1887 in 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 (1850 - 1929, West Chester, NY).
- "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"
- Isaac Albéniz
- Sonata for piano Nos. 3, 4 and 5
- Concierto fantástico in A minor
- Johannes Brahms - Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 102
- Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 (Bruckner)
- 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
- 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
- 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
Births
- January 28 - Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
- February 7 - Eubie Blake, jazz pianist and composer
- February 23 - Oskar Lindberg, composer (died 1955)
- March 3 - Hart Wand, composer, fiddler, bandleader
- March 4 - Violet MacMillan, Broadway star
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (died 1959)
- March 7 - Heino Eller, composer (died 1970)
- March 22 - Chico Marx, piano-playing comedian
- March 23 - Anthony van Hoboken, musicologist
- 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
- July 2 - Marcel Tabuteau, oboist
- July 29 - Sigmund Romberg, composer (died 1951)
- August 25 - Fartein Valen, composer
- September 14 - Paul Kochanski, violinist
- 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
- October 6 - Maria Jeritza, operatic soprano
- October 11 - Oscar Shaw, actor and singer
- November 1 - Max Trapp, composer (died 1971)
- December 6 - Joseph Lamb
- December 7 - Ernst Toch, composer
- December 8 - Vicente Emilio Sojo, musicologist and composer
- December 12 - Kurt Atterberg, composer (died 1974)
- December 24 - Lucrezia Bori, operatic soprano
- December 27
- date unknown
Deaths
- January 19 - Nelly Power, music hall performer (born 1854)
- January 30 - Frederick Lablache, singer (born 1815)
- February 21 - James Lorraine Geddes, songwriter
- February 27 - Alexander Borodin, composer (born 1833)
- March 2 - Wilhelm Troszel, operatic bass and composer (born 1823)
- March 11 - Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (born 1812)
- April 23 - John Ceiriog Hughes, lyricist and collector of folk tunes (born 1832)
- May 12 - Francesco Malipiero, composer (born 1824)
- 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")[2]
- 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)
References
- ↑ Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidish teater, Book one, column 161
- ↑ "Death of Alice May", The New York Times, 17 August 1887
