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Events
- April 9? – Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by Ludvig Norman.
- May 28 – Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London
Published popular music
- "Aloha `Oe" w.m. Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
- "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" w.m. James A. Bland
- "De Gospel Raft" by Frank Dumont
- "Emmet's Lullaby" Joseph K. Emmet
- From HMS Pinafore: (words by W. S. Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan)
- "I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore"
- "I Am The Ruler Of The Queen's Navee"
- "I'm Called Little Buttercup"
- "Kind Captain"
- "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore"
- "When I Was a Lad"
- "In The Evening By the Moonlight" w.m. James A. Bland
- "Keep In De Middle Ob De Road" w.m. Will Hays
- "Ten Little Injuns" w. & m. Septimus Winner
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - Motets Op. 74; Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
- Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner) - 2nd version; Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)
- Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
- George Whitefield Chadwick - String Quartet No. 1
- Felix Otto Dessoff - String Quartet in F, Op. 7
- Antonín Dvořák -
- Serenade for Wind Instruments (Dvořák) (op. 44/B. 77)
- String Sextet (Dvořák), (op. 48/B. 80)
- Slavonic Dances, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
- Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
- Gabriel Fauré - Chanson Apres un rêve (Op. 7 No. 1)
- Niels Gade – Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
- Hans Huber - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
- Vincent d'Indy - La forêt enchantée
- Édouard Lalo - Fantaisie norvegienne
- Giuseppe Martucci - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor; Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
- Joachim Raff - Symphony No. 9 Im Sommer, Op. 208
- Josef Rheinberger - Mass in E-flat (Cantus Missæ) for double choir, Op. 109; Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111; Trio for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A, Op. 112; Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114[1]
- Bernhard Scholz - String Quintet Op. 47[2]
- Sergei Taneyev – Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Opera
- Alfred Cellier – After All!
- Charles Gounod – Polyeucte (opera)
- Charles Edouard Lefebvre – Lucrèce
- Miguel Marqués – El anillo de hierro (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
- Joseph Parry – Blodwen
- Emile Pessard
- Le char premiered on January 18 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris
- Le Capitaine Fracasse premiered on July 2 at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris
- Joachim Raff - Benedetto Marcello
Musical theater
- Gilbert and Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore, London production
- Jacques Offenbach – Madame Favart, Paris production
Births
- January 23 - Rutland Boughton, English composer
- February 16 - Selim Palmgren, Finnish composer[3]
- February 26 - Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano
- February 28 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer
- March 4 – Egbert Van Alstyne, US songwriter
- March 23 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer, conductor and teacher
- March 29 – Albert Von Tilzer, US songwriter
- May 25 – Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor
- July 3 – George M. Cohan, US songwriter, entertainer
- July 5 - Joseph Holbrooke, English composer
- July 22 – Ernest Ball, US composer
- July 25 – Heinrich Gebhard, composer
- August 18 - Fritz Brun, composer and conductor
- August 22 - Edward Johnson (tenor), Canadian tenor
- September 17 - Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer
- October 19 – Alphonse Picou, clarinettist
- November 4 – Jean Schwartz, songwriter
- November 23 - André Caplet, French composer and conductor
Deaths
- January 15 - Carlo Blasis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1797)
- February 2 – Josif Runjanin, composer (b. 1821)
- April 8 – Henriette "Jetty" Treffz, singer, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818)
- April 21 - Temistocle Solera, librettist and composer (b. 1815)
- May 6 - François Benoist, organist and composer (b. 1794)
- July 2 - François Bazin, opera composer (b. 1816)
- August 23 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (b. 1801)
- October - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
- November - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, guitarist and composer (b. 1801)
- December 18 - Heinrich Proch, composer (b. 1809)
- December 28 – José Bernardo Alcedo, composer of the Peruvian national anthem (b. 1788)
- date unknown
- Carl Heissler, violinist (b. 1826)
- Robert Heller, pianist and magician (b. 1826)
References
- ^ Rheinberger quintet op. 114 given date 1878 at Sheetmusicplus.com.
- ^ Musgrave, Michael (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Brahms at Google Book Search. Cambridge University Press. page 296. ISBN 0521485819.
- ^ "FIMIC Link About Selim Palmgren". http://www.fimic.fi/fimic/fimic.nsf/mainframe?readform&570E66C33E0DEC49C2256793002E08BD. Retrieved on 2009-01-05.
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