1886 in music

See also: 1885 in music, other events of 1886, 1887 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Musical theater 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

Published popular music

• "The Gladiators" m. John Philip Sousa
• "Johnny Get Your Gun" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld
• "Semper Fidelis" m. John Philip Sousa
• "Somebody's Mother (The Song of All Mothers)" by James W. Wheeler
• "Two Lovely Black Eyes, Oh, What a Surprise" w. Charles Coborn m. Edmund Forman

Musical theater

• Dorothy, London production
• Erminie, Broadway production
• The Queen of Hearts, Broadway production

Births

• January 25 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (d. 1954)
• April 26 - Ma Rainey
• May 26 - Al Jolson (d. 1950)
• June 12 - E. Ray Goetz, US songwriter
• June 13 - Art Hickman, US bandleader
• August 31 - L. Wolfe Gilbert, Russian-born US songwriter
• October 6 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
• December 25 - Kid Ory, jazz musician (d. 1973)

Deaths

• January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, opera composer
• July 31 - Franz Liszt