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1888 in music

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1888.

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Events

  • January 5 – The Neues deutsches Theater, Prague, is inaugurated with a performance of Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
  • April 11 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.
  • June 29 – G. F. Handel's Israel in Egypt is recorded onto wax cylinder at The Crystal Palace in London, the earliest known recording of classical music.
  • Gustav Mahler completes a projected Symphonic Poem called Totenfeier (Funeral Rites). It would eventually become the opening movement of his Symphony 2.
  • "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"     anonymous possibly 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)
  • Carl Nielsen – Suite for String Orchestra
  • 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 –Sheherazade, Russian Easter Festival Overture
  • Erik Satie – Gymnopédie for piano
  • Richard Strauss
  • Don Juan, Macbeth (first version)
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
  • Symphony No. 5
  • Hugo Wolf
  • Goethe-Lieder
  • Mörike-Lieder
  • Edwin Lemare
  • Andantino in D-flat, also known as Moonlight and Roses, op.83 no.2

    • 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, premiered on October 3 at the Savoy Theatre, London and on October 17 at the Casino Theatre (Broadway), New York

    • Births

  • January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly), American folk and blues singer (d. 1949)
  • January 26 – Lisa Steier, Swedish ballerina (d. 1928)
  • February 9 – Ernst Mehlich, German-Brazilian conductor and composer (d. 1977)
  • 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 trombonist (d. 1958)
  • June 6 – Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974)
  • June 16 – Bobby Clark, US comedian and singer (d. 1960)
  • June 17 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, Dutch composer (d. 1953)
  • August 16 – Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (d. 1943)
  • September 12 – Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor (d. 1972)
  • October 7 – Cecil Coles, composer (d. 1918)
  • November 16 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer (d. 1957)
  • November 23 - Harpo Marx, American comedian, film star, mime artist and musician (d. 1964)
  • December 28 – Gabriel von Wayditch, American composer of operas (d. 1969)

    • Deaths

  • January 5 – Henri Herz, pianist and composer, 84
  • January 14 – Stephen Heller, pianist and composer, 74
  • February 7 - Aurore von Haxthausen, pianist and composer
  • February 22 – Jean-Delphin Alard, violinist and music teacher, 72
  • March 10 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer, 58
  • March 21 – Thomas German Reed, composer and theatre manager, 72
  • March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer, 74 (killed in freak accident, trapped beneath a falling coat-rack)
  • April 21 – Julius Weissenborn, bassoonist, 51
  • June 13 – Timoteo Pasini, Italian composer, conductor, and pianist, 59
  • August 8 – Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, composer, music teacher and cataloguer, 79
  • August 31 - Blanche Cole, operatic soprano, 37 (dropsy)
  • November 17 – Jakob Dont, violinist and composer, 73
  • December 2 – Franz Xaver Witt, church musician and composer, 54
  • December 26 – Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedian, 49 (died on stage)

    • References

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