Music year 1900
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Overview of the music years
Further events
Music year 1900 | |
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The opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini is celebrating its world premiere. | The German piano maker Carl Bechstein dies in Berlin. |
Events
- The Philadelphia Orchestra is founded.
- The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra is founded.
Instrumental music
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George Enescu -
- Impromptu , for piano
- The nocturnal army show , for baritone, choir and orchestra
- String octet in C major op.7
- Plugar , for mixed choir
- Reinhold Glière - Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 8
- Alexander Goedicke - Piano Concerto
- Joseph Holbrooke - The Raven
- Josef Rheinberger - Requiem in D minor
- Josef Suk - pieces for violin and piano
- Jean Sibelius : Finlandia - symphonic poetry
Opera
- January 14 : The world premiere of the veristic opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini takes place at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome under the direction of Leopoldo Mugnone . The libretto is by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the drama of the same name by Victorien Sardou .
- January 17th : The musical tragedy Cain by Eugen d'Albert has its world premiere at the Royal Opera House in Berlin . The libretto, based on the book of Genesis in the Bible, is by Heinrich Bulthaupt .
- January 22nd : The world premiere of the fairytale opera Once Upon a Time ... by Alexander von Zemlinsky takes place at the Court Opera in Vienna .
- February 2 : The world premiere of the veristic opera Louise by Gustave Charpentier takes place in Paris.
- October 3 : Edward Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius premieres in Birmingham.
- César Cui - The feast during the plague
- August Enna - Press meals på ærten
- Michail Michailowitsch Ippolitow-Ivanov - Asya
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Zaza
- Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow - The fairy tale of Tsar Saltan
- George Stephănescu - Cometa
musical
- The Cadet Girl : Broadway production at the Herald Square Theater; World premiere on July 25; Duration: 48 performances
- The Casino Girl : London production at Shaftesbury Theater ; First performance on April 25th
- Chris And The Wonderful Lamp : Broadway production at the Victoria Theater ; First performance on January 1st; Duration: 58 performances
- Fiddle-Dee-Dee : Broadway production at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall; World premiere on September 6th; Duration: 262 performances
- Florodora : Broadway production premiered at Casino Theater on November 10; Duration: 505 performances; simultaneous performance in London's Lyric Theater (first performance November 11, 1899) runs throughout the year (concluded in March 1901 after 455 performances)
- Giddy Throng : Broadway Revue at the New York Theater ; World premiere on December 24th; Duration: 164 performances
- The Messenger Boy : London -Production at the Gaiety Theater ; World premiere on February 3rd; Duration: 429 performances
- Miss Prinnt : Broadway production at the Victoria Theater ; World premiere on December 25th; Duration: 211 performances
- The Rogers Brothers In Central Park : Broadway production at the Victoria Theater ; World premiere on September 17th; Moved to the Grand Opera House on April 1, 1901; Total running time: 50 performances
- San Toy : Broadway production at Daly's Theater ; First performance on October 1st; Duration: 65 performances
- Véronique : Vienna production at the Theater an der Wien ; World premiere: March 10th
Light music
- "Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder (Longing to Be Near Your Side)" - Text: Arthur Gillespie; Music: Herbert Dillea
- " A Bird in a Gilded Cage " - Text: Arthur J. Lamb ; Music: Harry Von Tilzer
- " The Blue and the Gray (or A Mother's Gift to Her Country)" - Text & Music: Paul Dresser
- "Bridge of Sighs" - Text & Music: James Thornton
- "Calligan - Call Again!" - Text & music: Herbert Rutter & Harry Lauder
