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1873 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1873.

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Events

  • April — 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.
  • "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 Danks

    • Classical music

  • Johannes Brahms
  • Two String Quartets, Op. 51
  • Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  • Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 3 (Bruckner)
  • Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 5 (Dvořák); String Quartet no. 6 in A
  • Hermann Goetz — Symphony in F, op. 9 (premiered 1874. [1]. Some sources give 1866 for composition however.)
  • Giuseppe Verdi — String Quartet in E minor

    • Opera

  • Léo Delibes — Le roi l'a dit
  • Karel Miry — Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)

    • Musical theater

  • 1492 Up To Date, Libretto by R. A. Barnet, music by Carl Pflueger

    • Births

  • February 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 singer
  • August 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)

    • Deaths

  • January 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)

    • References

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