1887 in music

Events

Published popular music

* "Angels Without Wings" w.m. George Dance
* "Away In The Manger" w. anon m. James Ramsey Murray
* "Calvary" w. Henry Vaughn m. Paul Rodney
* "Comrades" Felix McGlennon & George Horncastle
* "The Song That Reached My Heart" w.m. Julian Jordan
* "Ti! Hi! Tiddelly Hi!", w.m. Joseph Tabrar
*From the score of "Ruddigore" (Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert):
**"I Know A Youth Who Loves A Maid"
**"I Shipped, D'Ye See, In A Revenue Sloop"
**"My Boy, You May Take It From Me"
**"There Grew A Little Flower"
**"When The Night Wind Howls"

Classical music

*Isaac Albéniz - "Sonata for piano Nos. 3, 4 and 5"; "Concierto fantástico in A minor"
*Johannes Brahms - "Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra" (Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102)
*Ruperto Chapi - "La Bruja" (zarzuela)
*Gustave Charpentier - "Didon" (cantata)
*Felix Draeseke - Sonata for Clarinet (or Violin) and Piano in B♭, Op. 38
*Antonín Dvořák - Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81
*Robert Fuchs - "Symphony No. 2 in E♭", Op. 45
*Edvard Grieg - Third Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, opus 45
*Asger Hamerik - "Requiem"
*Sergei Lyapunov - "Symphony No. 1 in B minor", Op. 12
*José Vianna da Motta - "Piano Concerto in A major"
*Hans Pfitzner - "Scherzo in C minor"
*Josef Rheinberger - Organ Sonata No. 11 in D minor, op. 148; Suite for organ, violin and cello, op. 149
*Charles Villiers Stanford - "An Irish Symphony" (Symphony No. 3 in F minor), Op. 28
*Richard Strauss - Violin Sonata in E♭, Op. 18
*Hugo Wolf - "Italian Serenade" for string quartet

Opera

*Charles Edouard Lefebvre - "Zaïre" premiered in Lille
*Adolf Neuendorff - "Prince Waldmeister"
*Johann Strauss II - "Simplicius"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Otello"

Musical theater

* "Dorothy" Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on November 5 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on April 16, 1888 for a total run of 51 performances
* "Ruddigore" London and Broadway productions

Births

*January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
*February 7 - Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer
*March 3 - Hart Wand, composer, fiddler, bandleader
*March 4 - Violet MacMillan, Broadway star
*March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer
*March 7 - Heino Eller, composer
*March 22 - Chico Marx, piano-playing comedian
*March 23 - Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist
*March 25 - Nicolae Bretan, opera composer
*April 10 - Heinz Tiessen, composer (d. 1971)
*May 12 - Bertha Lewis, operatic contralto
*June 25 - George Abbott, US librettist and director
*July 2 - Marcel Tabuteau, oboeist
*July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
*August 25 - Fartein Valen, composer
*September 14 - Paul Kochanski, violinist
*September 16 - Nadia Boulanger, composer, conductor and music teacher
*September 19 - Rosita Marstini, dancer
*October 6 - Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano
*October 11 - Oscar Shaw, actor and singer
*November 1 - Max Trapp, composer (d. 1971)
*December 6 - Joseph Lamb
*December 7 - Ernst Toch, composer
*December 8 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, musicologist and composer
*December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, composer
*December 24 - Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano
*December 27 - Gertie Gitana, music hall singer
*December 27 - Bernard van Dieren, composer (d. 1936)
*"date unknown"
**Carlo Jachino, composer
**Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer

Deaths

*February 21 - James Lorraine Geddes, songwriter
*February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
*March 11 - Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer
*April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes
*June 24 - Filippo Filippi, music critic
*July 17 - Louis Mérante, dancer and choreographer
*October 31 - George Macfarren, composer (b. 1813)
*November 2 - Jenny Lind, singer, "the Swedish Nightingale"
*December 5 - Eliza R. Snow, lyricist