Overview of the events of 1885 in music
Overview of the events of 1885 in music
Events in the year 1885 in music.
Specific locations
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Musical theater
Births
- January 13 – James V. Monaco, Italian-born US composer (d. 1945)
- January 27 – Jerome Kern, composer and songwriter (d. 1945)
- February 9 – Alban Berg, composer (d. 1935)
- February 12 – James Scott, ragtime composer (d. 1938)
- February 16 – Will Fyffe, Scottish comedian and singer (d. 1947)
- March 15 – Bertha Raffetto, American singer (d. 1952)
- May 5 – Agustín Barrios, composer (d. 1944)
- May 14 – Otto Klemperer, conductor and composer (d. 1973)
- May 30 – Erna Ellmenreich, German operatic soprano (d. 1976)
- June 13 – John Palm, Curaçao-born composer (d. 1925)
- June 28 – Marino Capicchioni, Italian musical instrument maker (d. 1977)
- July 12 – George Butterworth, composer (d. 1916)
- July 17 – Benjamin Dale, composer (d. 1943)
- August 9 – Pietro Frosini, accordionist (d. 1951)
- October 15 – Therese Wiet, Austrian operetta singer (d. 1971)
- October 21 – Egon Wellesz, Austrian composer (d. 1974)
- October 25 – Sam M. Lewis, US lyricist (d. 1959)
- December 19 – Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
Deaths
- February 15 – Leopold Damrosch, conductor, 52 (complications from a cold)
- March 31 – Franz Abt, composer, 65
- April 24 – Henry Augustus Rawes, hymn-writer, 58
- May – Adolphe Blanc, composer, 56
- May 1 – Henry Brinley Richards, composer, 67
- May 12 – Ferdinand Hiller, German composer, conductor and pianist, 73
- June 29 – Samuel C. Upham, lyricist, 66
- August 26 – August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer, 74
- September 11 – Julius Zarebski, Polish pianist and composer, 31
- September 13 – Friedrich Kiel, German composer, 63
- October 21 – Michele Novaro, songwriter, 66
References
- ^ Huntley, William A. (1885). "Raise me, Jesus, to thy bosom". loc.gov. W. F. Shaw.
- ^ "George Birdseye". hymntime.com.
George Birdseye 1844–1919
- ^ "Chadwick worklist". Archived from the original on 2009-10-24.