1895 in music

Specific locations

• 1895 in Norwegian music

Events

• March 4 – Gustav Mahler conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in Berlin – the first three movements only.
• May 18 – Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queen's Hall.
• August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor. The first concert opens with the overture to Wagner's Rienzi. The orchestra tunes to the "French A" or diapason normal concert pitch.
• December 13 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2, in Berlin with the composer conducting the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.
• unknown dates
• *Composer Sidney Homer marries contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty.
• *Composer Zdeněk Fibich separates from his wife, the contralto Betty Fibichová, and goes to live with his former student and lover Anežka Schulzová.
• *Venezuelan pianist, singer and composer Teresa Carreño divorces her husband, pianist Eugen d'Albert. It marks the end of her third marriage and his second.

Published popular music

• "America the Beautiful" w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
• "The Band Played On" w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
• "The Belle of Avenoo A" w.m. Safford Waters
• "Down In Poverty Row" w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
• "A Dream" w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
• "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
• "He's Not Dead Yet!" w. T. W. Connor
• "It's a Great Big Shame" w. Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
• "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "King Cotton (march)" m. John Philip Sousa
• "La Pas Ma La" w.m. Ernest Hogan
• "My Angeline" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "My Best Girl's a New Yorker" w.m. John Stromberg
• "Put Me Off at Buffalo" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
• "Rastus on Parade" w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
• "She Was One of the Early Birds" w.m. T. W. Connor
• "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
• "The Soldiers of the Queen" w.m. Leslie Stuart
• "The Streets of Cairo" w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sunshine of Paradise Alley" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton

Recorded popular music

• "Belles of Virginia"

• "Bully Song"

• "Bye Bye Ma Honey"

• "Carnival of Venice"

• "Cavalry"

• "Dancing on the Housetops"

• "Dixie"

• "El Captain March"

• "Girl Wanted"

• "Handicap March"

• "Henrietta Have You Met Her?"

• "Her Eyes Don't Shine Like Diamonds"

• "Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down"

• "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard"

• "Just One Girl"

• "Love Me Little Love Me Long"

• "Michael Casey as a Hotel Clerk"

• "Michael Casey as Judge"

• "Michael Casey's Plans For Freeing Ireland"

• "My Blackbird"

• "My Old Kentucky Home"

• "My Pearl Is A Bowery"

• "Nellie Bly"

• "Nightingale Waltz"

• "The Band Played On"

• "The Sidewalks of New York"

• "The Sidewalks of New York"

• "The Streets of Cairo"

• "Washington Post March"

• "When You Know The Girl You Love Loves You"

• "Who Broke The Lock"

• "Yazoo Dance"

Classical music

• Béla Bartók
• *Capriccio in B minor, for piano, Op. 4
• *Fantasia in A minor, for piano, Op. 2
• *Fantasia, for violin, Op. 9
• *Pieces, for violin, Op. 7
• *Sonata No. 2 in F major, for piano, Op. 3
• *Sonata in C minor, for violin and piano, Op. 5
• *Sonata No. 3 in C major, for piano, Op. 6
• Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
• Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets
• Edward Elgar – From the Bavarian Highlands, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 27
• George Enescu – "Study" Symphony No. 1 in D minor
• Gabriel Fauré
• *Allegro symphonique, for piano four-hands, Op. 68
• *Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat major, for piano, Op. 70
• *Theme and Variations, for piano, Op. 73
• Anatoly Lyadov
• *Etude in F major, for piano, Op. 37
• *Mazurka in F major, for piano, Op. 38
• *Preludes, for piano, Op. 36
• *Preludes, for piano, Op. 39
• Henrique Oswald – Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 18
• Camille Saint-Saëns
• *Fantasy No. 2 in D major, for organ, Op. 101
• *La Mort de Thaïs, Paraphrase de concert sur l'opéra de J. Massenet, for piano
• *Souvenir d'Ismaïlia, for piano, Op. 100
• Richard Strauss
• *Songs, for high voice and piano, Op. 29
• *Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, for orchestra, Op. 28
• Alexander von Zemlinsky – Serenade, for violin and piano

Opera

• Isaac Albéniz – Henry Clifford
• Enrique Fernández Arbós – El Centro de la Tierra
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve, 10 December, in St. Petersburg.

[Musical theater]

Births

• January 7 – Clara Haskil, pianist
• January 27 – Buddy De Sylva, songwriter
• February 7 – Irving Aaronson, jazz pianist and big band leader
• February 28 – Guiomar Novaes, Brazilian pianist
• March 4 – Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian composer and violinist
• March 23 – Dane Rudhyar, composer
• March 31 – Lizzie Miles, singer
• April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer
• April 3
• *Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, composer
• *Zez Confrey, pianist and composer
• April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer
• April 23 – Jimmie Noone, jazz musician
• April 29 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, conductor
• May 1 – Leo Sowerby, composer
• May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist
• May 6 – Rudolph Valentino, dancer and actor
• May 11 – William Grant Still, composer
• June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer
• June 21 – Mark Reizen, Soviet opera singer
• June 28 – Kazimierz Sikorski, Polish composer
• July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist
• July 5 – Gordon Jacob, English composer
• July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer
• July 12
• * Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano
• * Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist
• July 13 – Bradley Kincaid, folk singer
• July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress
• August 6 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer
• August 10 – Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer
• August 13 – Bert Lahr, vaudeville performer
• September 9 – Harry Tobias, US lyric writer
• September 16 – Karol Rathaus, Austrian composer
• September 22 – Herbert Janssen, German baritone
• October 11 – Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor
• October 12 – Tubby Hall, jazz drummer
• October 17 – Doris Humphrey, dancer
• October 29 – Harry Ruby, songwriter
• November 5 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist and composer
• November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer
• November 28
• *José Iturbi, pianist
• *Jacobo Rubalcaba, Cuban musician and bandleader
• November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer
• November 30 – Johann Nepomuk David, composer
• December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist
• December 16 – Andy Razaf, composer, poet and lyricist

Deaths

• January 10 – Benjamin Godard, composer
• January 22 – Edward Solomon, pianist, conductor and composer
• February 6 – Otto Mahler, composer
• February 16 – Fredrik August Dahlgren, songwriter
• February 24 – Ignaz Lachner, conductor and composer
• March 16 – Richard Corney Grain, entertainer and songwriter
• March 18 – Priscilla Horton, singer and actress
• April 28 – Jean Joseph Bott, violinist and composer
• May 21 – Franz von Suppé, composer
• June 15 – Richard Genée, librettist and composer
• June 28 – Ján Koehler, operatic baritone
• July 13 – John Tiplady Carrodus, violinist
• August 2 – Ernest Appy, US cellist and composer
• August 6 – George Frederick Root, US composer
• August 13 – Ludwig Abel, violinist, composer and conductor
• October 12 – Cecil Frances Alexander, hymn-writer
• October 25 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor
• November – Raffaele Mirate, operatic tenor
• November 1 – Aleksander Zarzycki, pianist, conductor and composer
• date unknown
• *Charles Albrecht, composer of the national anthem of Monaco
• *Basilio Basili, operatic tenor and composer
• *Angelique Magito, opera and concert singer
• *Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label