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EVENTS

Modest Mussorgsky begins work on '' Boris Godunov '', which is completed six years later

Johannes Brahms completes his Orchestra l and Choral work, ''Ein deutsches Requiem'' (Opus 25)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams") is first performed in Moscow ( February 3 )

Richard Wagner 's Opera '' Die Meistersinger '' debuts in Munich 's Hoftheater ( June 21 )

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"Come Back To Erin" by Claribel

"Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" w. J.E. Carpenter m. W.T. Wrighton

"I Cannot Sing The Old Songs" w.m. Claribel (Charlotte Alington Charles Barnard )

"Little Footsteps" w. Michael Bennett Leavitt m. James A. Barney

"The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee (first published the previous year)

"Sweet Bye and Bye" w. S. Fillmore m. Joseph P. Webster

"Walking In The Zoo" w. Hugh Willoughby Sweny m. Alfred Lee

"The Whispering Hope" by Septimus Winner

"The Widow In The Cottage By The Sea" w.m. Charles A. White

"Yield Not To Temptation" w.m. Horatio R. Palmer

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Jean-Baptiste Accolay - ''Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor''

Georges Bizet - ''Variations chromatiques de concert'' for piano

Ignaz Brüll - ''Piano Concerto No. 2 in C'', op. 24

Peter Tchaikovsky - '' Song Without Words ''

OPERA

Arrigo Boito - ''Mefistofele''

Jacques Offenbach - ''The Island of Tulipatan''

Gaetano Braga - ''Ruy Blas''

BIRTHS

January 26 - Juventino Rosas , Composer , band leader

April 19 - Max Von Schillings , Composer , Conductor

August 7 - Granville Bantock , Composer

August 21 - Vess Ossman , Ragtime Banjo artist

November 24 - Scott Joplin , US composer and pianist

DEATHS

January 3 - Moritz Hauptmann , composer

February 25 - Sophie Schröder , actress and singer

November 13 - Gioacchino Rossini , Composer

''date unknown'' - Samuel Lover , songwriter

''date unknown'' - Berl Broder , singer/troubadour