Music year 1893

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Music year 1893

Events

April 12th : The Paris Olympia opens its large concert hall. The Music Hall is used by the great artists of the time and also for other events.
May 10th : As part of the second chamber music festival, the Beethoven House opens in Bonn . The house where Ludwig van Beethoven was born is not only a memorial but also a museum and cultural institute.

The first sousaphone is built.

Instrumental music (selection)

Johann Strauss (son) : Seid umschlung Mio (Waltz) op. 443 premiered on March 27, 1893 in Vienna; Ninetta Waltz op. 445 premiered on January 21, 1893 in the Vienna Hofburg under the direction of Carl Michael Ziehrer ; Wedding Dance (Waltz) (November 12, 1893); Ninetta-Quadrille op. 446 UA February 19, 1893 in Vienna; Ninetta March op. 447 UA March 5, 1893 in Vienna; Diplomatic Polka op. 477 UA February 26, 1893; Ninetta Gallop op.450 UA February 3, 1893; Festival March op. 452; On the dance floor (musical illustration) op.454

Arthur Sullivan : Imperial March (march for the opening of the "Imperial Institute"; first performance on May 1, 1893).

Anton Bruckner : Helgoland secular cantata for male choir and large orchestra in G minor

Charles-Marie Widor : Overture espagnole / Suite pittoresque ;

Charles Gounod : Drames sacrés ( incidental music)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Nine days before his death, the composer will conduct the world premiere of his symphony No. 6 “Pathétique” in B minor on October 28th in Saint Petersburg .

Antonin Dvorak : On December 16, leading the New York Philharmonic , the Symphony No. 9 ( From the New World) at New York's Carnegie Hall on the first time.

John Philip Sousa : Manhattan Beach March ; Liberty Bell (military march)

Eugen d'Albert : Piano Concerto No. 2 in E major, Op. 12; Piano Sonata in F sharp minor op. 10; Man and Life for Choir op.14

Ethel Smyth : The Mass in D major, the composer's only sacred work, premiered on January 18, 1893 in the Royal Albert Hall in London. Although the world premiere , which was only possible thanks to the intervention of the former French Empress Eugénie de Montijo , was an enthusiastic success, the work was not performed again until 1924.

Claude Debussy : The world premiere of the secular cantata La Damoiselle élue .

Carl Michael Ziehrer : Women's logic , Mazurka op. 445; Cavalry , Polka op. 454; Clubgeister , Waltz op. 452; Dear Bismarck, don't rock, Polka op.465
Johannes Brahms : Six Piano Pieces op. 118; Four Piano Pieces op. 119; 51 piano exercises

Musical theater

January 10, premiere of the operetta Fürstin Ninetta by Johann Strauss (son) in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
January 27 : The premiere of the opera Debora by Josef Bohuslav Foerster takes place at the National Theater in Prague .
February 1st : Cesira Ferrani sings the title role at the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Regio in Turin.

February 9 : World premiere of the opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. It is the composer's last stage work.

February 18 : Over 46 years after the concert premiere in Paris, the staged world premiere of the "dramatic legend" La damnation de Faust ( Faust's damnation ) by Hector Berlioz takes place in Monte Carlo.

April 11 : World premiere of Isaac Albéniz's Magic Ring at the Prince of Wales' Theater in London

May 9 : World premiere of the opera Aleko by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow

June 15th : World premiere of Isaac Albéniz's operetta Poor Jonathan at the Prince of Wales' Theater in London

October 7th : World premiere of the opera Utopia Limited by Arthur Sullivan at the m Savoy Theater, London.

October 12 : premiere of the opera Der Rubin by Eugen d'Albert in Karlsruhe. It is the composer's first opera.

December 23 : The late romantic fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is premiered with extraordinary success at the Weimar Court Theater. The libretto for by Humperdinck in an ironic allusion to Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal called "Kinderstubenweihfestspiel" work wrote his sister Adelheid Wette after the eponymous fairy tale from the Grimm's Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm .

Further world premieres

Sidney Jones : Don Yuan (musical stage work)
Franz Lehár : Rodrigo (opera)

