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Events
- February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann debuts in Paris
- November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest
- December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna
Published popular music
- "Loch Lomond"
- "Good Bye!" by Francesco Paolo Tosti
- "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"
- "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root
Classical music
- Victor Bendix - Symphony No. 1 in C op. 16 Mountain Climbing
- Alexander Borodin - String Quartet #2 in D
- Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture op. 81 revised; Nänie op. 82
- Max Bruch - Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra finished
- Gabriel Fauré & André Messager - Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville
- César Franck - Rébecca (oratorio)
- Franz Liszt - Nuages Gris
- Giuseppe Martucci - Fantasia for piano op. 51
- Camille Saint-Saëns - Septet op. 65 for piano, trumpet and strings; Hymne à Victor Hugo
- Charles-Marie Widor - First Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 50 ([1])
Opera
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Joan Of Arc
- Leoš Janáček - Šárka
Musical theater
- Les contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach) - Paris production
- The Mascot (La Mascotte) Broadway production opened at the Bijou Theatre on May 5
- Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) - London production opened at the Opera-Comique Theatre on April 23 and transferred to the Savoy Theatre on October 10 for a total run of 578 performances
Births
- January 4 (or 5) - Nikolai Roslavets, Ukrainian composer (d. 1944)
- February 6 - Karl Weigl, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
- March 16 - Ernie Hare, US singer
- March 18 - Paul Le Flem, French composer (d. 1984)
- March 23 - Egon Petri, pianist (d. 1962)
- March 25 - Béla Bartók
- April 20 - Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer and teacher of Polish birth (d. 1950)
- May 11 - Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (d. 1944)
- August 15 - Ted Snyder, US composer and music publisher
- August 29 - Edvin Kallstenius, Swedish composer (d. 1967)
- August 19 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
- November 22 - Ethel Levey, US singer, dancer & actress
- November 28 - Stefan Zweig, librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)
- December 3 - Henry Fillmore
- December 24 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer and songwriter
- unknown date - David John Thomas, Welsh composer
Deaths
- January 30 - Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Belgian, organist and composer (b. 1823)
- March 23 - Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1835)
- March 28 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer
- June 5 - Franjo Krežma, violinist and composer
- June 6 - Henri Vieuxtemps (b. 1820)
- July 3 - Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone (b. 1819)
- September 7 - Sidney Lanier, poet and flautist (b. 1842)
- October 9 - Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher (b. 1824)
- November 25 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
- December 17 - Giulio Briccialdi, composer (b. 1818)
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