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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.
* Eight countries adopt theBerne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works , an historic international agreement oncopyright protection. The new laws came into force on December 5 1887. Other countries follow suit.
*Thecelesta is invented byAuguste Mustel .Published popular music
* "The Gladiator" m.
John Philip Sousa
* "Johnny Get Your Gun" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
* "Semper Fidelis" m.John Philip Sousa
* "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 FormanClassical music *
Eugen d'Albert - Symphony op. 4 in F
*Anton Arensky - "Margarite Gautier", Fantasia for Orchestra, op. 9 [cite web|last=Barnett|first=Rob|title=Arensky: Symphonies and Suites|publisher=Musicweb International|url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classRev/2008/Jan08/arensky_svet.htm
date=January 2008|accessdate=2008-09-05]
*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)
*Robert Fuchs - Symphony No. 1 in C op. 37
*Alexander Glazunov - "Five Novelettes for String Quartet, Op. 15", Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (To the Memory of Liszt)
*Vincent d'Indy - "Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français "
*Hans Pfitzner - String Quartet in D minor [Google_books|NX1Wx5-TULIC|Chronology of Western Classical Music, page 538]
*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 [cite web|title=Stanford Piano Quintet: Description|publisher=Edition Silvertrust
url=http://www.editionsilvertrust.com/stanford-piano-quintet.htm|accessdate=2008-09-05|date=2008-04-13]
*Ludwig Thuille - Symphony
*Emil Waldteufel - "España"
*Charles-Marie Widor - Symphony No. 2, op. 54Musical theater *"Adonis", London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on
May 31 and ran for 110 performances.
* "Dorothy", London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre onSeptember 25 . It transferred to thePrince of Wales Theatre onDecember 20 and to the Lyric Theatre onDecember 17 1888 for a record-setting total run of 931 performances.
* "Erminie " - the Broadway production of this British show opened at theCasino Theatre onMay 10 and ran for a very successful 571 performances.
* "The Queen of Hearts", Music byJohn Philip Sousa (Broadway production)Births
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January 22 -John J. Becker , American composer and editor (of Ives' music) (d. 1961)
*January 25 -Wilhelm Furtwängler , conductor (d. 1954)
*March 3 -R. O. Morris , British composer, teacher ofMichael Tippett among others (d. 1948)
*April 26 -Ma Rainey (d. 1939)
*May 3 -Marcel Dupré , French composer and organist (d. 1971)
*May 13 -Joseph Achron ,Lithuania nJewish composer (d. 1943)
*May 24 -Paul Paray , conductor and composer (d. 1979)
*May 26 -Al Jolson (d. 1950)
*May 28 -Nikolai Sokoloff , Russian-American conductor and violinist (d. 1965)
*June 9 -Kosaku Yamada , Japanese composer and conductor (d. 1965)
*June 12 -E. Ray Goetz , US songwriter
*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 -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
*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)
*"date unknown"
**Frank Merrick , British pianist and composer (d. 1981)Deaths
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January 16 -Joseph Maas , operatic tenor (b. 1847)
*January 17 -Amilcare Ponchielli , opera composer (b. 1834)
*July 31 -Franz Liszt , pianist and composer (b. 1811)
*September 10 -John Liptrot Hatton , composer (b. 1809)
*"date unknown"
**Sonya Adler , actress and singer
**Heraclio Fernández , composer and journalist (b. 1851)References
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