1883 in music
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Events in the year 1883 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- October 22 â Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.
- Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovers.
- The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Published popular music
- "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
- "The Farmer in the Dell" trad
- "I Know Whom I Have Believed" w. Daniel W. Whittle m. James McGranahan
- "La golondrina" m. Narciso Serradell Sevilla
- "Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day)" trad
- "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" by Sam Lucas
- "She Does the Fandango All Over the Place" w.m. G. W. Hunt
- "There Is a Tavern in the Town" anon
- "Transit of Venus March" m. John Philip Sousa
- "Must we leave the old home, mother?" w. by Arthur W. French, m. by William A Huntley[1]
Classical music
- Isaac Albéniz â Barcarola for piano No. 1
- Anton Arensky
- Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 2
- Symphony No. 1 in B minor
- Johannes Brahms â Symphony No. 3
- Emmanuel Chabrier â España, rapsodie pour orchestre
- George Whitefield Chadwick â Thalia (concert overture)
- AntonÃn DvoÅák
- Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 65 (B. 130)
- Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 (B. 131)
- Hussite Overture, Op. 67 (B. 132)
- Cesar Franck â Le chasseur maudit
- Benjamin Godard â Piano Trio No.2, Op.72
- Charles Gounod â The Redemption (oratorio)
- Augusta Mary Ann Holmès â Pologne
- Hans Huber â Piano Trio No.2, Op.65
- Franz Liszt â La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version)
- Emilie Mayer â Notturno, Op.48
- Max Meyer-Olbersleben â Fantaisie-Sonate, Op.17
- David Popper â Im Walde Suite, Op.50
- Pablo de Sarasate â Carmen Fantasy
- Sergei Taneyev â Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
- Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 2
- Emil Waldteufel âEstudiantina
Opera
- Alfredo Catalani â Dejanice
- César Cui â Prisoner of the Caucasus
- Charles-Ãdouard Lefebvre â Le Trésor premiered in Angers
- Miguel Marqués â La cruz de fuego
- Karel Miry â De kleine patriot (opera in 4 acts, libretto by J. Hoste, premiered on December 23 in Brussels)
Musical theater
- Cordelia's Aspirations (Edward Harrigan & David Braham) Broadway production opened at the New Theatre Comique on November 5 and ran for 176 performances
- Johann Strauss II â Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night In Venice) Berlin and Vienna productions
Births
- January 1 â Floy Little Bartlett, American composer (d. 1956)[2]
- January 30 â Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
- February 11 â Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer (d. 1946)
- March 10 â Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano (d. 1946)
- March 15 - Ford Dabney, American composer and vaudevillian (d. 1953)
- March 16 â Ernie Hare, U.S. bass/baritone (d. 1939)
- March 19 â Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1959)
- March 21 â Jules Van Nuffel, Belgian composer and choir conductor (d. 1953)
- March 27 â Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (d. 1950)
- March 28 â William Henry Harris, English organist, choral trainer and composer (d. 1973)
- April 1 â Malcolm McEachern, Australian-born concert bass singer (d. 1945)
- April 6 â Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
- April 13 (O.S. April 1) â Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian Soviet composer
- May 4 â Nikolai Malko, Ukrainian conductor
- May 5 â Petar KonjoviÄ, composer (d. 1970)
- May 28
- George Dyson, English musician and composer (d. 1964)
- Václav Talich, Czech conductor
- Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer (d. 1944)
- June 16 â Fritz Krauss, German tenor (d. 1976)
- July 7 â Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer
- July 25 â Alfredo Casella, composer (d. 1947)
- July 29 â Manuel Infante, pianist and composer (d. 1958)
- August 13 â Joseph C. Smith, American dance band leader (d. 1965)
- August 15 â Benjamin M. Kaye, librettist (died 1970)
- August 19 â Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist (d. 1962)[3]
- September 18 â Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composer[4]
- October 2 â Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer[5]
- October 22 â Victor Jacobi, operetta composer (d. 1921)[6]
- November 8 â Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)[7]
- December 3 â Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)[8]
- December 22 â Edgard Varèse, French(-born) composer (d. 1965)[9]
Deaths
- January 24 â Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)[10]
- February 13 â Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)[11]
- February 17 â Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (b. 1805)[12]
- April 10 â Emilie Mayer, composer (b. 1812)[13]
- April 26 â Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist (b. 1807)
- June 6
- Ciprian Porumbescu, composer (b. 1853)
- Per Lasson, composer (b. 1859)
- June 10 â Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer (b. 1812)
- July 14 â Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector (b. 1824)[14]
- July 27 â Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer (b. 1821)[15]
- September 2 â Léon Halévy, librettist (born 1802)
- October 4 â Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819)
- October 30 â Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)[16]
- December 7 â Auguste Offenbach, composer (born 1862)
- December 3 â Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813)[17]
- December 11 â Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)
- date unknown â Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806)