# 1884 in music
## Specific locations

* 1884 in Norwegian music

## Events

* September 27 – The Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest opens.
* December 30 – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is premiered in Leipzig, bringing the composer his first great success.

## Bands formed

* Cory Band

## Published popular music

* "Oh My Darling, Clementine" w.m. Percy Montrose
* "The Coon's Salvation Army" by Sam Lucas
* "The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" w.m. Ed Haley
* "The Golden Wedding" m. Gabriel-Marie
* "Love's Old Sweet Song" w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lynam Molloy
* "March of the Plumed Knight" by Charles B. Morrell & William Howard Doane
* "My Thoughts Are of Thee" by Sam Lucas
* "Otchi Tchorniya" by Y. P. Grebyonka & F. Hermann
* "Rest, Comrades, Rest (Memorial Hymn)" by O. B. Ormsby
* "Rock-a-bye Baby" w.m. Effie I. Canning
* "When the Heather Blooms Again" by Frances Jane Crosby & William Howard Doane

## Classical music

* Anton Bruckner – Te Deum (begun 1881)
* Henri Duparc – La Vie Antérieure
* Antonín Dvořák – Ballade in D minor
* César Franck – Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
* Robert Fuchs – Symphony No. 1 in C
* Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 2 Opus 10 in F major
* Charles Gounod – Mors et Vita (oratorio)
* Richard Strauss – Symphony No. 2
* Hugo Wolf – String Quartet in D minor (begun 1878)

## Opera

* Manon! avez-vous peur...On l'appelle Manon
* From Manon (1884), performed by Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in 1912.
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* Eduard Caudella – Hatmanul Baltag
* Luigi Mancinelli – Isora di Provenza
* Miguel Marqués – El reloj de Lucerna
* Jules Massenet – Manon
* Karl Millöcker – Gasparone
* Viktor Nessler – Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
* Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi
* Charles Villiers Stanford – The Canterbury Pilgrims
* Felix Weingartner – Sakuntala

## Musical theater

* Adonis Broadway production opened at the Bijou Theatre on September 4 and ran for 603 performances
* The Beggar Student London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on April 12 and ran for 112 performances
* The Grand Mogul London production
* Princess Ida London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5 and ran for 246 performances
* Princess Ida Broadway production opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on February 11 and ran for 48 performances

## Births

* January 13 – Sophie Tucker, singer
* February 22 – York Bowen, pianist and composer (died 1961)
* March 14 – Wintter Watts, composer of art songs (died 1962)
* March 17 – Alcide Nunez, clarinetist
* March 18 – Joe Burke, pianist, composer and actor (died 1950)
* March 26 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (died 1969)
* April 22 – Armas Launis, Finnish composer and ethnomusicologist (died 1959)
* April 23 – Jurgis Karnavičius, Lithuanian composer (died 1941)
* May 19 – Arthur Meulemans, composer (died 1966)
* May 27 – Max Brod, author, composer and journalist (died 1968)
* August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
* August 13 – Edwin Grasse, composer and violinist (died 1954)
* September 6 – Emerson Whithorne (birth name Emerson Whittern), composer and historian (died 1958)
* September 17 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, composer (died 1920)
* September 24 – Jonny Heykens, composer and orchestra leader (died 1945)
* October 6 – Oliphant Chuckerbutty, organist and composer (died 1960)
* November 1 – David Roitman, hazzan and composer (died 1943)
* November 6
** May Brahe, composer and songwriter (died 1956)
** Ludomir Rozycki, composer (d. 1953)
* November 19 – Norman Allin, English singer (d. 1973)
* November 23 – Guy Bolton, English librettist
* November 30 – Ture Rangström, composer (died 1947)
* December 29 – Foster Adolph Reynolds, brass instrument maker (died 1960 at work)
* date unknown – Alfred Reynolds, English composer (d. 1969)

## Deaths

* January 21 – Auguste Franchomme, cellist (dedicatee of works by Chopin)
* January 25 – Johann Gottfried Piefke, conductor and composer
* February 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher
* February 21 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
* March 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, German violin teacher and composer (b. 1833)
* April 24 – Marie Taglioni, ballerina
* April 29 – Michael Costa, conductor and composer
* May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, composer (b. 1824)
* June 25 – Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
* June 8 – Henry Clay Work, US composer
* July 5 – Victor Massé, composer
* August 18 – Franz Seraphin Hölzl [de], composer (b. 1808)
* November 27 – Fanny Elssler, dancer
* December 4 – Alice Mary Smith, composer (b. 1839)
* date unknown – Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer