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Overview of the events of 1894 in music
Events
Published popular music
- "Airy, Fairy Lillian" w. Tony Raymond m. Maurice Levi
- "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon
- "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" w.m. Fred Gilbert
- "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operetta Der Obersteiger
- "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles
- "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey
- "Humoresque" m. Antonín Dvořák
- "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie
- "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
- "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans
- "I've Been Working On The Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)
- "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora
- "Little Kinkies" w.m. M. Tobias
- "The Little Lost Child" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "Long Ago In Alcala" w. Frederick Edward Weatherley & Adrian Ross m. André Messager
- "My Friend The Major" w.m. E. W. Rogers
- "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack
- "Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Harry Champion
- "The Owls Serenade" w. Arthur J. Lamb, m. H.W. Petrie
- "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray
- "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton
- "The Sidewalks Of New York" w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
- ""Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan
- "Yale Society Two-Step" by C. VanBaar
- "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney
Recorded popular music
- "And Her Golden Hair was Hanging Down Her Back"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
- "My Pearl is a Bowery Girl"
- Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
Classical music
Births
- January 31 - Isham Jones, US bandleader and composer
- February 11 - Alfonso Leng
- April 3 - Dooley Wilson
- April 15 - Bessie Smith
- April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky
- May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born US composer, pianist and conductor
- May 29 -Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer
- June 4 - La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Québécois singer (d. 1941)
- June 10 - Punch Miller
- July 10 - Jimmy McHugh, US composer and pianist
- August 15 - Harry Akst, US composer and pianist
- September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
- September 18 - Willard Robinson, US songwriter and bandleader
- September 26 - Vaughn De Leath, US singer and radio pioneer
Deaths
- January 13 - Nadezhda von Meck, patron of Tchaikovsky (b. 1831)
- January 21 - Guillaume Lekeu, composer (b. 1870) (typhoid)
- February 4
- February 11 - Emilio Arrieta, composer (b. 1823)
- February 12 - Hans von Bülow, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1830)
- February 18 - Camillo Sivori, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
- April 13
- June 9 - Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer (b. 1868)
- June 23 - Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (b. 1826)
- July 26 - Eduard Tauwitz, composer (b. 1812)
- September 13 - Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (b. 1841)
- September 21 - Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (b. 1847)
- October 16 - Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, opera singer, actress and music teacher (b. 1826)
- October 28 - Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song (b. 1824)
- November 20 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
See also