"L'etranger"
Jan 7 Vincent d'Indy's opera "L'etranger" premieres in Brussels
- Jan 13 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown, Pennsylvania killing 170
Bruckner's 9th Symphony
Feb 11 Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony premieres by the Wiener Concertvereinsorchester, under conductor Ferdinand Löwe, in his own unauthorized arrangement, at Wiener Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, Austria
In Dahomey
Feb 18 "In Dahomey" the first African American musical to perform on Broadway opens at the New York Theater, starring George Walker and Bert Williams with music by Will Marion Cook
- Jun 12 The Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity is founded at the University of Michigan School of Music
- Oct 13 Victor Herbert and by Glen MacDonough's operetta "Babes in Toyland" premieres at Majestic Theater, New York City
- Nov 15 Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague
- Nov 16 V Herbert & H Smith's musical "Babette" premieres in NYC
Caruso's MET Debut
Nov 23 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto"
Die Neugierigen Frauen
Nov 27 Opera "Die Neugierigen Frauen" by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is produced in Munich
- Dec 27 "Sweet Adeline", a barbershop quartet favorite, with lyrics by Richard Husch Gerard and music by Harry Armstrong, is first sung
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