Year 1898 in Music History

Events in Music

Birthdays in Music

Jan 1 Viktor Ullmann, Austrian pianist, conductor, and composer (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), born in Teschen, Silesia (now Poland) (d. 1944)
Jan 4 Roger Vuataz, composer
Jan 7 Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster, Mexican woodwind player, composer and music teacher, born in Hopelchén, Campeche (d. 1967)
Jan 7 Al Bowlly, British jazz singer (d. 1941)
Jan 9 Gracie Fields, English music hall/vaudeville performer and actress (Queen of Hearts), born in Rochdale, England (d. 1979)
Jan 12 Jose Forns y Cuadras, composer
Jan 13 Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
Jan 21 Avery Claflin, composer
Jan 22 Alexander Abramsky, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Lutsk, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1985)
Jan 22 Gustaf Paulson, Swedish organist and composer (The Resurrection Symphony), born in Hälsingborg, Sweden (d. 1966)
Jan 28 Vittorio Rieti, composer
Jan 29 Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre)
Feb 7 Morgan Lee "Dock" Boggs, American folk and blues singer and banjo player, born in Norton, Virginia (d. 1971)
Feb 12 Roy Harris, American composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home: An American Overture), born near Chandler, Oklahoma (d. 1979)
Feb 21 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer (Gayaneh)
Feb 27 Rutkowski Bronislaw, composer
Mar 6 Jo[hanne M Bos-]Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)
Mar 18 Otto Jochum, German composer, born in Babenhausen (d. 1969)
Mar 26 Renzo Massarani, Italian-Brazilian composer and music critic, born in Mantova, Italy (d. 1975)
Mar 26 Charles Shadwell, British conductor, bandleader, and founder of the Cambridge Concert Orchestra, born in Pershore, Worcestershire (d. 1979)
Apr 9 Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1974)
Apr 9 Paul Robeson, American singer (Old Man River), actor and civil rights activist, born in Princeton, New Jersey (d. 1976)
Apr 12 Alice "Lily" Pons, French-American coloratura soprano opera singer (Metropolitan Opera, 1931-60) and actress (That Girl From Paris), born in Draguignan, France (d. 1976)
Apr 15 Nini de Boël, Flemish operette singer (White Horse), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1982)
May 6 Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor, born in Kiev, Russian Empire (d. 1973)
May 10 Herbert Elwell, composer (Happy Hypocrite), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 14 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
May 14 [Arthur] Zutty Singleton, American jazz drummer (Louis Armstrong's Hot Five), born in Bunkie, Louisiana (d. 1975)
May 21 Karel Haba, Czech composer and violinist, born in Vizovice, Moravia (d. 1972)
May 22 René de Vos, Dutch actor and composer (Jij Bent Mijn Leven), born in Denmark (d. 1977)
May 25 Mischa Levitzki, Russian-born American pianist and composer (The Enchanted Nymph), born in Kremenchuk, Russian Empire (d. 1941)
May 26 Ernst Bacon, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1990)
May 26 Gérard Bertouille, Belgian composer, born in Tournai, Belgium (d. 1981)
May 28 Andy Kirk, American jazz musician (I Won't Tell a Soul (I Love You)), born in Newport, Kentucky (d. 1992)
May 31 Johan Brouwer, Dutch pianist/writer/resistance fighter
Jun 1 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, American bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), born in NYC, New York (d. 1975)
Jun 1 Lieb Glantz, Ukrainian-born tenor, composer and Zionist, born in Kiev, Ukraine (d. 1964)
Jun 6 Ninette de Valois [Edris Stannus], British ballerina (Royal Ballet), born in Blessington, Ireland (d. 2001)
Jun 15 Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, English organist and composer, born in Peterborough, England (d. 1994)
Jun 19 Paul Muller-Zurich, Swiss composer, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1993)
Jun 27 Tibor Harsányi, Hungarian composer, born in Magyarkanizsa, Kingdom of Hungary (d. 1954)

Gertrude Lawrence

Jul 4 Gertrude Lawrence, English actress (Mimi, Rembrandt) and musical performer, born in London (d. 1952)

