Events in Music
- Mar 16 Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs" premieres in Paris, includes piece “Méditation” for violin and orchestra
- Apr 9 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
- Apr 19 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther" premieres in NYC
- May 12 Ludwig Englander's musical "Passing Show" premieres in NYC
- Nov 5 Richard Strauss' tone poem "Till Eulenspiegel" premieres
- Dec 22 Claude Debussy's first orchestral masterpiece "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres in Paris
Walter PistonMusicians Who Died in 1894
- Jan 21 Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian composer (Épithalame), dies of typhoid fever at 24
- Feb 4 Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician and inventor (saxophone), dies at 79
- Feb 11 Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer, dies at 70
- Feb 12 Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
- Feb 17 Francisco Barbieri Spanish zarzuela opera composer (El Diablo en el poder), dies at 70
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