List of years in music (Table)
… 1873 • 1874 • 1875 • 1876 • 1877 • 1878 • 1879 •    1880 • 1881 • 1882 – 1883 – 1884 • 1885 • 1886 •    1887 • 1888 • 1889 • 1890 • 1891 • 1892 • 1893 …
Related time period or subjects
… 1880 • 1881 • 1882 – 1883 – 1884 • 1885 • 1886 … … 1850s • 1860s • 1870s – 1880s – 1890s • 1900s • 1910s … … 18th century – 19th century – 20th century …
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more

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

Events

• Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovered.
• The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Published popular music

• "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother"     w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
• "The Farmer In The Dell"     trad
• "La Golondrina"      m. Narciso Serradell
• "Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day)"     trad
• "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" by Sam Lucas
• "She Does The Fandango All Over The Place"     w.m. G. W. Hunt
• "There Is A Tavern In The Town"     anon
• "Transit Of Venus March"     m. John Philip Sousa

Classical music

• Isaac Albéniz - Barcarola for piano No. 1
• Anton Arensky - Piano Concerto in F minor, op. 2; Symphony No. 1 in B minor
• Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 3
• George Whitefield Chadwick - Thalia (concert overture)
• Charles Gounod - The Redemption (oratorio)
• Pablo de Sarasate - Carmen Fantasy
• Sergei Taneyev - Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
• Emil Waldteufel -Estudiantina

Opera

• Alfredo Catalani - Dejanice
• César Cui - Prisoner of the Caucasus
• Charles Edouard Lefebvre - Le Trésor premiered in Angers
• Miguel Marqués - La cruz de fuego
• Karel Miry - De kleine patriot (opera in 4 acts, libretto by J. Hoste, premiered on December 23 in Brussels)

Musical theater

• Cordelia's Aspirations (Edward Harrigan & David Braham) Broadway production opened at the New Theatre Comique on November 5 and ran for 176 performances
• Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night In Venice) Berlin and Vienna productions

Births

• April 6 - Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
• May 26 - Mamie Smith, U.S. singer
• September 18 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, composer
• November 8 - Arnold Bax, composer
• December 3 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer

Deaths

• January 24 - Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)
• February 13 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• April 26 - Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist (b. 1807)
• June 10 - Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer (b. 1812)
• July 14 - Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector (b. 1824)
• October 30 - Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)
• December 11 - Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)