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