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Overview of the events of 1886 in music
Celesta invented.
Published popular music [ edit ]
Eugen d'Albert – Symphony op. 4 in F
Anton Arensky – Margarite Gautier , Fantasia for Orchestra, op. 9[ 1]
Johannes Brahms – Cello Sonata No. 2 op. 99 in F, Violin Sonata No. 2 op. 100 in A, Piano Trio No. 3 op. 101 in C minor
Charles Bordes – Paysages Tristes (song cycle)
George Whitefield Chadwick – Symphony No. 2 op. 21 in B-flat (revision)
Felix Draeseke – String Quartet No. 2 op. 35 in E minor, Piano Concerto op. 36 in E-flat, Symphony No. 3 in C major Tragica
Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartet No. 2 op. 45 in G minor
Arthur Foote – In the Mountains (tone poem)
César Franck – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major
Alexander Glazunov – Five Novelettes for String Quartet , Op. 15, Symphony No. 2, Op. 16 (To the Memory of Liszt)
Vincent d'Indy – Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français
Hans Pfitzner – String Quartet in D minor[ 2]
Josef Rheinberger – String Quartet No. 2, Op. 147 in F
Camille Saint-Saëns – The Carnival of the Animals , Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
Charles Villiers Stanford – Piano Quintet op. 25 in D minor[ 3]
Ludwig Thuille – Symphony
Emil Waldteufel – España
Charles-Marie Widor – Symphony No. 2, Op. 54
John Philip Sousa – "The Gladiator " March
Richard Strauss – Aus Italien
Bernard Zweers – Symphony No. 3
January 9 – Lloyd Loar , American sound engineer and instrument designer (d. 1943)
January 22 – John J. Becker , American composer and editor (of Charles Ives ' music) (d. 1961)
January 25 – Wilhelm Furtwängler , conductor (d. 1954)
March 3 – R. O. Morris , British composer, teacher of Michael Tippett among others (d. 1948)
April 26 – Ma Rainey , blues singer (d. 1939)
April 30 – Frank Merrick , British pianist and composer (d. 1981)
May 3 – Marcel Dupré , French composer and organist (d. 1971)
May 4 – Shelton Brooks , Canadian-African American-song composer (d. 1975)
May 13 – Joseph Achron , Lithuanian Jewish composer (d. 1943)
May 24 – Paul Paray , conductor and composer (d. 1979)
May 26 – Al Jolson , singer and actor (d. 1950)
May 28 – Nikolai Sokoloff , Russian-American conductor and violinist (d. 1965)
June 9 – Kosaku Yamada , Japanese composer and conductor (d. 1965)
June 12 – E. Ray Goetz , US songwriter (d. 1954)
June 13 – Art Hickman , US bandleader (d. 1930)
July 4 – Heinrich Kaminski , German composer (d. 1946)
August 5 – Carlo Giorgio Garofalo , Italian composer and organist (d. 1962)
August 8 – Pietro Yon , Italian composer and organist, emigrated to US (d. 1943)
August 19 – Robert Heger , German composer and conductor (d. 1978)
August 27
August 31 – L. Wolfe Gilbert , Russian-born US songwriter (d. 1970)
September 1 – Othmar Schoeck , Swiss composer (d. 1957)
September 11 – Launy Grøndahl , Danish composer and conductor (d. 1960)
September 25 – Jesús Guridi , composer (d. 1961)
October 1 – Ali-Naqi Vaziri , composer (d. 1979)
October 6 – Edwin Fischer , pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
November 6 – Gus Kahn , German-born US lyric writer (d. 1941)
December 25 – Kid Ory , jazz musician (d. 1973)
January 16
February 16 – Louis Köhler , conductor, composer and piano teacher (b. 1820 )
March 23 – Max Wolff , composer (b. 1840 )
March 27 – Dobri Chintulov , poet, teacher and composer (b. 1822 )
March 31
April 13 – Károly Thern , pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
July 23 – Emil Scaria , operatic bass-baritone (b. 1838 )
July 31 – Franz Liszt , pianist and composer (b. 1811)
August 17 – John Woodcock Graves , composer (b. 1795)
September 10 – John Liptrot Hatton , composer (b. 1809)
September 14 – Hubert Ries , violinist and composer (b. 1802 )
October 15 – Vilhelm Christian Holm , composer (b. 1820)
November 20 – Róza Laborfalvi , actress and singer (b. 1817 )
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