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and the list of 'years in music'.

1 Events

• August 16 - Ricard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in Bayreuth

2 Published popular music

• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" by Thomas Payne Westendorf
• "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
• "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
• "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
• "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
• "Old Aunt Jemima" by James Grace
• "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

3 Classical music

4 Opera

• Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele

5 Musical theater

6 Births

• January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
• January 29 - Havergal BrianWilliam (Havergal) Brian ( January 29, 1876 November 28, 1972), was a British composer. He acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the number of symphonies he had managed to write (thirty-two, an unusually lar, composer (d. 1972)
• February 2February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 332 days remaining (333 in leap years). Events 962 Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. 1032 Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy. 1119 Callixtus II - Giovanni ZenatelloGiovanni Zenatello ( 2 February, 1876 11 February, 1949) was an Italian opera singer. He was born in Verona. His music teacher originally tried to train him as a baritone, but Zenatello became a well known tenor. He made his professional debut in 1898., tenor
• March 11March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). There are 295 days remaining. Events 1513 Leo X is elected pope. 1649 The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil. 1702 The first regular Engl - Carl RugglesAmerican composer Charles Sprague Ruggles ( March 11, 1876 October 24, 1971), better known as Carl wrote finely-crafted pieces using " dissonant counterpoint", a term coined by Charles Seeger to describe Ruggles' music. Friends with Henry Cowell, Edgard V, composer (d. 1971)
• June 5June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. Events 1700-1899 1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfiere ( hot air balloon). 1817 First Great Lakes steamer, the Fr - Tony JacksonAnthony (or Antonio Jackson best known as Tony Jackson ( June 5, 1876 April 20, 1920) was a United States pianist, singer, and composer. Jackson was born to a poor African American family in uptown New Orleans on June 5, 1876. He showed musical talents at, jazz musician (d. 1920)
• August 14August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. Events 1040 Assassination of King Duncan of Scotland by Macbeth. 1385 1383-1385 Crisis: Castilians are defeated by Portuguese at the Battle of - Florrie Forde , Australian-born English Music Hall singer
• September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
• November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (d. 1946)