1878 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1878.
Events
- April 9? – Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by Ludvig Norman.
- May 28 – Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London
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
- "Ten Little Injuns" w. & m. Septimus Winner
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms – Motets Op. 74; Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
- Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner) – 2nd version; Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)
- Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
- George Whitefield Chadwick – String Quartet No. 1
- Felix Otto Dessoff – String Quartet in F, Op. 7
- Antonín Dvořák –
- Serenade for Wind Instruments (Dvořák) (op. 44/B. 77)
- String Sextet (Dvořák), (op. 48/B. 80)
- Slavonic Dances, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
- Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
- Gabriel Fauré – Chanson Après un rêve (Op. 7 No. 1)
- Niels Gade – Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
- Hans Huber – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
- Vincent d'Indy – La forêt enchantée
- Édouard Lalo – Fantaisie norvégienne
- Giuseppe Martucci – Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor; Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
- Joachim Raff – Symphony No. 9 Im Sommer, Op. 208
- Josef Rheinberger – Mass in E-flat (Cantus Missæ) for double choir, Op. 109; Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111; Trio for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A, Op. 112; Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114[1]
- Bernhard Scholz – String Quintet Op. 47[2]
- Sergei Taneyev – Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Opera
- Alfred Cellier – After All!
- Charles Gounod – Polyeucte (opera)
- 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
- Joachim Raff – Benedetto Marcello
Musical theater
- Gilbert and Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore, London production
- Jacques Offenbach – Madame Favart, Paris production
Births
- January 23 – Rutland Boughton, English composer
- February 16 – Selim Palmgren, Finnish composer[3]
- February 26 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano
- February 28 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer
- March 4 – Egbert Van Alstyne, US songwriter
- March 23 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer, conductor and teacher
- March 29 – Albert Von Tilzer, US songwriter
- May 24 – Louis Fleury, flautist (d. 1926)
- May 25 – Bill Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor
- July 3 – George M. Cohan, US songwriter, entertainer
- July 5 – Joseph Holbrooke, English composer
- July 12 – Percy Hilder Miles, composer, violinist and teacher
- July 22 – Ernest Ball, US composer
- July 25 – Heinrich Gebhard, composer
- August 18 – Fritz Brun, composer and conductor
- August 22 – Edward Johnson (tenor), Canadian tenor
- September 17 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer
- October 19 – Alphonse Picou, clarinettist
- November 4 – Jean Schwartz, songwriter
- November 23 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor
Deaths
- January 15 – Carlo Blasis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1797)
- February 2 – Josif Runjanin, composer (b. 1821)
- April 8 – Henriette "Jetty" Treffz, singer, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818)
- April 21 – Temistocle Solera, librettist and composer (b. 1815)
- May 6 – François Benoist, organist and composer (b. 1794)
- July 2 – François Bazin, opera composer (b. 1816)
- August 23 – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (b. 1801)
- October 13-October 25 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
- November – Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, guitarist and composer (b. 1801)
- November 13 – Carl Heissler, violinist (b. 1826)
- December 18 – Heinrich Proch, composer (b. 1809)
- December 28 – José Bernardo Alcedo, composer of the Peruvian national anthem (b. 1788)
- date unknown – Robert Heller, pianist and magician (b. 1826)
References
- ↑ Rheinberger quintet op. 114 given date 1878 at Sheetmusicplus.com.
- ↑ Musgrave, Michael (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Brahms at Google Books. Cambridge University Press. page 296. ISBN 978-0-521-48581-4.
- ↑ "FIMIC Link About Selim Palmgren". Archived from the original on October 26, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-05.