Overview of the events of 1898 in music
Overview of the events of 1898 in music
Events in the year 1898 in music.
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Published popular music[edit]
Christmas songs[edit]
Recorded popular music[edit]
- "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)
– 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[edit]
- 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
- 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
- Gabriel Fauré
- Alexander Glazunov – Ruses d'Amour (ballet)
- Paul Juon – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
- Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
- Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
- Henrique Oswald
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Barcarolle in F major
- Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major[1]
- January 7 – Al Bowlly, big band singer
- January 9 – Gracie Fields, singer and actress
- January 28 – Vittorio Rieti, composer
- February 3 – Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
- February 7 – Dock Boggs, banjo player
- February 12 – Roy Harris, composer
- February 15 – Totò, actor and composer
- February 28 – Molly Picon, Broadway star
- March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)
- April 3 – George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
- April 9 – Paul Robeson, singer
- May 14 – Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
- May 15 – Arletty, actress and singer
- May 26 – Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)
- May 28 – Andy Kirk, jazz musician
- June 6 – Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
- June 29 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
- July 4 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
- July 6 – Hanns Eisler, composer
- July 15 – Noel Gay, English songwriter
- August 2 – Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
- August 15 – Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
- August 24 – Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
- September 1
- September 26 – George Gershwin, US composer
- September 27 – Vincent Youmans, US composer
- October 7 – Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
- October 8 – Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
- October 18 – Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt Weill
- November 1 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer
- December 3 (n.s.) – Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and NKVD agent)
- December 5 – Grace Moore, operatic soprano
- December 14 – Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
- December 24 – Baby Dodds, jazz drummer
- January 7 – Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
- January 8 – Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
- January 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
- February 15 – Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)
- March 11 – Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
- March 15 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
- March 28 – Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
- April 21 – Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
- May 15 – Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
- May 16 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
- August 17 – Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
- August 21 – Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)
- September 9 – William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
- September 11 – Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
- November 7 – Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
- December 13 – George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
- December 29 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74
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