1891 in music

• 1891 in Scandinavian music == Events ==

• February 23 – Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona. • March 16 – A performance of the Budapest Opera is interrupted by a spontaneous demonstration in support of musical director Gustav Mahler, at the time in conflict with intendant Géza Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere. • May 5 – The Music Hall in New York City (which becomes Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky guest-conducting his own work. • May 10 – Danish classical composer Carl Nielsen marries his compatriot, the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, Italy, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris. • June 24 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished his ballet The Nutcracker • October 16 – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert. • The Peabody Mason Concerts are inaugurated with a performance by Ferruccio Busoni. • The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. == Published popular music ==

• "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" w. George Horncastle m. Felix McGlennon • "Don't mind, my Darling!" w.m. Paul Steinmark • "Hey, Rube!" w. J. Sherrie Matthews m. Harry Bulger • "High School Cadets March" m. John Philip Sousa • "Little Boy Blue" w. Eugene Field m. Ethelbert Nevin • "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" w.m. Fred Gilbert • "The Miner's Dream Of Home" w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden • "Molly O!" w.m. William J. Scanlan • "Narcissus" m. Ethelbert Nevin • "The Pardon Came Too Late" w.m. Paul Dresser • "The Picture That's Turned To The Wall" w.m. Charles Graham • "Reuben And Cynthia" w.m. Percy Gaunt • "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" w.m. Henry J. Sayers • "Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle == Recorded popular music ==

• "Bell Buoy" – J. W. Myers • "The Church Across The Way" – Len Spencer • "The Cobbler" – George J. Gaskin • "College Songs" – Gilmore's Band • "Cujus Animam" – David B. Dana (cornet) & Edward Issler (piano) • "Dance of the Owls" – A. T. Van Winkle (Xylophone) & Edward Issler (Piano) • "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" – George J. Gaskin • "Farewell to Dresden" – United States Marine Band • "Five Minutes With The Minstrels" – Voss' First Regiment Band • "Home, Sweet, Home" – John York AtLee • "La Media Noche (Mexican Dance)" – United States Marine Band • "The Laughing Song" – George W. Johnson • "Little 'Liza Loves You" – Len Spencer • "Michael Casey as a Physician" – Russell Hunting • "The Mocking Bird" – John York AtLee and Fred Gaisberg • "Nannon Waltz" – Issler's Orchestra • "One Minute Too Late" – Voss' First Regiment Band • "Paddy's Wedding" – Dan Kelly • "Pat Brady as a Police Justice" – Dan Kelly • "Pat Brady on a Spree" – Dan Kelly • "The Picture Turned to the Wall" – George J. Gaskin • "The Picture Turned to the Wall" – Manhansett Quartette • "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep" – Holding's Parlor Orchestra • "Sally in Our Alley" – Manhansett Quartette' • "Saving Them All for Mary" – Al Reeves • "Sweet Marie" – George J. Gaskin • "Turkey in the Straw" – Billy Golden • "Uncle Jefferson – Billy Golden • "Vienna Dudes March" – Duffy and Imgrund's Fifth Regiment Band ==Classical music==

• Anton Arensky – Cantata on the 10th Anniversary of the Coronation • Claude Debussy – Two Arabesques • Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 • Max Bruch – Concerto for Violin No. 3 • Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Requiem, Op. 72 • Carl Nielsen – Fantasy Pieces for Oboe and Piano • Ethelbert Nevin – Water Scenes • Camille Saint-Saëns – Africa, Op. 89 • Erik Satie – 6 Gnossiennes for piano • Alphons Czibulka – Wintermärchen Waltzes Op. 366 (source of Hearts and Flowers) ==Opera==

• Frederick Delius – Irmelin • Robert Fuchs – Die Teufelsglocke • Miguel Marqués – El monaguillo (libretto by Emilio Sánchez Pastor, premiered in Madrid) • Pietro Mascagni – ''L'amico Fritz'' • Emile Pessard – Les folies amoureuses premiered on April 15 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris ==Musical theater==

• Robin Hood, Broadway production • The Tyrolean, Broadway production • Der Vogelhändler (The Tyrolean), Vienna production == Births ==

• January 25 – Wellman Braud, jazz musician (died 1966) • February 5 – Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (died 1960) • March 22 – Alexis Roland-Manuel, French composer and critic (died 1966) • March 28 – Leah Frances Russell, Australian opera singer (died 1983) • April 2 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (died 1957) • April 15 – Väinö Raitio, Finnish composer (died 1945) • April 23 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (died 1953) • May 16 – Richard Tauber, Austrian singer (died 1948) • May 26 – Mamie Smith, blues singer (died 1946) • May 30 – Ben Bernie, US bandleader (died 1943) • June 3 – Georges Guibourg, French singer, actor and writer (died 1970) • June 9 – Cole Porter, songwriter (died 1964) • June 10 – Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (died 1945) • June 21 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966) • July 14 – Fréhel, French singer and actress (died 1951) • July 16 – Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974) • August 2 – Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975) • September 11 – Noël Gallon, French composer and music educator (died 1966) • September 14 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher (died 1985) • September 16 – Milton Schwarzwald, American film director and composer (died 1950) • September 26 – Charles Munch, Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist (died 1968) • October 1 – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, Welsh singer and composer (died 1918) • October 29 – Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (died 1951) • November 27 – Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (died 1982) • date unknown • Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist (died 1919) • Margaret Morris, dancer and choreographer (died 1980) == Deaths ==

• January 5 – Emma Abbott, singer (born 1850) • January 8 – Fredrik Pacius, composer and conductor (born 1809) • January 17 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (born 1816) • January 16 – Léo Delibes, composer (born 1836) • January 21 – Calixa Lavallée, composer (born 1842) • May 23 – Ignace Leybach, pianist, organist and composer (born 1817) • June 14 – Count Nicolò Gabrielli, Italian opera composer (born 1814 • July 3 – Stefano Golinelli, pianist and composer (born 1818) • July 21 – Franco Faccio, composer and conductor (born 1840) • August 5/6 – Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (born 1818) • September 2 – Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (b. 1815) • October 27 • Charles Constantin, conductor (born 1835) • Johann Dubez, Viennese violinist and composer (born 1828) • November 9 – Frederick Mathushek, piano maker (born 1814) • November 20 – Franz Hitz, Swiss pianist and composer (born 1828) • December 28 – Alfred Cellier, composer (born 1844) • date unknown • Harvey B. Dodworth, bandmaster and conductor (born 1822) • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, operatic soprano (born c.1815) ==References==