Events in Music
- Feb 12 Caesar Franck's Symphony in D premieres
- May 18 Jules Massenet's opera "Esclarmonde" premieres in Paris
- Nov 20 Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony premieres in Budapest and is not well received
Musicians Born in 1889
- Jan 1 Alexander Smallens, conductor, born in St Petersburg, Russia
- Jan 1 Tadeusz Jarecki, composer
- Jan 14 Vincenzo Davico, Italian composer, born in Monaco (d. 1969)
- Jan 19 Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Davos Switzerland, painter, sculptor and dancer
- Jan 25 Vladimir Scherbachov, Russian composer & professor (Blokovskaya, Thunderstorm), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1952)
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Musicians Married in 1889
- May 31 Polish pianist, and politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski (38) weds Polish baroness, social activist, and humanitaran Helena Maria von Rosen (32) in Warsaw
- Sep 6 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen (27) weds mezzo-soprano singer Eva Nansen (30)
Musicians Who Died in 1889
- Jan 10 Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
- Jan 14 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (b. 1834)
- Feb 1 Joseph Gungl, Austro-Hungarian bandmaster and composer of dances and marches, dies at 78
- Feb 26 Karl Davydov, Russian virtuoso cellist, dies at 51
- Mar 3 (Edward) Sydney Smith, British pianist and composer, dies at 49
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