1876 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1876.
Events
- February â Baritone Lithgow James[1] joins the English Opera Company, where he begins a partnership with his future wife Florence St. John.
- April - Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake
- February 24 â Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
- May 17 â AntonÃn DvoÅák begins composing his Moravian Duets.
- August 16 â Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
- August 17 â Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
- Soprano Rosa Hasselbeck marries the conductor and composer Josef Sucher.
Published popular music
- "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
- "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
- "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
- "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
- "Old Aunt Jemima" by Billy Kersands
- "Molly Malone"
- "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms â Symphony No. 1
- Pietro Abbà Cornaglia â Requiem
- Felix Draeseke â Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: five piano pieces, Op. 14
- AntonÃn DvoÅák â Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
- Gabriel Fauré â Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
- César Franck â Les Ãolides
- Benjamin Godard â Concerto Romantique
- Edvard Grieg â Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song (for piano), Op. 24
- Ãdouard Lalo â Cello Concerto
- Gustav Mahler â Piano Quartet movement in A
- BedÅich Smetana â String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, From My Life
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky â The Seasons (for piano), Op. 37a
- Charles-Marie Widor â Organ Symphonies Nos. 1â3, Op. 13
Opera
- Arrigo Boito â Mefistofele
- Luigi Denza â Wallenstein
- Amilcare Ponchielli â La Gioconda
- BedÅich Smetana â The Kiss
- Richard Wagner
- Ivan Zajc â Nikola Å ubiÄ Zrinski
Musical theater
- Richard Genée â Der Seekadette
- Robert Planquette â Les cloches de Corneville
Births
- January 12
- Annie Krull, operatic soprano (died 1947)
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (died 1948)
- January 19 â Rosina Storchio, Italian lyric soprano (died 1945)
- January 29
- Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
- Ludolf Nielsen, composer (died 1939)
- February 2 â Giovanni Zenatello, tenor (died 1949)
- February 28 â John Alden Carpenter, composer
- March 11 â Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
- May 17 â Carrie Tubb, soprano (died 1976)
- May 19 â Jan Ingenhoven, Dutch composer and conductor
- June 2 â Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (died 1954)
- June 5 â Tony Jackson, jazz musician (died 1920)
- August 14 â Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer (died 1940)
- August 16 â Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
- September 15 â Bruno Walter, conductor (died 1962)
- November 23 â Manuel de Falla, composer (died 1946)
- December 11 â MieczysÅaw KarÅowicz, composer (died 1909)
- December 29
- Pablo Casals, cellist (died 1973)
- Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975)
Deaths
- February 28 â Raimondo Boucheron, composer, 75
- March 5
- Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65
- Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70
- March 28 â Joseph Böhm, violinist, 80
- April 19 â Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer, 65
- June 28 â August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian, 69
- August 29 â Félicien-César David, composer, 66
- September 9 â Mary Shaw, operatic contralto, 62
- September 30 â Henri Bertini, pianist and composer, 77
- October 1 â James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder, 80
- November 8 â Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone, 76
- November 9 â Ãdouard Batiste, organist and composer, 56
- November 18 â Nicolas Bosret, blind organist and composer, 77
- December 3 â Hermann Goetz, composer, 35 (tuberculosis)
- December 14 â George Frederick Anderson, violinist, 83
