This article is about music-related events in 1881.

List of years in music (table)
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Specific locations

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Events

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Ilya Repin's celebrated portrait of Mussorgsky, painted 2–5 March 1881, only a few days before the composer's death.

Bands formed

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Classical music

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Opera

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Musical theater

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Births

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Deaths

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References

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  1. ^ Magill, Frank N. (1990). Great Lives from History: Mas-Ror. Pasadena: Salem Press. p. 1814. ISBN 978-0-89356-569-5.
  2. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1996). The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London: Macmillan. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-33351-598-3.