1886 in music

See also:\n1885 in music,\nother events of 1886,\n1887 in music\nand 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\n* "Johnny Get Your Gun" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld \n* "Semper Fidelis" m. John Philip Sousa\n* "Somebody's Mother (The Song of All Mothers)" by James W. Wheeler\n* "Two Lovely Black Eyes, Oh, What a Surprise" w. Charles Coborn m. Edmund Forman

Musical theater

• Dorothy, London production\n* Erminie, Broadway production\n* The Queen of Hearts, Broadway production

Births

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

Deaths

\n*January 17 - Amilcare Ponchielli, opera composer\n*July 31 - Franz Liszt