Events in the year 1895 in music.
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1895 in Norwegian music
Events
March 4 – Gustav Mahler conducts the première of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in [Berlin] – the first three movements only. May 18 – Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queen's Hall. August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor. The first concert opens with the overture to Wagner's Rienzi. The orchestra tunes to the "French A" or diapason normal concert pitch. December 13 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in Berlin with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra (first three movements premièred on March 4). unknown dates Composer Sidney Homer marries contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty. Composer Zdeněk Fibich separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová, and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová. Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d'Albert. It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.
Published popular music
"America the Beautiful" w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
"The Band Played On" w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
"The Belle of Avenoo A" w.m. Safford Waters
"Down In Poverty Row" w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
"A Dream" w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
"The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
"He's Not Dead Yet!" w. T. W. Connor
"It's a Great Big Shame" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" w.m. Paul Dresser
"King Cotton (march)" m. John Philip Sousa
"La Pas Ma La" w.m. Ernest Hogan
"My Angeline" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
"My Best Girl's a New Yorker" w.m. John Stromberg
"Put Me Off at Buffalo" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon (Dillon Brothers) "Rastus on Parade" w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills "She Was One of the Early Birds" w.m. T. W. Connor "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton "The Soldiers of the Queen" w.m. Leslie Stuart "The Streets of Cairo" w.m. James Thornton "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton
Recorded popular music
"Girl Wanted" – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
"The Band Played On" – Dan W. Quinn, Columbia Records
"The Sidewalks of New York" – Dan W. Quinn, Berliner Records
Classical music
Béla Bartók
Capriccio in B minor, for piano, Op. 4
Fantasia in A minor, for piano, Op. 2
Fantasia, for violin, Op. 9
Pieces, for violin, Op. 7
Sonata No. 2 in F major, for piano, Op. 3
Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, Op. 5
Sonata No. 3 in C major, for piano, Op. 6
Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets Edward Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 27 George Enescu – "Study" Symphony No. 1 in D minor Gabriel Fauré Allegro symphonique, for piano four-hands, Op. 68 Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat major, for piano, Op. 70 Theme and Variations, for piano, Op. 73 Anatoly Lyadov Etude in F major, for piano, Op. 37 Mazurka in F major, for piano, Op. 38 Preludes (3), for piano, Op. 36 Preludes (4), for piano, Op. 39 Henrique Oswald – Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18 Camille Saint-Saëns Fantasy No. 2 in D major, for organ, Op. 101 La Mort de Thaïs, Paraphrase de concert sur l'opéra de J. Massenet, for piano Souvenir d'Ismaïlia, for piano, Op. 100 Richard Strauss Songs (3), for high voice and piano, Op. 29 Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, for orchestra, Op. 28 Alexander von Zemlinsky – Serenade (Suite), for violin and piano
Opera
Isaac Albéniz – Henry Clifford
Enrique Fernández Arbós – El Centro de la Tierra
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve, 10 December, in St. Petersburg.
Musical theater
An Artist's Model London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances Dandy Dick Whittington London production The Shop Girl Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances The Tyrolean London production