1872 in music
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Events
- June 24 - Karl Müller-Hartung founds an "Orchesterschule" ("Orchestra School") at Weimar.
- Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
takes up musical composition again after a long break. - Tomás BretónTomás BretónTomás Bretón was a Spanish musician and composer.-Biography:Tomás Bretón was born in Salamanca.He gained renown as a result of the success of his zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma, although other were well-received works, included his operas Los amantes de Teruel, based on the eponymous legend,...
and Ruperto ChapíRuperto ChapíRuperto Chapí y Lorente was a Spanish composer, and co-founder of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores.Chapí was born at Villena, the son of a Valencian barber. He trained in his home town and Madrid...
receive the first prize of the Madrid ConservatoryMadrid Conservatory-History:The Royal Conservatory of Music was founded on July 15, 1830, by royal decree, and was originally located in Mostenses Square, Madrid. In 1852 it was moved to the Royal Opera, where it remained until the building was condemned by royal order and classes ordered to halt in 1925. For the...
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Published popular music
- "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip SousaJohn Philip SousaJohn Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
- "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
- "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace
Classical music
- Georges BizetGeorges BizetGeorges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
- L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1L'Arlésienne SuitesThe incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne was composed by Georges Bizet for the first performance of the play on 1 October 1872 at the Vaudeville Theatre...
from the incidental music to Alphonse DaudetAlphonse DaudetAlphonse Daudet was a French novelist. He was the father of Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet.- Early life :Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes, France. His family, on both sides, belonged to the bourgeoisie. The father, Vincent Daudet, was a silk manufacturer — a man dogged through life by misfortune...
's play of the same nameL'Arlésienne (play)L'Arlésienne is a short story, written by Alphonse Daudet and first published in his collection Letters From My Windmill in 1869.... - Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
- Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 16) - Franz Paul Lachner -Octet for wind, opus 156
Opera
- Georges BizetGeorges BizetGeorges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...
- DjamilehDjamilehDjamileh is an opéra comique in one act by Georges Bizet to a libretto by Louis Gallet, based on an oriental tale, Namouna, by Alfred de Musset.-Composition history:... - Gialdino GialdiniGialdino GialdiniGialdino Gialdini was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor.He studied at Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. He won a prize offered by the Pergola Theatre of that city for the best opera, with Rosmunda, which met, however, with an unfavorable reception when produced in 1868...
- La secchia rapita premiered at the Teatro Goldoni, FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... - Alexandre Charles LecocqAlexandre Charles LecocqAlexandre Charles Lecocq was a French musical composer. He was admitted into the Conservatoire in 1849, being already an accomplished pianist. He studied under François Bazin, François Benoist, and Fromental Halévy, winning the first prize for harmony in 1850, and the second prize for fugue in 1852...
- Les Cent Vierges - Miguel MarquésMiguel MarquésPedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García was a Spanish composer and violinist.-Life:He was the son of a chocolate maker...
- Justos por pecadores - Karel MiryKarel MiryKarel Miry was a Belgian composer.He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch. He composed the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw the national anthem of Flanders, and for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics...
- De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik ConscienceHendrik ConscienceHenri "Hendrik" Conscience was a Belgian writer. He was a pioneer in writing in Dutch after the secession from the Netherlands in 1830 left Belgium a mostly French speaking country....
, premiered on December 2 in BrusselsBrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...
) - De twee zusters (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
- De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience
- Modest MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
- Boris Gudonov, Revised Version - Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
- FantasioFantasio (opera)Fantasio is an 1872 opéra comique in 3 acts, 4 tableaux with music by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was by Paul de Musset closely based on the play of the same name by his brother Alfred de Musset...
Musical theater
- La fille de Madame AngotLa fille de Madame AngotLa fille de Madame Angot is an opéra comique in three acts by Charles Lecocq. The French text was by Clairville, Paul Siraudin and Victor Koning.-Performance history:...
, Brussels production - La vie parisienneLa vie parisienneLa vie parisienne is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier period pieces and mythological subjects...
, London production
Births
- January 6 - Alexander ScriabinAlexander ScriabinAlexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
, composer (d. 1915) - January 11 - Paul GraenerPaul GraenerPaul Graener was a German composer and conductor.-Biography:Graener was born in Berlin and orphaned as a young child. A boy soprano, he taught himself composition and in 1896 moved to London, where he gave private lessons and served briefly as conductor at the Haymarket Theatre...
, conductor and composer (d. 1944) - January 16 - Henri BüsserHenri BüsserHenri Büsser was a French classical composer, organist, and conductor.- Biography :Paul-Henri Büsser was born in Toulouse, of partly Teutonic ancestry. He entered the Conservatoire in Paris in 1889; there he studied organ with César Franck and composition with Ernest Guiraud...
, conductor and composer (d. 1973) - January 23 - Adelina de LaraAdelina de LaraAdelina de Lara OBE was a British classical pianist and composer.-Early life:She was born Lottie Adelina Preston in Carlisle, Cumberland on 23 January 1872 to parents George Matthew Tilbury of Southampton and Anna de Lara. Her grandfather was the Spanish Count Laurent de Lara...
, pianist and composer (d. 1961) - March 6 - Ben HarneyBen HarneyBenjamin Robertson "Ben" Harney was a United States of America songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is regarded as one of the first published ragtime songs...
, ragtime pianist and songwriter (d. 1938) - March 7 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
- March 8 - Paul JuonPaul JuonPaul Juon was a Germanised Russian composerHe was born in Moscow, where his father was an insurance official. His mother was German, and he went to a German school in Moscow. He entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1889, where he studied violin with Jan Hřímalý and composition with Anton Arensky...
, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer (d. 1940) - March 10 - Felix BorowskiFelix BorowskiFelix Borowski was a British/American composer and teacher.Felix Borowski was of Polish descent but was born in the English village of Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland. His father, who was quite a musician, was of distinguished Polish stock. His mother was English and very accomplished in music...
, composer and music teacher (d. 1956) - March 19 - Sergei DiaghilevSergei DiaghilevSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev , usually referred to outside of Russia as Serge, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.-Early life and career:...
, choreographer (d. 1929) - March 20 - Bernhard SeklesBernhard SeklesBernhard Sekles was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue.Bernhard Sekles was born in Frankfurt am Main, the son of Maximilian Seckeles and Anna, . The family name Seckeles was changed by Bernhard Sekles to Sekles. From 1894 to 1895 he was the third Kapellmeister at the Stadttheater...
, composer and music teacher (d. 1934) - March 30 - Sergey Nikiforovich VasilenkoSergey Nikiforovich VasilenkoSergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko was a Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism....
, composer (d. 1956) - April 1 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
- April 29 - Eyvind AlnæsEyvind AlnæsEyvind Alnæs was a Norwegian composer, pianist, organist and choir director.Alnæs studied music first in Oslo with Iver Holter, then in Leipzig with Carl Reinecke and, after the première of his first symphony in 1896, in Berlin with Julius Ruthardt.From 1895 to 1907 Alnæs served as an organist in...
, composer (d. 1932) - May 1 - Hugo AlfvénHugo Alfvénwas a Swedish composer, conductor, violinist, and painter.- Violinist :Alfvén was born in Stockholm and studied at the Music Conservatory there from 1887 to 1891 with the violin as his main instrument, receiving lessons from Lars Zetterquist. He also took private composition lessons from Johan...
, composer (d. 1960) - July 7 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1949)
- July 8 - Harry Von TilzerHarry Von TilzerHarry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
, songwriter (d. 1946) - July 18 - Julius FučíkJulius Fucík (composer)Julius Arnost Wilhelm Fučík was a Czech composer and conductor of military bands.Fučík spent most of his life as the leader of military brass bands. He became a prolific composer, with over 300 marches, polkas, and waltzes to his name...
, composer (d. 1916) - July 20 - Déodat de SéveracDéodat de SéveracDéodat de Séverac was a French composer.-Biography:...
, composer (d. 1921) - August 10 - Bill Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1972)
- August 15
- Harold Fraser-SimsonHarold Fraser-SimsonHarold Fraser-Simson , was an English composer of light music, including songs and the scores to musical comedies. His most famous musical was the World War I hit, The Maid of the Mountains, and he later set numerous children's poems to music, especially those of A. A...
, composer and songwriter (d. 1944) - Rubin GoldmarkRubin GoldmarkRubin Goldmark was an American composer, pianist, and educator. Although in his time he was an often performed American nationalist composer, his works are seldom played – instead he is known as the teacher of Aaron Copland and George Gershwin...
