1895 in music

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Events

• 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).
• 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
• "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

• Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
• Johannes Brahms – Sonatas for clarinet (or viola) and piano, op. 120 no. 1 (in f) and no. 2 (in E-flat)
• Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets
• Gustav Mahler conducts the premieres of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in [Berlin] – the first three movement only, on March 4, and the complete symphony on December 13.

Opera

• Isaac Albéniz – Henry Clifford
• Enrique Fernandez Arbos – El Centro de la Tierra

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)
• 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 – 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)
• September 26 – George Raft, Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer
• 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 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)

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