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

[edit] Events

• Wax phonograph cylinders are mass marketed.
• Hamish MacCunn marries Alison, daughter of John Pettie, RA.
• July : first performance of The Internationale in Lille, France

[edit] Published popular music

• "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"     anon poss Thomas F. Casey
• "Over The Waves" ("Sobre las Olas")     w.m. Juventino Rosas
• "Where Did You Get That Hat?"     w.m. Joseph J. Sullivan
• "The Whistling Coon"     w.m. Sam Devere

[edit] Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - Violin Sonata in D Minor (opus 108)
• Cécile Chaminade - Scarf Dance, Callirhoe (ballet)
• Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 for piano
• Frederick Delius - Hiawatha (tone poem)
• César Franck - Symphony in D Minor
• Edvard Grieg
  • Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV
  • Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
• Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1, Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (song collection)
• Ignacy Jan Paderewski - Piano Concerto in A minor
• Max Reger - String Quartet in D minor (with double bass obbligato; without op.) (1888-9)
• Joseph Rheinberger - Organ Sonata No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 154
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture
• Erik Satie - Three Gymnopédies for piano
• Richard Strauss
  • Don Juan, Macbeth (first version)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
  • Symphony No. 5
• Hugo Wolf
  • Goethe-Lieder
  • Mörike-Lieder

[edit] Opera

• Karel Miry - La Napolitaine (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. de Bruyne, premiered on February 25 in Antwerp)
• Emile Pessard - Tartarin sur les Alpes premiered on November 17 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris
• Carl Maria von Weber, completed by Gustav Mahler - Die Drei Pintos

[edit] Musical theater

• The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan - London production
• The Yeomen of the Guard - Broadway production

[edit] Births

• February 9 - Ernst Mehlich, German-Brazilian conductor and composer
• February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, singer (d. 1976)
• May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (d. 1971)
• May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (d. 1989)
• May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (d. 1979)
• June 3 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (d. 1958)
• June 6 - Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist
• June 16 - Bobby Clark, US comedian and singer
• August 16 - Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (d. 1943)
• September 12 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
• October 7 - Cecil Coles, composer (d. 1918)
• December 28 - Gabriel von Wayditch, American composer of operas (d. 1969)

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 - Henri Herz, pianist and composer (b. 1803)
• January 14 - Stephen Heller, pianist and composer (b. 1813)
• February 22 - Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist and music teacher (b. 1815)
• March 10 - Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
• March 29 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (b. 1813) (killed in freak accident, trapped beneath a falling coat-rack)
• April 21 - Julius Weissenborn, bassoonist (b. 1837)
• August 8 - Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, composer, music teacher and cataloguer (b. 1809)
• November 17 - Jakob Dont, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
• December 2 - Franz Xaver Witt, church musician and composer (b. 1834)
• December 26 - Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedian (b. 1839) (died on stage)

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