Supriya Ghosh (Editor)A teacher by profession and engineer by trade1873 in musicUpdated on Dec 07, 2024EditLikeCommentShareShare on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditSign inThis article is about music-related events in 1873.ContentsEventsPublished popular musicClassical musicOperaMusical theaterBirthsDeathsReferencesEventsApril — The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.August 27 — 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.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" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley"I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White (musician)"Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease DanksClassical musicJohannes BrahmsTwo String Quartets, Op. 51Variations on a Theme by HaydnAnton Bruckner - Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner)Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 5 (Dvořák); String Quartet no. 6 in AHermann Goetz — Symphony in F, op. 9 (premiered 1874. [1]. Some sources give 1866 for composition however.)Giuseppe Verdi — String Quartet in E minorOperaLéo Delibes — Le roi l'a ditKarel Miry — Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)Musical theater1492 Up To Date, Libretto by R. A. Barnet, music by Carl PfluegerBirthsFebruary 1 — Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer (d. 1947)February 13 — Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)February 27 — Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (d. 1921)March 19 — Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)April 1 — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)April 18 — Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer (d. 1954)May 1 — Harry Evans, composer (d. 1914)June 1 — Ada Jones, singer (d. 1922)June 16 — Antonina Nezhdanova, operatic soprano (d. 1950)July 11 — Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (d. 1917)August 11 — J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singerAugust 18 — Otto Harbach, lyricist (d. 1963)September 21 — Papa Jack Laine, bandleader (d. 1966)October 14 — José Serrano, composer (d. 1941)October 23 — Ricardo Villa, composer (d. 1935)November 1 — Charles Quef, French organist and composer (d. 1931)November 16 — W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)December 14 — Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)DeathsJanuary 3 — John Lodge Ellerton, composer (b. 1801)January 28 — Henry Hugo Pierson, composer (b. 1815)February 14 — Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg, composer and pianist (b. 1821)March 31 — Domenico Donzelli, operatic tenor (b. 1790)April 13 — Carlo Coccia, opera composer (b. 1782)April 19 — Pierre-Chéri Lafont, actor and singer (b. 1797)May 13 — Kašpar Mašek, composer (b. 1794)June 2 — François George-Hainl, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1807)July 4 — Prince Józef Michal Poniatowski, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1816)July 19 — Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)August 26 — Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)September 26 — Roderich Benedix, librettist and singer (b. 1811)October 6 — Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)October 8 — Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)More Alchetron TopicsReferences1873 in music Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SASimilar Topics