Events February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman debuts in Paris November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna Published popular music "Loch Lomond" "Good Bye!" by Franceso Paolo Tosti "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" "Slowly and Sadly" "(President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root Musical theater Les Contes d'Hoffman Paris production Patience London production Opera Joan Of Arc by Peter Tschaikowsky Oratorio Rébecca by Franck Births 25 March - Béla Bartók 3 December - Henry Fillmore Deaths 28 March - Modest Mussorgsky