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EVENTS

Thomas Edison invents the Phonograph .

Richard Wagner conducts in London.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky marries Antonina Milyukova .

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

" Abdulla Bulbul Ameer " w.m. Percy French

"Captain Cuff" w.m. G. W. Hunt

" Chopstics " m. Arthur de Lulli

"Dear Old Pals" w.m. G. W. Hunt

"Early In De Mornin'" w.m. Will Hays

"In The Gloaming" w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison (Words 1874)

"Little Daisy's Request" by Arabella M. Root

"The Lost Chord" w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan (Words 1858)

"My Name Is John Wellington Wells" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"Phelim O'Toole" by Harry Banks

"Time Was When Love And I Were Well Acquainted" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Johannes Brahms - '' Symphony No. 2 op. 73 in D''

Anton Bruckner - '' Symphony No. 3 in D minor'' (Novak edition)

Felix Draeseke - ''Fata Morgana'', op 13

Antonín Dvořák - ''String Quartet no. 9 op. 34 in D minor''

César Franck - ''Lesson Eolides''

Robert Fuchs - ''Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 20 in F# minor''

Karl Goldmark - ''Violin Concerto no. 1 op. 28 in A minor''

Edouard Lalo - '' Cello Concerto ''

Joachim Raff - ''Violin Concerto no. 2 op. 206 in A minor''

Josef Rheinberger - ''Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 105 in E minor''

Camille Saint-Saëns - ''La Jeunesse d'Hercule''

OPERA

Emmanuel Chabrier - ''Jean Hunyade''

Peter Heise - ''Monarch and Constable''

Jules Massenet - '' Le Roi De Lahore ''

Camille Saint-Saëns - '' Samson Et Dalila ''

Charles Villiers Stanford - ''The Veiled Prophet of Khorossan''

MUSICAL THEATER

'' La Belle Hélène '', New York production

'' Les Cloches De Corneville '' by Robert Planquette , Paris production opened at the Folies-Dramatique on April 19 and ran for 408 performances

'' Le Grand Mogol '', Marseilles production

'' Orpheus In The Underworld '' by Jacques Offenbach , London production

'' The Sorcerer '', Gilbert & Sullivan London production opened at the Opera Comique on November 17 and ran for 175 performances

BIRTHS

February 16 - Sergei Bortkiewicz , Russia n composer and pianist (d. 1952)

April 24 - Blanche Ring , US singer and actress

May 25 - Billy Murray , singer

July 17 - Edward Madden , US lyric writer

July 27 - Ernö Dohnányi , Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1960)

August 16 - Karl Hoschna , Bohemian-born US composer

September 6 - Buddy Bolden

November 21 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert , German composer, d. 1933

DEATHS

June 3 - Ludwig Ritter Von Köchel , cataloguer of the works of Mozart

September 12 - Julius Rietz , German cellist, composer and teacher, editor of an edition of Mendelssohn's complete works (b. 1812)