# 1885 in music

Events in the year 1885 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1885 in Norwegian music

## Events

* October 25 – Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 is premiered in Meiningen
* Tin Pan Alley group of popular songwriters and publishers forms in New York City

## Published popular music

* "American Patrol" m. F. W. Meacham
* "The Boy I Love is Up in the Gallery" w.m. George Ware
* "Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas
* "Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly" w. G. W. Hunter & John Cooke Jnr m. G. W. Hunter
* "Open Road" Johann Strauss II
* "Raise me, Jesus, to thy bosom," w. by George Birdseye, m. by William A. Huntley
* "Saffi's Aria" Johann Strauss II
* "Some Sweet Day" by Edward L. Park & William Howard Doane
* "This Is The House That Jerry Built" w. T. S. Lonsdale m. W. G. Eaton
* "What Cheer 'Ria" w. Will Herbert m. Bessie Bellwood
* From the score of The Mikado:
** "A More Humane Mikado" ("Let the Punishment fit the Crime")
** "The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring"
** "There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast"
** "Three Little Maids From School"
** "A Wand'ring Minstrel I"

## Classical music

* Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 4, Op. 98, in E minor
* Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 7
* George Whitefield Chadwick – String Quartet No. 3 in D
* Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 7, Op. 70, in D minor
* Cesar Franck
** Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra
** Danse lente for piano
* Alexander Glazunov – Stenka Razin
* Camille Saint-Saëns – Violin Sonata No. 1
* Jean Sibelius – String Quartet in E-flat major
* Richard Strauss
** Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13
** Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major for horn and orchestra
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Manfred Symphony
* José Vianna da Motta – Piano Concerto in A

## Opera

* Emmanuel Chabrier – Gwendoline
* Fromental Halévy, completed by Georges Bizet – Noé given its first performance at Karlsruhe.
* Jules Massenet – Le Cid
* André Messager
** La fauvette du temple
** La Béarnaise
* Emile Pessard – Tabarin premiered on January 12 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
* Amilcare Ponchielli – Marion Delorme
* George Stephanescu – Scaiul barbatilor

## Musical theater

* Edward Jakobowski – Erminie (libretto by Claxson Bellamy and Harry Paulton) London production
* William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan – The Mikado London production
* Johann Strauss II – Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) Vienna production

## 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 20 – Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist, 79
* 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