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

• "Angels Without Wings" w.m. George Dance
• "Away In The Manger" w. anon m. James Ramsey Murray
• "Calvary" w. Henry Vaughn m. Paul Rodney
• "Comrades" Felix McGlennon & George Horncastle
• "The Song That Reached My Heart" w.m. Julian Jordan
• "Ti! Hi! Tiddelly Hi!", w.m. Joseph Tabrar
• From the score of Ruddigore (Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert):
  • "I Know A Youth Who Loves A Maid"
  • "I Shipped, D'Ye See, In A Revenue Sloop"
  • "My Boy, You May Take It From Me"
  • "There Grew A Little Flower"
  • "When The Night Wind Howls"

• Isaac Albéniz - Sonata for piano Nos. 3, 4 and 5; Concierto fantástico in A minor
• Johannes Brahms - Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra (Double Concerto in A minor, Op. 102)
• Ruperto Chapi - La Bruja (zarzuela)
• Gustave Charpentier - Didon (cantata)
• Felix Draeseke - Sonata for Clarinet (or Violin) and Piano in B♭, Op. 38
• Robert Fuchs - Symphony No. 2 in E♭, Op. 45
• Edvard Grieg - Third Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, opus 45
• Asger Hamerik - Requiem
• Sergei Lyapunov - Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 12
• José Vianna da Motta - Piano Concerto in A major
• Hans Pfitzner - Scherzo in C minor
• Charles Villiers Stanford - An Irish Symphony (Symphony No. 3 in F minor), Op. 28
• Richard Strauss - Violin Sonata in E♭, Op. 18

• Charles Edouard Lefebvre - Zaïre premiered in Lille
• Adolf Neuendorff - Prince Waldmeister
• Johann Strauss II - Simplicius
• Giuseppe Verdi - Otello

• Dorothy Broadway production
• Ruddigore London and Broadway productions

• January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
• February 7 - Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer
• March 4 - Violet MacMillan, Broadway star
• March 7 - Heino Eller, composer
• March 22 - Chico Marx, piano-playing comedian
• March 23 - Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist
• March 25 - Nicolae Bretan, opera composer
• April 10 - Heinz Tiessen, composer (d. 1971)
• May 22 - Bertha Lewis, operatic contralto
• June 25 - George Abbott, US librettist and director
• July 2 - Marcel Tabuteau, oboeist
• July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer
• August 25 - Fartein Valen, composer
• September 14 - Paul Kochanski, violinist
• September 19 - Rosita Marstini, dancer
• October 6 - Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano
• October 11 - Oscar Shaw, actor and singer
• October 22 - Nadia Boulanger, composer, conductor and music teacher
• November 1 - Max Trapp, composer (d. 1971)
• December 6 - Joseph Lamb
• December 7 - Ernst Toch, composer
• December 8 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, musicologist and composer
• December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, composer
• December 24 - Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano
• December 27 - Gertie Gitana, music hall singer
• December 27 - Bernard van Dieren, composer (d. 1936)
• date unknown
  • Paul Kochanski, violinist
  • Carlo Jachino, composer
  • Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer

• February 21 - James Lorraine Geddes, songwriter
• February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer
• March 11 - Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer
• April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes
• June 24 - Filippo Filippi, music critic
• July 17 - Louis Mérante, dancer and choreographer
• October 31 - George Alexander Macfarren, composer (b. 1813)
• November 2 - Jenny Lind, singer, "the Swedish Nightingale"
• December 5 - Eliza Roxcy Snow, lyricist