Classical Music
- Léon Boëllmann – Suite Gothique for Organ
- Johannes Brahms – Sonatas for clarinet (or viola) and piano, op. 120 no. 1 (in f) and no. 2 (in E-flat)
- Antonín Dvořák – Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets
- Gustav Mahler conducts the premieres of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in – the first three movement only, on March 4, and the complete symphony on December 13.
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