Events in the year1885 in music.

• 1885 in Norwegian music

• October 25 –Johannes Brahms'Symphony No. 4 is premiered inMeiningen
• Tin Pan Alley group of popular songwriters and publishers' forms inNew York City

• "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" bySam 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. byGeorge Birdseye, m. byWilliam A. Huntley^[1][2]
• "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 ofThe 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"

• Johannes Brahms –Symphony No. 4, Op. 98, in E minor
• George Whitefield Chadwick – String Quartet No. 3 in D^[3]
• 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
• Franz Liszt -Bagatelle sans tonalité
• Camille Saint-Saëns –Violin Sonata No. 1
• Jean Sibelius –String Quartet in E-flat major^[4]
• 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

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

• Edward Jakobowski –Erminie (libretto byClaxson Bellamy andHarry Paulton) London production
• William S. Gilbert andArthur Sullivan –The Mikado London production
• Johann Strauss II –Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) Vienna production

• 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)

• 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^[5]
• 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

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