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See also: 1887 in music, other events of 1888, 1889 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Wax phonograph cylinders are mass marketed.
• Hamish MacCunn marries Alison, daughter of John Pettie, RA.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"     anon poss Thomas F. Carey
• "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)
• 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

• Die Drei Pintos - Carl Maria von Weber, completed by Gustav Mahler

[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 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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