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Overview of the events of 1887 in music
Overview of the events of 1887 in music
Specific locations
Events
25 May – A fire during the 745th performance there of Mignon Opéra-Comique in Paris; 84 people are recorded dead.
Published popular music
Isaac Albéniz
Sonatas Nos. 3, 4 and 5 for piano
Concierto fantástico in A minor Johannes Brahms – Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra , Op. 102Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 Ruperto Chapi – La Bruja (zarzuela)Gustave Charpentier – Didon (cantata)Felix Draeseke – Sonata for Clarinet (or Violin) and Piano in B♭, Op. 38Antonín Dvořák – Piano Quintet No. 2 in A , Op. 81Gabriel Fauré
Robert Fuchs – Symphony No. 2 in E♭ Edvard Grieg – Third Sonata for Violin and Piano in C minor, opus 45Asger Hamerik – Requiem Sergei Lyapunov – Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 12José Vianna da Motta – Piano Concerto in A majorHans Pfitzner – Scherzo in C minorJosef Rheinberger
Organ Sonata No. 11 in D minor, op. 148
Suite for organ, violin and cello, op. 149 Camille Saint-Saëns
Alexander Scriabin – Étude in C-sharp minor , No. 1 from Trois morceaux , Op. 2Charles Villiers Stanford – An Irish Symphony (Symphony No. 3 in F minor), Op. 28Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata in E♭ , Op. 18Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade
Opera
Births
January 28 – Arthur Rubinstein , pianist (died 1982)February 3 – Georg Trakl , poet and lyricist (died 1914)February 7 – Eubie Blake , jazz pianist and composer (died 1983)February 23 – Oskar Lindberg , composer (died 1955)March 3 – Hart Wand , composer, fiddler, bandleader (died 1960)March 4 – Violet MacMillan , Broadway and silent movie actress (died 1953)March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer (died 1959)March 7 – Heino Eller , composer (died 1970)March 22 – Chico Marx , piano-playing comedian (died 1961)March 23 – Anthony van Hoboken , musicologist (died 1983)March 25 – Nicolae Bretan , opera composer (died 1968 )March 31 – José María Usandizaga , opera and symphonic composer (died 1915 )April 9 – Florence Price , composer (died 1953 )April 10 – Heinz Tiessen , composer (died 1971)May 12 – Bertha Lewis , operatic contralto (died 1931 )May 30 – Emil Reesen , Danish composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1964)June 25 – George Abbott , US librettist and director (died 1995)July 2 – Marcel Tabuteau , oboist (died 1966)July 29 – Sigmund Romberg , composer (died 1951)August 25 – Fartein Valen , composer (died 1952)September 14 – Paul Kochanski , violinist (died 1934)September 15 – Ernest Whitfield, 1st Baron Kenswood , violinist and welfare worker (died 1963 )September 16 – Nadia Boulanger , composer, conductor and music teacher (died 1979)September 19 – Rosita Marstini , dancer and film actress (died 1948)October 6 – Maria Jeritza , operatic soprano (died 1982)October 11 – Oscar Shaw , actor and singer (died 1967)November 1 – Max Trapp , composer (died 1971)December 6 – Joseph Lamb , ragtime composer (died 1960)December 7 – Ernst Toch , composer (died 1964)December 8 – Vicente Emilio Sojo , musicologist and composer (died 1974)December 12 – Kurt Atterberg , composer (died 1974)December 24 – Lucrezia Bori , operatic soprano (died 1960)December 27
date unknown
Deaths
January 19 – Nelly Power , music hall performer (born 1854 )January 30 – Frederick Lablache , singer (born 1815 )February 7 – Hanna Brooman , composer, translator and educator (born 1809 )February 21 – James Lorraine Geddes , songwriterFebruary 27 – Alexander Borodin , composer (born 1833 )March 2 – Wilhelm Troszel , operatic bass and composer (born 1823 )March 11 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman , composer (born 1812 )March 24 – Justin Holland , classical guitarist and civil rights activist (born 1819 )April 23 – John Ceiriog Hughes , lyricist and collector of folk tunes (born 1832 )May 12 – Francesco Malipiero , composer (born 1824 )June 24 – Filippo Filippi , music critic (born 1830 )July 17 – Louis Mérante , dancer and choreographer (born 1828 )August 15 – Hedvig Willman , opera singer (born 1841 )August 16 – Alice May , singer and actress (born 1847 ; "congestion of the brain")[ 2] October 1 – Robert Stoepel , conductor and composer (born 1821 )October 18 – Matteo Salvi , opera composer (born 1816 )October 31 – George Alexander Macfarren , composer (born 1813 )November 2 – Jenny Lind , singer, "the Swedish Nightingale" (born 1820 )November 18 – Eduard Marxsen , pianist and composer (born 1806 )December 2 – Thomas Philander Ryder , composer, organist, teacher, conductor, and organ builder (born 1836 )December 5 – Eliza R. Snow , lyricist (born 1804 )date unknown – Georg Unger , operatic tenor (born 1837 )
References
^ Zalmen Zylbercweig, Leksikon fun Yidish teater, Book one, column 161
^ "Death of Alice May" , The New York Times , 17 August 1887
