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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Arthur Sullivan scores his first operetta, Cox and Box.
• The Maple Leaf Forever is written by Alexander Muir.
• March 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos premieres at the Paris Opéra.
• April 12 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein debuts in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés.
• April 27 - Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette debuts at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
• December 26 - Georges Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth premieres at the Théâtre Lyrique.
• September - Premiere of the opera O ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: Spyridon Xyndas, libr. Ioannis Rinopoulos), the first full-scale opera in Greek.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss II
• "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark
• "Croquet" w. C.H. Webb m. John Rogers Thomas
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee
• "Not For Joseph"     w.m. Arthur Lloyd
• "The Moon Is Out To Night, Love" w.m. Will S. Hays
• "Waiting" w. Ellen H. Flagg m. Harrison Millard

[edit] Classical music

• Sir William Sterndale Bennett - The Woman of Samaria (cantata)
• Felix Draeseke
  • Zwei Konzertwalzer, op 4: Nr. 1 in E-flat; Nr. 2 in D-flat
  • Ballade for Cello and Piano in B -
• Hermann Goetz - Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major -

[edit] Opera

• Charles Gounod - Roméo et Juliette
• Édouard Lalo - Fiesque
• Jules Massenet - La Grand'Tante
• Karel Miry
  • Frans Ackermann (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels)
  • Brutus en Cesar (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premièred on October 14, in Ghent)
  • Le Mariage de Marguerite (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)

[edit] Musical theater

• The Contrabandista or The Law of the Ladrones Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand; Music: Arthur Sullivan. London production opened at St. George's Opera House on December 18
• Cox and Box Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand; Music: Arthur Sullivan. London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on May 11 and ran for 300 performances

[edit] Births

• January 20 - Yvette Guilbert, singer, actress (d. 1944)
• January 28 - Eugène Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor (d. 1958)
• March 24 - Guido Menasci, librettist (d. 1925)
• March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor (d. 1957)
• May 6 - Nora Clench, violinist (d. 1938)
• July 27 - Enrique Granados, composer (d. 1916)
• September 5 - Amy Beach, composer (d. 1944)
• November 24 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (d. 1917)

[edit] Deaths

• February 23 - Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor (b. 1776)
• March 16 - Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (b. 1833)
• May 3 - Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, operatic soprano (b. 1812)
• September 10 - Simon Sechter, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1788)
• September 27 - Louis Desiré Veron, opera manager (b. 1798)
• October 3 - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (b. 1777)
• October 9 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, pianist and composer (b. 1807)
• December 2 - Nadezhda Repina, singer and actress (b. 1809)
• December 6 - Giovanni Pacini, composer (b. 1796)