Events in the year 1890 in music.
June 21 - Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of his symphonic poem Death and Transfiguration at the Eisenach Festival
September 3 - Carl Nielsen makes the first entry in his diary.
September 9 - Edward Elgar's concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester
George W. Johnson records phonograph cylinders
First full performance of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens, takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death
Charles-Marie Widor succeeds César Franck as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
The New York Phonograph Company opens the first recording studio.
"The Commodore Song"
"Little Pig Went To Market" by J. Cheever Goodwin & Gustave Kerker
"Maggie Murphy's Home" w. Edward Harrigan m. David Braham
"Passing By" w. Robert Herrick m. Edward C. Purcell
"Star of the East" w. George Cooper m. Amanda Kennedy
"Throw Him Down McCloskey" w.m. John W. Kelly
"You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" by John Philip Sousa & Edward M. Taber
Ferruccio Busoni - Violin Sonata No. 1, Opus 29
Ernest Chausson - Chansons de Shakespeare
Antonín Dvořák - Requiem, Symphony No. 8
Alexander Glazunov - Symphony No. 3, Opus 33
Armas Järnefelt - Ouverture Lyrique
Carl Nielsen - String Quartet No. 2 in F minor
Alexander Scriabin - Romance for Horn and Piano
Jean Sibelius - Piano Quintet in G minor
Johann Strauss II - Rathausball-Tänze
Sergei Taneyev - String Quartet No. 1 Opus 4
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Prince Igor begun by Alexander Borodin, completed by Alexander Glazunov and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Gondoliers Broadway production
Love And Law Broadway production
Robin Hood Chicago production
The Sentry London production
Reilly And The 400 Broadway production
February 25 - Myra Hess, pianist (d. 1965)
February 27 - Freddie Keppard, jazz cornetist (d. 1933)
March 12 - Evert Taube, writer, artist, composer and singer (d. 1976)
March 17 - Harold Morris, pianist and composer (d. 1964)
March 20
Beniamino Gigli, operatic tenor (d. 1957)
Lauritz Melchior, operatic tenor (d. 1973)
March 28 - Paul Whiteman, bandleader (d. 1967)
April 17 - Gussie Mueller, jazz clarinetist (d. 1965)
May 21 - Harry Tierney, songwriter, composer of "Irene" and "Rio Rita" (d. 1965)
June 6 - Ted Lewis, bandleader (d. 1971)
June 26 - Jeanne Eagels, Broadway star (d. 1929)
August 12 - Lillian Evanti, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
August 15 - Jacques Ibert, composer (d. 1962)
August 28 - Ivor Gurney, poet and composer (d. 1937)
September 15 - Frank Martin, composer (d. 1974)
September 26 - Papanasam Sivan, Carnatic music composer (d. 1973)
October 1 - Stanley Holloway, English actor and singer (d. 1982)
October 8 - Samuel Hoffenstein, screenwriter and composer (d. 1947)
October 13 - Gösta Nystroem, composer (d. 1966)
November 10 - Mischa Bakaleinikoff, musical director (d. 1960)
December 8 - Bohuslav Martinů, classical composer (d. 1959)
January 8 - Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (b. 1810)
January 17 - Salomon Sulzer, cantor and composer (b. 1804)
January 20 - Franz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1803)
February 14 - Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, cellist and music teacher (b. 1848)
March 13 - Henry Wylde, conductor, composer, music teacher and critic (b. 1822)
April 16 - John Barnett, composer and music writer (b. 1802)
May 6 - Hubert Léonard, violinist (b. 1819)
May 28 - Viktor Nessler, composer (b. 1841)
June 3 - Oskar Kolberg, folklorist and composer (b. 1814)
June 30 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (b. 1819)
July 22 - Caterina Canzi, opera singer (b. 1805)
October 7 - John Hill Hewitt, songwriter (b. 1801)
October 17 - Prosper Sainton, violinist (b. 1813)
October 28 - Alexander John Ellis, music theorist (b. 1814)
November 8 - César Franck, composer (b. 1822)
December 21 - Niels Gade, composer (b. 1817)
date unknown - Ostap Veresai, minstrel and kobzar (b. 1803)
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