1878 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

• May 28 – Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London

[edit] Published popular music

• "Aloha `Oe" w.m. Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
• "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" w.m. James A. Bland
• "De Gospel Raft" by Frank Dumont
• "Emmet's Lullaby" Joseph K. Emmet
• From HMS Pinafore: (words by W. S. Gilbert, music by Arthur Sullivan)
  • "I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore"
  • "I Am The Ruler Of The Queen's Navee"
  • "I'm Called Little Buttercup"
  • "Kind Captain"
  • "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore"
  • "When I Was a Lad"
• "In The Evening By the Moonlight" w.m. James A. Bland
• "Keep In De Middle Ob De Road"     w.m. Will Hays

[edit] Classical music

• Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
• Niels Gade – Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
• Sergei Taneyev – Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
  • Violin Concerto in D major

[edit] Opera

• Alfred Cellier – After All!
• Charles Gounod – Polyeucte
• Charles Edouard Lefebvre – Lucrèce
• Miguel Marqués – El anillo de hierro (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
• Joseph Parry – Blodwen
• Emile Pessard
  • Le char premiered on January 18 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris
  • Le Capitaine Fracasse premiered on July 2 at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris

[edit] Musical theater

• Gilbert and Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore, London production
• Jacques Offenbach – Madame Favart, Paris production

[edit] Births

• March 4 – Egbert Van Alstyne, US songwriter
• March 29 – Albert Von Tilzer, US songwriter
• May 25 – Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor
• July 4 – George M. Cohan, US songwriter, entertainer
• July 21 – Ernest R. Ball, US composer
• July 25 – Heinrich Gebhard, composer
• October 19 – Alphonse Picou, clarinettist
• November 4 – Jean Schwartz, songwriter

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 – Josif Runjanin, composer
• April 8 – Henriette "Jetty" Treffz, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II
• December 28 – José Bernardo Alcedo, composer of the Peruvian national anthem