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Overview of the events of 1889 in music
Overview of the events of 1889 in music
Events in the year 1889 in music.
Specific locations
Events
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- February 17 – 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.
Vigadó Concert Hall, at this time described as a "Symphonic-Poem in 2 Parts"; it is not favourably received in this form.
[1]gramophone records
.- Joseph Kekuku is credited with inventing the Hawaiian steel guitar.
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
- "22nd Regiment March" – Frank Goede[2]
- "Ain't Going to Rain No More" – Will Lyle (banjo)
- "Amusement Polka" – John Mitthauer[3]
- "And the Phonograph is Listening" – Will Lyle (banjo)[4]
- "Anniversary March" – Max Franlin[5]
- "Arbucklenian Polka" – David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano)[6]
- "The Beggar Student" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band[7]
- "Colonel Wellington's March" – Voss' First Regiment Band[8]
- "Comin' Thro' the Rye" – George Schweinfest (flute) & Edward Issler (piano)[9]
- "Cujus Animam" – David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano)[10]
- "Dream After the Ball" – George Schweinfest (flute) & Edward Issler (piano)[11]
- "Dream of Love" – William Tuson (clarinet) & Edward Issler (piano)[12]
- "Down Went McGinty" – Issler's Orchestra[13]
- "For Right & Liberty" – Issler's Orchestra[14]
- "Hoboken Pioneers" – Issler's Orchestra[15]
- "Honeymoon Waltz" – Frank Goede
- "Hornpipe Polka" – United States Marine Band[16]
- "Kentucky Jubilee" – Issler's Orchestra
- "Jingle Bells" – Will Lyle (banjo)[17]
- "Jubilee March" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band
- "The Men of Wall Street" – George Schweinfest (flute)
- "The Minstrel Boy" – Theodore Hoch[18]
- "The Night Alarm" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band[19]
- "The Pattison Waltz" – Effie Stewart (1863 - 1904) (vocal) & Theo Wangemann (piano)
- "Pearl of Pekin" – Henry Giese
- "The Phonograph Serenade" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band[20]
- "Rattle on a Banjo" – Will Lyle (banjo)
- "Right & Liberty March" – George Schweinfest (flute)
- "Section from 'The Mikado'" – Issler's Orchestra[21]
- "Song of the Roses" – Duffy & Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band
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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)[22]
Classical music
Musical theater
- on December 7 and ran for 554 performances
- Love's Trickery London production
Published Writings
- Upton, George P. (1889). The Standard Symphonies, Their History, Their Music, and Their Composers: A Handbook. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company.
Births
Michael Coleman
, fiddler (d. 1945)- February 7 – Claudia Muzio, operatic soprano (d. 1936)
- March 8 – Ina Boyle, Irish composer (d. 1967)
Billy Jones
, singer (d. 1940)- March 16 – Elsie Janis, musical comedy star and songwriter (d. 1956)
- April 3 – Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1948)
- April 8 – Adrian Boult, 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 – Alfred Kalmus, music publisher (d. 1972)
- May 20 – Felix Arndt, pianist & composer (d. 1918)
- May 25 – Gilardo Gilardi, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1962)
- May 29 – Aksel Agerby, Danish composer, organist, and music administrator (d. 1942)
- July 4 – Joe Young, US lyricist and singer (d. 1939)
- July 10 – Noble Sissle, bandleader and singer (d. 1975)
Cecil Armstrong Gibbs
, composer (d. 1960)- September 10 – Vilém Petrželka, conductor and composer (d. 1967)
- September 26 – Frank Crumit, singer (d. 1943)
- October 3 – Manuel Manetta, jazz musician & teacher (d. 1969)
- October 28 – Juliette Béliveau, actress and singer (d. 1975)
- November 30 – Norman Cocker, organist and composer (d. 1953)
- December 11 – Ben Black, composer and impresario (d. 1950)
- December 25 – Nathaniel Shilkret, composer and musician (d. 1982)
- December 28 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Ballet dancer (d. 1950)
- date unknown – Nellie Briercliffe, singer and actress (d. 1966)
Deaths
- January 23 – Selina Dolaro, actress and singer (b. 1849) (stroke)
- January 31 – Joseph Gungl, composer and conductor (b. 1810)
- March 3 – Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist (b. 1839)
- March 13 – Felice Varesi, operatic baritone (b. 1813)
- April 6 – Frederick Ouseley, organist, composer and musicologist (b. 1825)
- April 9 – Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornet virtuoso (b. 1825)
- April 30 – Carl Rosa, opera impresario (b. 1842)
- May 30 – Silverio Franconetti, flamenco singer (b. 1831)
- July 7 – Giovanni Bottesini, double bass player and composer (b. 1821)[23]
- July 14 – Elma Ström, Swedish opera singer (b. 1822)
- July 20 – Gustav Lange, German composer (b. 1830)
- October 5 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (b. 1823)[24]
- October 10 – Adolf von Henselt, pianist and composer (b. 1814)[25]
- November 24 – Frederic Clay, composer (b. 1838) (stroke)
- November 25 – Alojzy Gonzaga Jazon Żółkowski, actor and singer (b. 1814)
- December 13 – Catherine Chislova, ballerina (b. 1846)
- December 31 – Giuseppe Apolloni, composer (b. 1822)
- date unknown
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