1881 in music
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Events

• February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann debuts in Paris
• November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest
• December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna

Published popular music

• "Loch Lomond"
• "Good Bye!" by Francesco Paolo Tosti
• "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"
• "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root

Classical music

• Victor Bendix - Symphony No. 1 in C op. 16 Mountain Climbing
• Alexander Borodin - String Quartet #2 in D
• Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture op. 81 revised; Nänie op. 82
• Max Bruch - Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra finished
• César Franck - Rébecca (oratorio)
• Franz Liszt - Nuages Gris
• Giuseppe Martucci - Fantasia for piano op. 51
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Septet op. 65 for piano, trumpet and strings; Hymne à Victor Hugo
• Charles-Marie Widor - First Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 50 ([1])

Opera

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Joan Of Arc
• Leoš Janáček - Šárka

Musical theater

• Les contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach) -      Paris production
• The Mascot (La Mascotte) Broadway production opened at the Bijou Theatre on May 5
• Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) -      London production opened at the Opera-Comique Theatre on April 23 and transferred to the Savoy Theatre on October 10 for a total run of 578 performances

Births

• January 4 (or 5) - Nikolai Roslavets, Ukrainian composer (d. 1944)
• February 6 - Karl Weigl, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
• March 16 - Ernie Hare, US singer
• March 18 - Paul Le Flem, French composer (d. 1984)
• March 23 - Egon Petri, pianist (d. 1962)
• March 25 - Béla Bartók
• April 20 - Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer and teacher of Polish birth (d. 1950)
• May 11 - Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (d. 1944)
• August 15 - Ted Snyder, US composer and music publisher
• August 29 - Edvin Kallstenius, Swedish composer (d. 1967)
• August 19 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• November 22 - Ethel Levey, US singer, dancer & actress
• November 28 - Stefan Zweig, librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)
• December 3 - Henry Fillmore
• December 24 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer and songwriter
• unknown date - David John Thomas, Welsh composer

Deaths

• January 30 - Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Belgian, organist and composer (b. 1823)
• March 23 - Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein, pianist and composer (b. 1835)
• March 28 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer
• June 5 - Franjo Krežma, violinist and composer
• June 6 - Henri Vieuxtemps (b. 1820)
• July 3 - Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone (b. 1819)
• September 7 - Sidney Lanier, poet and flautist (b. 1842)
• October 9 - Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher (b. 1824)
• November 25 - Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute
• December 17 - Giulio Briccialdi, composer (b. 1818)

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