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1874 in music
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Contents
1
Events
2
Classical music
3
Opera
4
Published popular music
5
Musical theater
6
Births
7
Deaths
Events
October -
Bedřich Smetana
completely loses his hearing, after being deaf in one ear for some time.
Richard Wagner
moves into the villa at
Bayreuth
.
Franz Xaver Haberl
founds a school for church musicians at
Regensburg
.
Classical music
Anton Bruckner
-
Symphony No. 4
Albert Dietrich
-
Violin Concerto
Antonín Dvořák
-
String Quartet No. 7 opus 16 in A minor
Friedrich Kiel
-
Christus
(oratorio)
Edouard Lalo
-
Symphonie Espagnole
opus 21 in D minor
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
-
Pictures at an Exhibition
(for piano)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
-
Piano Concerto No. 1
Giuseppe Verdi
-
Requiem
Opera
Alfred Cellier
-
The Sultan of Mocha
(premiered at Manchester)
Gialdino Gialdini
-
L'Idolo cinese
(premiered at the Teatro delle Logge, in
Florence
)
Karel Miry
-
Het arme kind
(opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered in
Ghent
)
Emile Pessard
-
Don Quichotte
(premiered on February 13 at the Salle Erard, in
Paris
)
Johann Strauss II
-
Die Fledermaus
Published popular music
"Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe &
William Howard Doane
"Laughing Eyes Of Blue" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m.
Edward E. Rice
. Performed by Eliza Weathersby in the burlesque musical
Evangeline
"Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by
Luke Schoolcraft
Musical theater
Evangeline
, a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
, opened at
Niblo's Gardens
on July 27 and ran for only 16 performances before moving to
Boston
.
Whittington
, London production
Births
January 4
-
Josef Suk
-
Czech
composer and violinist (d. 1935)
February 6
-
David Evans
, composer (d. 1948)
February 20
-
Mary Garden
, operatic soprano d. 1967)
March 31
-
Henri Marteau
,
French
composer and violinist (d. 1934)
July 5
-
Anna Lang
, Swedish harpsichordist.
July 26
-
Serge Koussevitzky
,
Russian
-born conductor and double-bassist (d. 1951)
August 9
-
Reynaldo Hahn
,
French
composer and conductor (d. 1947)
September 13
-
Arnold Schoenberg
, composer (d. 1951)
September 21
-
Gustav Holst
,
English
composer (d. 1934)
October 20
-
Charles Ives
,
American
composer (d. 1954)
November 12
-
Bert Williams
, entertainer (d. 1922)
November 15
-
Alberto Zelman
, conductor (d. 1927)
December 13
-
Josef Lhévinne
,
Russian
pianist (d. 1944)
December 22
-
Franz Schmidt
,
Austrian
composer (d. 1939)
December 25
-
Lina Cavalieri
, glamorous opera singer (d. 1944)
December 31
-
Ernest Austin
, English composer (d. 1947)
Deaths
February 13
-
Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
, pianist and composer (b. 1806)
March 20
-
Hans Christian Lumbye
,
Danish
composer and conductor (b. 1810)
May 1
-
Vilém Blodek
, flautist, pianist and composer (b. 1834)
June 30
-
Blanche d'Antigny
, singer and actress (b. 1840) (typhoid)
July 3
-
Franz Bendel
, composer (b. 1832)
October 6
-
Thomas Tellefsen
, pianist and composer (b. 1823)
October 26
-
Peter Cornelius
,
German
composer (b. 1824)
November 24
-
Friedrich Wilhelm Grund
, German composer (b. 1791)
December 19
-
Josef Vorel
, composer (b. 1801)
December 22
-
Johann Peter Pixis
, German pianist and composer (b. 1788)
date unknown
Salvatore Agnelli
, composer (b. 1817)
Sanford Faulkner
, fiddle player and composer (b. 1806)
Dominique Peccatte
, luthier (b. 1810)