Events in the year 1896 in music.
Specific locations
1896 in Norwegian music
Events
March 18 – Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducts a performance of his First Symphony in Dresden; the event marks the beginning of his international success. March 19 – Leo Stern is soloist in the première of Dvořák's Cello Concerto, in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191, at the Queen's Hall in London. April 13 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Lemminkäinen Suite in Helsinki. December 27 – Formal première of Ernest Chausson's Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, with Eugène Ysaÿe as soloist, at Nancy, France. Engelbert Humperdinck is created a professor of music by the Kaiser. Gabriel Fauré takes over from Théodore Dubois as organist of the church of La Madeleine, Paris. In Moscow, Mariya Kerzina and her husband Arkadiy Kerzin form the Circle of Russian Music Lovers, a performance society.
Published popular music
"All Coons Look Alike to Me" w.m. Ernest Hogan
"Årstiderna" w.m. Alice Tegnér
"The Amorous Goldfish" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
"Chin, Chin, Chinaman" w. Harry Greenbank m. Sidney Jones
"El Capitan March" m. John Philip Sousa
"Eli Green's Cakewalk" w.m. David Reed & Sadie Koninsky
"Elsie From Chelsea" w.m. Harry Dacre
"Going For A Pardon" w. James Thornton & Clara Havenschild m. James Thornton
"Happy Days In Dixie" m. Kerry Mills
"Hot Tamale Alley" by George M. Cohan
"A Hot Time In The Old Town" w. Joseph Hayden m. Theodore A. Metz
"I Love You In The Same Old Way – Darling Sue" w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" w.m. Gussie L. Davis "A Jovial Monk Am I" w. (Eng) Arthur Sturgess m. Edmond Audran "Kentucky Babe" w. Richard Henry Buck m. Adam Geibel "Laugh And The World Laughs With You" w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" w. Clyde Fitch m. arr. William Furst "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" w.m. Ben Harney "Mother Was A Lady" w. Edward B. Marks m. Joseph W. Stern "Musetta's Waltz Song" m. Giacomo Puccini "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" w.m. Barney Fagan arr. Gustave Luders "Remus Takes the Cake" by J. H. Ellis "The Saint Louis Cyclone" by Ren Shields & George Evans "Sambo at the Cakewalk" by Alfred E. Marks "Stars & Stripes Forever" by John Philip Sousa "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" w.m. Maude Nugent "To A Wild Rose" m. Edward MacDowell "Warmest Baby in the Bunch" by George M. Cohan "When the Saints Are Marching In" w. Katharine E. Purvis m. James M. Black "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" w.m. Ben Harney