1900 in music
Overview of the events of 1900 in music
This is a nearly comprehensive list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1900 .
Specific locations
Events
January 3 – Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Aida [ 1] January 23 – The Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut with Victor Herbert conducting.February 3 – Adonais George Whitefield Chadwick is premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra .February 22 – Jacques Thibaud , violin, with the composer himself at the piano, gives the world premièee of George Enescu 's Second Violin Sonata in Paris, on a concert that is part of the Concerts Colonne series.[ 2] March 14 – Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast Benjamin Johnson Lang .March 22 – The first performance of the entire trilogy Hiawatha's Departure Samuel Coleridge-Taylor for soli, chorus and orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London, the composer conducts.April 10 – Mary Garden makes her operatic debut in the title role of Gustave Charpentier 's opera Louise May 5 – Billboard May 15 – Ignace Paderewski establishes the annual Paderevski Fund Price for American composers or orchestral compositions.May 22 – The Dallas Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert in Turner Hall, Dallas, Texas, conducted by Hans Kreissig .July 2 – Jean Sibelius 's tone poem Finlandia Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Kajanus .October 3 – Edward Elgar 's The Dream of Gerontius Birmingham , England[ 3] [ 4] October 15 – Boston Symphony Orchestra has a new home – Symphony Hall , subsequently ranked as acoustically one of the best concert halls in the world.November 12 – Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall , New YorkNovember 14 – American contralto Louise Homer makes her American debut with the Metropolitan Opera . She sings Amneris in Verdi's Aida November 16 – Newly founded Philadelphia Orchestra gives its first concert in Philadelphia under the baton of Fritz Scheel .November 22 – The University of Cambridge , England, awards Edward Elgar with the honorary degree of Doctor of Music[ 5] November 24 – The Symphony No.1 in E Minor by Alexander Scriabin is performed at the Russian Concerts in Saint Petersburg, with Anatoly Lyadov conducting.December 9 – The first two sections of Claude Debussy 's Nocturnes December 1 – The first public performance of Arnold Schoenberg 's Zwei Gesänge , Op. 1Alexander von Zemlinsky (piano) in Vienna's Bösendorfer-Saal , receives a negative public reaction.December 15 – The second and third movement of Concerto No.2 in C Minor for Piano by Sergej Rachmaninov receive their world premiere in Moscow; Rachmaninov plays the solo part.The famous dog trademark "His Master's Voice " is registered in the U.S. by Joseph Berliner.
The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra is founded.
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
Classical music
Opera
Tosca John Philip Sousa – Chris and the Wonderful Lamp Giacomo Puccini – Tosca Jan Blockx – Thyl Uylenspiegel Alexander von Zemlinsky – Es war einmal Gustave Charpentier – Louise Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – La Cenerentola Gabriel Fauré – Prométhée Beziers , August 27Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Asya , première in Moscow, September 28Władysław Żeleński - premiere of the opera Janek in Austria, October 4Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Tale of Tsar Saltan Ruggiero Leoncavallo – Zaza George Stephanescu – Cometa César Cui – Feast in Time of Plague
Ballet
Musical theater
The Cadet Girl : Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on July 25 and ran for 48 performancesThe Casino Girl Shaftesbury Theatre on April 25Chris And The Wonderful Lamp : Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on January 1 and ran for 58 performancesFiddle-Dee-Dee : Broadway production opened at Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall on September 6 and ran for 262 performancesFlorodora Casino Theatre on November 10 and ran for 505 performances, while its run at London's Lyric Theatre (opened November 1899) continued throughout the year (closing in March 1901 after 455 performances)Giddy Throng : Broadway revue opened at the New York Theatre on December 24 and ran for 164 performancesThe Messenger Boy London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on February 3 and ran for 429 performancesMiss Prinnt : Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on December 25 and ran for 211 performancesThe Rogers Brothers In Central Park : Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on September 17 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on April 1, 1901, for a total run of 80 performancesSan Toy Daly's Theatre on October 1 and ran for 65 performancesVéronique (operetta) Theater an der Wien on March 10
Births
January 1 – Xavier Cugat , bandleader (d. 1990)January 6 – Pierre-Octave Ferroud , French composer (d. 1936)January 7 – John Brownlee , American baritone and opera teacher (d. 1969)January 13 – Yasuji Kiyose , Japanese composer (d. 1981)February 3
