1892 in music

Specific locations

• 1892 in Norwegian music

Events

• April 28 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Kullervo Symphony in Helsinki.
• May 26 – A statue of Felix Mendelssohn, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it is re-dedicated in 2008.
• August 1 – Jef Denyn presents the world's first carillon concert at St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen, Belgium.
• September 24 – Opening of the Theater Unter den Linden, Berlin with Adolf Ferron's operetta Daphne and Gaul and Haßreiter's ballet Die Welt in Bild und Tanz.
• September 26 – Antonín Dvořák arrives in the United States to take up his post as artistic director of the National Conservatory of Music.
• December 18
• *Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 in C minor is premiered by the Vienna Philharmonic with Hans Richter conducting at the Stadttheater, Leipzig.
• *December 6 O.S. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker and opera Iolanta are premiered in a double bill at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• "After the Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies.
• Erik Satie composes his first pieces in his own compositional system.
• Sergei Diaghilev graduates from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
• Ferdinand Praeger's controversial biography Wagner As I Knew Him is published posthumously in London.
• Sudrophone patented by François Sudre in France.

Published popular music

• "After the Ball" w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "The Bowery" w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow" w.m. Joseph Tabrar
• "Daisy Bell" w.m. Harry Dacre
• "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
• "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
• "The Holy City" w. Frederic Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
• "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
• "Liebestraum Nocturne" m. Virginia Field
• "Molly And I And The Baby" w.m. Harry Kennedy
• "My Old Dutch" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
• "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon" w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sweetest Story Ever Told" w.m. R. M. Stults
• "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld

Recorded popular music

• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Dan W. Quinn
• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-wow " – Silas Leachman
• "Esquimeau Dance" – William Tuson
• "Grover Cleveland March" – Gilmore's Band
• "Michael Casey At The Telephone" – Russell Hunting
• "Michael Casey Taking The Census" – Russell Hunting
• "Pat Brady as President" – Dan Kelly
• "Parody of "We'll Never Turn His Picture Toward The Wall'" – Al Reeves
• "Riding through the Glen" – Issler's Orchestra
• "Take Your Time Gentlemen" – Press Eldridge
• "The Blind Boy" – Richard Jose
• "The Bowery" – Dan W. Quinn
• "The Laughing Darkie" – George W. Johnson (singer)
• "The Night Alarm" – Holding's Military Band
• "The Old Folks at Home" – Len Spencer
• "Uncle Ned's Dream" – George W. Johnson (singer)

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms – Intermezzos Opus number 117
• Edward Elgar – Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
• Alexander Glazunov – String Quintet in A major
• Gustav Mahler – Das himmlische Leben
• Miguel Marqués – El Centinelo
• Carl Nielsen – First Symphony
• Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• *Prelude in C-sharp Minor
• *Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1
• Max Reger
• *Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. 5
• *Twelve Waltz-Caprices, Op. 9, four-hand piano
• *20 German Dances, Op. 10, four-hand piano
• Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, opus 6
• Jean Sibelius – Kullervo Symphony
• Josef Suk – Serenade for Strings in E-flat major
• Alexander von Zemlinsky – Symphony in D minor

[Opera]

• Herman Bemberg – Elaine
• Karel Bendl – Dite Tabora
• Alfredo Catalani – La Wally
• Gialdino Gialdini – I due soci premiered February 24 at the Teatro Brunetti, Bologna
• Umberto Giordano – Mala Vita
• Isidore de Lara – The Light of Asia
• Ruggiero Leoncavallo – I Pagliacci
• Jules Massenet – Werther
• Adolf Neuendorff – The Minstrel
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Iolanta
• The World's Fair Colored Opera Company, with featured singer, soprano Matilda Sissieretta Jones are the first African-American performers to appear at Carnegie Hall

[Ballet]

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ''The Nutcracker''

[Musical theater]

• Blue-Eyed Susan, libretto by George Robert Sims, on London stage
• "Maid Marian" ; London production
• "Maid Marian" ; Broadway production
• The Wicklow Postman; initial production in Boston, Massachusetts

Top hits

• "Slide, Kelly, Slide" by George J. Gaskin
• "Sally in Our Alley" by Manhansett Quartette

Births

• January 1 – Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor
• January 31 – Eddie Cantor, born Isidore Itzkowitz, American singer and entertainer
• February 4 – Yrjö Kilpinen, Finnish composer known most for his lieder
• February 15 – Ján Valašťan Dolinský, Slovak composer
• March 10
• *Arthur Honegger, composer
• *Eva Turner, operatic soprano
• March 27 – Ferde Grofé, composer
• April 1 – Renato Zanelli, Chilean baritone, later tenor
• April 2 – Roy Palmer, jazz trombonist
• April 10 – Victor de Sabata, conductor and composer
• April 12 – Johnny Dodds, jazz clarinetist
• April 15 – Manuel Quiroga, violinist
• April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, composer
• April 21 – Jaroslav Kvapil, composer
• May 14 – Arthur Lourié, Russian-born expatriate composer
• May 18 – Ezio Pinza, Italian bass singer and actor
• May 19 – Pops Foster, jazz bass player
• June 6 – Ted Lewis, singer and bandleader
• June 18 – Eduard Steuermann, pianist
• June 21 – Hilding Rosenberg, Swedish composer
• June 23 – Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist
• June 30 – László Lajtha, Hungarian symphonist
• July 2 – Jack Hylton, British bandleader
• July 8 – J. Russel Robinson, dixieland pianist-composer
• July 10 – Ján Móry, Slovak composer
• July 26 – Philipp Jarnach, composer of German-French origins
• August 14 – Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, composer, music critic and pianist
• August 15 – Knud Jeppesen, musicologist
• September 4 – Darius Milhaud, composer
• September 5 – Joseph Szigeti, violinist
• September 17 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch composer and organist
• September 26 – Georgios Poniridis, Greek composer and violinist
• October 17 – Herbert Howells, church music composer
• October 19 – Ilmari Hannikainen, composer
• October 25 – Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch, Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly sisters
• November 11 – Isidor Achron, Polish-American pianist and composer
• November 28 – Thomas Wood, English composer
• December 9 – Beatrice Harrison, cellist
• December 11 – Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, operatic tenor

Deaths

• January 10 – Heinrich Dorn, German conductor, composer and journalist
• February 13 – Lambert Massart, violinist
• February 20 – Róza Csillag, opera singer
• March 11 – Caroline Reinagle, pianist, composer and writer
• March 20 – Arthur Thomas (composer)
• April 22 – Édouard Lalo, composer
• May 2 – Wilhelm Rust, composer
• May 6 – Ernest Guiraud, composer
• June 5 – Robert Rees, Welsh tenor
• August 18 – Jules Perrot, ballet dancer
• August 19 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, composer, teacher and music theorist
• September 5 – Henry Christian Timm, pianist, conductor and composer
• September 24 – Patrick Gilmore, bandmaster and composer
• October 24 – Robert Franz, composer
• October 28 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer
• November 4 – Hervé, organist and composer
• November 19 – Antonio Torres Jurado, guitar maker
• date unknown – Adolf Rzepko, Polish composer, oboist, choral and orchestral conductor and pianist