, composer (d. 1936)
- Harold Fraser-Simson
- October 12 - Ralph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan WilliamsRalph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
, composer (d. 1958) - November 29 - Anna von MildenburgAnna von MildenburgAnna von Mildenburg was an eminent Wagnerian soprano of Austrian nationality. Known as Anna Bahr-Mildenburg after her 1909 marriage, she had been a protege of the composer/conductor Gustav Mahler during his musical directorship at the Hamburg State Opera...
, Austrian soprano (d. 1947) - December 20 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)
Deaths
- January 20 - Raffaele SaccoRaffaele SaccoRaffaele Sacco was an Italian optician Raffaele Sacco (August 14, 1787 - January 20, 1872) was an Italian optician Raffaele Sacco (August 14, 1787 - January 20, 1872) was an Italian optician (reputed inventor of the aletoscope ( an apparatus to verify the authenticity of stamps, wax seals, etc.)...
, lyricist (b. 1787) - February 16 - Henry Fothergill ChorleyHenry Fothergill ChorleyHenry Fothergill Chorley was an English literary, art and music critic and editor. He was also an author of novels, drama, poetry and lyrics....
, music critic (b. 1808) - April 3 - Henriette WiderbergHenriette WiderbergHenriette Sophie Widerberg was a Swedish opera singer , actor and memoirist. The most famed singer on the Swedish stage of her time, she was counted as the most popular singer in Sweden during the 1810s and 1830s...
, operatic soprano (b. 1796) - April 12 - Nikolaos MantzarosNikolaos MantzarosNikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros was a Greek composer born in Corfu and the major representative of the so called Ionian School of music...
, composer (b. 1795) - May 5 - Johann KulikJohann KulikJohann Kulik - considered one of the best Prague makers / luthier of the 19th century.He was a pupil of Schembera, Prague, and of Martin Stoss, Vienna....
, luthier (b. 1800) - May 9 - Viktorin HallmayerViktorin HallmayerViktorin Hallmayer was an Austrian composer and band conductor, best known as the author of the Marcia Trionfale, the first anthem of the Catholic Pontificate and of the Vatican City State....
, conductor and composer (b. 1831) - May 15 - Thomas HastingsThomas Hastings (composer)Thomas Hastings was an American composer, primarily an author of hymn tunes of which the best known is Toplady for the hymn Rock of Ages. He was born to Dr. Seth and Eunice Hastings in Washington, Connecticut...
, composer of hymns (b. 1784) - July 26 - Michele CarafaMichele CarafaMichele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
, opera composer (b. 1787) - August 4 - Wilhelm Friedrich WieprechtWilhelm Friedrich WieprechtWilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht was a German musical conductor, composer and inventor.-Early life and career:Wieprecht was born at Aschersleben, where his father was town musician....
, conductor and composer (b. 1802) - August 11 - Lowell MasonLowell MasonLowell Mason was a leading figure in American church music, the composer of over 1600 hymn tunes, many of which are often sung today. His most well-known tunes include Mary Had A Little Lamb and the arrangement of Joy to the World...
, organist and composer (b. 1792) - September 16 - Gall MorelGall MorelGall Morel O. S. B. was a poet, scholar, aesthete, and educationist, born at St. Gallen, Switzerland, on 24 March, 1803; died at the Abbey of Einsiedeln on 16 December, 1872. His baptismal name was Benedict, but in the monastery he took the name of Gall. In 1814, he entered the gymnasium at St. Gall...
, choirmaster (b. 1803) - November 21 - MyllargutenMyllargutenTargjei Augundsson , better known as Myllarguten , is arguably the most acknowledged Norwegian folk musician to this day, and by far the most legendary.-Childhood:...
, folk musician (b. 1801) - November 29 - Giovanni TadoliniGiovanni TadoliniGiovanni Tadolini was an Italian composer, conductor and singing instructor, who enjoyed a career that alternated between Bologna and Paris. Tadolini is probably best known for completing six sections of Rossini's 1833 version of the Stabat mater after the latter fell sick...
, composer - date unknown - Karolina BockKarolina BockKarolina Sofia Bock née Richter, , was a Swedish dancer, actor and singer. She was also the principal for the Dramatens elevskola for two periods; in 1831-1834 and 1841-1856. She was the most known female comedian in her country during her years at the stage.- Background :Karolina Richter, child of...
, singer, dancer and actress (b. 1792)