February 13 – Wingy Manone , U.S. jazz musician (d. 1982)March 2 – Kurt Weill , German composer. (d. 1950)March 10 – Peter De Rose , US composer (d. 1953)March 21 – Paul Kletzki , Polish conductor (d.1973)April 2 – Anis Fuleihan , Cypriot-born US composer (d. 1970)April 8 – Gavriel Mullokandov , Bukharian Jewish singer and musician (d. 1972 )April 11 – Kai Normann Andersen , Danish composer (d.1967)April 14 – Salvatore Baccaloni , Italian bass opera singer (d.1969)April 17 – Willy Burkhard , Swiss composer (d. 1955)April 23 – Henry Barraud , French composer (d.1997)April 26 – Joseph Fuchs , American violinist (d. 1997)May 5 – Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt , German conductor (d.1973)May 17 – Nicolai Berezowsky , Russian composer (d.1953)May 27 – Leopold Godowsky, Jr. , American violinist and chemist (d.1983)May 28 – Tommy Ladnier , jazz musician (d.1939)June 15
June 17 - Hermann Reutter , German composer (d.1985)June 22 - Jennie Tourel , Russian mezzo-soprano (d.1973)June 24 – Gene Austin , US singer and composer (d.1972)June 26 – Richard Crooks , US tenor (d.1972)July 8 – George Antheil , composer (d.1959)July 10
July 13 – George Lewis , jazz musician (d.1968)July 29 – Don Redman , US arranger, bandleader and saxophonist (d.1964)August 2 – Helen Morgan , US singer and actress (d.1941)August 8 – Lucky Millinder , US bandleader (d.1966)August 22 – Váša Příhoda , Czech violinist (d.1960)August 23 – Ernst Krenek , composer (d.1991)September 3 – Eduard van Beinum , Dutch conductor (d.1959)September 7 – Joan Cross , operatic soprano (d.1993)September 20 – Uuno Klami , Finnish composer (d.1961)September 28 – Joe Falcon , Cajun accordionist (d.1965)October 9 – Elmer Snowden , banjo player (d.1973)October 19 – Erna Berger , coloratura soprano (d.1990)November 7 – Efrem Kurtz , Russian conductor (d.1995)November 14 – Aaron Copland , composer (d.1990)November 25
November 27 – Léon Barzin , Belgian-born American conductor (d.1999)December 12 – Sammy Davis, Sr. , vaudeville entertainer (d.1988)December 14 – Juan d'Arienzo , tango musician (d.1976)December 17 – Lucijan Marija Škerjanc , Slovene composer, pedagogue and conductor (d.1973)December 19 – Audrey Mildmay , English soprano (d.1953)December 22 – Alan Bush , British pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1995 )December 25 – Gladys Swarthout , American mezzo-soprano (d.1969)December 27 – Willem van Otterloo , Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (d.1978)December 29 – B. H. Haggin , music critic (d.1987)
Deaths
January 22 – David E. Hughes , musician and inventor, 68January 26 – Carl Leopold Sjöberg , composer, 38February 3 – Ottokar Novacek , violinist and composer, 33 (heart condition)March 10 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann , composer, 94March 13 – Alicia Ann Spottiswoode , songwriter, 89March 19 – Charles-Louis Hanon , composer and piano teacher, 80April 21 – Charles Beecher , hymn-writer, 84May 13 – Hermann Levi , German conductor, 61May 20 – Gustav Graben-Hoffmann , German composer and voice teacher, 80[ 9] May 28 – George Grove , compiler of the well-known dictionary of music, 79June 15 – Barnolt , French operatic tenor, 61[ 10] July 19 – Jovan Sundečić , lyricist of the Montenegro national anthem, 75August 11 – Franz Betz , operatic bass-baritone, 65August 29 – Herrman S. Saroni , composer, 76October 9 – Heinrich von Herzogenberg , conductor and composer, 57 (necrosis of the joints)October 14 – Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel October 15 – Zdeněk Fibich , composer, 49November 7 – Joseph Schalk , pianist, conductor and musicologist, 43November 14 – Adolf Pollitzer , violinist, 68November 17 – Heinrich Porges , choirmaster and music critic, 62November 22 – Sir Arthur Sullivan , composer, 58 (kidney disease)December 8 – Henry Russell , pianist, baritone singer and composerdate unknown – Louis Liebe , conductor and composer (born 1819)
References
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^ Grimley, Daniel (2004). The Cambridge companion to Elgar . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 87. ISBN 9780521826235 ^ Hewett, Ivan , "Rolling with the Punches", BBC Proms 2022 , pp. 20–4^ Slonimsky, Nicolas (1949). Music Since 1900 . Coleman-Ross Company. p. 11. ^ "Harry Von Tilzer, Tin Pan Alley Pioneer" . Parlor Songs. Retrieved 2010-04-14 .^ "Anni Frind, Soprano, Is Dead; Performed in 20's and 30's" . The New York Times . 1987-04-11. ISSN 0362-4331 . Archived from the original on November 5, 2017. Retrieved 2017-10-19 .^ Smith, Jessie Carney (1992). Notable Black American Women . Gale Research. p. 470. ^ Langner, Thomas M. (2001). "Graben-Hoffmann [Hoffmann], Gustav (Heinrich)". Grove Music Online . Oxford University Press . doi :10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11559 . ^ Stoullig E. Les Annales du Théâtre et de la Musique , 26eme edition, 1900.
