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1887 in music
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1887 music film
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 Eflat, 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 Eflat, 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)Opus https://books.google.com/books?id=2EM9AQAAIAAJ 1999 Warwick Publishing Group 30
February 3 – Georg Trakl, poet and lyricist (died 1914)Georg Trakl Robin Skelton Dark Seasons: A Selection of Poems https://books.google.com/books?id=q5SLUMh-2gcC&pg=PA9 1994 Broken Jaw Press 978-0-921411-22-2 9
February 7 – Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer (died 1983)Anand Prahlad The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore: A-F https://books.google.com/books?id=nanWAAAAMAAJ 2006 Greenwood Press 978-0-313-33036-0 141
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)Gerard Béhague Gérard Henri Béhague Heitor Villa-Lobos: The Search for Brazil's Musical Soul https://books.google.com/books?id=tGQIAQAAMAAJ 1994 Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin 978-0-292-70823-5 2
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)Alan Kendall The Tender Tyrant, Nadia Boulanger: A Life Devoted to Music : a Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=nK4QAQAAMAAJ 1976 Macdonald and Jane's 978-0-356-08403-9 8
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)Overture: The Magazine of the Baltimore Symphony https://books.google.com/books?id=0uZLAAAAYAAJ 1979 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Association 20
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)s-HUGH-CEI-1832 Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet David Gwenallt Jones 2 November 2020
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)Cecilia Jorgensen Jens Jorgensen Chopin and the Swedish Nightingale: The Life and Times of Chopin and a Romance Unveiled 154 Years Later https://books.google.com/books?id=FhgXAQAAIAAJ 2003 Icons of Europe 978-2-9600385-0-7 89
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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