Born

January to June

0January 3rd : Rudolph "Rudy" Cornelius Wiedoeft , American saxophonist († 1940 )
0January 4th : Manuel Palau Boix , Spanish composer and professor († 1967 )
January 15 : Ivor Novello , British actor, playwright and musical composer († 1951 )
January 16 : Pauline Alderman , American musicologist and composer († 1983 )
January 19 : Magda Tagliaferro , Franco-Brazilian pianist and music teacher († 1986 )
January 24 : Alfonso Ortíz Tirado , Mexican doctor and singer († 1960 )
January 28 : Adolf Aber , German musicologist and critic († 1960 )
January 29 : Edric Cundell , English composer, horn player, pianist, conductor and music teacher († 1961 )
January 29 : Marțian Negrea , Romanian composer († 1973 )
0February 2 : Jeanne Dusseau , Canadian singer and music teacher († 1979 )
0February 4 : Bernard Rogers , American composer († 1968 )
February 10 : Jimmy Durante , American comedian, radio presenter, actor, band leader, pianist and singer († 1980 )
February 11 : Don Azpiazú , Cuban bandleader († 1943 )
February 13 : Kurt Noack , German composer († 1945 )
February 14th : Perry Bradford , American pianist, singer, composer and band leader as well as recording manager of Okeh Records († 1970 )
February 17th : Theobald Schrems , German musician, founder of the "Music High School of the Regensburger Domspatzen" († 1963 )
February 21 : Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist († 1987 )
0March 6 : Furry Lewis , American blues musician († 1981 )
March 21 : Bo Carter , American blues guitarist († 1964 )
March 23 : Victor Desautels , Canadian singer and impresario († 1970 )
March 23 : Cläre Lotto , German dancer and actress († 1952 )
0April 4 : Douglas Clarke , English conductor, music teacher, organist, pianist and composer († 1962 )
April 13 : Itō Michio , Japanese ballet dancer and choreographer († 1961 )
April 21 : Émile Gour , Canadian singer and choir director († 1970 )
April 21 : Pierre Jamet , French harpist and music teacher († 1991 )
April 21 : Lorenzo Tio , American jazz clarinetist († 1933 )
May 13 : Victor Cordero Gonzales , Peruvian singer and composer († 1949 )
May 16 : Paul Amadeus Pisk , Austrian musicologist and composer († 1990 )
May 19 : Władysław Raczkowski , Polish conductor, choir director, organist and pianist († 1959 )
0June 3 : Assen Karastojanow , Bulgarian composer († 1976 )
0June 5 : Georges-Émile Tanguay , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher († 1964 )
0June 7th : Ludovic Feldman , Romanian composer († 1987 )
June 12 : Eliseo Grenet , Cuban pianist and composer († 1950 )
June 21 : Alois Hába , Czech composer († 1973 )
June 29 : Aarre Merikanto , Finnish composer († 1958 )
June 30th : Marianne Zoff , Austrian opera singer and actress († 1984 )

July to December

July 28 : Rued Langgaard , Danish composer and organist († 1952 )
August 10 : Douglas Moore , American composer († 1969 )
August 18 : Ernest MacMillan , Canadian composer, conductor, organist and music teacher († 1973 )
August 21 : Lili Boulanger , French composer († 1918 )
August 28 : Lawrence Benjamin Brown , American pianist and arranger († 1973 )
August 31 : Lily Laskine , French harpist († 1988 )
September 13 : Larry Shields , American jazz clarinetist († 1953 )
September 18 : Arthur Benjamin , Australian composer († 1960 )
0October 6 : Milton Ager , American composer († 1979 )
0October 8 : Clarence Williams , American jazz pianist and composer († 1965 )
October 10 : Willi Apel , American musicologist († 1988 )
October 23 : Jean Absil , Belgian composer and professor († 1974 )
October 24 : Kurt Huber , German professor, folk song researcher, member of the White Rose († 1943 )
November 19 : Gerard Boedijn , Dutch composer and teacher († 1972 )
November 23 : Willie "The Lion" Smith , American jazz pianist († 1973 )
November 27 : Stanisław Wiechowicz , Polish composer († 1963 )
0December 2 : Raoul Paquet , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer († 1946 )
0December 2 : Robert Talbot , Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer († 1954 )
0December 7th : Demetrius Constantine Dounis , Greek violinist and music teacher († 1954 )
0December 9 : Dom Paul Benoît , Luxembourg composer († 1979 )
December 10 : Walter Rein , German composer († 1955 )
December 16 : Georges Truc , French conductor († 1941 )
December 26 : Jauhen Zikozki , Belarusian composer († 1970 )
December 28 : Ernst Römer , Austro-Mexican conductor, music teacher and composer († 1974 )
December 30th : Queenie Paul , Australian actress, singer and dancer († 1982 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Carlos Manuel García Vila , Dominican violinist and music teacher († 1919 )

Died

January 12 : Karl Hill , German opera singer (* 1831 )
January 13 : Melitta Otto-Alvsleben , German singer (* 1842 )
January 22nd : Vinzenz Lachner , German composer and conductor (* 1811 )
0March 6 : Charles Lebouc , French cellist (* 1822 )
0March 9 : Disma Fumagalli , Italian composer and music teacher (* 1826 )
March 18 : Tomás León , Mexican composer and pianist (* 1826 )
March 28 : Xavier Boisselot , French composer and piano maker (* 1811 )
April 14th : Carl Heinrich Hübler , German horn player and composer (* 1822 )
May 28 : Felipe Villanueva , Mexican composer (* 1862 )
June 15 : Ferenc Erkel , Hungarian composer (* 1810 )
June 26 : Konstantin Karlowitsch Albrecht , Russian composer (* 1836 )
0August 7th : Alfredo Catalani , Italian opera composer (* 1854 )
October 18 : Charles Gounod , French composer (* 1818 )
0November 6th : Pyotr Tchaikovsky , Russian composer (* 1840 )
0November 8 : Ernest Cahen , French organist and composer (* 1828 )
0December 1 : Eduard Franck , German composer (* 1817 )
December 23 : Benedict Randhartinger , Austrian composer and court conductor (* 1802 )
Alfred Deléhelle , French composer (* 1826 ) Exact date unknown

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