1886 in music
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Events
Published popular music
- Eugen d'Albert â Symphony op. 4 in F
- Anton Arensky â Margarite Gautier, Fantasia for Orchestra, op. 9
- Johannes Brahms â Cello Sonata No. 2 op. 99 in F, Violin Sonata No. 2 op. 100 in A, Piano Trio No. 3 op. 101 in C minor
- Charles Bordes â Paysages Tristes (song cycle)
- George Whitefield Chadwick â Symphony No. 2 op. 21 in B-flat (revision)
- Felix Draeseke â String Quartet No. 2 op. 35 in E minor, Piano Concerto op. 36 in E-flat, Symphony No. 3 in C major Tragica
- Gabriel Fauré â Piano Quartet No. 2 op. 45 in G minor
- Arthur Foote â In the Mountains (tone poem)
- César Franck â Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major
- Alexander Glazunov â Five Novelettes for String Quartet, Op. 15, Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (To the Memory of Liszt)
- Vincent d'Indy â Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
- Hans Pfitzner â String Quartet in D minor
- Josef Rheinberger â String Quartet No. 2, Op. 147 in F
- Camille Saint-Saëns â The Carnival of the Animals, Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
- Charles Villiers Stanford â Piano Quintet op. 25 in D minor
- Ludwig Thuille â Symphony
- Emil Waldteufel â España
- Charles-Marie Widor â Symphony No. 2, Op. 54
- John Philip Sousa â "The Gladiator" March
- Richard Strauss â Aus Italien
- Bernard Zweers â Symphony No. 3
Births
- January 9 â Lloyd Loar, American sound engineer and instrument designer (d. 1943)
- January 22 â John J. Becker, American composer and editor (of Charles Ives' music) (d. 1961)
- January 25 â Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (d. 1954)
- March 3 â R. O. Morris, British composer, teacher of Michael Tippett among others (d. 1948)
- April 26 â Ma Rainey, blues singer (d. 1939)
- April 30 â Frank Merrick, British pianist and composer (d. 1981)
- May 3 â Marcel Dupré, French composer and organist (d. 1971)
- May 4 â Shelton Brooks, Canadian-African American-song composer (d. 1975)
- May 13 â Joseph Achron, Lithuanian Jewish composer (d. 1943)
- May 24 â Paul Paray, conductor and composer (d. 1979)
- May 26 â Al Jolson, singer and actor (d. 1950)
- May 28 â Nikolai Sokoloff, Russian-American conductor and violinist (d. 1965)
- June 9 â Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (d. 1965)
- June 12 â E. Ray Goetz, US songwriter (d. 1954)
- June 13 â Art Hickman, US bandleader (d. 1930)
- July 4 â Heinrich Kaminski, German composer (d. 1946)
- August 5 â Carlo Giorgio Garofalo, Italian composer and organist (d. 1962)
- August 8 â Pietro Yon, Italian composer and organist, emigrated to US (d. 1943)
- August 19 â Robert Heger, German composer and conductor (d. 1978)
- August 27
- Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist (d. 1979)
- Eric Coates, English composer and conductor (d. 1957)
- August 31 â L. Wolfe Gilbert, Russian-born US songwriter (d. 1970)
- September 1 â Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer (d. 1957)
- September 11 â Launy Grøndahl, Danish composer and conductor (d. 1960)
- September 25 â Jesús Guridi, composer (d. 1961)
- October 1 â Ali-Naqi Vaziri, composer (d. 1979)
- October 6 â Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- November 6 â Gus Kahn, German-born US lyric writer (d. 1941)
- December 25 â Kid Ory, jazz musician (d. 1973)
Deaths
- January 16
- Joseph Maas, operatic tenor (b. 1847)
- Amilcare Ponchielli, opera composer (b. 1834)
- February 16 â Louis Köhler, conductor, composer and piano teacher (b. 1820)
- March 23 â Max Wolff, composer (b. 1840)
- March 27 â Dobri Chintulov, poet, teacher and composer (b. 1822)
- March 31
- Marie Heilbron, operatic soprano (b. c. 1851)
- Giovanni Rossi, composer, conductor, organist, and conservatory director (b. 1828)
- April 13 â Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
- July 23 â Emil Scaria, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1838)
- July 31 â Franz Liszt, pianist and composer (b. 1811)
- August 17 â John Woodcock Graves, composer (b. 1795)
- September 10 â John Liptrot Hatton, composer (b. 1809)
- September 14 â Hubert Ries, violinist and composer (b. 1802)
- October 15 â Vilhelm Christian Holm, composer (b. 1820)
- November 20 â Róza Laborfalvi, actress and singer (b. 1817)
- date unknown
- Sonya Adler, actress and singer (complications following childbirth)
- Heraclio Fernández, composer and journalist (b. 1851)
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