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- January - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
completes Parsifal - Helsinki University Chorus (Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat) is founded
- Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
is employed at OlomoucOlomoucOlomouc is a city in Moravia, in the east of the Czech Republic. The city is located on the Morava river and is the ecclesiastical metropolis and historical capital city of Moravia. Nowadays, it is an administrative centre of the Olomouc Region and sixth largest city in the Czech Republic... - Richard StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
enters Munich University
Published popular music
- "Baa! Baa! Baa!" (w. Walter Greenaway m. Vincent Davies)
- "The Band Quartette" by Charles A. White
- "Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye" (trad Eng)
- "In My Fust 'Usband's Time" (w.m. Harry NichollsHarry NichollsHarry Nicholls VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
) - "The Old Miser" by Charles A. White
- "The Skaters' Waltz" (m. Emile WaldteufelÉmile WaldteufelÉmile Waldteufel was a French composer of dance music.-Life:Émile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg to a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians....
) - "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet
- "Up Went The Price" (w.m. George Ware)
- From the score of IolantheIolantheIolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan....
:- "I'm Very Much Pained" (w. W. S. GilbertW. S. GilbertSir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
m. Arthur SullivanArthur SullivanSir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
) - "Loudly Let The Trumpets Bray" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "The Nightmare Song" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "None Shall Part Us" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "Oh, Foolish Fay" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "Tho' P'raps I May Incur Your Blame" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "Though The Views Of The House Have Diverged" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "Welcome To Our Hearts Again" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "When All Night Long A Chap Remains" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "When Britain Really Ruled The Waves" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "When I Went To The Bar" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
- "I'm Very Much Pained" (w. W. S. Gilbert
Classical music
- Alexander GlazunovAlexander GlazunovAlexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
- Symphony no. 1, String Quartet no. 1 - Charles GounodCharles GounodCharles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
- The Redemption (oratorio) - Hans HuberHans Huber (composer)Hans Huber was a composer from Switzerland.He was born in Eppenberg-Wöschnau . The son of an amateur musician, Huber became a chorister and showed an early talent for the piano. In 1870 he entered Leipzig Conservatory...
- Symphony no. 1 "Wilhelm Tell" - Mikhail Ippolitov-IvanovMikhail Ippolitov-IvanovMikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher.- Biography :...
- Yar-khmel (Spring Overture) - Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
- String Quartet no. 2 - Johann StraussJohann Strauss IIJohann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
- Voices of Spring - Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
- 1812 Overture1812 OvertureThe Year 1812, Festival Overture in E flat major, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture or the Overture of 1812 is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the Battle of...
Opera
- Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
- ParsifalParsifalParsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work... - Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
- The Snow MaidenThe Snow MaidenThe Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky .The first performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera took place at the... - Adolf NeuendorffAdolf NeuendorffAdolf Heinrich Anton Magnus Neuendorff, also known as Adolph Neuendorff was a German-American composer, violinist, pianist and conductor, stage director and theater manager.-Early years:...
- Don Quixote
Musical theater
- Der BettelstudentDer BettelstudentDer Bettelstudent is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on Les noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton...
(The Beggar Student), Vienna production - The Grand Mogul, Broadway production
- IolantheIolantheIolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan....
(Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. GilbertW. S. GilbertSir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for his fourteen comic operas produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, of which the most famous include H.M.S...
); London production opened at the Savoy TheatreSavoy TheatreThe Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,...
on November 25 and ran for 398 performances - IolantheIolantheIolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan....
, Broadway production opened at the Standard TheatreManhattan TheatreThe Manhattan Theatre, directly across from Greeley Square at Sixth Avenue and 33rd Street, was located at 102 West 33rd Street, in New York, NY. It was a 1100-seat theatre which opened in 1875 as the Eagle Variety Theatre, and later re-named the Standard Theatre in 1878...
on December 1 - The Queen's Lace Handkerchief, Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 21 and ran for 571 performances
- The SmugglersThe SmugglersThe Smugglers is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 10 September to 1 October 1966.-Plot:...
, Broadway production
Births
- January 15 - Henry BurrHenry BurrHenry Burr was a Canadian singer of popular songs from the early 20th century, an early radio performer and producer...
, popular tenor, prolific early recording artist (d. 1941) - February 11
- Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
- Joe JordanJoe Jordan (musician)Joe Jordan was an African American musician and composer. Jordan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in St...
, musician and composer (d. 1971)
- February 28 - Geraldine FarrarGeraldine FarrarGeraldine Farrar was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers".- Early life and opera career :Farrar was born in Melrose,...
, operatic soprano (d. 1967) - March 5 - Pauline DonaldaPauline DonaldaPauline Donalda, OC was a Canadian operatic soprano.Born Pauline Lightstone in Montreal, Quebec, she studied music at Royal Victoria College. In 1902 she studied in Paris and made her debut in 1904 in Nice. In 1922, she opened a studio in Paris and became a teacher...
, operatic soprano (d. 1970) - March 18 - Gian Francesco MalipieroGian Francesco MalipieroGian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...
, composer and musicologist (d. 1973) - March 24 - Gino MarinuzziGino MarinuzziGino Marinuzzi was an Italian conductor and composer, particularly associated with Wagner and the Italian repertory....
, conductor and composer (d. 1945) - April 17 - Artur SchnabelArtur SchnabelArtur Schnabel was an Austrian classical pianist, who also composed and taught. Schnabel was known for his intellectual seriousness as a musician, avoiding pure technical bravura...
, pianist (d. 1951) - April 18 - Leopold StokowskiLeopold StokowskiLeopold Anthony Stokowski was a British-born, naturalised American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.In America, Stokowski...
, conductor (d. 1977) - April 23 - Albert CoatesAlbert Coates (musician)Albert Coates was an English conductor and composer. Born in Saint Petersburg where his English father was a successful businessman, he studied in Russia, England and Germany, before beginning his career as a conductor in a series of German opera houses...
, conductor and composer (d. 1953) - May 6 - Georgi AtanasovGeorgi Atanasov (composer)Georgi Atanasov , was a Bulgarian composer.A native of Plovdiv, Atanasov began formal musical studies in Bucharest at the age of 14. From 1901 until 1903 he studied composition at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro with Pietro Mascagni. Upon receiving his diploma with the title of "maestro", he...
, composer (d. 1931) - May 11 - Joseph MarxJoseph MarxJoseph Rupert Rudolf Marx was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic.-Life and career:Marx pursued studies in philosophy, art history, German studies, and music at Graz University, earning several degrees including a doctorate in 1909. He began composing seriously in 1908 and over the next four...
, composer and critic (d. 1964) - May 12 - Kyrylo StetsenkoKyrylo StetsenkoKyrylo Hryhorovych Stetsenko was a prolific Ukrainian composer, conductor, critic, and teacher. Late in his life he became an Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and head of the Music section of the Ministry of Education of the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic.- Early life and Education :Kyrylo...
, conductor, composer, critic and teacher (d. 1922) - June 4 - Erwin LendvaiErwin LendvaiErwin Lendvai was a Hungarian composer and choral conductor. He was an uncle of the composer Kamilló Lendvay....
, composer and choral conductor (d. 1949) - June 17 - Igor StravinskyIgor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
, composer (d. 1971) - August 15 - Marion BauerMarion BauerMarion Eugénie Bauer was an American composer, teacher, writer, and music critic. A contemporary of Aaron Copland, Bauer played an active role in shaping American musical identity in the early half of the twentieth century....
, composer (d. 1955) - September 6? - John PowellJohn Powell (musician)John Powell was an American pianist, ethnomusicologist and composer. He helped found the White Top Folk Festival, which promoted music of the people in the Appalachian Mountains....
, composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist (d. 1963) - October 6 - Karol SzymanowskiKarol SzymanowskiKarol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer and pianist.-Life:Szymanowski was born into a wealthy land-owning Polish gentry family in Tymoszówka, then in the Russian Empire, now in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine. He studied music privately with his father before going to Gustav Neuhaus'...
, pianist and composer (d. 1937) - December 8 - Manuel María Ponce, composer and music teacher (d. 1948)
- December 9 - Joaquín TurinaJoaquín TurinaJoaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...
, composer (d. 1949) - December 16 - Zoltán KodályZoltán KodályZoltán Kodály was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. He is best known internationally as the creator of the Kodály Method.-Life:Born in Kecskemét, Kodály learned to play the violin as a child....
, composer (d. 1967)
Deaths
- February 3 - Guglielmo QuarenghiGuglielmo QuarenghiGuglielmo Quarenghi was an Italian composer and cellist. From 1839 to 1842 he studied with Vincenzo Merighi at the Milan Conservatory. In 1850 he became principal cellist at La Scala, and in 1851 a professor at the conservatory. Along with Luigi Felice Rossi and Alberto Mazzucato, Quarenghi formed...
, composer (b. 1826) - February 12 - Madame CélesteMadame CélesteMadame Céleste or Madame Céline Céleste was a French dancer and actress. As a little girl she was a pupil in the ballet class at the Opéra. When fifteen, she had an offer from the United States, and made her debut at the Bowery theatre, New York...
, dancer (b. 1815) - February 22 - Harriett EverardHarriett EverardHarriett Everard was an English singer and actress best known for creating the role of Little Buttercup in the Gilbert and Sullivan hit H.M.S. Pinafore. Her career was cut short by an onstage accident during a rehearsal, from which she never fully recovered.Everard had a stage career of 20 years,...
, singer and actress (b. 1844) - February 27 - Alfred JaëllAlfred JaëllAlfred Jaëll was an austrian-ungarick pianist.He was born in Trieste. He studied under Carl Czernyand began his public career at the age of 11, appearing at the Teatro San Benedetto, Venice, in 1843. The following year he studied with Ignaz Moscheles in Vienna. In 1845 and 1846 he lived in...
, pianist (b. 1832) - March 1 - Theodor KullakTheodor KullakTheodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.-Background:Kullak was born in Krotoschin in the Grand Duchy of Posen, in Wielkopolska - western part of Poland taken during the second partition of Poland by Kingdom of Prussia. He began his piano studies as a pupil of Albrecht Agthe in...
, pianist and composer (b. 1818) - April 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm KückenFriedrich Wilhelm KückenFriedrich Wilhelm Kücken was a German composer and conductor.Kücken was born in Bleckede. He learned piano as a child and played chamber music in his youth. After moving to Schwerin he studied under Friedrich Lührss, Paul Aron, and George Rettberg...
, composer and conductor (b. 1810) - June 24 (or 25) - Joachim RaffJoachim RaffJoseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...
, composer (b. 1822) - June 28 - James TurleJames TurleJames Turle was an English organist and composer.Turle was born at Taunton, Somerset, and started as a choirboy at Wells Cathedral. In 1817 he became a pupil of G. E. Williams, organist at Westminster Abbey in London, and after acting as deputy for some years he succeeded to this post himself in...
, organist and composer (b. 1802) - July 4 - Joseph BrackettJoseph BrackettJoseph Brackett Jr. , an American songwriter and Elder of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing , was born in Cumberland, Maine, and died in the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake at New Gloucester, Maine.Brackett is known as the author of the Shaker dancing song "Simple...
, songwriter (b. 1797) - July 12 - Alfred Pease, composer and pianist (b. 1838)
- September 16 - Theodore EisfeldTheodore EisfeldTheodore Eisfeld was a conductor, most notably of the New York Philharmonic Society, which became the New York Philharmonic.-Biography:...
, conductor (b. 1816) - October 3 - Adelaide PhillipsAdelaide PhillipsAdelaide Phillips , American contralto singer, was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, her family emigrating to America in 1840. Her mother taught dancing, and Adelaide began a career on the Boston stage at ten years old...
, contralto singer (b. 1833) - October 22 - Oskar AhnfeltOskar AhnfeltOscar Ahnfelt was the "Spiritual Troubadour" of 19th-century Sweden.Ahnfelt composed the music for all of Lina Sandell's hymns. He was a pietist and traveled over Scandinavia singing her hymns, bringing with him a 10-string guitar...
, composer of hymn-tunes (b. 1813) - October 29 - Gustav NottebohmGustav NottebohmMartin Gustav Nottebohm was a pianist, teacher, musical editor and composer who spent most of his career in Vienna. He is particularly celebrated for his studies of Beethoven....
, composer and music editor (b. 1817) - November 2 - Cenobio PaniaguaCenobio PaniaguaCenobio Paniagua y Vásques was a Mexican composer.Paniagua completed his studies in violin and became the Second Conductor of the Cathedral Orchestra of Mexico City. He founded a music academy in the city...
, composer (b. 1821) - November 18 - Aleksander MireckiAleksander MireckiAntoine Aleksander Mirecki , was a Polish violinist.He was born in 1809 in Chrzanów, but he lived in Kraków with his mother, Françoise Kutzkowska and his young father, the half-brother of the pedagog and compositor Franciszek Wincenty Mirecki. In 1826 he went to Warsaw and began military training...
, marischal and violinist (b. 1809) - November 20 - Kéler BélaKéler BélaVojtech Keler also known as Adalbert Paul von Kéler was a Slovak composer and conductor....
, composer and conductor (b. 1820) - December 29 - Josabeth SjöbergJosabeth Sjöbergthumb|right|"My room at no.60 Högbergsgatan, first floor; myself; Dr. Levin"; there is a copy with deeper colours here Josabeth Sjöberg, , was a Swedish artist and music teacher active in Stockholm....
, painter and music teacher (b. 1812) - date unknown
- Julián ArcasJulián ArcasJulián Arcas was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. He was born in Almería and died in Malaga Spain.During the decade 1860–70 he performed all over Europe. He even performed for the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Cambridge in 1862...
, guitarist and composer (b. 1832) - Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de PontécoulantLouis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de PontécoulantLouis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant was a French soldier and musicologist. He was the son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant and the older brother of Philippe Gustave le Doulcet....
, soldier and musicologist (b. 1794) - Edward MackEdward Mack (composer)Edward Mack , also known as E. Mack, was a German American composer.Mack composed the music for I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins , with the lyrics credited to "A Lady", and he composed the waltz That Young Man Across the Way .-External links:**...
, composer (b. 1826) - Mariia Surovshchikova-PetipaMariia Surovshchikova-PetipaMariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa , was prima ballerina to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and wife of the noted choreographer Marius Petipa.- Life :...
, ballerina (b. 1836) - Konstantin VilboaKonstantin VilboaKonstantin Petrovich Vilboa was a Russian composer.The name Vilboa is of French origin . Vilboa was an autodidact who never received any musical education...
, composer (b. 1817) - John ZundelJohn ZundelJohn Zundel was an organist, composer, arranger, and pedagogue. Zundel was perhaps best known for his hymn tune, "Beecher."Zundel was born in Württemberg, Germany and emigrated to New York City in 1847...
, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1815)
- Julián Arcas