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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Classical music
4 Opera
5 Musical theater
6 Births
7 Deaths

Events

December 31 - Gilbert & Sullivan;'s The Pirates of Penzance debuts in New York City

Published popular music

Oh, Dem Golden Slippers by James A. Bland
In the Morning By the Bright Light by James A. Bland
My Visit to the Opera by Joseph P. Skelly

Classical music

Opera

Eugene Onegin by Peter Tchaikovsky

Musical theater

Births

June 13 - Maria Gay, opera singer
June 21 - Henry Creamer, US songwriter
August 1 - Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star (d. 1947)
August 18 - Gus Edwards, Prussian-born US songwriter and entertainer
October 12 - Chris Smith, composer

Deaths

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