1898 in music

• 1898 in Norwegian music ==Events==

• Otilie Dvořáková, daughter of Antonín Dvořák, marries her father's pupil, composer Josef Suk. • Dame Marie Tempest marries the actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, grandson of the Duke of Richmond. • Lorenzo Perosi is appointed Maestro Perpetuo della Cappella Sistina in Rome, an office which he holds until his death in 1956. ==Published popular music==

• "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers • "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton • "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Alberto Pestalozza • "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld • "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes • "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy • "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Fortune Teller • "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan • "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan • "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall • "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall • "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg • "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart • "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris • "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer • "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald De Koven • "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert • "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin • "She is the Belle of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker • "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter • "Swipsy Cakewalk" (for piano) c. Scott Joplin • "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton Christmas songs • "Nu tändas tusen juleljus", by Emmy Köhler ==Recorded popular music==

• "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 • "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 – Roger Harding on Edison Records • "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 Bassini 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 – S. H. Dudley (singer) • "Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann) – banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records • "Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker) – Jessie Bartlett Davis 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 • "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 • "Zizzy Ze Zum Zum" – Arthur Collins ==Classical music==

• 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 • Fantaisie, Op. 79 • Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 • 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 • Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21 • Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26 • Camille Saint-Saëns – Barcarolle in F major • Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major ==Opera==

• Francisco Braga – Jupyra • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The Gitanos • Umberto Giordano – Fedora • Pietro Mascagni – Iris • Emile Pessard – La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov • Boyarinya Vera Sheloga • Sadko, premiered January 7 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow. ==Musical theater==

• The Belle of New York London production • The Bride Elect Broadway production • The Fortune Teller Toronto and London productions • A Greek Slave London production • Hurly-Burly Broadway production • A Runaway Girl London and Broadway productions • The Skirt Dancer London production • Véronique (operetta) (André Messager) – Paris production ==Births==

• 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 • Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancer • Violet Carson, actress, singer and pianist • 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 ==Deaths==

• 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 14 – John Comfort Fillmore, American music educator, organist, arranger, and ethnomusicologist, 55 • 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 ==References==