[edit] Events [edit] Published popular music [edit] Classical music - Charles Gounod - Roméo et Juliette
- Édouard Lalo - Fiesque
- Jules Massenet - La Grand'Tante
- Karel Miry
- Frans Ackermann (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels)
- Brutus en Cesar (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premièred on October 14, in Ghent)
- Le Mariage de Marguerite (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)
[edit] Births - January 20 - Yvette Guilbert, singer, actress (d. 1944)
- January 28 - Eugène Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor (d. 1958)
- March 24 - Guido Menasci, librettist (d. 1925)
- March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor (d. 1957)
- May 6 - Nora Clench, violinist (d. 1938)
- July 27 - Enrique Granados, composer (d. 1916)
- September 5 - Amy Beach, composer (d. 1944)
- November 24 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (d. 1917)
[edit] Deaths - February 23 - Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor (b. 1776)
- March 16 - Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (b. 1833)
- May 3 - Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, operatic soprano (b. 1812)
- September 10 - Simon Sechter, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1788)
- September 27 - Louis Desiré Veron, opera manager (b. 1798)
- October 3 - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (b. 1777)
- October 9 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, pianist and composer (b. 1807)
- December 2 - Nadezhda Repina, singer and actress (b. 1809)
- December 6 - Giovanni Pacini, composer (b. 1796)
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