1897 in music explained
Events in the year 1897 in music.
Specific locations
Events
Publications
Published popular music
Recorded popular music
- Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 1
- Ferruccio Busoni – Violin Concerto
- Ernest Chausson
- Chant funèbre, for four female voices (1897)
- Piano Quartet in A, Op. 30
- Vêpres pour le commun des vierges, for organ, Op. 31
- String Quartet, Op. 35
- Piece for cello or viola, and piano, Op. 39
- Frederick Delius – Piano Concerto
- Felix Draeseke – String Quintet in A "Stelzner"-Quintet
- Paul Dukas – The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- George Enescu –
- Piano Suite No. 1 in G minor, "Dans le style ancien" Op. 3
- Poème roumain, Op. 1
- Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano in D major, Op. 2
- Trio in G minor for piano, violin, and cello
- August Enna – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
- Asger Hamerik – Symphony no. 6 ("Spirituelle") for string orchestra
- Alexander Mackenzie – Piano Concerto
- Carl Nielsen – Hymnus amoris
- Dora Pejačević – Berceuse, Op. 2, for solo piano
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphony No. 2 "Antar" (final version)
- Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet in D major
- Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 2
- Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
- Alexander von Zemlinsky – Symphony No. 2
Musical theater
Births
- January 2 – Jane Green, US singer (died 1931)
- January 9 – Luis Gianneo, Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor (died 1968)
- January 10 – Sam Chatmon, blues musician (died 1983)
- January 22
- February 12 – Břetislav Bakala, conductor and pianist (died 1958)
- February 27 – Marian Anderson, contralto (died 1993)
- March 3 – Ingrid Lang-Fagerström, harpist (died 1990)
- March 6 – Sandy MacPherson, theatre organist (died 1975)
- March 9 – Pedro Flores, composer (died 1979)
- March 11 – Henry Cowell, composer (died 1965)
- March 13 – Maria Nemeth, Hungarian operatic soprano (died 1967)
- March 21 – Sim Gokkes, Dutch-Jewish composer (died 1943)
- March 26 – David McCallum, Sr., violinist and father of David McCallum (died 1972)
- April 1 – Lucille Bogan, blues singer (died 1979)
- April 8 – John Frederick Coots, US composer (died 1985)
- April 17 – Harald Sæverud, composer (died 1992)
- April 19 – Vivienne Segal, US actress and singer (died 1992)
- April 23 – Pixinguinha, choro composer and woodwind player (died 1973)
- May 14 – Sidney Bechet, jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer (died 1959)
- May 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, composer (died 1957)
- June 12 – Alexandre Tansman, pianist and composer (died 1986)
- June 15 – Mary Ellis, actress and singer (died 2003)
- June 22 – Bulbul, opera and folk singer (died 1961)
- June 27 – Maceo Pinkard, composer, lyricist and music publisher (died 1962)
- August 10 — Jack Haley, American actor (d. 1979)
- August 4 – Abe Lyman, US bandleader, composer and drummer (died 1957)
- August 29 – Helge Rosvaenge, operatic tenor (died 1972)
- September 3 – Francisco Mignone, composer (died 1986)
- September 8 – Jimmie Rodgers, country singer (died 1933)
- September 18
- October 11 – Leo Reisman, violinist and bandleader (died 1961)
- October 26 – Tiana Lemnitz, operatic soprano (died 1994)
- November 2 – Dennis King, British singer and actor (died 1971)
- November 12 – Karl Marx, conductor and composer (died 1985)
- November 20 – Margaret Sutherland, composer (died 1984)
- December 9 – Hermione Gingold, actress and singer (died 1987)
- December 18 – Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician (died 1952)
- December 26 — Wilhelmina Schmidt, singer and composer; stage name Willy Corsari (died 1998)[3]
- December 30 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian lyricist (died 1976)
Deaths
- January 24 – Sarah Edith Wynne, operatic soprano and concert singer, 54[4]
- February 10 – Antonio Bazzini, violinist, composer and music, 78
- February 23 – Woldemar Bargiel, composer and teacher, 68[5]
- February 25 – Cornélie Falcon, opera singer, 83[6]
- March 7 – Leonard Labatt, operatic tenor, 58
- April 3 – Johannes Brahms, composer, 63
- April 8 – George Garrett, composer, 62
- April 23 – Clement Harris, pianist and composer, 25 (killed in the Greco-Turkish war)
- May 21 – Carl Mikuli, pianist and composer, 77
- June 9
- June 18 – Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher, 81
- August 1 – Gaetano Antoniazzi, violin-maker, 71
- September 16 – Edward Edwards, choirmaster and composer, 81
- September 20
- October 11 – Léon Boëllmann, organist and composer, 35
- November 6 – Edouard Deldevez, conductor, composer and violinist, 80
- November 14 – Giuseppina Strepponi, operatic soprano, 82
- December – Slavka Atanasijević, Serbian pianist and composer, 47[7]
- December 4 – Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist, 54
Notes and References
- Web site: 2018-10-15. Rachmaninov's First Symphony: From Despair to Posthumous Triumph. 2021-06-30. The Listeners' Club. en-US.
- La Grange, Henry-Louis de (1995). Gustav Mahler Volume 2: Vienna: The Years of Challenge (1897–1904). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. . p. 54
- Book: Vermij, Lucie Th. De Verrukkelijke Kunst van het Verhaal: Leven en Werk van Willy Corsari . The Delectable Art of Story: The Life and Work of Willy Corsari. Amsterdam. VITA. 1993. 978-9-05071-136-4. NL. 10.
- Web site: WYNNE, SARAH EDITH ('Eos Cymru'; 1842 - 1897), vocalist. Griffith. Robert David. Dictionary of Welsh Biography. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210124200907/https://biography.wales/article/s-WYNN-EDI-1842 . 2021-01-24 . 24 May 2020.
- Book: Robert Schumann. Clara Schumann. The Marriage Diaries of Robert & Clara Schumann: From Their Wedding Day Through the Russia Trip. 1993. Northeastern University Press. 978-1-55553-171-3.
- Book: Anne Commire. Deborah Klezmer. Women in World History: Ead-Fur. 2000. Yorkin Publications. 978-0-7876-4064-4. 376.
- Ma. St. [Marijanović, Stanislav]. 1983. "Atanasijević, Slavka (Aloysia)". In Croatian biographical lexicon (Hrvatski biografski leksikon), Vol. 1, ed. Nikica Kolumbić. Zagreb: Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod, p. 261