- "Calling to Her Boy Just Once Again" - Text & Music: Paul Dresser
- "Creole Belles" - Text: George Sidney; Music: Jens Bodewalt Lampe
- "The Duchess of Central Park" - Text: J. Cheaver Goodwin; Music: Maurice Levi
- " Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon " - Text & Music: Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf
- "Eyes of Blue" - Music: Andrew Mack
- "The Fatal Rose of Red" - Text & Music: J. Fred Helf
- " The Flight of the Bumble Bee " - Music: Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow
- "A Flower From The Garden of Life" - Text & Music: Thurland Chattaway
- "For Old Time's Sake" - Text & Music: Charles K. Harris
- " The Gladiators' Entry " - music: Julius Fučík
- "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty" - Text & Music: John Philip Sousa
- "Hunky Dory" - music: Abe Holzmann
- "I Can't Tell Why I Love You But I Do" Text: Will D. Cobb ; Music: Gus Edwards
- "I Love You, Ma Cherie" - Text & Music: Paul Rubens
- "I Must Have Been A-Dreamin '- Text & Music: Bob Cole
- "I Need The Money" - Text & Music: Raymond A. Browne
- "I Won't Be an Actor No More" - Text & Music: George M. Cohan
- "In The House of Too Much Trouble" - Text & Music: Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf
- "I've a Longing in My Heart for You Louise" - Text & Music: Charles K. Harris
- "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes" - Text & Music: John Queen & Hughie Cannon
- " Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing " - Text: James Weldon Johnson ; Music: J. Rosamond Johnson
- "Little Tommy Murphy" - Text: Matthew Woodward; Music: Andrew Mack
- "A Love-Lorn Lily" - Text: Louis Harrison & George V. Hobart; Music: Alfred Baldwin Sloane
- "Ma Blushin 'Rosie" - Text: Edgar Smith; Music: John Stromberg
- "Midnight Fire-Alarm" - Text & Music: HJ Lincoln
- "My Charcoal Charmer" - Text: Will D. Cobb; Music: Gus Edwards
- "My Drowsy Babe" - Text: George Totten Smith; Music: George A. Nichols
- "My Sunflower Sue" - Text: Walter H. Ford; Music: John Walter Bratton
- "Nothing Doing" - Text: Edgar Smith; Music: John Stromberg
- "Off To Philadelphia" - Text: Gordon Temple; Music: Walter B. Haynes
- "Oh! Wouldn't That Jar You?" - Text & music: Will D. Cobb
- "The Old Flag Never Touched The Ground" - Text & Music James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson
- "Song of the Flea" - Text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Music: Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
- "Strike Up the Band - Here Comes a Sailor" - Text: Andrew B. Sterling ; Music: Charles B. Ward
- " Swipesy " (Cakewalk) - Music: Scott Joplin & Arthur Marshall
- "The Tale of the Kangaroo" - Text: Frank Pixley; Music: Gustave Luders
- "Tell Me Pretty Maiden" - Text: Owen Hall; Music: Leslie Stuart
- "That Old Sunny Window" - Text & Music: Shelley
- "There Are Two Sides To A Story" - Text & Music: Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf
- "Violets" - Text: Julian Fane; Music: Ellen Riley Wright
- "Wait" - Text: Charles Horwitz; Music: Frederick W. Bowers
- "When Reuben Comes to Town" - Text: J. Cheever Goodwin; Music: Maurice Levi
- "When the Birds Go North Again" text: Robert F. Roden; Music: Max S. Witt
- "When the Harvest Days Are Over, Jessie Dear" - Text: Howard Graham; Music: Harry Von Tilzer
- "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs Murphy's Chowder?" - Text & music: George L. Giefer
- "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry" - Text & Music: Rowland Howard
Music recordings
- " American Patrol "
- Sousa's band - " A Bird in a Gilded Cage "
- Harry Macdonough - "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey"
- HH Dudley - "The Duchess Of Central Park"
- Harry Macdonough - "For Old Time's Sake"
- Will F. Denny - "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes"
- Dan W. Quinn - "Lead, Kindly Light"
- The Haydn Quartet - "A Love-Lorn Lily"
- Harry Macdonough - "Ma Blushin 'Rosie"
- Albert C. Campbell - "My Sunflower Sue"
- Arthur Collins with The Metropolitan Orchestra - "O! That We Two Were Maying"
- Harry Macdonough & Florence Hayward - "Strike Up the Band"
