Events in the year 1890 in music.
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Events
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
Births
- February 25 â Myra Hess, pianist (d. 1965)
- February 27 â Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist (d. 1933)
- March 12 â Evert Taube, writer, artist, composer and singer (d. 1976)
- March 17 â Harold Morris, pianist and composer (d. 1964)
- March 20
- Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor (d. 1957)
- Lauritz Melchior, operatic tenor (d. 1973)
- March 28 â Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
- April 17 â Gussie Mueller, jazz clarinetist (d. 1965)
- May 21 â Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of "Irene" and "Rio Rita" (d. 1965)
- June 6 â Ted Lewis, bandleader (d. 1971)
- June 26 â Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star (d. 1929)
- July 18 â Victor Dolidze, Soviet-Georgian composer (d. 1933)
- August 12 â Lillian Evanti, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
- August 15 â Jacques Ibert, composer (d. 1962)
- August 28 â Ivor Gurney, poet and composer (d. 1937)
- September 9 â Francis Bousquet, French composer of classical music (d. 1942)
- September 15 â Frank Martin, composer (d. 1974)
- September 26 â Papanasam Sivan, Carnatic music composer (d. 1973)
- October 1 â Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
- October 8 â Samuel Hoffenstein, screenwriter and composer (d. 1947)
- October 13 â Gösta Nystroem, composer (d. 1966)
- October 20 â Jelly Roll Morton, American pianist, bandleader and composer (d. 1941)
- November 10 â Mischa Bakaleinikoff, musical director (d. 1960)
- December 8 â Bohuslav MartinÃ
¯, classical composer (d. 1959)
Deaths
- January 8 â Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (b. 1810)
- January 16 â Arthur Byron, operatic tenor (b. 1846)
- January 17 â Salomon Sulzer, cantor and composer (b. 1804)
- January 20 â Franz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1803)
- February 14 â Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, cellist and music teacher (b. 1848)
- March 13 â Henry Wylde, conductor, composer, music teacher and critic (b. 1822)
- April 16 â John Barnett, composer and music writer (b. 1802)
- May 6 â Hubert Léonard, violinist (b. 1819)
- May 28 â Viktor Nessler, composer (b. 1841)
- June 3 â Oskar Kolberg, folklorist and composer (b. 1814)
- June 30 â Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (b. 1819)
- July 22 â Caterina Canzi, opera singer (b. 1805)
- October 7 â John Hill Hewitt, songwriter (b. 1801)
- October 17 â Prosper Sainton, violinist (b. 1813)
- October 28 â Alexander John Ellis, music theorist (b. 1814)
- November 8 â César Franck, composer (b. 1822)
- December 21 â Niels Gade, composer (b. 1817)
- date unknown â Ostap Veresai, minstrel and kobzar (b. 1803)
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