1895 in music

See also: 1894 in music, other events of 1895, 1896 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• August 10 – The first ever Promenade Concert is held at the Queen's Hall in London.
• December 13 – first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in Berlin

Published popular music

• "America The Beautiful"     w. Katherine Lee Bates m. Samuel A. Ward
• "The Band Played On"     w. John F. Palmer m. Charles B. Ward
• "The Belle Of Avenoo A"     w.m. Safford Waters
• "Down In Poverty Row"     w. Gussie L. Davis m. Arthur Trevelyan
• "A Dream"     w. Charles B. Cory m. J. C. Bartlett
• "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle"     w. Charles W. Berkeley m. William H. Holmes
• "It's A Great Big Shame"     w.Edgar Bateman m. George Le Brunn
• "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me"     w.m. Paul Dresser
• "King Cotton March"     m. John Philip Sousa
• "My Angeline"     w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert
• "My Best Girl's A New Yorker"     w.m. John Stromberg
• "Put Me Off At Buffalo"     w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
• "Rastus On Parade"     w. George Marion m. Kerry Mills
• "She Was One Of The Early Birds"     w.m. T. W. Connor
• "Sleep Little Rosebud" w. Alfred Bryant, m. Louis Campbell Tipton
• "The Soldiers Of The Queen"     w.m. Leslie Stuart
• "The Streets Of Cairo"     w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley"     w. Walter H. Ford m. John W. Bratton

Classical music

• Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
• Antonin Dvorak – Cello Concerto in B minor

Opera

Musical theater

• An Artist's Model     London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 2 and ran for 392 performances
• Dandy Dick Whittington     London production
• The Shop Girl     Broadway production opened at Palmer's Theatre on October 28 and ran for 72 performances
• The Tyrolean     London production

Births

• January 27 – Buddy De Sylva
• February 7 – Irving Aaronson
• March 31 – Lizzy Miles
• April 1 – Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
• April 9 – Mance Lipscomb, popular singer
• April 23 – Jimmie Noone
• May 2 – Lorenz Hart, US lyricist
• June 16 – Lew Pollack, US composer
• July 4 – Irving Caesar, US lyricist and librettist
• July 10 – Carl Orff, German composer (d. 1982)
• July 25 – Yvonne Printemps, singer and actress (d. 1977)
• August 10 – Harry Richman, US singer, actor and composer
• September 9 – Harry Tobias, US lyric writer
• November 16 – Paul Hindemith, German composer
• November 29 – Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer (d. 1976)
• December 2 – Harriet Cohen, pianist (d. 1967)

Deaths

• January 10 – Benjamin Godard, composer
• May 21 – Franz von Suppé, composer
• August 6 – George Frederick Root, US composer
• September – Nipper, the dog on the HMV record label
• October 25 – Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor