Events

• Arthur Sullivan scores his first operetta, Cox and Box.
• The Maple Leaf Forever is written by Alexander Muir.
• March 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos is premi red at the Paris Op ra's Salle Le Peletier.
• April 12 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de G rolstein is premi red in Paris at the Th tre des Vari t s.
• April 22 - The Hyers Sisters make their professional d but at Sacramento s Metropolitan Theater.
• April 27 - Charles Gounod's opera Rom o et Juliette is premi red at the Th tre Lyrique in Paris.
• June 11 - Soprano Nina Grieg marries her cousin, composer Edvard Grieg, in Copenhagen.
• September - Premiere of the opera O ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: Spyridon Xyndas, libr. Ioannis Rinopoulos), the first full-scale opera in Greek.
• December 26 - Georges Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth is premi red at the Th tre Lyrique.
• The Royal Danish Academy of Music is founded in Copenhagen by Niels Gade.

Published popular music

• Johann Strauss II "Blue Danube Waltz"
• "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark
• "Croquet" w. C.H. Webb m. John Rogers Thomas
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee
• "Not For Joseph"     w.m. Arthur Lloyd
• "The Moon Is Out To Night, Love" w.m. Will S. Hays
• "Waiting" w. Ellen H. Flagg m. Harrison Millard

Classical music

• Sir William Sterndale Bennett - The Woman of Samaria (cantata)
• Felix Draeseke
  • Zwei Konzertwalzer, op 4: Nr. 1 in E-flat; Nr. 2 in D-flat
  • Ballade for Cello and Piano in B -
• Hermann Goetz - Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major -

Opera

• Charles Gounod - Rom o et Juliette
• douard Lalo - Fiesque
• Jules Massenet - La Grand'Tante
• Karel Miry
  • Frans Ackermann (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premi red on October 13, in Brussels)
  • Brutus en Cesar (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premi red on October 14, in Ghent)
  • (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premi red on November 27, in Ghent)

Musical theater

• The Contrabandista or The Law of the Ladrones Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand; Music: Arthur Sullivan. London production opened at St. George's Opera House on December 18
• Cox and Box Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand; Music: Arthur Sullivan. London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on May 11 and ran for 300 performances

Births

• January 20 - Yvette Guilbert, singer, actress (d. 1944)
• January 28 - Eug ne Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor (d. 1958)
• March 24
  • Guido Menasci, librettist (d. 1925)
  • Martinus Sieveking, pianist and composer (d. 1950)
• March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor (d. 1957)
• May 6 - Nora Clench, violinist (d. 1938)
• June 3 - B la Szabados, composer (d. 1936)
• June 27 - Ewald Straesser, composer (d. 1933)
• July 10 - Jules Mouquet, composer (d. 1946)
• July 27 - Enrique Granados, composer (d. 1916)
• August 28 - Umberto Giordano, opera composer (d. 1948)
• September 5 - Amy Beach, composer (d. 1944)
• September 7 - Evan Williams, operatic tenor (d. 1918)
• October 12 - Herbert L. Clarke, cornet virtuoso and composer (d. 1945)
• November 24 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (d. 1917)
• November 27
  • Charles Koechlin, composer, teacher and writer on music (d. 1950)
  • Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer (d. 1972)
• December 27 - Henri Christin , composer (d. 1941)

Deaths

• February 23 - Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor (b. 1776)
• March 16 - Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (b. 1833)
• March 24 - Alfred Mellon, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1820)
• May 3 - Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, operatic soprano (b. 1812)
• May 6 - Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (b. 1779)
• September 7 - Henriette M ric-Lalande, operatic soprano (b. 1798)
• September 10 - Simon Sechter, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1788)
• September 27 - Louis Desir Veron, opera manager (b. 1798)
• October 3 - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (b. 1777)
• October 5 - Thomas T glichsbeck, violinist and composer (b. 1799)
• October 9 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzy ski, pianist and composer (b. 1807)
• December 2 - Nadezhda Repina, singer and actress (b. 1809)
• December 6 - Giovanni Pacini, composer (b. 1796)
• date unknown - Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (b. 1811)

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