1873 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1873.
Events
- April â The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.
- August 27 â Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.
- December 7 â Première of Camille Saint-Saëns's symphonic poem Phaéton at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, performed by the Concert National conducted by Ãdouard Colonne.[1]
- Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.
Published popular music
- "The German Polka" by Gus Williams (vaudeville)
- "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
- "Home on the Range" w. Brewster M. Higley m. Daniel E. Kelley
- "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White (musician)
- "Little sweetheart, come listen to me". Words and music by Arthur W. French[2][3]
- "Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms
- Anton Bruckner â Symphony No. 3
- AntonÃn DvoÅák â String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet no. 6 in A
- Hermann Goetz â Symphony in F, Op. 9 (premiered 1874;[4] some sources give 1866 for composition however)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky â The Tempest
- Giuseppe Verdi â String Quartet in E minor
- Camille Saint-Saëns's â Phaéton
Opera
- Léo Delibes â Le roi l'a dit
- Karel Miry â Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)
Musical theater
- 1492 Up to Date, Libretto by R. A. Barnet, music by Carl Pflueger
Births
- January 8 â Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress and opera singer (d. 1927)
- February 1 â Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer (d. 1947)
- February 13 â Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)[5]
- February 27 â Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (d. 1921)[6]
- March 19 â Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)[7]
- April 1 â Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)[8]
- April 18 â Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer (d. 1954)
- May 1 â Harry Evans, composer (d. 1914)
- June 1 â Ada Jones, singer (d. 1922)
- June 16 â Antonina Nezhdanova, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
- July 11 â Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (d. 1917)
- August 11 â J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
- August 18 â Otto Harbach, lyricist (d. 1963)[9]
- September 21 â Papa Jack Laine, bandleader (d. 1966)
- October 14 â José Serrano, composer (d. 1941)
- October 23 â Ricardo Villa, composer (d. 1935)
- November 1 â Charles Quef, French organist and composer (d. 1931)
- November 16 â W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)[10]
- December 9 â Carlo Zangarini, opera librettist and poet (d. 1943)[11]
- December 14 â Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)
Deaths
- January 3 â John Lodge Ellerton, composer (b. 1801)
- January 28 â Henry Hugo Pierson, composer (b. 1815)
- February 14 â Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg, composer and pianist (b. 1821)
- March 31 â Domenico Donzelli, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
- April 13 â Carlo Coccia, opera composer (b. 1782)
- April 19 â Pierre-Chéri Lafont, actor and singer (b. 1797)
- May 13 â KaÅ¡par MaÅ¡ek, composer (b. 1794)
- June 2 â François George-Hainl, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1807)
- July 4 â Prince Józef Michal Poniatowski, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1816)
- July 19 â Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)
- August 26 â Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)
- September 26 â Roderich Benedix, librettist and singer (b. 1811)
- October 6 â Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)
- October 8 â Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)