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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References

[edit] Events

• Musikverein opens in Vienna (January 6)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein (March 16)
• Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia debuts at the Paris Opéra (May 25)
• Richard Wagner's Die Walküre premieres at the Munich Court Theatre (June 26)

[edit] Published popular music

• "Come In Old Adam, Come In!" by Alice Cary & C. F. Shattuck
• "Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" by Sam Mitchell & Charles Blamphin

[edit] Classical music

• Max Bruch - Symphony No. 2 in F minor, op. 36 (premiered September 4)^[1]
• Antonín Dvořák - Dramatic Overture (overture to the opera Alfred) (B. 16a); String Quartet no. 3 in D, B. 18; String Quartet no. 4 in E minor, B. 19 (see List of compositions by Antonín Dvořák)
• Charles Gounod - Messe des Orphéonistes
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet overture (first version)

[edit] Opera

• Antonín Dvořák
  • Alfred, B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc)^[2]
• Karel Miry
  • La Saint-Lucas (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in Ghent)
  • Het Driekoningenfeest (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• Emile Pessard - La cruche cassée (comic opera in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on February 21 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris)
• Bedřich Smetana - Prodana Nevesta (eng. The Bartered Bride)
• Richard Wagner - Die Walküre

[edit] Musical theater

• Chilpéric     London production
• La Mascotte     Paris production
• La Périchole     London production

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Henry Eichheim
• January 20 - Guillaume Lekeu (d. 1894)
• January 30 - Rudolf Louis, critic, conductor and author (d. 1914)
• February 12 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (d. 1922)
• April 7 - Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (d. 1965)
• April 28 - Hermann Suter, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
• April 30 - Franz Lehár
• May 4 - Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
• August 4 - Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
• August 12 - Arthur J. Lamb, lyricist and actor
• September 28 - Florent Schmitt, French composer (d. 1958)
• October 7 - Uncle Dave Macon, musician
• October 8 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer
• October 24 - August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer
• November 30 - Cecil Forsyth
• December 5 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
• December 16 - Alfred Hill, Australian composer (d. 1960)

[edit] Deaths

• January 26 - Cesare Pugni, ballet composer
• March 10 - Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer (b. 1794)
• April 8 - Charles de Bériot, violinist (b. 1802)
• July 22 - Josef Strauss, composer (b. 1827)
• October 20 - Michael William Balfe, composer (b. 1808)
• October 31 - Mihály Mosonyi, composer (b. 1815)
• November 23 - Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (b. 1853)
• December 17 - Saverio Mercadante, composer (b. 1795)
• December 18 - Eugène Ketterer, French composer and pianist (b. 1831)
• December 28 - Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (b. 1799)

[edit] References