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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

• March 3 - Georges Bizet's Carmen debuts in Paris.
• May 6 - Richard Wagner conducts portions of Götterdämmerung in concert in Vienna (the complete opera is premiered in 1876).
• Robert Volkmann becomes professor of harmony and counterpoint at the National Academy of Music in Budapest, under Franz Liszt.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Angels, Meet Me At the Cross Road"     w.m. Will Hays
• "Carve Dat Possum" by Sam Lucas & Herbert Hershy
• "Dreaming Forever of Thee"      w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "My Grandfather's Clock"     w.m. Henry C. Work
• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"     w.m. Thomas P. Westendorf
• "Nancy Lee" w. Frederick Edward Weatherly, m. Stephen Adams (pseudonym of Michael Maybrick)
• "A Warrior Bold" w. Edwin Thomas m. Stephen Adams (pseudonym of Michael Maybrick)
• "The Witches Flight (Galop Caprice)" by Henry A. Russell

[edit] Classical music

• Alexander Borodin, String Quartet No. 1
• Johannes Brahms, Fifteen Liebeslieder for piano duet; String Quartet No. 3
• Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 5; Serenade for Strings; String Quintet (with double bass) (orig Op. 18); Piano Quartet in D; Piano Trio in Bb; Moravian duets (for voices and piano)
• Gabriel Fauré, Allegro Symphonique (for orchestra); Suite for Orchestra; Les Djinns (for chorus and orchestra)
• Edvard Grieg, incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt
• Édouard Lalo, Allegro Symphonique
• Jules Massenet, oratorio Eve
• Modest Mussorgsky, Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death), song cycle for bass voice and piano
• Amilcare Ponchielli, cantata A Gaetano Donizetti
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, String Quartet No. 1
• Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 3; ballet Swan Lake; String Quartet
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Allegro appassionato for Cello and Piano in B minor
• Má vlast (My Country) - Six symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana

[edit] Opera

• Carmen first performed in Paris. Music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
• Die Königin von Saba, music by Karl Goldmark and libretto by Salomon Mosenthal.
• Angelo, music by César Cui

[edit] Musical theater

• Gilbert & Sullivan - Trial By Jury
  • London production opens at the Royalty Theatre on March 25
  • Philadelphia production opens at the Arch Street Theatre on October 22
  • New York production opens at the Eagle Theatre on November 15
• The Zoo, Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe Music: Arthur Sullivan, London production opened at St. James Theatre on June 5

[edit] Births

• February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer
• February 26 - Richard Wetz, German composer
• February 28 - Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Slovak composer
• March 7 - Maurice Ravel, French composer
• May - Paul Sarebresole
• July 17 - Donald Tovey, composer and musicologist
• August 9 - Albert Ketèlbey, composer
• August 18 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer

[edit] Deaths

• January 25 - Leopold Jansa, violinist, composer and music teacher (b. 1795)
• February 1 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer (b. 1816)
• February 23 - Louise Michaëli, opera singer (b. 1830)
• March 3 - Adolf Reubke, organ builder (b. 1805)
• March 17 - Ferdinand Laub, violinist (b. 1832)
• March 19 - Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, violin maker (b. 1798)
• June 3 - Georges Bizet, composer (b. 1838) (heart attack)
• September 15 - Louise Farrenc, pianist and composer (b. 1804)
• September 24 - William Walker, songwriter (b. 1809)

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