Events \n* wax phonograph cylinders mass marketed Published popular music\n* "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" anon poss Thomas F. Carey \n* "Over The Waves" ("Sobre las Olas") w.m. Juventino Rosas \n* "Where Did You Get That Hat?" w.m. Joseph J. Sullivan \n* "The Whistling Coon" w.m. Sam Devere Classical music Violin Sonata in D Minor (Brahms)\n* Scarf Dance, Callirhoe (ballet) (Cecile Chaminade)\n* Petite Suite for piano duet; Arabesques 1 and 2 for piano (Debussy)\n* Symphony in D Minor (Cesar Franck)\n* Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV (Grieg)\n* Symphony No. 1, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (song cycle) (Mahler)\n* Russian Easter Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov)\n* Three Gymnopédies for piano (Erik Satie)\n* Don Juan, Violin Sonata (Richard Strauss)\n* Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)\n* Goethe-Lieder, Möricke-Lieder (Hugo Wolf)\n*Trois Gymnopédies Erik Satie Opera Musical theater The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan - London production\n* The Yeomen of the Guard - Broadway production Births February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, singer (d. 1976)\n* May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (d. 1971)\n* May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (d. 1989)\n* May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (d. 1979)\n* June 3 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (d. 1958)\n* June 6 - Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist\n* June 16 - Bobby Clark, US comedian and singer\n* August 16 - Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (d. 1943) Deaths\n*December 26 - Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedian