1888 in music

1888 in music

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
**"Goethe-Lieder"
**"Mörike-Lieder"

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
*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)
*December 26 - Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedian (b. 1839) (died on stage)


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