| 1893 in music | ||
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| 1891 - 1892 - 1893 - 1894 - 1895 | ||
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| See also: Other events in 1893 Theater Events and Movie Events | ||
Events
- February 9 - premiere of the opera Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi in La Scala , Milan
- August 14 - America's oldest music community, Stoughton, performs at the Chicago World's Fair [1]
- December 29 - premiere of the Claude Debussy string quartet in Paris
Classical music
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Concert for piano and orchestra No. 3 ; Symphony No. 6 “Pathetic”
- Antonin Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 ; String Quartet No. 12
- Sergey Rachmaninov - symphonic poem " Cliff "
- Edward Herman - Symphony in A Minor
- Johan Halvorsen - March of the Boyars
- Jan Sibelius - Karelia Suite
- Joseph Suk - Quintet for Piano and Strings in G Major
Opera
- Grenville Bantock - Caedmar
- Julius Bekgor - Frode
- Giuseppe Verdi - Falstaff
- Isidore de Lara - Amy Robsart
- Giacomo Puccini - Manon Lesko
- Arthur Sullivan - Utopia Limited
- Engelbert Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel
Born
- January 18 - Oscar Strok , composer (d. 1975)
- February 10 - Jimmy Durante , comedian and singer (d. 1980)
- February 15 - Walter Donaldson , songwriter (d. 1947)
- February 21 - Andres Segovia , guitarist (d. 1987)
- April 2 - Sergey Vladimirovich Protopopov , composer and music theorist (d. 1954)
- April 16 - Federico Mompou , composer (d. 1987)
- June 21 - Alois Gaba , composer (d. 1973)
- June 26 - Big Bill Brunzy , bluesman, guitarist and songwriter (d. 1958)
- June 28 - Luciano Gallet , composer, pianist and conductor (d. 1931)
- July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt , bluesman and guitarist (d. 1966)
- July 28 - Rud Langgor , composer and organist (d. 1952)
- August 22 - Dorothy Parker , writer, poet and songwriter (d. 1953)
- September 13 - Larry Shields , jazz clarinet player (d. 1953)
- October 1 - Cliff Friend , composer (d. 1974)
- November 8 - Clarence Williams , jazz pianist, composer, singer, producer and publisher (d. 1965)
Died
- January 18 - Julius Eichberg , composer (born 1824)
- May 25 - Johann Rufinach , composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
- June 25 - Ferenc Erkel , composer (born 1810)
- July 16 - Antonio Gislantsoni , librettist (born 1824)
- August 7 - Alfredo Catalani , composer (born 1854)
- August 31 - William Cousins , conductor and composer (born 1833)
- September 13 - Karl Gerlach , opera singer and composer
- October 16 - Carlo Pedrotti , conductor and composer (born 1817)
- October 18 - Charles Gounod , composer, music critic, memoirist (born 1818)
- November 6 - Pyotr Tchaikovsky , composer, conductor, teacher and musical and public figure (born 1840)
See also
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Notes
- ↑ Bomberger, 2002 , p. 144.
Literature
- Bomberger, E. Douglas. A Tidal Wave of Encouragement: American Composers' Concerts in the Gilded Age . - Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002. - ISBN 9780275974466 .