (d. 1972) * May 20 – Felix Arndt, pianist & composer (d. 1918) * May 25 –

Gilardo Gilardi Gilardo Gilardi (May 25, 1889 - January 16, 1963) was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires. He was born in San Fernando, Argentina and first ...

, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1962) * May 29 –

Aksel Agerby Aksel Agerby (29 May 1889 – 20 March 1942) was a Danish composer, organist, and music administrator. He also operated his own Music Publishing company, which published both his work and those of others. Work Agerby was blind and was trained ...

, Danish composer, organist, and music administrator (d. 1942) * July 4 – Joe Young, US lyricist and singer (d. 1939) * July 10 –

Noble Sissle Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical ''Shuffle Along'' (1921), and its hit song "I'm Just Wild About Harry". Ea ...

, bandleader and singer (d. 1975) * August 10 – Cecil Armstrong Gibbs, composer (d. 1960) * September 10 –

Vilém Petrželka Petrželka in 1931 Vilém Petrželka (10 September 1889, Brno, Moravia – 10 January 1967, Brno) was a prominent Czech composer and conductor. Petrželka was a pupil of Leoš Janáček, Vítězslav Novák and Karel Hoffmeister. From 1914 he ...

, conductor and composer (d. 1967) * September 26 –

Frank Crumit Frank Crumit (September 26, 1889 – September 7, 1943) was an American singer, composer, radio entertainer and vaudeville star. He shared his radio programs with his wife, Julia Sanderson, and the two were sometimes called "the ideal couple ...

, singer (d. 1943) * October 3 –

Manuel Manetta Manuel "Fess" Manetta (October 3, 1889 – October 10, 1969) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. Early life Manetta was born in New Orleans (district of Algiers) on October 3, 1889. He was of African and Italian descent."Subversive Sounds: ...

, jazz musician & teacher (d. 1969) * October 28 –

Juliette Béliveau Juliette Béliveau (October 28, 1889 – August 26, 1975) was a French Canadian actress and singer, who starred in various radio and television comedies and dramas, as well as in theatre productions. She was also the heroine of a weekly comic ...

, actress and singer (d. 1975) * December 11 – Ben Black, composer and impresario (d. 1950) * December 25 –

Nathaniel Shilkret Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 – February 18, 1982) was an American musician, composer, conductor and musical director. Early career Shilkret (originally named Natan Schüldkraut) was born in New York City, United States, to parents ...

, composer and musician (d. 1982) * December 28 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Ballet dancer (d. 1950) *''date unknown'' –

Nellie Briercliffe Nellie Briercliffe (24 April 1889 – 12 December 1966) was an English singer and actress best known for her performances in the mezzo-soprano roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. After playing in the provinces ear ...

, singer and actress (d. 1966)

Deaths

* January 23 – Selina Dolaro, actress and singer (b. 1849) (stroke) * January 31 –

Joseph Gungl Joseph Gungl, correct: ''Josef Gung'l'' (1 December 1809 – 1 February 1889), was an Hungarian composer, bandmaster, and conductor. He was soprano Virginia Naumann-Gungl's father. Biography Gungl was born in Schambeck, Austrian-Hungarian mon ...

, composer and conductor (b. 1810) * March 3 – Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist (b. 1839) * March 13 –

Felice Varesi Felice Varesi (born Calais, 1813 – died Milan, 13 March 1889) was a French-born Italian baritone with an illustrious singing career that began in the 1830s and extended into the 1860s. He is best remembered today for his close association with ...

, operatic baritone (b. 1813) * April 6 –

Frederick Ouseley Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, 2nd Baronet (12 August 18256 April 1889) was an English composer, organist, musicologist and priest. Biography Frederick Ouseley was born in London, the son of Sir Gore Ouseley, and manifested an extraordinary ...

, organist, composer and musicologist (b. 1825) * April 9 – Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornet virtuoso (b. 1825) * April 30 –

Carl Rosa Carl August Nicholas Rosa (22 March 184230 April 1889) was a German-born musical impresario best remembered for founding an English opera company known as the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He started his company in 1869 together with his wife, Euphro ...

, opera impresario (b. 1842) *

May 30 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...

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Silverio Franconetti Silverio Franconetti y Aguilar, also known simply as Silverio (June 10, 1831 – May 30, 1889) was a singer and the leading figure of the period in flamenco history known as The Golden Age, which was marked by the creation and definition of ...

, flamenco singer (b. 1831) * July 7 –

Giovanni Bottesini Giovanni Bottesini (22 December 1821 – 7 July 1889) was an Italian Romantic composer, conductor, and a double bass virtuoso. Biography Born in Crema, Lombardy, he was taught the rudiments of music by his father, an accomplished clarinetist ...

, double bass player and composer (b.

1821 Events January–March * January 21 – Peter I Island in the Antarctic is first sighted, by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen. * January 28 – Alexander Island, the largest in Antarctica, is first discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Be ...

) * July 14 – Elma Ström, Swedish opera singer (b. 1822) * July 20 –

Gustav Lange Gustav Lange (13 August 1830 – 20 July 1889) was a German composer known mainly for his melodious salon music for the piano. Life Lange was born in Schwerstedt, near Erfurt, Prussian Saxony, in 1830. He received initial musical training ...

, German composer (b. 1830) * October 5 –

Karel Miry Karel Miry (14 August 1823 – 5 October 1889) was a Belgian composer. He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch and is known as the composer of the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw, the national anthem of Fland ...

, Belgian composer (b.

1823 Events January–March * January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the Congress of Verona, the Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade Spain for the purpose of restoring Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutio ...

) * October 10 – Adolf von Henselt, pianist and composer (b.

1814 Events January * January 1 – War of the Sixth Coalition – The Royal Prussian Army led by Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher crosses the Rhine. * January 3 ** War of the Sixth Coalition – Siege of Cattaro: French garrison s ...

) * November 24 – Frederic Clay, composer (b. 1838) (stroke) * November 25 –

Alojzy Gonzaga Jazon Żółkowski Alojzy Gonzaga Jazon Żółkowski, Ziółkowski (4 December 1814 – 25 November 1889) was a Polish actor and singer, one of the most prominent Polish comedians. He was born and died in Warsaw, the son of Fortunat Alojzy Gonzaga Żółkowski ...

, actor and singer (b. 1814) * December 13 –

Catherine Chislova Catherine Gavrilovna Chislova (Russian: Екатерина Гавриловна Числова) (21 September 1846 – 13 December 1889) was a Russian ballerina. She was the mistress of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich; they had five children. L ...

, ballerina (b. 1846) * December 31 –

Giuseppe Apolloni Giuseppe Apolloni (8 April 1822 – 31 December 1889) was an Italian composer born in Vicenza, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the m ...

, composer (b. 1822) *''date unknown'' **

Jovo Ivanišević Jovan Đurov Ivanišević (1861-1889) was a Montenegrin composer from Donji Kraj near Cetinje, Montenegro. While young he showed exquisite talent for music, and is most famous for composing the contemporary anthem of Principality of Montenegro ...

, composer (b. 1861) ** Gustaw Lewita, pianist (b. 1855) ** Jeanne-Catherine Pauwels, Belgian pianist (b. 1795) **

Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev ( kk, Құрманғазы Сағырбайұлы, ''Qūrmanğazy Sağyrbaıūly''; 1823–1896) was a Kazakh composer, instrumentalist (kobyz, dombra), and folk artist. He influenced Kazakh musical culture. He was born in 18 ...

, Kazakh folk musician and composer (b. 1818)

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