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Contents
1
Events
2
Published popular music
3
Classical music
4
Opera
5
Musical theater
6
Births
7
Deaths
8
References
Events
January 6
- The
Musikverein
opens in
Vienna
.
March 16
-
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
's fantasy-overture
Romeo and Juliet
debuts in
Moscow
, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein
May 25
-
Léo Delibes
'
ballet
Coppélia
debuts at the
Paris
Opéra
June 26
-
Richard Wagner
's
Die Walküre
premieres at the
Munich
Court Theatre
Published popular music
Come In Old Adam, Come In!
by Alice Cary & C. F. Shattuck
Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise
by
Samuel N. Mitchell
&
Charles Blamphin
Classical music
Max Bruch
-
Symphony No. 2 in F minor
, op. 36 (premiered September 4)
[
1
]
Antonín Dvořák
-
Dramatic Overture
(overture to the opera
Alfred
) (B. 16a); String Quartet no. 3 in D, B. 18; String Quartet no. 4 in E minor, B. 19 (see
List of compositions by Antonín Dvořák
)
Charles Gounod
-
Messe des Orphéonistes
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
-
Romeo and Juliet overture
(first version)
Opera
Antonín Dvořák
Alfred
, B. 16 (libretto by
Karl Theodor Körner
, premiered in 1938 in
Olomouc
)
[
2
]
Karel Miry
La Saint-Lucas
(opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in
Ghent
)
Het Driekoningenfeest
(opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in
Brussels
)
Emile Pessard
-
La cruche cassée
(comic opera in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on February 21 at the
Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique
in
Paris
)
Bedřich Smetana
-
Prodana Nevesta
(eng.
The Bartered Bride
)
Richard Wagner
-
Die Walküre
Musical theater
Chilpéric
London production
La Mascotte
Paris production
La Périchole
London production
Births
January 3
-
Henry Eichheim
, conductor, violinist and composer (d. 1942)
January 20
-
Guillaume Lekeu
, composer (d. 1894)
January 30
-
Rudolf Louis
, critic, conductor and author (d. 1914)
February 12
–
Marie Lloyd
, British music-hall singer (d. 1922)
March 6
-
Oscar Straus
, Viennese composer of operettas (d. 1954)
April 7
-
Joseph Ryelandt
, Belgian composer (d.
1965
)
April 28
-
Hermann Suter
, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
April 30
-
Franz Lehár
, composer of operettas and waltzes (d. 1948)
May 4
-
Zygmunt Stojowski
, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
August 4
-
Harry Lauder
, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter (d. 1950)
August 12
-
Arthur J. Lamb
, lyricist and actor (d. 1928)
September 28
-
Florent Schmitt
, French composer (d. 1958)
October 7
-
Uncle Dave Macon
, banjo player, singer and songwriter (d.1952)
October 8
-
Louis Vierne
, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
October 24
-
August Brunetti-Pisano
, Austrian composer (d. 1943)
November 30
-
Cecil Forsyth
, composer and musicologist (d. 1941)
December 5
-
Vítězslav Novák
, Czech composer (d. 1949)
December 16
-
Alfred Hill
, Australian composer (d. 1960)
Deaths
January 26
-
Cesare Pugni
, ballet composer
March 10
-
Ignaz Moscheles
, Bohemian composer (b. 1794)
March 16
-
Theodore Oesten
, musician, composer and music teacher (b. 1813)
April 8
-
Charles de Bériot
, violinist (b. 1802)
July 22
-
Josef Strauss
, composer (b. 1827)
August 14
-
Manuel Saumell
, composer (b. 1818)
October 20
-
Michael William Balfe
, composer (b. 1808)
October 31
-
Mihály Mosonyi
, composer (b. 1815)
November 23
-
Giuseppina Bozzachi
, ballerina (b. 1853)
December 7
-
Mykhailo Verbytsky
, composer (b. 1815)
December 17
-
Saverio Mercadante
, composer (b. 1795)
December 18
-
Eugène Ketterer
, French composer and pianist (b. 1831)
December 28
-
Alexei Lvov
, Russian composer (b. 1799)
date unknown
-
Joseph David Jones
, composer and schoolmaster (b. 1827)
References
^
Wood, Thomas (8 November 2005).
"Max Bruch Catalog of Works - Symphony No. 2"
. Archived from
the original
on 29 January 2008
.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080129211917/http://www.wooster.edu/music/twood/bruchcatalog.html#36
. Retrieved 9 February 2008
.
^
Beckerman, Michael (1993).
Dvořák and His World
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 109–112.
ISBN
0-691-00097-2.
OCLC
27937811
.
http://books.google.com/books?id=1HsTpPhAsgQC&pg=PA110&vq=alfred+k%C3%B6rner&dq=%22Karl+Theodor+K%C3%B6rner%22+%2Bdvorak
. Retrieved 9 February 2008
.