1878 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1878.
Events
- April 9? â Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by Ludvig Norman.
- May 25 â Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London at the Opera Comique with a first run of 571 performances.
- November 18 â Soprano Marie Selika Williams becomes the first African American artist to perform at the White House.
- A Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by George Grove begins publication in the U.K.
Published popular music
- "Aloha ʻOe" 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 H.M.S. 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
- "When the birds have gone to sleep," words by Arthur W. French, music by William A. Huntley[1]
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms
- Motets Op. 74
- Eight Pieces (for piano) Op. 76
- Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
- Anton Bruckner
- Symphony No. 4 â 2nd version
- Symphony No. 5
- Ferruccio Busoni â Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
- George Whitefield Chadwick â String Quartet No. 1
- Felix Otto Dessoff â String Quartet in F, Op. 7
- AntonÃn DvoÅák
- Serenade for Wind Instruments (DvoÅák) (op. 44/B. 77)
- Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
- Slavonic Dances, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
- Bagatelles, Op.47
- String Sextet (DvoÅák), (op. 48/B. 80)
- Gabriel Fauré â Chanson Après un rêve (Op. 7 No. 1)
- ZdenÄk Fibich
- String Quartet No.2, Op.8
- VÄÄnost (Eternity), Concert Melodrama for Narrator and Piano, Op.14
- Niels Gade â Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
- Edvard Grieg
- String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
- Improvisations on 2 Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.29
- Albumblad, EG 109
- Hans Huber â Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
- Vincent d'Indy â La forêt enchantée
- Joseph Joachim â Elegiac Overture 'In Memoriam Heinrich von Kleist', Op.13
- Cyrill Kistler â 4 Lieder, Op.20 (including "Am Waldessaume")
- Ãdouard Lalo
- Cello Concerto in D minor
- Fantaisie norvégienne
- Giuseppe Martucci
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
- Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
- Siegfried Ochs â 'S kommt ein Vogel geflogen
- Ole Olsen â AsgÃ¥rdsreien, Op. 10 (symphonic poems)
- Robert Radecke â Symphony in F major, Op. 50
- Joachim Raff
- Aus Thüringen, WoO. 45
- Symphony No. 9 Im Sommer, Op. 208
- Josef Rheinberger
- Cantus Missae, Mass in E-flat major for double choir, Op. 109
- Ouvertüre zu Schiller's Demetrius, Op. 110
- Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp minor, Op. 111
- Piano Trio No. 2 in A major, Op. 112
- Piano Quintet, Op. 114[2]
- Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov â 6 Variations on the Theme B-A-C-H, Op.10
- Pablo de Sarasate â Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book I
- Bernhard Scholz â String Quintet Op. 47[3]
- Richard Strauss â Alphorn, TrV 64
- Sergei Taneyev â Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
- Violin Concerto in D major
- Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 37.
- 6 Romances, Op.38
- Anton Urspruch â Variationen über ein eigenes Thema, Op.10
Opera
- Alfred Cellier â After All!
- Charles Gounod â Polyeucte (opera)
- Charles Edouard Lefebvre â Lucrèce
- Miguel Marqués â El anillo de hierro (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
- Joseph Parry â 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 â Benedetto Marcello
Musical theater
- Gilbert and Sullivan â H.M.S. Pinafore, London production
- Jacques Offenbach â Madame Favart, Paris production
Births
- January 4 â Rosa Grünberg, Swedish actress and soprano (d. 1960)
- January 6 â Carl Sandburg, American poet and lyricist (died 1967)
- January 22 â Ben Deeley, American actor and lyricist (died 1924)
- January 23 â Rutland Boughton, English composer (d. 1960)
- January 26 â Rudolf Alexander Schröder, lyricist (died 1962)
- January 28 â Walter Kollo, Singspiele composer (died 1940)
- February 16 â Selim Palmgren, Finnish composer (d. 1951)[4]
- February 26 â Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (d. 1930)
- February 28 â Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
- March 4 â Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter (d. 1951)
- March 23 â Franz Schreker, Austrian composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1934)
- March 29 â Albert Von Tilzer, American songwriter (d. 1956)
- May 24 â Louis Fleury, French flautist (d. 1926)
- May 25 â Bill Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor (d. 1949)
- July 3 â George M. Cohan, American songwriter, entertainer (d. 1942)
- July 5 â Joseph Holbrooke, English composer (d. 1958)
- July 9 â Eduard Sõrmus, Estonian violinist (d. 1940)
- July 12
- Bert Grant, composer (died 1951)
- Percy Hilder Miles, English composer, violinist and teacher (d. 1922)
- July 22 â Ernest Ball, American singer-songwriter (d. 1927)
- July 25 â Heinrich Gebhard, German-born composer (d. 1963)
- August 18 â Fritz Brun, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1959)
- August 22 â Edward Johnson, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 1959)
- August 28 â Laura de Turczynowicz (née Laura Christine Blackwell), Canadian-born opera singer (d. 1953)
- September 7 â Adolphe Piriou, French composer and musician (died 1964)
- September 17 â Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (d. 1950)
- October 18 â Blind Uncle Gaspard, American Cajun vocalist and guitarist (d. 1937)
- October 19
- Hermann Claudius, lyricist (died 1980)
- Alphonse Picou, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1961)
- November 4 â Jean Schwartz, Hungarian-born songwriter (d. 1956)
- November 23 â André Caplet, French composer and conductor (d. 1925)
- December 23 â Wilfred Sanderson, composer (died 1935)
- Undated â Ustad Qasim, Afghan musician (d. 1957)
Deaths
- January 15 â Carlo Blasis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1797)
- February 2 â Josif Runjanin, composer (b. 1821)
- April 8 â Henriette "Jetty" Treffz, singer, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818)
- April 21 â Temistocle Solera, librettist and composer (b. 1815)
- May 6 â François Benoist, organist and composer (b. 1794)
- May 24 â Franz Espagne, musicologist (born 1828)
- July 2 â François Bazin, opera composer (b. 1816)
- August 23 â Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (b. 1801)
- October 13-October 25 â Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
- November â Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, guitarist and composer (b. 1801)
- November 13 â Carl Heissler, violinist (b. 1826)
- December 18 â Heinrich Proch, composer (b. 1809)
- December 28 â José Bernardo Alcedo, composer of the Peruvian national anthem (b. 1788)
- date unknown â Robert Heller, pianist and magician (b. 1826)