October 24 - Der Zigeunerbaron by Johann Strauss II is premiered at the Theater an der Wien
October 25 - Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 is premiered in Meiningen
Tin Pan Alley group of popular song writers & publishers forms in New York City
Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado premieres in London
"American Patrol" m. F. W. Meacham
"The Boy In The Gallery" w.m. George Ware
"Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas
"Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly" w. G. W. Hunter & John Cooke Jnr m. G. W. Hunter
"Open Road" Johann Strauss II
"Saffi's Aria" Johann Strauss II
"Some Sweet Day" by Edward L. Park & William Howard Doane
"This Is The House That Jerry Built" w. T. S. Lonsdale m. W. G. Eaton
"What Cheer 'Ria" w. Will Herbert m. Bessie Bellwood
From the score of The Mikado:
"A More Humane Mikado" ("Let the Punishment fit the Crime")
"The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring"
"There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast"
"Three Little Maids From School"
"A Wand'ring Minstrel I"
Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 4 op. 98 in E minor
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner)
George Whitefield Chadwick - String Quartet No. 3 in D ()
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 7 op. 70 in D minor
Cesar Franck
Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra
Danse lente for piano
Alexander Glazunov - Stenka Razin
Jean Sibelius - String Quartet in E-flat
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony
José Vianna da Motta - Piano Concerto in A
Richard Strauss - Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for horn
Fromental Halévy, completed by Georges Bizet - Noé given its first performance at Karlsruhe.
Jules Massenet - Le Cid
André Messager - La Béarnaise
Emile Pessard - Tabarin premiered on January 12 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
Amilcare Ponchielli - Marion Delorme
George Stephanescu - Scaiul barbatilor
Edward Jakobowski - Erminie (libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton) London production
William S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan - The Mikado London production
Johann Strauss II - Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) Vienna production
January 13 - James V. Monaco, Italian-born US composer
January 27 - Jerome Kern
February 9 - Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935)
February 12 - James Scott
February 16 - Will Fyffe, Scottish comedian and singer
March 15 - Bertha Raffetto, American singer
May 5 - Agustín Barrios, composer
May 14 - Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer
July 12 - George Butterworth, composer
July 17 - Benjamin Dale, composer
October 21 - Egon Wellesz, Austrian composer
October 25 - Sam M. Lewis, US lyricist
December 19 - Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
February 15 - Leopold Damrosch, conductor, 52 (complications from a cold)
March 31 - Franz Abt, composer, 65
April 24 - Henry Augustus Rawes, hymn-writer, 58
May - Adolphe Blanc, composer, 56
May 1 - Henry Brinley Richards, composer, 67
May 12 - Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, conductor and pianist, 73
June 29 - Samuel C. Upham, lyricist, 66
August 26 - August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer, 74
September 11 - Julius Zarebski, Polish pianist and composer, 31
September 13 - Friedrich Kiel, German composer, 63
October 21 - Michele Novaro, songwriter, 66
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