Composer events for 1887
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Birthdays
- Josef Jonsson ()
- Kurt Atterberg ()
- Oskar Lindberg ()
- Willem Andriessen ()
- Leevi Antti Madetoja (17 February)
- Max Lenz (28 February)
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (5 March)
- Heino Eller (7 March)
- Florence Beatrice Price (9 April)
- Walter Rummel (19 July)
- Rudi Stephan (29 July)
- Fartein Olav Valen (25 August)
- Luís Abraham Delgadillo (26 August)
- Nadia (Juliette) Boulanger (16 September)
- Yuri Shaporin (8 November)
- Ernst Toch (7 December)
- Bernard van Dieren (27 December)
Dying days
- Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos ()
- Sebastian Lee ()
- Moritz Brosig (24 January)
- Alexander Porfir’yevich Borodin (27 February)
- Félix Le Couppey (5 July)
Music events
- Premiere of Otello, in Milan, Italy. (5 February) → Giuseppe Verdi
- Premiere of Symphony Cévenoles, in Paris, France. (20 March) → Vincent d’Indy
- Premiere of Le Roi Malgré Lui, in Paris, France. (18 May) → Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier
- Premiere of Brahms' Doppelkonzert for violin and cello in a minor op. 102, in Cologne, Germany, with Joachim playin the violin and Brahms conducting. (18 October) → Johannes Brahms
- Premiere of Brahms' Doppelkonzert for violin and cello in a minor op. 102, in Cologne, Germany, with Joachim playin the violin and Brahms conducting. (18 October) → Joseph Joachim
- Premiere of Capriccio Espagnole op. 34, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (12 November) → Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
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