1887 in music

1887 in music By location

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Overview of the events of 1887 in music

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## Specific locations

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* 1887 in Norwegian music

## Events

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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.

## Published popular music

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* "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

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* 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
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov \- Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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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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