Events in the year 1899 in music.
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1899 in Norwegian music
Events
January 25 – Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström. March 3 – Richard Strauss conducts the premiere of Ein Heldenleben with the Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester. April 26 Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 1 in Helsinki. Tenor Antonio Paoli makes his début in Rossini's William Tell in Paris. May 27 – Maurice Ravel conducts the first public performance of his 1898 Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie at a concert of the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris; it receives a critical reception and is not published in his lifetime. June 19 – Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations (Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36) are premiered at St James's Hall in London conducted by Hans Richter. A revised version is first heard on September 13 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester Cathedral with Elgar conducting. September 18 – Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States. October 19 – Claude Debussy marries Rosalie Texier, having lived for nine years with her best friend; the marriage lasts only five years. December 30 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor marries Jessie Walmisley. date unknown Charles Hale's song "At a Darktown Cakewalk" includes an early appearance of the riff "Shave and a Haircut". Billy Murray makes his singing debut.
Published popular music
"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
"Keep on the Sunny Side", w. A. Blenkhorn, m. J.H. Entwisle
"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. Eduardo 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
"Telephone Me, Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
"There's Where My Heart Is Tonight" w.m. Paul Dresser
"When most I wink" m. Frank Bridge
"Where the Sweet Magnolias Grow" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
"Whistling Rufus" w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills
"You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine" w. Seymore Rice & Albert H. Brown, m. Charles N. Daniels