1888 in music

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See also: 1887 in music, other events of 1888, 1889 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Musical theater 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• wax phonograph cylinders mass marketed

Published popular music

• "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill"     anon poss Thomas F. Carey
• "Over The Waves" ("Sobre las Olas")     w.m. Juventino Rosas
• "Where Did You Get That Hat?"     w.m. Joseph J. Sullivan
• "The Whistling Coon"     w.m. Sam Devere

Musical theater

• The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan - London production
• The Yeomen of the Guard - Broadway production

Classical music

• Violin Sonata in D Minor (Brahms)
• Scarf Dance, Callirhoe (ballet) (Cecile Chaminade)
• Petite Suite for piano duet; Arabesques 1 and 2 for piano (Debussy)
• Symphony in D Minor (Cesar Franck)
• Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV (Grieg)
• Symphony No. 1, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (song cycle) (Mahler)
• Russian Easter Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• Three Gymnopédies for piano (Erik Satie)
• Don Juan, Violin Sonata (Richard Strauss)
• Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)
• Goethe-Lieder, Moericke-Lieder (Hugo Wolf)

Births

• August 16 - Armand J. Piron

Deaths

• December 26 - Alfred Vance, English Music hall singer and comedian