- Dan W. Quinn - "Tell Me Pretty Maiden"
- Lyric Theater Chorus p. Paul Rubens - "When Reuben Comes To Town"
- Dan W. Quinn on Victor - "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"
- Jere Mahoney - "Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow"
- The Haydn Quartet
Born
January to March
- January 1 : Xavier Cugat , Spanish-American band leader († 1990 )
- January 3 : Maurice Jaubert , French composer († 1940 )
- January 6 : Pierre Octave Ferroud , French composer and music critic († 1936 )
- January 9 : Rudolf Hindemith , German composer († 1974 )
- January 20 : Boris Semjonowitsch Schechter , Russian composer († 1961 )
- January 22nd : Ernst Busch , German singer, actor and director († 1980 )
- January 22 : Juan Tizol , American jazz musician († 1984 )
- January 26 : Zdeněk Folprecht , Czech composer († 1961 )
- January 26 : Karl Ristenpart , German conductor († 1967 )
- January 30th : Isaak Ossipowitsch Dunajewski , Russian composer († 1955 )
- February 4 : Rita Kurzmann-Leuchter , Austrian pianist and music teacher († 1942 )
- February 4 : Jacques Prévert , French author, poet and chansonnier († 1977 )
- February 12 : Pink Anderson , American blues musician († 1974 )
- February 12 : Rudolph Schmitt , German-American clarinetist († 1993 )
- February 13 : Wingy Manone , American jazz musician, singer and band leader († 1981 )
- February 27 : Luiz Americano , Brazilian clarinetist, saxophonist and composer († 1960 )
- March 2 : Kurt Weill , German-American composer († 1950 )
- March 3 : Fritz Rotter , Austrian author and composer († 1984 )
- March 6 : Evald Aav , Estonian singer, composer and choir director († 1939 )
- March 10 : Peter DeRose , American jazz composer and songwriter († 1953 )
- March 11th : Laughing Charley Lincoln , American blues guitarist and singer († 1963 )
- March 17 : Alfred Newman , American film composer and conductor († 1970 )
- March 18 : Alfred Poell , Austrian chamber singer († 1968 )
- March 23 : José Antonio Calcaño , Venezuelan composer, music critic and diplomat († 1978 )
- March 26 : Isadore Freed , American composer († 1960 )
April to June
- April 10 : Ernst Fischer , German composer († 1975 )
- April 23 : Henry Barraud , French composer († 1972 )
- April 24 : Leon Klepper , Romanian composer († 1991 )
- April 28 : Germaine Cernay , French mezzo-soprano († 1943 )
- May 7 : Leon Abbey , American jazz violinist and band leader († 1975 )
- May 14 : Leo Smit , Dutch composer and pianist († 1943 )
- May 17 : Nikolai Tichonowitsch Berezovsky , Russian composer and violinist († 1972 )
- May 25 : Angel D'Agostino , Argentine pianist, arranger and composer († 1991 )
- May 28 : Tommy Ladnier , American jazz trumpeter († 1939 )
- June 15 : Otto Luening , American composer, conductor and flautist († 1996 )
- June 15 : Paul Mares , American jazz trumpeter († 1949 )
- June 17 : Hermann Reutter , German composer and pianist († 1985 )
- June 24 : Gene Austin , American singer and songwriter († 1972 )
- June 27 : Albert Jütz , Swiss folk musician († 1925 )
- June 28 : Heinrich Busch , German pianist and composer († 1929 )
- June 28 : Asa Martin , American old-time musician († 1979 )
- June 29th : Friedrich Wührer , German-Austrian pianist († 1975 )
July to September
- July 2 : Fritz Neumeyer , German harpsichordist, pianist, musicologist & composer († 1983 )
- July 8 : George Antheil , American composer and pianist († 1959 )
- July 10 : Mitchell Parish , American songwriter († 1996 )
- July 12 : Amadeo Roldán , Cuban composer and violinist († 1939 )
- July 13 : George Lewis , American jazz clarinetist († 1968 )
- July 18 : Herbert Hennies , German actor, writer, songwriter and radio play speaker († 1979 )
- July 26 : Karl Berbuer , German composer and singer († 1977 )
- July 27 : Hans Haug , Swiss composer († 1967 )
- July 29th : Don Redman , American jazz musician, arranger and composer († 1964 )
- August 2 : Helen Morgan , American jazz singer and actress († 1941 )
- August 5 : Frank Luther , American old-time musician († 1980 )
- August 6 : Willie Brown , American blues guitarist and singer († 1952 )
- August 8 : Lucky Millinder , American R&B and swing band leader and singer († 1966 )
