1894 in music
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See also: 1893 in music, other events of 1894, 1895 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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Events
- March 14 - Johan Svendsen conducts the world premiere of Carl Nielsen's Symphony No. 1 in Copenhagen
- December 22 - Claude Debussy's Prélude ŕ l'aprčs-midi d'un faune is premiered in Paris
- Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut
- George W. Johnson is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records
Published popular music
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Owls' Serenade 1894 sheet music cover
- "Airy, Fairy Lillian" w. Tony Raymond m. Maurice Levi
- "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" w. Monroe H. Rosenfeld m. Felix McGlennon
- "At Trinity Church I Met My Doom" w.m. Fred Gilbert
- "Don't Be Cross" by Karl Zeller from the operatta Der Obersteiger
- "Forgotten" w. Flora Wulschner m. Eugene Cowles
- "His Last Thoughts Were Of You" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "The Honeymoon" m. George Rosey
- "Humoresque" m. Anton Dvorák
- "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" w. Philip Wingate m. Henry W. Petrie
- "If It Wasn't For The 'Ouses In Between" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
- "I'll Be True To My Honey Boy" w.m. George Evans
- "I've Been Working On The Railroad" w.m. trad (first copyright 1894)
- "Kathleen" w.m. Helene Mora
- "Little Kinkies" w.m. M. Tobias
- "The Little Lost Child" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern
- "Long Ago In Alcala" w. Frederick Edward Weatherley & Adrian Ross m. André Messager
- "My Friend The Major" w.m. E. W. Rogers
- "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" w. William Jerome m. Andrew Mack
- "Oh! That Gorgonzola Cheese" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Harry Champion
- "The Owls Serenade" w. Arthur J. Lamb, m. H.W. Petrie
- "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" w.m. William B. Gray
- "She May Have Seen Better Days" w.m. James Thornton
- "The Sidewalks Of New York" w.m. Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake
- ""Why Did Nellie Leave Home?" by George M. Cohan
- "Yale Society Two-Step" by C. VanBaar
- "You've Been A Good Old Wagon But You've Done Broke Down" by Ben Harney
Classical music
- Victor Herbert - Concerto for Cello no 2 in E minor
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - Caucasian Sketches
- Joseph Jongen - Quartet for Strings no 1 in C minor
- Carl Nielsen - Symphony No. 1 in G minor
- Joseph Rheinberger - Sonata for Horn and Piano in E flat major
Opera
- Herman Bemberg - Cleopatra
- Frederick Delius - The Magic Fountain
- Hamish MacCunn - Jeanie Deans
Musical theater
- A Gaiety Girl - Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 17 and ran for 81 performances
- Der Obersteiger - Austrian production opened at the Theater an der Wien on January 5
- The Passing Show - Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on May 5
- The Shop Girl - London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on November 24 and ran for 546 performances
- A Trip To Chinatown - London production opened at Toole's Theatre on September 29 and ran for 125 performances
Births
- January 31 - Isham Jones, US bandleader and composer
- February 11 - Alfonso Leng
- April 3 - Dooley Wilson
- April 15 - Bessie Smith
- April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky
- May 10 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian-born US composer, pianist and conducter
- May 29 -Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress and singer
- June 4 - La Bolduc (Mary Travers), Quebecois singer (d. 1941)
- June 10 - Punch Miller
- July 10 - Jimmy McHugh, US composer and pianist
- August 15 - Harry Akst, US composer and pianist
- September 3 – Marie Dubas, French music-hall singer (d. 1972)
- September 18 - Willard Robinson, US songwriter and bandleader
- September 26 - Vaughn De Leath, US singer and radio pioneer
Deaths
- February 4 - Adolphe Sax
- February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera
- June 9 - Juventino Rosas, violinist and composer
- June 23 - Marietta Alboni, contralto
- September 13 - Emmanuel Chabrier
- October 28 - Rudolf Hildebrand, historian of the German folk song
- November 20 - Anton Rubinstein