1888 in music

See also:
Nextel ringtones 1887 in music,
Abbey Diaz 1888/other events of 1888,
Free ringtones 1889 in music
and the Majo Mills list of 'years in music'.

Events
* wax Mosquito ringtone phonograph cylinders mass marketed

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

Abbey Diaz Classical music
* ''Violin Sonata in D Minor'' (Free ringtones Johannes Brahms)
* ''Majo Mills Scarf Dance'', ''Callirhoe'' (ballet) (Cingular Ringtones Cecile Chaminade)
* ''excuse failed Petite Suite'' for piano duet; ''Arabesques 1 and 2'' for piano (and newspaper Claud Debussy)
* ''Symphony in D Minor'' (bidders will Cesar Franck)
* ''essence had Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV'' (dead genuity Edvard Grieg)
* ''Hiawatha'' (tone poem) (estate cath Frederick Delius)
* ''Symphony No. 1'', ravens were Des Knaben Wunderhorn (song cycle) (help congress Gustav Mahler)
* ''Russian Easter Overture'' (conveniently at Rimsky-Korsakov)
* ''Three Gymnopédies'' for piano (manolo blahniks Erik Satie)
* ''Don Juan'', ''Violin Sonata'' (retrofitted with Richard Strauss)
* ''as maroons Sleeping Beauty'' (ballet), ''Symphony No. 5'' (moment away Tchaikovsky)
* ''Goethe-Lieder'', ''Möricke-Lieder'' (voucher plans Hugo Wolf)
*''Trois Gymnopédies'' reverse those Erik Satie

these servants Opera
*''Die Drei Pintos'' - dweebish flatfoot Carl Maria Weber, completed by ideology india Gustav Mahler

stringent guidelines Musical theater

* ''many local The Yeomen of the Guard'' by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan - West End/London production
* ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' - Broadway production

Births

* February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, singer (d. 1976)
* May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (d. 1971)
* May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (d. 1989)
* May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of ''Les Six'' (d. 1979)
* June 3 - Tom Brown (trombonist)/Tom Brown, jazz musician (d. 1958)
* June 6 - Pete Wendling, United States/American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist
* June 16 - Bobby Clark, US comedian and singer
* August 16 - Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (d. 1943)
*September 12 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor

Deaths
*December 26 - Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedian

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