1898 in music

Specific locations

• 1898 in Norwegian music

  Events

• Otilie Dvořáková, daughter of Antonín Dvořák, marries her father's pupil, composer Josef Suk.
• Dame Marie Tempest marries actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, grandson of the Duke of Richmond.

  Published popular music

• "Because" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers
• "The Boy Guessed Right" w.m. Lionel Monckton
• "Ciribiribin" w. Carlo Tiochet m. Alberto Pestalozza
• "Gold Will Buy Most Anything But A True Girl's Heart" w. Charles E. Foreman m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
• "Good-bye Dolly Gray" w. Will D. Cobb m. Paul Barnes
• "Goodnight, Little Girl, Goodnight" w. Julai M. Hays m. J. C. Macy
• "Gypsy Love Song" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert from the musical The Fortune Teller
• "Honey on my Lips" Charles E. Trevathan
• "I Guess I'll Have To Telegraph My Baby" w.m. George M. Cohan
• "Just As The Sun Went Down" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
• "Just One Girl" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall
• "Kiss Me Honey Do" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "The Lily Of Laguna" w.m. Leslie Stuart
• "'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia" w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
• "The Moth And The Flame" w. George Taggart m. Max S. Witt
• "My Old New Hampshire Home" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
• "Recessional" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Reginald De Koven
• "Romany Life" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "The Rosary" w. Robert Cameron Rogers m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "Salome" m. William Lorraine
• "She is the Belle of New York" w. Hugh Morton m. Gustave Kerker
• "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky" w. Harry Braisted m. Stanley Carter
• "Swipsy Cakewalk" c. Scott Joplin
• "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" w.m. James Thornton
• "Who Dat Say Chicken In Dis Crowd" w. Paul Lawrence Dunbar m. Will Marion

  Christmas songs

• "Nu tändas tusen juleljus", by Emmy Köhler

  Recorded popular music

• "The Amorous Goldfish"

• "At A Georgia Camp Meeting"

• "The Battle Cry Of Freedom"

• "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms"

• "Break The News To Mother"

• "Chin, Chin, Chinaman"

• "Cotton Blossoms"

• "Don Jose Of Sevilla"

• "Happy Days In Dixie"

• "The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls"

• "A Hot Time In The Old Town"

• "In The Gloaming"

• "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie"

• "Just Before The Battle, Mother"

• "Killarney"

• "Largo Al Factotum"

• "Love's Old Sweet Song"

• "The Miner's Dream Of Home"

• "Mister Johnson Don't Get Gay"

• "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose"

• "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night"

• "Oh, Promise Me"

• "Old Folks At Home"

• "On The Banks Of The Wabash Far Away"

• "Orange Blossoms"

• "The Palms"

• "Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep"

• "She Never Did the Same Thing Twice"

• "She Was Bred In Old Kentucky"

• "She was Happy Til She Met You"

• "Smoky Mokes"

• "Stars And Stripes Forever"

• "Sweet And Low"

• "Sweet Genevieve"

• "Sweet Rosie O'Grady"

• "The Sweetest Story Ever Told"

• "Then You'll Remember Me"

• "There's A Little Star Shining For You"

• "The Thunderer"

• "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp"

• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"

• "Yankee Doodle"

Classical music

• Ernest Chausson – String Quartet
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
• Edward Elgar – Caractacus
• George Enescu
• *Trois melodies sur poèmes de Jules Lemaitre et Sully Prudhomme, for bass and piano, Op. 4
• *Variations for Two Pianos on an Original Theme in A♭ major, for piano, Op. 5
• *Sonata in F minor, for cello and piano, Op. 26, No. 1
• Gabriel Fauré – Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
• Alexander Glazunov – Ruses d'Amour
• Paul Juon – Sonata for Violin and Piano no. 1 in A major
• Carl Nielsen – String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major
• Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
• Henrique Oswald
• *Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 21
• *Piano Quartet No. 2 in G major, Op. 26
• Christian Sinding – Concerto for Violin in A major''

  [Opera]

• Antônio Francisco Braga – Jupyra
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – The Gitanos
• Umberto Giordano – Fedora
• Ivar Hallstrom – Little Karin
• Pietro Mascagni – Iris
• Emile Pessard – La dame de trèfle premiered on May 13 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• *Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
• *Sadko, premiered January 7 at the Solodovnikov Theatre in Moscow.

  [Musical theater]

• The Belle of New York London production
• The Bride Elect Broadway production
• The Fortune Teller Toronto and London productions
• A Greek Slave London production
• Hurly-Burly Broadway production
• A Runaway Girl London and Broadway productions
• The Skirt Dancer London production
• Véronique – Paris production

  Births

• January 9 – Gracie Fields, singer and actress
• January 28 – Vittorio Rieti, composer
• February 3 – Lil Hardin Armstrong, wife and musical collaborator of Louis Armstrong
• February 7 – Dock Boggs, banjo player
• February 12 – Roy Harris, composer
• February 15 – Totò, actor and composer
• February 28 – Molly Picon, Broadway star
• March 4 – Robert Schmertz, American folk musician and architect
• April 3 – George Jessel, American actor, singer & songwriter
• April 9 – Paul Robeson, singer
• May 14 – Zutty Singleton, jazz drummer
• May 15 – Arletty, actress and singer
• May 26 – Ernst Bacon, pianist and composer
• May 28 – Andy Kirk, jazz musician
• June 6 – Ninette de Valois, founder of the UK's Royal Ballet
• June 29 – Yvonne Lefébure, French pianist
• July 4 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer and dancer
• July 6 – Hanns Eisler, composer
• July 15 – Noel Gay, English songwriter
• August 2 – Anthony Franchini, Italian-born guitarist
• August 15 – Charles Tobias, US songwriter and singer
• August 24 – Fred Rose, songwriter, music publisher
• September 1
• *Marilyn Miller, US actress, singer and dancer
• *Violet Carson, actress, singer and pianist
• September 26 – George Gershwin, US composer
• September 27 – Vincent Youmans, US composer
• October 7 – Alfred Wallenstein, US cellist and conductor
• October 8 – Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist and composer
• October 18 – Lotte Lenya, singer and actress, wife of Kurt Weill
• November 1 – Sippie Wallace, blues singer
• December 3 – Lev Knipper, Russian composer
• December 5 – Grace Moore, operatic soprano
• December 14 – Lillian Randolph, actress and singer
• December 24 – Baby Dodds, jazz drummer

  Deaths

• January 7 – Heinrich Lichner, composer, 68
• January 8 – Alexandre Dubuque, composer, 85
• January 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, pianist and teacher, 81
• February 15 – Franz Behr, composer
• March 11 – Tigran Chukhajian, conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
• March 15 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer, 72
• March 28 – Anton Seidl, conductor, 47
• April 21 – Théodore Gouvy, composer, 78
• May 15 – Ede Reményi, violinist, 70
• May 16 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
• August 17 – Karl Zeller, Austrian composer, 56
• August 21 – Niccolò van Westerhout, composer, 40
• September 9 – William Chatterton Dix, hymn-writer, 61
• September 11 – Adolphe Samuel, Belgian composer, 74
• November 7 – Max Alvary, operatic tenor, 42
• December 13 – George Frederick Bristow, composer, 72
• December 29 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer, 74