Events in the year 1894 in music.
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Events
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
Classical music
- Anton Arensky â Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
- Agathe Backer-Grøndahl
- Norske Folkeviser og Folkedanse, Op.33
- Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.34
- 3 Claverstykker, Op.35
- Johannes Brahms â Two Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120
- Claude Debussy
- Prélude àl'après-midi d'un faune
- Proses lyriques
- AntonÃÂn DvoÃ
Âák
- Biblical Songs, Op.99
- Humoresques (DvoÃ
Âák) Op. 101 (B. 187) for piano
- American Suite for piano (orchestrated a year later)
- Robert Fuchs â Serenade No. 5 in D, Op. 53
- Alexander Gretchaninov â String Quartet no 1 (2?) in G major, Op. 2
- Edvard Grieg
- 5 Songs of Norway, Op.58
- 5 Songs, Op.60
- Victor Herbert â Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov â Caucasian Sketches
- Joseph Jongen â Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor, op. 3
- August Klughardt â String Quintet, Op.62
- Alexander Kopylov â String Quartet no 2 in F major, op. 23
- Theodor Leschetizky â 2 Pieces, Op.43
- Gustav Mahler â Symphony No. 2
- Carl Nielsen
- Symphony No. 1 in G minor
- Snefrid, CNW 4
- Symfonisk Suite for piano, FS 19
- Josef Rheinberger â Sonata for Horn and Piano in E-flat major
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov â 2 Pieces, Op.38
- Adolphe Samuel â Symphony No. 7 Opus 48
- Alexander Scriabin â 12 ÃÂtudes, Op. 8
- Charles Villiers Stanford â 6 Elizabethan Pastorals, Op.53
- Wilhelm Stenhammar
- Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1, premiered March 17 in Stockholm
- String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 2
- Sigismond Stojowski â 2 Orientales, Op.10
- Louis Vierne â String Quartet in D minor, Op. 12 (c. 1894)
Births
- January 3 â Benito Canónico, Venezuelan composer (d. 1971)
- January 31 â Isham Jones, American bandleader and composer (d. 1956)
- February 1 â James P. Johnson, American jazz pianist and composer.
- February 11 â Alfonso Leng, Chilean dentist and part-time classical composer (d. 1974)
- February 20 â Jimmy Yancey, American jazz pianist
- April 3 â Dooley Wilson, African American pianist and singer (d. 1953)
- April 15 â Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- April 27 â Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born American conductor and composer (d. 1995)
- May 10 â Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born American film music composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1979)
- May 29 â Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer (d. 1989)
- June 1 â Percival Mackey, English pianist, film music composer and bandleader (d. 1950)
- June 4 â La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
- June 10 â Punch Miller, American Dixieland jazz trumpeter (d. 1971)
- July 10 â Jimmy McHugh, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1969)
- August 15 â Harry Akst, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1963)
- August 26 â Arthur Loesser, pianist and musicologist (died 1969)
- September 3 â Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
- September 18 â Willard Robison, American songwriter and bandleader (d. 1968)
- September 25 â J. Mayo Williams, African American blues music producer (d. 1980)
- September 26 â Vaughn De Leath, American crooner, "The Original Radio Girl" (d. 1943)
- December 31 â Ernest John Moeran, British composer (d. 1950)
Deaths
- January 13 â Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- January 21 â Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
- January 24 - Laura Schirmer Mapleson, American opera singer (b. 1862)
- January 30 â Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (b. 1830)
- February 4
- Louis Lewandowski, composer (b. 1821)
- Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, inventor of the saxophone (b. 1814)
- February 11 â Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
- February 12 â Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
- February 18 â Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
- March 21 â Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
- April 12 â Ludwig Pfau, lyricist and revolutionary (born 1821)
- April 13
- Marie Carandini, opera singer (b. 1826)
- Philipp Spitta, musicologist and biographer of Bach (b. 1841)
- June 5 â Marcelina Czartoryska, pianist and aristocrat (born 1817)
- June 9 â Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
- June 23 â Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
- July 17 â Leconte de Lisle, lyricist (born 1818)
- July 26 â Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
- September 13 â Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
- September 21 â Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
- October 16 â Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
- October 27 â Carl Ploug, Danish lyricist, song writer, editor, and politician (born 1813)
- October 28 â Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
- November 4 â Eugène Oudin, composer (b. 1858)
- November 20 â Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
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