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Overview of the events of 1898 in music
Events in the year 1898 in music.
Specific locations
Events
Published popular music
Christmas songs
Recorded popular music
- "The Amorous Goldfish" (w.
Harry Greenbank m.
Sidney Jones)
–
Syria Lamonte on
Berliner Gramophone
- "At A Georgia Camp Meeting" (w.m.
Kerry Mills)
–
Sousa's Band on
Berliner Gramophone
–
Dan W. Quinn on
Columbia Records
- "The Battle Cry Of Freedom" (w.m.
George Frederick Root)
– John Terrell on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" (w.
Thomas Moore m. trad)
–
J. W. Myers on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Break The News To Mother" (w.m.
Charles K. Harris)
–
George J. Gaskin on
Edison Records
- "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" (w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones)
–
James T. Powers on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall)
– Sousa's Band on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Don Jose Of Sevilla" (Smith, Herbert)
–
Jessie Bartlett Davis & W. H. MacDonald on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Happy Days In Dixie" (m. Kerry Mills)
– Arthur Collins on
Edison Records
- "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls" (w.
Thomas Moore m. trad)
– J. W. Myers on
Berliner Gramophone
- "
A Hot Time In The Old Town" (w.
Joe Hayden m.
Theodore A. Metz)
– Sousa's Band on
Berliner Gramophone
-
Len Spencer with banjo
Vess L. Ossman on
Columbia Records
– Roger Harding on
Edison Records
- "In The Gloaming" (w.
Meta Orred m.
Annie Fortescue Harrison)
–
Roger Harding on
Berliner Gramophone
- "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" (w.m. C. A. White)
–
Edison Male Quartette on
Edison Records
- "Just Before The Battle, Mother" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
–
Frank C. Stanley on
Edison Records
- "Killarney" (w.
Edmund Falconer m.
Michael William Balfe)
–
Arthur Gladstone on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Largo Al Factotum" (w. Cesare Sterbini m.
Giaocchino Rossini)
–
Alberto Del Campo on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Love's Old Sweet Song" (w.
George Clifton Bingham m.
James Lyman Molloy)
–
Annie Carter on
Berliner Gramophone
- "The Miner's Dream Of Home" (w.m.
Will Godwin &
Leo Dryden)
–
Leo Dryden on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" (w.m.
Dave Reed Jr)
–
Press Eldridge on
Edison Records
- "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" (w.m.
Ben Harney)
–
Marguerite Newton on
Edison Records
– Len Spencer with Vess L. Ossman on
Columbia Records
- "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night" (w. m.
Stephen Collins Foster)
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Diamond Four on
Berliner Gramophone
– Edison Male Quartette on
Edison Records
- "Oh, Promise Me" (w.
Clement Scott m.
Reginald DeKoven)
– Jessie Bartlett Davis on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Old Folks At Home" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster)
– Diamond Four on
Berliner Gramophone
- "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away" (w.m.
Paul Dresser)
– Annie Carter on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Orange Blossoms" (m.
Arthur Pryor)
– Sousa's Band on
Berliner Gramophone
- "The Palms" (m.
Gabriel Fauré)
– Diamond Four on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep" (w.
Mrs Emma Hart Willard m.
Joseph Phillip Knight)
– William Hooley on
Edison Records
- "She Never Did the Same Thing Twice"
–
Dan W. Quinn on
Berliner Gramophone
- "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" (w.
Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter)
–
Albert C. Campbell on
Edison Records
- "She was Happy Til She Met You"
–
Dan W. Quinn on
Columbia Records
- "Smoky Mokes" (m.
Abe Holzmann)
– banjo Vess L. Ossman on
Columbia Records
- "Stars And Stripes Forever" (m. John Philip Sousa)
– Sousa's Band on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Sweet And Low" (w.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson m. Sir
Joseph Barnby)
–
Ladies Brass Quartette of Boston Fadettes on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Sweet Genevieve" (w.
George Cooper m.
Henry Tucker)
– Jessie Bartlett Davis on
Berliner Gramophone
- "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m.
Maude Nugent)
–
Steve Porter on
Berliner Gramophone
- "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" (w.m.
R. M. Stults)
– Diamond Four on
Berliner Gramophone
– George J. Gaskin on
Edison Records
- "Then You'll Remember Me" (w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe)
– James Norrie on
Berliner Gramophone
- Annie Carter on
Berliner Gramophone
- "There's A Little Star Shining For You" (w.m.
James Thornton)
–
Dan W. Quinn on
Edison Records
- "The Thunderer" (m. John Philip Sousa)
– Sousa's Band on
Berliner Gramophone
- "
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (w.m. George Frederick Root)
– Frank C. Stanley on
Edison Records
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (w.m.
Louis Lambert)
– Frank C. Stanley on
Edison Records
- "Yankee Doodle" (trad)
– Frank C. Stanley on
Edison Records
Classical music
-
Ernest Chausson –
String Quartet (completed posthumously)
-
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, Op.30
- Ballade, Op.33 (premiered September 12 in Gloucester)
- African Suite for piano, Op.35
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Edward Elgar – Caractacus
-
George Enescu
- Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4
- Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major, for piano, Op. 5
- Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
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Gabriel Fauré
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Alexander Glazunov – Ruses d'Amour (ballet)
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Paul Juon – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
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Carl Nielsen –
String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
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Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
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Henrique Oswald
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Camille Saint-Saëns –
Barcarolle in F major
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Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major
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Births
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January 7 –
Al Bowlly, big band singer
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January 9 –
Gracie Fields, singer and actress
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January 28 –
Vittorio Rieti, composer
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February 3 –
Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of
Louis Armstrong
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February 7 –
Dock Boggs, banjo player
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February 12 –
Roy Harris, composer
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February 15 –
Totò, actor and composer
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February 28 –
Molly Picon, Broadway star
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March 4 –
Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
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April 3 –
George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
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April 9 –
Paul Robeson, singer
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May 14 –
Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
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May 15 –
Arletty, actress and singer
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May 26 –
Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)
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May 28 –
Andy Kirk, jazz musician
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June 6 –
Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
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June 29 –
Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
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July 4 –
Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
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July 6 –
Hanns Eisler, composer
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July 15 –
Noel Gay, English songwriter
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August 2 –
Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
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August 15 –
Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
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August 24 –
Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
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September 1
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September 26 –
George Gershwin, US composer
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September 27 –
Vincent Youmans, US composer
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October 7 –
Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
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October 8 –
Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
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October 18 –
Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of
Kurt Weill
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November 1 –
Sippie Wallace, blues singer
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December 3 (n.s.) –
Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and
NKVD agent)
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December 5 –
Grace Moore, operatic soprano
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December 14 –
Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
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December 24 –
Baby Dodds, jazz drummer
Deaths
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January 7 –
Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
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January 8 –
Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
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January 16 –
Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
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February 15 –
Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)
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March 11 –
Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
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March 15 –
Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
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March 28 –
Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
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April 21 –
Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
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May 15 –
Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
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May 16 –
Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
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August 17 –
Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
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August 21 –
Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)
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September 9 –
William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
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September 11 –
Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
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November 7 –
Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
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December 13 –
George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
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December 29 –
Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74
References
See also