- August 8 : Victor Young , American violinist, composer and band leader († 1956 )
- August 11 : Alexander Wassiljewitsch Mossolow , Russian composer († 1973 )
- August 20 : Rita Montaner , Cuban singer and actress († 1958 )
- August 22 : Váša Příhoda , Czech violinist († 1960 )
- August 23 : Frances Adaskin , Canadian pianist († 2001 )
- August 23 : Ernst Krenek , American composer of Austrian origin († 1991 )
- September 1 : Kazimierz Wiłkomirski , Polish cellist, conductor, composer and music teacher († 1995 )
- September 2 : Wilhelm Strienz , German bass singer († 1987 )
- September 3 : Eduard van Beinum , Dutch conductor († 1959 )
- September 7th : Joan Cross , British soprano († 1993 )
- September 12 : Texas Alexander , American blues singer († 1954 )
- September 22 : Michelangelo Abbado , Italian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 1979 )
- September 27 : Julio Alberto Hernández , Dominican composer and pianist († 1999 )
October to December
- October 9 : Elmer Snowden , American banjo player, band leader and music entrepreneur († 1973 )
- October 10 : Zeno Vancea , Romanian composer and musicologist († 1990 )
- October 17 : Teodoro Valcárcel , Peruvian composer († 1942 )
- October 19 : Erna Berger , German coloratura soprano († 1990 )
- October 24 : Karl Ottó Runólfsson , Icelandic composer, conductor and trumpeter († 1970 )
- October 25 : Hans Klotz , German church musician and organologist († 1987 )
- November 4 : Isabelle Delorme , Canadian music teacher and composer († 1991 )
- November 14 : Aaron Copland , American composer († 1990 )
- November 18 : Don Hartman , American screenwriter, film director and composer († 1958 )
- November 24th : Stepan Njaga , Moldovan composer († 1951 )
- November 25 : Arthur Schwartz , American composer († 1984 )
- November 27 : Léon Barzin , American composer of Belgian origin († 1999 )
- November 27 : Robert Blum , Swiss composer († 1994 )
- December 14 : Juan d'Arienzo , Argentinian violinist, arranger, band leader and composer († 1976 )
- December 14 : Bojan Ikonomow , Bulgarian composer († 1973 )
- December 17 : Lucijan Marija Škerjanc , Yugoslav composer, pianist and conductor († 1973 )
- December 20 : Ted Fiorito , American jazz pianist and composer († 1971 )
- December 26 : Lucien Gagnier , Canadian flautist († 1956 )
Died
- January 11th : Carl Eduard Schubert , German organ builder (* 1830 )
- January 22nd : David Edward Hughes , British-American inventor and musician (* 1831 )
- February 3 : Ottokar Nováček , Slovak violinist and composer (* 1866 )
- February 26 : Leopold Grützmacher , German cellist and composer (* 1835 )
- March 6th : Carl Bechstein , German piano maker (* 1826 )
- March 10 : Karl Doppler , Hungarian composer (* 1825 )
- March 10 : Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann , Danish composer (* 1805 )
- March 13 : Jan Ondříček , Czech conductor, violinist and music teacher (* 1832 )
- March 19 : Charles-Louis Hanon , French pianist and composer (* 1819 )
- May 28 : Louis Deffès , French composer and music teacher (* 1819 )
- May 28 : George Grove , British writer; Editor of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (* 1820 )
- June 13 : Claudius Blanc , French composer (* 1854 )
- June 21 : Polibio Fumagalli , Italian composer, organist and pianist (* 1830 )
- June 27th : Mary Krebs-Brenning , German pianist (* 1851 )
- August 11 : Franz Betz , German bass baritone (* 1835 )
- October 9 : Heinrich von Herzogenberg , Austrian composer and conductor (* 1843 )
- October 15 : Zdeněk Fibich , Bohemian composer (* 1850 )
- November 7th : Joseph Schalk , Austrian pianist, conductor and musicologist (* 1843 )
- November 17 : Heinrich Porges , Austrian-German choir director and music critic (* 1837 )
- November 22nd : Sir Arthur Sullivan , British composer, musicologist, organist and conductor (* 1842 )
- December 7th : Georg Schmitt , German composer (* 1821 )
- December 8 : Max Abraham , German music publisher (* 1831 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1900 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1900 - Collection of images, videos and audio files