1880s
- 1889 in music - Birth of Vaslav Nijinsky, - Ballet dancer (d. 1950); Effie Stewart records first serious classical music at Edison's Menlo Park; First Phonograph Parlor opens in San Francisco
- 1888 in music - Birth of Lead Belly, Death of Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer and ultra virtuoso pianist, Wax phonograph cylinders commercially marketed; Emile Berliner invents lateral-cut disc records
- 1887 in music - Birth of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer, cellist, and guitarist
- 1886 in music - Birth of Marcel Dupré, Al Jolson, Paul Paray, Othmar Schoeck; death of Franz Liszt
- 1885 in music - Birth of Jerome Kern
- 1884 in music - Birth of Sophie Tucker
- 1883 in music - Birth of Edgard Varèse, Death of Richard Wagner, German composer
- 1882 in music - Birth of Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, Parsifal by Richard Wagner premieres in Bayreuth; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture premiere
- 1881 in music - Birth of Béla Bartók
- 1880 in music - Death of Jacques Offenbach, composer (b. 1819)
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