1884 in music

Events

September 27 - The Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest opens.
late December - Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 of is premiered in Leipzig, bringing the composer his first great success.

"Oh My Darling, Clementine" w.m. Percy Montrose
"The Coon's Salvation Army" by Sam Lucas
"The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" w.m. Ed Haley
"The Golden Wedding" m. Gabriel-Marie
"Love's Old Sweet Song" w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lynam Molloy
"March of the Plumed Knight" by Charles B. Morrell & William Howard Doane
"My Thoughts Are of Thee" by Sam Lucas
"Otchi Tchorniya" by Y. P. Grebyonka & F. Hermann
"Rest, Comrades, Rest (Memorial Hymn)" by O. B. Ormsby
"Rock-a-bye Baby" w.m. Effie I. Canning
"When the Heather Blooms Again" by Frances Jane Crosby & William Howard Doane

	Manon! avez-vous peur...On l'appelle Manon From Manon (1884), performed by Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in 1912.
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Adonis Broadway production opened at the Bijou Theatre on September 4 and ran for 603 performances
The Beggar Student London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on April 12 and ran for 112 performances
The Grand Mogul London production
Princess Ida London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5 and ran for 246 performances
Princess Ida Broadway production opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on February 11 and ran for 48 performances

January 13 - Sophie Tucker, singer
February 22 - York Bowen, pianist and composer (died 1961)
March 17 - Alcide Nunez, clarinetist
March 18 - Joe Burke, pianist, composer and actor (died 1950)
April 23 - Jurgis Karnavičius, composer (died 1941)
May 19 - Arthur Meulemans, composer (died 1966)
May 27 - Max Brod, author, composer and journalist (died 1968)
August 13 - Edwin Grasse, composer and violinist (died 1954)
September 6 - Emerson Whithorne (birth name Emerson Whittern), composer and historian (died 1958)
September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, composer (died 1920)
September 24 - Jonny Heykens, composer and orchestra leader (died 1945)
November 1 - David Roitman, hazzan and composer (died 1943)
November 6
- May Brahe, composer and songwriter (died 1956)
- Ludomir Rozycki, composer (d. 1953)
November 23 - Guy Bolton, English librettist
November 30 - Ture Rangström, composer (died 1947)
December 29 - Foster Adolph Reynolds, Brass instrument maker (died 1960 at work)
date unknown - Alfred Reynolds, English composer (d. 1969)

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