1887 in music

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Specific locations

  • 1887 in Norwegian music

Events

25 May – A fire during the 745th performance there of Mignon largely destroys the second Salle Favart, home of the Opéra-Comique in Paris; 84 people are recorded dead.

  • "Angels Without Wings" w.m. George Dance
  • "Away In A 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"

Classical music

  • Isaac Albéniz
    • Sonatas Nos. 3, 4 and 5 for piano
    • Concierto fantástico in A minor
  • Johannes Brahms – Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 102
  • Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8
  • Ruperto Chapi – La Bruja (zarzuela)
  • Gustave Charpentier – Didon (cantata)
  • Felix Draeseke – Sonata for Clarinet (or Violin) and Piano in B♭, Op. 38
  • Antonín Dvořák
    • Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81
    • Mass in D major, Op. 86
  • Gabriel Fauré
    • 2 Songs, Op. 46
    • Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50
  • 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
  • Josef Rheinberger
    • Organ Sonata No. 11 in D minor, op. 148
    • Suite for organ, violin and cello, op. 149
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    • Caprice sur des airs danois et russes, Op. 79
    • Souvenir d'Italie, Op. 80
    • Feuillet d'album, Op. 81
    • Pas redoublé, Op. 86
  • Alexander Scriabin – Étude in C-sharp minor, No. 1 from Trois morceaux, Op. 2
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – An Irish Symphony (Symphony No. 3 in F minor), Op. 28
  • Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata in E♭, Op. 18
  • Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade for string quartet

Opera

  • Aleksandr Borodin – Prince Igor (finished by Rimsky-Korsakov)
  • Emmanuel Chabrier – Le roi malgré lui
  • Charles Edouard Lefebvre – Zaïre premiered in Lille
  • Adolf Neuendorff – Prince Waldmeister
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Proserpine
  • Johann Strauss II – Simplicius
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Otello

Musical theater

  • Dorothy Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on November 5 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on April 16, 1888, for a total run of 51 performances
  • Ruddigore London and Broadway productions

Births

  • January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein, pianist (died 1982)[1]
  • February 3 – Georg Trakl, poet and lyricist (died 1914)[2]
  • February 7 – Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer (died 1983)[3]
  • February 23 – Oskar Lindberg, composer (died 1955)
  • March 3 – Hart Wand, composer, fiddler, bandleader (died 1960)
  • March 4 – Violet MacMillan, Broadway and silent movie actress (died 1953)
  • March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (died 1959)[4]
  • March 7 – Heino Eller, composer (died 1970)
  • March 22 – Chico Marx, piano-playing comedian (died 1961)
  • March 23 – Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist (died 1983)
  • March 25 – Nicolae Bretan, opera composer (died 1968)
  • March 31 – José María Usandizaga, opera and symphonic composer (died 1915)
  • April 9 – Florence Price, composer (died 1953)
  • April 10 – Heinz Tiessen, composer (died 1971)
  • May 12 – Bertha Lewis, operatic contralto (died 1931)
  • May 30 – Emil Reesen, Danish composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1964)
  • June 25 – George Abbott, US librettist and director (died 1995)
  • July 2 – Marcel Tabuteau, oboist (died 1966)
  • July 29 – Sigmund Romberg, composer (died 1951)
  • August 25 – Fartein Valen, composer (died 1952)
  • September 14 – Paul Kochanski, violinist (died 1934)
  • September 15 – Ernest Whitfield, 1st Baron Kenswood, violinist and welfare worker (died 1963)
  • September 16 – Nadia Boulanger, composer, conductor and music teacher (died 1979)[5]
  • September 19 – Rosita Marstini, dancer and film actress (died 1948)
  • October 6 – Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano (died 1982)
  • October 11 – Oscar Shaw, actor and singer (died 1967)
  • October 14 – Ernest Pingoud, composer (died 1942)
  • November 1 – Max Trapp, composer (died 1971)
  • December 6 – Joseph Lamb, ragtime composer (died 1960)
  • December 7 – Ernst Toch, composer (died 1964)
  • December 8 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, musicologist and composer (died 1974)
  • December 12 – Kurt Atterberg, composer (died 1974)
  • December 24 – Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano (died 1960)
  • December 27
    • Gertie Gitana, music hall singer (died 1957)
    • Bernard van Dieren, composer (died 1936)
  • date unknown
    • David Beigelman, violinist (died 1945; in Auschwitz concentration camp)[6]
    • Carlo Jachino, composer (died 1971)

Deaths

  • January 19 – Nelly Power, music hall performer (born 1854)
  • January 30 – Frederick Lablache, singer (born 1815)
  • February 7 – Hanna Brooman, composer, translator and educator (born 1809)
  • February 21 – James Lorraine Geddes, songwriter (born 1827
  • February 27 – Alexander Borodin, composer (born 1833)[7]
  • March 2 – Wilhelm Troszel, operatic bass and composer (born 1823)
  • March 11 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (born 1812)
  • March 24 – Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (born 1819)
  • April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes (born 1832)[8]
  • May 12 – Francesco Malipiero, composer (born 1824)
  • June 1 – Joseph Philip Knight, composer (born 1812)
  • June 24 – Filippo Filippi, music critic (born 1830)
  • July 17 – Louis Mérante, dancer and choreographer (born 1828)
  • August 15 – Hedvig Willman, opera singer (born 1841)
  • August 16 – Alice May, singer and actress (born 1847; "congestion of the brain")[9]
  • October 1 – Robert Stoepel, conductor and composer (born 1821)
  • October 18 – Matteo Salvi, opera composer (born 1816)
  • October 31 – George Alexander Macfarren, composer (born 1813)
  • November 2 – Jenny Lind, singer, "the Swedish Nightingale" (born 1820)[10]
  • November 18 – Eduard Marxsen, pianist and composer (born 1806)
  • December 2 – Thomas Philander Ryder, composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder (born 1836)
  • December 5 – Eliza R. Snow, lyricist (born 1804)
  • date unknown – Georg Unger, operatic tenor (born 1837)

References

  1. ↑ Opus. Warwick Publishing Group. 1999. p. 30.
  2. ↑ Georg Trakl; Robin Skelton (1994). Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems. Broken Jaw Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-921411-22-2.
  3. ↑ Anand Prahlad (2006). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: A-F. Greenwood Press. p. 141. ISBN 978-0-313-33036-0.
  4. ↑ Gerard Béhague; Gérard Henri Béhague (1994). Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-292-70823-5.
  5. ↑ Alan Kendall (1976). The Tender Tyrant, Nadia Boulanger: A Life Devoted to Music : a Biography. Macdonald and Jane's. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-356-08403-9.
  6. ↑ Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidish teater, Book one, column 161
  7. ↑ Overture: The Magazine of the Baltimore Symphony. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Association. 1979. p. 20.
  8. ↑ David Gwenallt Jones. "Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Death of Alice May", The New York Times, 17 August 1887
  10. ↑ Cecilia Jorgensen; Jens Jorgensen (2003). Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale: The Life and Times of Chopin and a Romance Unveiled 154 Years Later. Icons of Europe. p. 89. ISBN 978-2-9600385-0-7.
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