1884 in music

Specific locations

• 1884 in Norwegian music

Events

• September 27 – The Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest opens.
• December 30 – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is premiered in Leipzig, bringing the composer his first great success.

Bands formed

• Cory Band

Published popular music

• "Oh My Darling, Clementine" w.m. Percy Montrose
• "The Coon's Salvation Army" by Sam Lucas
• "The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" w.m. Ed Haley
• "The Golden Wedding" m. Gabriel-Marie
• "Love's Old Sweet Song" w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lynam Molloy
• "March of the Plumed Knight" by Charles B. Morrell & William Howard Doane
• "My Thoughts Are of Thee" by Sam Lucas
• "Otchi Tchorniya" by Y. P. Grebyonka & F. Hermann
• "Rest, Comrades, Rest " by O. B. Ormsby
• "Rock-a-bye Baby" w.m. Effie I. Canning
• "When the Heather Blooms Again" by Frances Jane Crosby & William Howard Doane

[Classical music]

• Anton Bruckner – Te Deum
• Henri Duparc – La Vie Antérieure
• Antonín Dvořák – Ballade in D minor
• César Franck – Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
• Robert Fuchs – Symphony No. 1 in C
• Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 2 Opus 10 in F major
• Charles Gounod – Mors et Vita
• Richard Strauss – Symphony No. 2
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 3
• Hugo Wolf – String Quartet in D minor

[Opera]

• Eduard Caudella – Hatmanul Baltag
• Luigi Mancinelli – Isora di Provenza
• Miguel Marqués – El reloj de Lucerna
• Jules Massenet – Manon
• Karl Millöcker – Gasparone
• Viktor Nessler – Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
• Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi
• Charles Villiers Stanford – The Canterbury Pilgrims
• Arthur Sullivan – Princess Ida
• Arthur Sullivan – Princess Ida
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa
• Felix Weingartner – ''Sakuntala''

[Musical theater]

Births

• January 13 – Sophie Tucker, singer
• February 22 – York Bowen, pianist and composer
• March 14 – Wintter Watts, composer of art songs
• March 17 – Alcide Nunez, clarinetist
• March 18 – Joe Burke, pianist, composer and actor
• March 26 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist
• April 22 – Armas Launis, Finnish composer and ethnomusicologist
• April 23 – Jurgis Karnavičius, Lithuanian composer
• May 19 – Arthur Meulemans, composer
• May 27 – Max Brod, author, composer and journalist
• August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer
• August 13 – Edwin Grasse, composer and violinist
• September 6 – Emerson Whithorne, composer and historian
• September 17 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, composer
• September 24 – Jonny Heykens, composer and orchestra leader
• October 6 – Oliphant Chuckerbutty, organist and composer
• November 1 – David Roitman, hazzan and composer
• November 6
• *May Brahe, composer and songwriter
• *Ludomir Rozycki, composer
• November 19 – Norman Allin, English singer
• November 23 – Guy Bolton, English librettist
• November 30 – Ture Rangström, composer
• December 29 – Foster Adolph Reynolds, brass instrument maker
• date unknown – Alfred Reynolds, English composer

Deaths

• January 21 – Auguste Franchomme, cellist
• January 25 – Johann Gottfried Piefke, conductor and composer
• February 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher
• February 21 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher
• March 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, German violin teacher and composer
• April 24 – Marie Taglioni, ballerina
• April 29 – Michael Costa, conductor and composer
• May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, composer
• June 25 – Hans Rott, composer
• June 8 – Henry Clay Work, US composer
• July 5 – Victor Massé, composer
• August 18 –, composer
• November 27 – Fanny Elssler, dancer
• December 4 – Alice Mary Smith, composer
• date unknown – Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer