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Overview of the events of 1888 in music
List of years in music
(table )
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1888 .
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Births [ ]
January 20 – Huddie William Ledbetter (Lead Belly ), American folk and blues singer (d. 1949)
January 26 – Lisa Steier , Swedish ballerina (d. 1928)
February 9 – Ernst Mehlich , German-Brazilian conductor and composer (d. 1977)
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 , jazz trombonist (d. 1958)
June 6 – Pete Wendling , American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist (d. 1974)
June 16 – Bobby Clark , American comedian and singer (d. 1960)
June 17 – Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer , Dutch composer (d. 1953)
June 25 – Rosalie Housman , American composer (d. 1949)
August 16 – Armand J. Piron , jazz musician (d. 1943)
September 12 – Maurice Chevalier , French singer and actor (d. 1972)
October 7 – Cecil Coles , composer (d. 1918)
November 16 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet , Uruguayan composer (d. 1957)
November 23 – Harpo Marx , American comedian, film star, mime artist and musician (d. 1964)
December 28 – Gabriel von Wayditch , American composer of operas (d. 1969)
Deaths [ ]
January 5 – Henri Herz , pianist and composer, 84
January 14 – Stephen Heller , pianist and composer, 74
February 7 – Aurore von Haxthausen , pianist and composer
February 22 – Jean-Delphin Alard , violinist and music teacher, 72
March 10 – Ciro Pinsuti , pianist and composer, 58
March 21 – Thomas German Reed , composer and theatre manager, 72
March 29 – Charles-Valentin Alkan , French pianist and composer, 74 (killed in freak accident, trapped beneath a falling coat-rack)
April 21 – Julius Weissenborn , bassoonist, 51
June 13 – Timoteo Pasini , Italian composer, conductor, and pianist, 59
August 8 – Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns , composer, music teacher and cataloguer, 79
August 31 – Blanche Cole , operatic soprano, 37 (dropsy)
November 17 – Jakob Dont , violinist and composer, 73
December 2 – Franz Xaver Witt , church musician and composer, 54
December 26 – Alfred Vance , English music hall singer and comedian, 49 (died on stage)
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