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

Events

• February 24 - Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
• August 16 - Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in Bayreuth

Published popular music

• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" by Thomas Payne Westendorf
• "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
• "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
• "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
• "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
• "Old Aunt Jemima" by James Grace
• "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 completed
• Pietro Abbà Cornaglia - Requiem
• Felix Draeseke - Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: Five piano pieces, op 14
• Antonín Dvořák - Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33
• César Franck - Les Éolides
• Benjamin Godard - Concerto Romantique
• Bedřich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor From My Life
• Charles-Marie Widor - Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-3 Op. 13

Opera

• Amilcare Ponchielli - La Gioconda
• Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele
• Luigi Denza - Wallenstein
• Bedřich Smetana - The Kiss
• Richard Wagner - Siegfried
• Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung

Musical theater

Births

• January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
• January 29
  • Havergal Brian, composer (d. 1972)
  • Ludolf Nielsen, composer (d. 1939)
• February 2 - Giovanni Zenatello, tenor
• February 28 - John Alden Carpenter, composer
• March 11 - Carl Ruggles, composer (d. 1971)
• May 19 - Alice Mary Smith, composer
• June 2 - Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (d. 1954)
• June 5 - Tony Jackson, jazz musician (d. 1920)
• August 14 - Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer
• September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
• November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (d. 1946)
• December 11 - Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (d. 1909)

Deaths

• March 5
  • Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi
  • Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner
• April 19 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer
• August 29 - Félicien-César David, composer
• September 30 - Henri Bertini, pianist and composer
• November 8 - Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone
• December 3 - Hermann Goetz, composer

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