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EVENTS

October 25 - Johannes Brahms ' '' Symphony No. 4 '' is premiered in Meiningen .

Tin Pan Alley group of popular song writers & publishers forms in New York City

Gilbert & Sullivan 's '' The Mikado '' premiers in London

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"American Patrol" m. F. W. Meacham

"The Boy In The Gallery" w.m. George Ware

"Coppelia Waltz" by Léo Delibes

"Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas

"The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring" w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly" w. G. W. Hunter & John Cooke Jnr m. G. W. Hunter

"A More Humane Mikado" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"Open Road" Johann Strauss II

"Saffi's Aria" Johann Strauss II

"Some Sweet Day" by Edward L. Park & William Howard Doane

"There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Beast" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"This Is The House That Jerry Built" w. T. S. Lonsdale m. W. G. Eaton

"Three Little Maids From School" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"A Wand'ring Minstrel I" w. William Schwenck Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"What Cheer 'Ria" w. Will Herbert m. Bessie Bellwood

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Alexander Borodin - '' String Quartet No. 2 In D ''

Johannes Brahms - '' Symphony No. 4 Op. 98 In E Minor ''

George Whitefield Chadwick - ''String Quartet No. 3 in D'' ( {Link without Title} )

Antonín Dvořák - '' Symphony No. 7 Op. 70 In D Minor ''

Alexander Glazunov - '' Stenka Razin ''

Jean Sibelius - ''String Quartet in E-flat''

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony

José Vianna Da Motta - ''Piano Concerto in A''

OPERA

Jules Massenet - ''Le Cid''

André Messager - ''La Béarnaise''

Amilcare Ponchielli - ''Marion Delorme''

MUSICAL THEATER

'' Erminie '' - music by Edward Jakobowski , libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton London production

Gilbert & Sullivan - '' The Mikado '' London production

'' Der Zigeunerbaron '' ('' The Gypsy Baron '') Vienna production

BIRTHS

January 13 - James V. Monaco , Italian-born US composer

January 27 - Jerome Kern

February 9 - Alban Berg , composer (d. 1935)

February 12 - James Scott

February 16 - Will Fyffe , Scottish comedian and singer

May 5 - Agustín Barrios , composer

May 14 - Otto Klemperer , conductor and composer

July 12 - George Butterworth , composer

July 17 - Benjamin Dale , composer

October 21 - Egon Wellesz , Austria n composer

October 25 - Sam M. Lewis , US lyricist

December 19 - Joe "King" Oliver , jazz musician (d. 1938)

DEATHS

May 12 - Ferdinand Hiller , German composer, conductor and pianist (b. 1811)

September 11 - Julius Zarebski , Polish pianist and composer (b. 1854)

September 13 - Friedrich Kiel , German composer (b. 1821)