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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• September 9 - Edward Elgar's concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester
• George W. Johnson records phonograph cylinders
• First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens, takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death

1890 sheet music cover

Published popular music

• "The Commodore Song"
• "Little Pig Went To Market" by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker
• "Maggie Murphy's Home" w. Edward Harrigan m. David Braham
• "Passing By" w. Robert Herrick m. Edward C. Purcell
• "Throw Him Down McCloskey" w.m. John W. Kelly
• "You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber

Classical music

• Ferruccio Busoni - Violin Sonata No. 1, Opus 29
• Ernest Chausson - Chansons de Shakespeare
• Antonín Dvořák - Requiem
• Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 3, Opus 33
• Armas Järnefelt - Ouverture Lyrique
• Alexander Scriabin - Romance for Horn and Piano
• Jean Sibelius - Piano Quintet in G minor
• Sergei Taneyev - String Quartet No. 1 Opus 4

Opera

• Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
• Prince Igor begun by Alexander Borodin, completed by Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Musical theater

• The Gondoliers     Broadway production
• Love And Law     Broadway production
• Robin Hood     Chicago production
• The Sentry     London production
• Reilly And The 400 Broadway production

Births

• February 25 - Myra Hess, pianist
• February 27 - Freddie Keppard
• March 20
  • Beniamino Gigli, opera singer
  • Lauritz Melchior, opera singer
• March 28 - Paul Whiteman
• April 17 - Gussie Mueller
• May 21 - Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of Irene and Rio Rita
• June 6 - Ted Lewis
• June 26 - Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star
• August 12 - Lillian Evanti, opera singer
• August 15 - Jacques Ibert, composer
• September 15 - Frank Martin, composer
• October 1 - Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer
• December 8 - Bohuslav Martinů
• date unknown - Rob Barbecue, jazz musician

Deaths

• January 8 - Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (b. 1810)
• January 17 - Salomon Sulzer, cantor and composer (b. 1804)
• January 20 - Franz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1803)
• April 16 - John Barnett, composer and music writer (b. 1802)
• May 6 - Hubert Léonard, violinist (b. 1819)
• May 28 - Viktor Nessler, composer (b. 1841)
• June 30 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (b. 1819)
• October 7 - John Hill Hewitt, songwriter (b. 1801)
• October 17 - Prosper Sainton, violinist (b. 1813)
• October 28 - Alexander John Ellis, music theorist (b. 1814)
• November 8 - César Franck, composer (b. 1822)
• December 21 - Niels Wilhelm Gade, composer (b. 1817)
• date unknown - Ostap Veresai, minstrel and kobzar (b. 1803)

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