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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Recorded popular music 4 Classical music 5 Opera 6 Musical theater 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

• August 10 - The first ever Promenade Concert is held at the Queen's Hall in London.
• December 13 - The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in Berlin

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
• "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
• "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
• "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

• Léon Boëllmann - Suite Gothique for Organ
• Antonín Dvořák - Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets

Opera

• Isaac Albéniz - Henry Clifford
• Enrique Fernandez Arbos - El Centro de la Tierra

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

Births

• January 7 - Clara Haskil, pianist
• January 27 - Buddy De Sylva, songwriter
• February 7 - Irving Aaronson
• February 28 - Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist (died 1979)
• March 4 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist (d. 1978)
• March 23 - Dane Rudhyar, composer (d. 1985)
• March 31 - Lizzie Miles, singer
• April 1 - Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
• April 3:
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer
  • Zez Confrey, pianist and composer (d. 1971)
• April 9 - Mance Lipscomb, popular singer
• April 23 - Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
• April 29 - Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor
• May 1 - Leo Sowerby, composer
• May 2 - Lorenz Hart, US lyricist
• May 6 - Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor
• May 11 - William Grant Still, composer (d. 1978)
• June 10 - Hattie McDaniel, singer and actress
• June 16 - Lew Pollack, US composer
• July 4 - Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist
• July 5 - Gordon Jacob, English composer (d. 1984)
• July 10 - Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
• July 12 - Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist
• July 13 - Bradley Kincaid, folk singer
• July 25 - Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (d. 1977)
• August 10 - Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer
• August 13 - Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer
• September 9 - Harry Tobias, US lyric writer
• September 16 - Karol Rathaus, Austrian composer (from what is now the Ukraine) (d. 1954)
• September 22 - Herbert Janssen, German baritone (d. 1965)
• September 26 - George Raft, Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer
• October 11 - Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor (d. 1982)
• October 12 - Tubby Hall, jazz drummer
• October 17 - Doris Humphrey, dancer
• October 29 - Harry Ruby, songwriter
• November 5 - Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
• November 16 - Paul Hindemith, German composer
• November 28 - José Iturbi, pianist (d. 1980)
• November 29 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (d. 1976)
• November 30 - Johann Nepomuk David, composer
• December 2 - Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967)
• December 16 - Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist (d. 1973)

Deaths

• January 10 - Benjamin Godard, composer (b. 1849)
• February 16 - Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter (b. 1816)
• February 25 - Ignaz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1807)
• March 18 - Priscilla Horton, singer and actress (b. 1818)
• May 21 - Franz von Suppé, composer (b. 1819)
• August 6 - George Frederick Root, US composer (b. 1820)
• August 13 - Ludwig Abel, violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1834)
• September - Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label
• October 12 - Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer (b. 1818)
• October 25 - Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (b. 1819)
• November 1 - Aleksander Zarzycki, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1834)
• date unknown - Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco (b. 1817)

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