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Events
Published popular music
Classical music
- Karel Miry
- Maria van Boergondië (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on August 28 in Ghent)
- De Keizer bij de Boeren (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on October 29 in Ghent)
- De occasie maakt den dief (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on December 24 in Ghent)
- Franz von Suppé – Leichte Kavallerie
Births
- January 13 – Vasily Kalinnikov, composer (d. 1901)
- April 1 – Ferruccio Busoni, pianist, composer (d. 1924)
- April 13 – Carl Valentin Wunderle, violinist (d. 1944)
- May 17 – Erik Satie, composer (d. 1925)
- June 15 – Charles Wood, composer (d. 1926)
- June 29 – George Frederick Boyle, composer (d. 1948)
- July 13 – La Goulue, can-can dancer (d. 1929)
- July 23 – Francesco Cilea, composer (d. 1950)
- September 26 – George H. Clutsam, pianist, composer and writer (d. 1951)
- November 7 – Paul Lincke, composer (d. 1946)
- date unknown – Annibale Fagnola, violin maker (d. 1939)
Deaths
- January 25 – Minna Wagner, estranged wife of Richard Wagner, 56 (heart attack)
- February 6 – Anna Liszt, pianist and mother of Franz Liszt, 77
- March 20 – Rikard Nordraak, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
- July 25 – Aloys Schmitt, composer, pianist and music teacher, 77
- October 2 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer, 55 (suicide by drowning)
- November 26 – Adrien-Francois Servais, cellist, 59
- November 29 – Sophie Löwe, operatic soprano, 51
- December 1 – Jules Demersseman, flautist and composer, 33 (tuberculosis)
- December 3 – Jan Kalivoda, violinist, conductor and composer, 65
References
- ↑ Nectoux, Jean-Michel; Roger Nichols, trans. (1991). Gabriel Fauré – A Musical Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-521-23524-3.
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