1898 in Norwegian music
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.
"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"Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr"The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt"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"Salome" m. William Lorraine"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"When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton"Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion"Nu tändas tusen juleljus", by Emmy Köhler"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"Cotton Blossoms" (m. M. H. Hall)
- Sousa's Band 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
- Len Spencer with banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records
- Roger Harding on Edison Records"In The Gloaming" (w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison)
- Roger Harding on Berliner Gramophone"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 Campo 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"Smoky Mokes" (m. Abe Holzmann)
- banjo Vess L. Ossman on Columbia Records"Stars And Stripes Forever" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone"Sweet And Low" (w. Alfred, Lord Tennyson m. Sir Joseph Barnby)
- Ladies Brass Quartette of Boston Fadettes on Berliner Gramophone"Sweet Genevieve" (w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker)
- Jessie Bartlett Davis on Berliner Gramophone"Sweet Rosie O'Grady" (w.m. Maude Nugent)
- Steve Porter 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"The Thunderer" (m. John Philip Sousa)
- Sousa's Band on Berliner Gramophone"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 RecordsErnest Chausson - String Quartet (completed posthumously)Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Hiawatha's Wedding FeastAlexander Glazunov - Ruses d'Amour (ballet)Paul Juon - Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A majorCarl Nielsen - String Quartet No. 3 in E flat majorHenryk Melcer-Szczawiński - Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minorChristian Sinding - Concerto for Violin in A majorAntônio Francisco Braga - JupyraSamuel Coleridge-Taylor - The GitanosGeorge EnescuTrois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major, for piano, Op. 5Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1Umberto Giordano - FedoraIvar Hallstrom - Little KarinPietro Mascagni - IrisEmile Pessard - La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, ParisNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Boyarinya Vera ShelogaThe Belle of New York London productionThe Bride Elect Broadway productionThe Fortune Teller Toronto and London productionsA Greek Slave London productionHurly-Burly Broadway productionA Runaway Girl London and Broadway productionsThe Skirt Dancer London productionVéronique (operetta) (André Messager) - Paris productionJanuary 9 - Gracie Fields, singer and actressJanuary 28 - Vittorio Rieti, composerFebruary 3 - Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis ArmstrongFebruary 7 - Dock Boggs, banjo playerFebruary 12 - Roy Harris, composerFebruary 15 - Totò, actor and composerFebruary 28 - Molly Picon, Broadway starMarch 4 - Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect (d. 1975)April 3 - George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriterApril 9 - Paul Robeson, singerMay 14 - Zutty Singleton, jazz drummerMay 15 - Arletty, actress and singerMay 26 - Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer (d. 1990)May 28 - Andy Kirk, jazz musicianJune 6 - Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal BalletJune 29 - Yvonne Lefébure, French pianistJuly 4 - Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancerJuly 6 - Hanns Eisler, composerJuly 15 - Noel Gay, English songwriterAugust 15 - Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singerAugust 24 - Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisherSeptember 1Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancerViolet Carson, actress, singer and pianistSeptember 26 - George Gershwin, US composerSeptember 27 - Vincent Youmans, US composerOctober 7 - Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductorOctober 8 - Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composerOctober 18 - Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt WeillNovember 1 - Sippie Wallace, blues singerDecember 3 (n.s.) - Lev Knipper, Russian composer (and NKVD agent)December 5 - Grace Moore, operatic sopranoDecember 14 - Lillian Randolph, actress and singerDecember 24 - Baby Dodds, jazz drummerJanuary 7 - Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68January 8 - Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85January 16 - Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81February 15 - Franz Behr, composer (b. 1837)March 11 - Dikran Tchouhadjian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60March 15 - Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72March 28 - Anton Seidl, conductor, 47April 21 - Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78May 15 - Ede Reményi, violinist, 70May 16 - Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71August 17 - Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)August 21 - Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40 (peritonitis)September 9 - William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61September 11 - Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74November 7 - Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42December 13 - George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72December 29 - Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74