Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 26 January:   LISA STEIER = Swedish ballerina = [died: 1928]
• 9 February:   ERNST MEHLICH = German-Brazilian conductor and composer = [died: 1977]
• 27 February:   LOTTE LEHMANN = German singer = [died: 1976]
• 10 May:   MAX STEINER = Austrian-born American composer = [died: 1971]
• 11 May:   IRVING BERLIN = Russian-born American composer = [died: 1989]
• 27 May:   LOUIS DUREY = French composer, member of Les Six = [died: 1979]
• 3 June:   TOM BROWN = American jazz musician = [died: 1958]
• 6 June:   PETE WENDLING = American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist = died: 1974]
• 16 June:   BOBBY CLARK = American comedian and singer = [died: 1960]
• 16 August:   ARMAND J. PIRON = American jazz musician = [died: 1943]
• 12 September:   MAURICE CHEVALIER = French singer and actor = [died: 1972]
• 7 October:   CECIL COLES = Scottish composer = [died: 1918]
• 28 December:   GABRIEL VON WAYDITCH = American composer of operas = [died: 1969]

Timeline of Musical Events

• July: first performance of The Internationale in Lille, France


• Undated:
• Wax phonograph cylinders are mass marketed.
• HAMISH MacCUNN marries ALISON, daughter of JOHN PETTIE, RA.

Published Popular Music

• "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" = by (anon) possibly THOMAS F. CASEY
• "Over The Waves" ("Sobre las Olas") = lyrics & music by JUVENTINO ROSAS
• "Where Did You Get That Hat?" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN
• "The Whistling Coon" = lyrics & music by SAM DEVERE

Classical Music

• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Violin Sonata in D Minor (opus 108)
• CÉCILE CHAMINADE
• Scarf Dance, Callirhoe (ballet)
• CLAUDE DEBUSSY
• Arabesque No. 1, L. 66 for piano
• FREDERICK DELIUS
• Hiawatha (tone poem)
• CÉSAR FRANCK
• Symphony in D Minor
• EDVARD GRIEG
• Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV
• Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46
• GUSTAV MAHLER
• Symphony No. 1, Lieder aus "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" (song collection)
• CARL NIELSEN
• Suite for String Orchestra
• IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI
• Piano Concerto in A minor
• MAX REGER
• String Quartet in D minor (with double bass obbligato; without op.) (1888-9)
• JOSEPH RHEINBERGER
• Organ Sonata No. 12 in D-flat, Op. 154
• NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
• Russian Easter Festival Overture
• ERIK SATIE
• Three Gymnopédies for piano
• RICHARD STRAUSS
• Don Juan, Macbeth (first version)
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
• Symphony No. 5
• HUGO WOLF
• Goethe-Lieder
• Mörike-Lieder

Opera

• KAREL MIRY
• La Napolitaine (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. de Bruyne, premiered on 25 February in Antwerp)
• EMILE PESSARD
• Tartarin sur les Alpes (premiered on 17 November at the Théâtre de la Gaîté, Paris)
• CARL MARIA VON WEBER, completed by GUSTAV MAHLER
• Die Drei Pintos

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 3 October 1888 @ the Savoy Theatre, London
• THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD [Original "London" production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 30 November 1889               Performance Count: 423


• Opening: 17 October 1888 @ Casino Theatre, New York
• THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD [Authorised American production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 18 January 1889               Performance Count: 100