title: 1895 in music
text: # 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)
  