1885 in music
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Events in the year 1885 in music.
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Events
- October 25 â Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 is premiered in Meiningen
- Tin Pan Alley group of popular songwriters and publishers' forms in New York City
Published popular music
- "American Patrol" m. F. W. Meacham
- "The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery" w.m. George Ware
- "Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas
- "Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly" w. G. W. Hunter & John Cooke Jnr m. G. W. Hunter
- "Open Road" Johann Strauss II
- "Raise me, Jesus, to thy bosom," w. by George Birdseye, m. by William A. Huntley[1][2]
- "Saffi's Aria" Johann Strauss II
- "Some Sweet Day" by Edward L. Park & William Howard Doane
- "This Is The House That Jerry Built" w. T. S. Lonsdale m. W. G. Eaton
- "What Cheer 'Ria" w. Will Herbert m. Bessie Bellwood
- From the score of The Mikado:
- "A More Humane Mikado" ("Let the Punishment fit the Crime")
- "The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring"
- "There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast"
- "Three Little Maids From School"
- "A Wand'ring Minstrel I"
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms â Symphony No. 4, Op. 98, in E minor
- George Whitefield Chadwick â String Quartet No. 3 in D[3]
- AntonÃn DvoÅák â Symphony No. 7, Op. 70, in D minor
- Cesar Franck
- Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra
- Danse lente for piano
- Alexander Glazunov â Stenka Razin
- Franz Liszt - Bagatelle sans tonalité
- Camille Saint-Saëns â Violin Sonata No. 1
- Jean Sibelius â String Quartet in E-flat major[4]
- Richard Strauss
- Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13
- Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for horn and orchestra
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky â Manfred Symphony
- José Vianna da Motta â Piano Concerto in A
Opera
- Emmanuel Chabrier â Gwendoline
- Fromental Halévy, completed by Georges Bizet â Noé given its first performance at Karlsruhe.
- Jules Massenet â Le Cid
- André Messager
- Emile Pessard â Tabarin premiered on January 12 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
- Amilcare Ponchielli â Marion Delorme
- George Stephanescu â Scaiul barbatilor
Musical theater
- Edward Jakobowski â Erminie (libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton) London production
- William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan â The Mikado London production
- Johann Strauss II â Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) Vienna production
Births
- January 13 â James V. Monaco, Italian-born US composer (d. 1945)
- January 27 â Jerome Kern, composer and songwriter (d. 1945)
- February 9 â Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935)
- February 12 â James Scott, ragtime composer (d. 1938)
- February 16 â Will Fyffe, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1947)
- March 15 â Bertha Raffetto, American singer (d. 1952)
- May 5 â AgustÃn Barrios, composer (d. 1944)
- May 14 â Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer (d. 1973)
- May 30 â Erna Ellmenreich, German operatic soprano (d. 1976)
- June 13 â John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (d. 1925)
- June 28 â Marino Capicchioni, Italian musical instrument maker (d. 1977)
- July 12 â George Butterworth, composer (d. 1916)
- July 17 â Benjamin Dale, composer (d. 1943)
- August 9 â Pietro Frosini, accordionist (d. 1951)
- October 15 â Therese Wiet, Austrian operetta singer (d. 1971)
- October 21 â Egon Wellesz, Austrian composer (d. 1974)
- October 25 â Sam M. Lewis, US lyricist (d. 1959)
- December 19 â Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
Deaths
- February 15 â Leopold Damrosch, conductor, 52 (complications from a cold)
- March 31 â Franz Abt, composer, 65
- April 24 â Henry Augustus Rawes, hymn-writer, 58
- May â Adolphe Blanc, composer, 56
- May 1 â Henry Brinley Richards, composer, 67
- May 12 â Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, conductor and pianist, 73
- June 20 â Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist, 79[5]
- June 29 â Samuel C. Upham, lyricist, 66
- August 26 â August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer, 74
- September 11 â Julius Zarebski, Polish pianist and composer, 31
- September 13 â Friedrich Kiel, German composer, 63
- October 21 â Michele Novaro, songwriter, 66