1891 in music
overview of music-related events during the year of 1891
Events in the year 1891 in music.
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1891 in Scandinavian music
Events
February 23 – Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona.
March 16 – A performance of the Budapest Opera is interrupted by a spontaneous demonstration in support of musical director Gustav Mahler, at the time in conflict with intendant Géza Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere.
May 5 – The Music Hall in New York City (which becomes Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky guest-conducting his own work.
May 10 – Danish classical composer Carl Nielsen marries his compatriot, the sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, Italy, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris.
June 24 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished his ballet The Nutcracker
October 16 – The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert.
The Peabody Mason Concerts are inaugurated with a performance by Ferruccio Busoni.
The ensemble attached to the Glasgow Choral Union is formally recognised as the Scottish Orchestra, predecessor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
Published popular music
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