Jul 6 Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer (East German National Anthem), born in Leipzig, German Empire (d. 1962)
Jul 9 Marcel Delannoy, French composer, born in La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, France (d. 1962)
Jul 15 Noel Gay [Reginald Moxon Armitage], British composer (Who's been polishing the Sun), born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (d. 1954)
Jul 15 Norman Demuth, British composer and musicologist specializing in French works, born in Croyden, Surrey, England (d. 1968)
Jul 19 Juan Bautista Plaza, Venezuelan composer, born in Caracas, Venezuela (d. 1965)
Jul 21 Ernest Willem Mulder, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1959)
Jul 21 Sara Carter, American country musician, songwriter and vocalist (Carter Family), born in Cooper Creek, Virginia (d. 1979)
Jul 24 Caterina Jarboro, African-American opera singer and 1st black female performer to sing on opera stage in US, born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1986)
Aug 1 Morris Stoloff, American violinist (Picnic, Pal Joey), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1980)
Sep 5 Ebbe Hamerik, Danish composer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1951)
Sep 8 Queenie Smith, American actress and dancer (Funny Side), born in NYC, New York (d. 1978)
Sep 12 Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1963)

George Gershwin

Sep 26 George Gershwin [Jacob Gershvin], American composer (Rhapsody in Blue), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1937)

Sep 27 Vincent Youmans, American composer and songwriter (Tea for Two), born in NYC, New York (d. 1946)
Sep 30 [Julius] Johannes Rontgen, German Dutch composer, born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 1932)
Oct 1 Karl Rankl, Austrian-born British composer and conductor (Covent Garden Opera Company), born in Gaaden (d. 1968)
Oct 7 Alfred Wallenstein, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29), born in Chicago, Illinois
Oct 8 Clarence Williams, American composer, born in Plaquemine, Louisiana (d. 1965)
Oct 15 Gunther Ramin, German organist and composer, born in Karlsruhe, Germany (d. 1956)
Oct 17 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method), born in Nagoya, Japan (d. 1998)
Oct 18 Lotte Lenya [Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer], Austrian singer and actress (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, From Russia with Love), born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1981)
Oct 22 Marcel Mihalovici, composer
Oct 26 Beryl Rubinstein, American pianist and composer, born in Athens, Georgia (d. 1952)
Oct 29 Emmanuel Bondeville, French composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1987)
Nov 1 Sippie Wallace [Beulah Belle Thomas], American blues singer, (Women Be Wise), born in Plumb Bayou, Arkansas (d. 1986)
Nov 18 Erich Sehlbach, German composer, born in Barmen, Germany (d. 1985)
Nov 27 Nelly Wagenaar, Dutch pianist, born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1985)
Dec 3 Lev Knipper, Soviet composer, born in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Georgia] (d. 1974)
Dec 5 Grace Moore, American soprano and actress (One Night of Love), born in Slabtown, Tennessee (d. 1947)
Dec 13 Daniel Lazarus, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1964)
Dec 14 Frederick Douglass Hall, American composer, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1982)
Dec 15 Fernando Remacha, Spanish composer, born in Tudela, Navarre, Spain (d. 1984)
Dec 24 Warren "Baby" Dodds, American jazz drummer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1959)
Dec 29 Jeanne Leleu, French pianist & composer, Saint-Mihiel, France (d. 1979)
Dec 30 Vincent Lopez, American jazz pianist and big-band leader ("Nola"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975) [1]

Deaths in Music

Jan 4 Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73
Jan 11 Gaetano Capocci, Italian organist and composer (Responsori), dies at 86
Jan 23 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer, dies at 66
Jan 28 Alexandru Flechtenmacher, composer, dies at 74
Apr 21 Louis Théodore Gouvy, French-German composer, dies at 78
Jun 3 Nikolai Afanisev, Russian composer, dies at 77
Jul 7 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
Jul 18 Emil Hartmann, organist and composer (Towards The Light), dies at 62
Jul 20 Yuri Karlovich Arnold, Russian composer, dies at 86
Aug 17 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, Austrian composer, dies at 56
Aug 21 Niccolò van Westerhout, Italian composer, dies at 40
Aug 23 Joseph Robinson, Irish singer, organist and composer, dies at 82
Sep 11 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, Belgian composer, dies at 74
Nov 4 Charles Jerome Hopkins, American composer, dies at 62
Dec 13 George Frederick Bristow, American composer (Rip Van Winkle), dies at 72
Dec 24 Eugeniusz Pankiewicz, Polish composer, dies at 41
Dec 29 Georg Goltermann, German cellist and composer, dies at 74