1894 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular songs 3 Musical theater 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Enrico Caruso makes his operatic debut
• George W. Johnson is said to have recorded over 25,000 phonograph records

• "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
• "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
• "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
• "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

• February 11 - Alfonso Leng
• April 15 - Bessie Smith
• April 27 - Nicolas Slonimsky
• June 10 - Punch Miller

• February 4 - Adolphe Sax
• February 11 - Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera
• November 20 - Anton Rubinstein
• Juventino Rosas