Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1880s ==
* '''[[1889 in music]]''', '''[[1889 in Norwegian music]]''' – [[Effie Stewart]] records at [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]; [[Edison Records|Edison]] starts commercial recordings on May 24; First [[phonograph|phonograph parlor]] opens in San Francisco; ''[[Kaiser-Walzer]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]]; ''[[Death and Transfiguration]]'' by [[Richard Strauss]].
* '''[[1888 in music]]''', '''[[1888 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Symphony No. 2 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 2]]'' by [[Gustav Mahler]]; Birth of [[Lead Belly]]; Death of [[Charles-Valentin Alkan]], French composer and pianist; Wax [[phonograph cylinder]]s commercially marketed; [[Emile Berliner]] invents lateral-cut [[disc records]].
* '''[[1887 in music]]''', '''[[1887 in Norwegian music]]''' – The [[Havanaise (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Heitor Villa-Lobos]], Brazilian composer, cellist, and guitarist
* '''[[1886 in music]]''', '''[[1886 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[The Carnival of the Animals]]'' and the [[Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)|Symphony No. 3]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; birth of [[Marcel Dupré]], [[Al Jolson]], [[Paul Paray]], [[Othmar Schoeck]]; [[Franz Liszt]] publishes his final [[Hungarian Rhapsody]]; death of [[Franz Liszt]].
* '''[[1885 in music]]''', '''[[1885 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[The Mikado]]'' – [[Arthur Sullivan]]; ''[[The Gypsy Baron]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]]; Birth of [[Jerome Kern]]
* '''[[1884 in music]]''', '''[[1884 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Sophie Tucker]]
* '''[[1883 in music]]''', '''[[1883 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Edgard Varèse]], Death of [[Richard Wagner]], German composer
* '''[[1882 in music]]''', '''[[1882 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Igor Stravinsky]], Russian composer, ''[[Parsifal]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Bayreuth]]; [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] – ''[[1812 Overture]]'' premiere
* '''[[1881 in music]]''', '''[[1881 in Norwegian music]]''' – Births of [[Béla Bartók]] and [[George Enescu]]
* '''[[1880 in music]]''', '''[[1880 in Norwegian music]]''' – ''[[Stabat Mater]]'' and "[[Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvořák)|Songs My Mother Taught Me]]" by [[Antonín Dvorák]]; The [[Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Death of [[Jacques Offenbach]], composer (b. 1819)