1899 in music

Table of contents

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

Events

• April 26 - Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 1 is premiered in Helsinki
• June 19 - Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations are premiered in London
• Ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States

• "Absent"     w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf
• "Always!"     w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
• "Cake Walk In The Sky" by Ben Harney
• "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do A Thing To You"     w.m. Paul Dresser
• "A Coon Band Contest"     m. Arthur Pryor
• "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun
• "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey"     w.m. Alfred W. Noll
• "Hands Across The Sea"     m. John Philip Sousa
• "Hearts And Flowers"     w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani
• "Hello! Ma Baby"     w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard
• "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You"     w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "If Only You Were Mine"     w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" w.m. Harry Dacre
• "Impecunious Davis" by Kerry Mills
• "Mandy Lee" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
• "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "Mosquito Parade"     m. Howard Whitney
• "My Little Georgia Rose"     w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt
• "My Wild Irish Rose"     w.m. Chauncey Olcott
• "O Sole Mio!"     w. Giovanni Capurro m. Edoardo di Capua
• "A Picture No Artist Can Paint"     w.m. J. Fred Helf
• "She Was Happy Till She Met You"     w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
• "Smoky Mokes"     m. Abe Holzmann
• "Stay In Your Own Back Yard"     w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
• "The Story Of The Rose" (aka "Heart Of My Heart")      w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack
• "There's Where My Heart Is Tonight"     w.m. Paul Dresser
• "Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow"     w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Whistling Rufus"     w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills

• El Capitan     London production
• Floradora     London production
• Helter-Skelter     Broadway production
• The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street     Broadway production
• San Toy     London production

• April 29 - Duke Ellington
• July 1 - Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music