1888 in music
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See also: 1887 in music, other events of 1888, 1889 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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Events
- wax phonograph cylinders mass marketed
Published popular music
- "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" anon poss Thomas F. Carey
- "Over The Waves" ("Sobre las Olas") w.m. Juventino Rosas
- "Where Did You Get That Hat?" w.m. Joseph J. Sullivan
- "The Whistling Coon" w.m. Sam Devere
Classical music
- Violin Sonata in D Minor (Johannes Brahms)
- Scarf Dance, Callirhoe (ballet) (Cecile Chaminade)
- Petite Suite for piano duet; Arabesques 1 and 2 for piano (Claud Debussy)
- Symphony in D Minor (Cesar Franck)
- Lyric Pieces for Piano, Book IV (Edvard Grieg)
- Hiawatha (tone poem) (Frederick Delius)
- Symphony No. 1, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (song cycle) (Gustav Mahler)
- Russian Easter Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov)
- Three Gymnopédies for piano (Erik Satie)
- Don Juan, Violin Sonata (Richard Strauss)
- Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)
- Goethe-Lieder, Möricke-Lieder (Hugo Wolf)
- Trois Gymnopédies Erik Satie
Opera
- Die Drei Pintos - Carl Maria Weber, completed by Gustav Mahler
Musical theater
- The Yeomen of the Guard by W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan - London production
- The Yeomen of the Guard - Broadway production
Births
- February 27 - Lotte Lehmann, singer (d. 1976)
- May 10 - Max Steiner, composer (d. 1971)
- May 11 - Irving Berlin, composer (d. 1989)
- May 27 - Louis Durey, composer, member of Les Six (d. 1979)
- June 3 - Tom Brown, jazz musician (d. 1958)
- June 6 - Pete Wendling, American composer, pianist, and piano roll recording artist
- June 16 - Bobby Clark, US comedian and singer
- August 16 - Armand J. Piron, jazz musician (d. 1943)
- September 12 - Maurice Chevalier, French singer and actor
Deaths
- January 14 - Stephen Heller, pianist and composer
- December 26 - Alfred Vance, English music hall singer and comedian