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Events in the year 1885 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1885 in Norwegian music

Events

  • October 25 – Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 is premiered in Meiningen
  • Tin Pan Alley group of popular songwriters and publishers' forms in New York City

right|thumb|200px|"Three Little Maids from School" from Gilbert & Sullivan's "[[The Mikado"]]

  • "American Patrol"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;m. F. W. Meacham
  • "The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. George Ware
  • "Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas
  • "Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. G. W. Hunter & John Cooke Jnr m. G. W. Hunter
  • "Open Road"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Johann Strauss II
  • "Raise me, Jesus, to thy bosom," w. by George Birdseye, m. by William A. Huntley
  • "Saffi's Aria"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Johann Strauss II
  • "Some Sweet Day" by Edward L. Park & William Howard Doane
  • "This Is The House That Jerry Built"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. T. S. Lonsdale m. W. G. Eaton
  • "What Cheer 'Ria"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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 – Symphony No. 4, Op. 98, in E minor
  • George Whitefield Chadwick – String Quartet No. 3 in D
  • Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 7, Op. 70, in D minor
  • Cesar Franck
  • Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra
  • Danse lente for piano
  • Alexander Glazunov – Stenka Razin
  • Charles Gounod – Mors et vita (oratorio)
  • Franz Liszt - Bagatelle sans tonalité
  • Giuseppe Martucci - Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 66 (1884-5)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Violin Sonata No. 1
  • Jean Sibelius – String Quartet in E-flat major
  • Richard Strauss
  • Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13
  • Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for horn and orchestra
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Manfred Symphony
  • José Vianna da Motta – Piano Concerto in A

Opera

  • Emmanuel Chabrier – Gwendoline
  • Fromental Halévy, completed by Georges Bizet – Noé given its first performance at Karlsruhe.
  • Jules Massenet – Le Cid
  • André Messager
  • La fauvette du temple
  • La Béarnaise
  • Emile Pessard – Tabarin premiered on January 12 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
  • Amilcare Ponchielli – Marion Delorme
  • George Stephanescu – Scaiul barbatilor

Musical theater

  • Edward Jakobowski – Erminie (libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton)&nbsp;London production
  • William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan – The Mikado&nbsp;London production
  • Johann Strauss II – Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)&nbsp;Vienna production

Births

  • January 13 – James V. Monaco, Italian-born US composer (d. 1945)
  • January 27 – Jerome Kern, composer and songwriter (d. 1945)
  • February 9 – Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935)
  • February 12 – James Scott, ragtime composer (d. 1938)
  • February 16 – Will Fyffe, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1947)
  • March 15 – Bertha Raffetto, American singer (d. 1952)
  • May 5 – Agustín Barrios, composer (d. 1944)
  • May 14 – Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer (d. 1973)
  • May 30 – Erna Ellmenreich, German operatic soprano (d. 1976)
  • June 13 – John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (d. 1925)
  • June 28 – Marino Capicchioni, Italian musical instrument maker (d. 1977)
  • July 12 – George Butterworth, composer (d. 1916)
  • July 17 – Benjamin Dale, composer (d. 1943)
  • August 9 – Pietro Frosini, accordionist (d. 1951)
  • October 15 – Therese Wiet, Austrian operetta singer (d. 1971)
  • October 21 – Egon Wellesz, Austrian composer (d. 1974)
  • October 25 – Sam M. Lewis, US lyricist (d. 1959)
  • December 19 – Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)

Deaths

  • February 15 – Leopold Damrosch, conductor, 52 (complications from a cold)
  • March 31 – Franz Abt, composer, 65
  • April 24 – Henry Augustus Rawes, hymn-writer, 58
  • May – Adolphe Blanc, composer, 56
  • May 1 – Henry Brinley Richards, composer, 67
  • May 12 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, conductor and pianist, 73
  • June 20 – Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist, 79
  • June 29 – Samuel C. Upham, lyricist, 66
  • August 26 – August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer, 74
  • September 11 – Julius Zarebski, Polish pianist and composer, 31
  • September 13 – Friedrich Kiel, German composer, 63
  • October 21 – Michele Novaro, songwriter, 66

References