1891 in music

Table of contents

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

Events

• October 16 - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert

Published popular music

• "Actions Speak Louder Than Words" w. George Horncastle m. Felix McGlennon
• "Hey, Rube!" w. J. Sherrie Matthews m. Harry Bulger
• "High School Cadets March" m. John Philip Sousa
• "Little Boy Blue" w. Eugene Field m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" w.m. Fred Gilbert
• "The Miner's Dream Of Home" w.m. Will Godwin & Leo Dryden
• "Molly O!" w.m. William J. Scanlan
• "Narcissus" m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "The Pardon Came Too Late" w.m. Paul Dresser
• "The Picture That's Turned To The Wall" w.m. Charles Graham
• "Reuben And Cynthia" w.m. Percy Gaunt
• "Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay" w.m. Henry J. Sayers
• "Wot Cher!" w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle

• Robin Hood, Broadway production
• The Tyrolean, Broadway production
• Der Vogelhändler (The Tyrolean), Vienna production

• Charles McCarron
• January 25 - Wellman Braud
• April 2 - Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director
• April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev
• May 30 - Ben Bernie - US bandleader
• June 9 - Cole Porter
• June 10 - Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist
• July 14 - Fréhel, French singer, actress (d. 1951)
• July 16 - Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer

• 5 January - Emma Abbott, singer