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.
Published popular music "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 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 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 Peter Tchaikovsky - The Enchantress 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) February 3 – Georg Trakl, poet and lyricist (died 1914) February 7 – Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer (died 1983) 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) 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) 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)Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidish teater, Book one, column 161 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) March 2 – Wilhelm Troszel, operatic bass and composer (born 1823) 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) May 12 – Francesco Malipiero, composer (born 1824) May 23 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (born 1812) 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")"Death of Alice May", The New York Times, 17 August 1887 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) 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)
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