1880 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1880.
Specific locations
Events
- April 3 â Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance has its London premiere at the Opera Comique on the Strand.[1]
- June 12 â Richard Strauss completes composition of his first major work, his Symphony in D minor, at age 16.[2]
- JuneâAugust â Gustav Mahler takes his first professional conducting job, in a small wooden theatre in the Austrian spa town of Bad Hall, conducting operetta.[3]
- November 1 â Mahler completes composition of Das klagende Lied.
- November 27 â The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera Semiramide.
Published popular music
- "The Beauty of Limerick" â David Braham
- "Blow the Man Down" trad
- "Funiculì Funiculà " w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
- "Keep the Horseshoe Over the Door" w. m. Joseph P. Skelly
- "Haste to the Wedding" published by Jean White
- "In The Evening By The Moonlight" w. m. James A. Bland
- "O Canada!" w. Adolphe-Basile Routhier m. Calixa Lavallée
- "Roses from the South" m. Johann Strauss II
- "Sailing, Sailing" w.m. Godfrey Marks
- "Softly and Tenderly" w.m. Will L. Thompson
- From The Pirates of Penzance, w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
- "Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire"
- "Now for The Pirates' Lair"
- "Oh, Better Far To Live And Die"
- "A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We"
- "To Gain A Brief Advantage"
- "When A Felon's Not Engaged"
- "When The Foeman Bares His Steel"
- "When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold"
- "Yes! I Am Brave! Oh, Family Descent"
- "Come and meet me, Rosa darling," w. by Samuel N. Mitchell, m. by William A. Huntley[4]
Classical music
- Ján Levoslav Bella â String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
- Giovanni Bottesini â Gran Duo Concertante
- Johannes Brahms
- Tragic Overture
- Academic Festival Overture
- 2 Rhapsodies, Op.79, premiered January 20 in Krefeld.
- Alfons Czibulka â Stephanie-Gavotte, Op.312
- Felix Draeseke â Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
- AntonÃn DvoÅák
- Waltzes, Op.54
- Violin Sonata, Op. 57 (B. 106)
- Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 (B. 112)
- Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Gabriel Fauré â Ãlégie, for cello and piano
- César Franck â Piano Quintet, premiered January 17
- Niels Gade â Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op.56
- Edvard Grieg â 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34
- Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1
- Emilie Mayer â Faust Overture
- Ion Ivanovici â The Danube Waves
- Hubert Parry â Piano Concerto
- Giacomo Puccini â Messa di Gloria
- Hans Rott â Symphony in E major
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Suite algérienne in C major
- Violin Concerto No. 3
- Septet
- Pablo Sarasate â Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book III
- Richard Strauss â Symphony in D minor
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 1812 Overture
- Italian Capriccio, Op.45, premiered December 18 in Moscow.
- Serenade for Strings
Opera
- Dudley Buck â Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction
- Léo Delibes â Jean de Nivelle
- Miguel Marqués â Florinda
- Adolf Neuendorff â The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin/Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
- Anton Rubinstein â The Merchant Kalashnikov
- George StephÄnescu
- Peste Dunare
- Sinziana si Pepelea
- Johann Strauss, Jr. â Das Spitzentuch der Königin, premiered October 10 in Vienna.
Musical theater
- La Mascotte Paris production
- The Pirates of Penzance London production
Published Writings
- Alexander John Ellis â The History of Musical Pitch
Births
- January 3 â Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)[5]
- January 5 â Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
- January 6 â John McKenna, traditional Irish flute player (d. 1947)
- February 19 â Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
- April 7 â Fritz Grünbaum, Austrian Caberet artist (murdered 1941)
- June 13 â Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
- July 5 â Jan KubelÃk, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
- July 24 â Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
- July 31 â Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
- September 19 â Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
- September 20 â Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
- September 27 â Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
- October 12 â Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
- November 2
- John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)
- Brian Hooker, American lyricist and librettist (died 1946)
- Aunt Molly Jackson, American folk singer and union activist (d. 1960)
Deaths
- January 24 â George Jackson Lambert, English organist and composer (born 1794)
- February 18 â Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1804)
- March 20 â Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
- March 31 â Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
- May 1 â Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
- May 9 â Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
- May 30 â James Planché, word artist (born 1796)
- August 16 â Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel (born 1808)
- August 17 â Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
- October 5 â Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
- October 7 â Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
- November 24 â Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
- November 27 â William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
- December 2 â Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
- December 27 â Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
- date unknown â Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)