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EVENTS

Giacomo Meyerbeer 's Opera '' L'Africaine '' is posthumously debuted in Paris at the Grand Opéra ( April 28 )

Richard Wagner 's Opera '' Tristan Und Isolde '' debuts in Munich at the Court Opera ( June 10 )

Franz Von Suppé 's Operetta ''Die schöne Galathee'' debuts in Vienna 's Carl-Theater ( September 9 )

Franz Schubert 's '' Unfinished Symphony '' debuts posthumously in Vienna ( December 17 )

PUBLISHED POPULAR SONGS

"Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker

" Marching Through Georgia " w.m. Henry Clay Work

"Roll Jordan Roll" traditional spiritual

"Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" w.m. George Frederick Root

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Elfrida Andrée - ''Piano quintet in E minor''

Johannes Brahms - ''Trio for violin, horn and piano op. 40''

Felix Draeseke - ''Lacrimosa''

Antonín Dvořák - '' Symphony No. 1 (The Bells Of Zlonice) '', also ''Cello concerto no. 1 in A major'' (later reconstructed by Günter Raphael and by Jaromir Burghauser

Edvard Grieg - ''Piano sonata op. 7 in E minor'', ''Violin sonata no. 1 op. 8''

Franz Liszt - ''Missa Choralis''

MUSICAL THEATER

'' Orpheus In The Underworld '', London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on December 26 and ran for 76 performances

BIRTHS

May 9 - August De Boeck , Belgian Composer (d. 1937)

June 9

--- Carl Nielsen , composer (d. 1931)

--- Albéric Magnard , composer (d. 1914)

July 21 - Robert Kahn , composer (d. 1951)

August 10 - Alexander Glazunov , composer (d. 1936)

October 1 - Paul Dukas , composer (d. 1935)

October 14 - Walter B. Rogers

December 3 - Gustav Jenner , composer (d. 1920)

December 8 - Jean Sibelius , composer (d. 1957)

December 25 - Fay Templeton , US singer and actress

DEATHS

April 1 - Giuditta Pasta , opera singer

October 12 - William Vincent Wallace , composer

Henry Brinley Richards , composer

Felice Romani , librettist for Donizetti and Bellini