Events in Music History in 1888

Music History

Feb 28 Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein trilogy, premieres

  • Mar 10 1st performance of Caesar Franck's symphonic poem for chorus and orchestra "Psyché"
  • Mar 20 Premiere of the very first Romani language operetta staged in Moscow, Russia
  • Apr 11 The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated
  • May 7 Édouard Lalo's opera "Le roi d'Ys" premieres in Paris
  • Jun 29 First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's "Israel in Egypt" on wax cylinder
  • Nov 3 Concertgebouw Orchestra debuts in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, under the baton of founding conductor Willem Kes

Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony

Nov 17 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky' conducts the premiere of his 5th Symphony at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia