1873 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by Hart Pease Danks & Eben Eugene Rexford
• "The German Polka" by Gus Williams
• "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley
• "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White
• "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart

[edit] Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - String Quartet No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
• Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet no. 5 in F; String Quartet no. 6 in A
• Hermann Goetz - Symphony in F, op. 9 (premiered 1874. [1]. Some sources give 1866 for composition however.)
• Giuseppe Verdi - String Quartet in E minor

[edit] Opera

• Léo Delibes - Le Roi l'a dit
• Karel Miry - Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)

[edit] Musical theater

[edit] Births

• February 27 - Enrico Caruso, Operatic tenor
• March 19 - Max Reger, German composer
• April 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer
• April 18 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer
• June 1 - Ada Jones, US singer
• August 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
• August 18 - Otto Harbach, lyricist
• September 21 - Papa Jack Laine
• November 16 - W. C. Handy
• December 14 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer
• Tom Turpin

[edit] Deaths

• April 13 - Carlo Coccia, opera composer
• July 19 - Ferdinand David, violinist and composer
• September 26 - Julius Roerich Benedix, librettist
• October 6 - Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann