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Specific locations
Events
- March 21 – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is performed for the first time publicly in Vienna, conducted by Hans Richter. This is his breakthrough work.
- Tchaikovsky's overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet is performed for the first time, in Tbilisi (at this time part of the Russian Empire) under Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov.
- June 9
- Soprano Adelina Patti marries tenor Ernesto Nicolini in South Wales.
- The centennial of the Stoughton Musical Society is celebrated in the United States.
- June 25 – Arturo Toscanini makes his conducting debut, with an Italian opera company visiting Rio de Janeiro.
- July 19 – Franz Liszt plays his last concert, in Luxembourg, dying less than two weeks later.
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, an historic international agreement on copyrightprotection which comes into force on 5 December 1887; other countries follow suit.
- December 1 – Anton Seidl conducts the first American staging of Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
- The celesta is invented by Auguste Mustel.
Published popular music
- "The Gladiator" m. John Philip Souza
- "Johnny Get Your Gun" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
- "Semper Fidelis" m. John Philip Souza
- "Somebody's Mother" (The Song of All Mother Songs) by James W. Wheeler
- "Two Lovely Black Eyes, Oh, What a Surprise" w. Charles Coborn m. Edmund Forman
Classical music
- Eugen d'Albert – Symphony op. 4 in F
- Anton Arensky – Margarite Gautier, Fantasia for Orchestra, op. 9[1]
- Johannes Brahms – Cello Sonata No. 2 op. 99 in F, Violin Sonata No. 2 op. 100 in A, Piano Trio No. 3 op. 101 in C minor
- Charles Bordes – Paysages Tristes (song cycle)
- George Whitefield Chadwick – Symphony No. 2 op. 21 in B-flat (revision)
- Felix Draeseke – String Quartet No. 2 op. 35 in E minor, Piano Concerto op. 36 in E-flat, Symphony No. 3 in C major Tragica
- Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet No. 2 op. 45 in G minor
- Arthur Foote – In the Mountains (tone poem)
- César Franck – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major
- Alexander Glazunov – Five Novelettes for String Quartet, Op. 15, Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (To the Memory of Liszt)
- Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
- Hans Pfitzner – String Quartet in D minor[2]
- Josef Rheinberger – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 147 in F
- Camille Saint-Saëns – The Carnival of the Animals, Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
- Charles Villiers Stanford – Piano Quintet op. 25 in D minor[3]
- Ludwig Thuille – Symphony
- Emil Waldteufel– España
- Charles-Marie Widor – Symphony No. 2, Op. 54
- John Philip Sousa – "The Gladiator" March
- Richard Strauss – Aus Italien
- Bernard Zweers – Symphony No. 3
Opera
- Alfredo Catalani – Edmea
Musical theater
- Adonis, London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 31 and ran for 110 performances.
- Lyric Theatreon December 17, 1888, for a record-setting total run of 931 performances.
- Casino Theatreon May 10 and ran for 571 performances.
- The Queen of Hearts (music by John Philip Sousa), Broadway production.
Births
- January 9 – Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and instrument designer (d. 1943)
- January 22 – John J. Becker, American composer and editor (of Charles Ives' music) (d. 1961)
- January 25 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (d. 1954)
- March 3 – R. O. Morris, British composer, teacher of Michael Tippett among others (d. 1948)
- April 26 – Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
- April 30 – Frank Merrick, British pianist and composer (d. 1981)
- May 3 – Marcel Dupré, French composer and organist (d. 1971)
- May 4 – Shelton Brooks, Canadian-African American-song composer (d. 1975)
- May 13 – Joseph Achron, Lithuanian Jewish composer (d. 1943)
- May 24 – Paul Paray, conductor and composer (d. 1979)
- May 26 – Al Jolson, singer and actor (d. 1950)
- May 28 – Nikolai Sokoloff, Russian-American conductor and violinist (d. 1965)
- Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (d. 1965)
- June 12 – E. Ray Goetz, US songwriter (d. 1954)
- June 13 – Art Hickman, US bandleader (d. 1930)
- July 4 – Heinrich Kaminski, German composer (d. 1946)
- August 5 – Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1962)
- August 8 – Pietro Yon, Italian composer and organist, emigrated to US (d. 1943)
- August 19 – Robert Heger, German composer and conductor (d. 1978)
- August 27
- Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)[4]
- Eric Coates, English composer and conductor (d. 1957)
- August 31 – L. Wolfe Gilbert, Russian-born US songwriter (d. 1970)
- September 1 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (d. 1957)
- September 11 – Launy Grøndahl, Danish composer and conductor (d. 1960)
- September 25 – Jesús Guridi, composer (d. 1961)
- October 1 – Ali-Naqi Vaziri, composer (d. 1979)
- October 6 – Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- November 6 – Gus Kahn, German-born US lyric writer (d. 1941)
- December 25 – Kid Ory, jazz musician (d. 1973)
Deaths
- January 16
- Joseph Maas, operatic tenor (b. 1847)
- Amilcare Ponchielli, opera composer (b. 1834)
- February 16 – Louis Köhler, conductor, composer and piano teacher (b. 1820)
- Max Wolff, composer (b. 1840)
- March 27 – Dobri Chintulov, poet, teacher and composer (b. 1822)
- March 31 – Marie Heilbron, operatic soprano (b. c. 1851)
- April 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
- July 23 – Emil Scaria, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1838)
- July 31 – Franz Liszt, pianist and composer (b. 1811)
- August 17 – John Woodcock Graves, composer (b. 1795)
- September 10 – John Liptrot Hatton, composer (b. 1809)
- September 14 – Hubert Ries, violinist and composer (b. 1802)
- October 15 – Vilhelm Christian Holm, composer (b. 1820)
- November 20 – Róza Laborfalvi, actress and singer (b. 1817)
- date unknown
- Sonya Adler, actress and singer (complications following childbirth)
- Heraclio Fernández, composer and journalist (b. 1851)
References
- ^ Barnett, Rob (January 2008). "Arensky: Symphonies and Suites". Musicweb International. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ Chronology of Western Classical Music at Google Books, page 538
- ^ "Stanford Piano Quintet: Description". Edition Silvertrust. 2008-04-13. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ISBN 978-0-00434-363-1.