1888 in music
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Classical music
- Violin Sonata in D Minor (opus 108) (Johannes Brahms)
- Scarf Dance, Callirhoe (ballet) (Cécile Chaminade)
- Petite Suite for piano duet; Arabesques 1 and 2 for piano (Claude Debussy)
- Hiawatha (tone poem) (Frederick Delius)
- Symphony in D Minor (César Franck)
- Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV (Edvard Grieg)
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (Edvard Grieg)
- Symphony No. 1, Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (song collection) (Gustav Mahler)
- Piano Concerto in A minor (Ignacy Jan Paderewski)
- Russian Easter Overture (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
- Three Gymnopédies for piano (Erik Satie)
- Don Juan, Violin Sonata (Richard Strauss)
- Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Symphony No. 5 (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
- Goethe-Lieder, Mörike-Lieder (Hugo Wolf)
[edit] 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
[edit] Musical theater
- The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan - London production
- The Yeomen of the Guard - Broadway production
[edit] 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 - Stephen Heller, pianist and composer
- February 22 - Jean Delphin Alard, violinist and music teacher
- March 10 - Ciro Pinsuti, composer
- March 29 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer
- December 26 - Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedianfr:1888 en musique
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