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1878 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1878.

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Events

  • April 9? – Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by Ludvig Norman.
  • May 25 – 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 – 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.
  • "Aloha `Oe" 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 HMS 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

    • 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 (Bruckner) – 2nd version
  • Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)
  • Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
  • George Whitefield Chadwick – String Quartet No. 1
  • Felix Otto Dessoff – String Quartet in F, Op. 7
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Serenade for Wind Instruments (Dvořák) (op. 44/B. 77)
  • String Sextet (Dvořák), (op. 48/B. 80)
  • Slavonic Dances, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
  • Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
  • Gabriel Fauré – Chanson Après un rêve (Op. 7 No. 1)
  • Niels Gade – Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
  • Edvard Grieg – String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
  • Hans Huber – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
  • Vincent d'Indy – La forêt enchantée
  • Édouard Lalo – Fantaisie norvégienne
  • Giuseppe Martucci
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
  • Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
  • Ole Olsen – Asgårdsreien, Op 10 (symphonic poems)
  • Joachim Raff – Symphony No. 9 Im Sommer, Op. 208
  • Josef Rheinberger
  • Mass in E-flat (Cantus Missæ) for double choir, Op. 109
  • Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111
  • Trio for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A, Op. 112
  • Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114
  • Bernhard Scholz – String Quintet Op. 47
  • Sergei Taneyev – 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.

    • Opera

  • Alfred Cellier – After All!
  • Charles Gounod – Polyeucte (opera)
  • Charles Edouard Lefebvre – Lucrèce
  • Miguel Marqués – El anillo de hierro (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
  • Joseph Parry – 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 – Benedetto Marcello

    • Musical theater

  • Gilbert and Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore, London production
  • Jacques Offenbach – Madame Favart, Paris production

    • Births

  • January 23 – Rutland Boughton, English composer
  • February 16 – Selim Palmgren, Finnish composer
  • February 26 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano
  • February 28 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer
  • March 4 – Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter
  • March 23 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer, conductor and teacher
  • March 29 – Albert Von Tilzer, American songwriter
  • May 24 – Louis Fleury, flautist (d. 1926)
  • May 25 – Bill Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor
  • July 3 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter, entertainer
  • July 5 – Joseph Holbrooke, English composer
  • July 12 – Percy Hilder Miles, composer, violinist and teacher
  • July 22 – Ernest Ball, American composer
  • July 25 – Heinrich Gebhard, composer
  • August 18 – Fritz Brun, composer and conductor
  • August 22 – Edward Johnson (tenor), Canadian tenor
  • August 28 – Laura de Turczynowicz (née Laura Christine Blackwell), Canadian-born opera singer
  • September 17 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer
  • October 18 – Blind Uncle Gaspard, American Cajun vocalist and guitarist (d. 1937)
  • October 19 – Alphonse Picou, American jazz clarinettist
  • November 4 – Jean Schwartz, songwriter
  • November 23 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor

    • Deaths

  • January 15 – Carlo Blasis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1797)
  • February 2 – Josif Runjanin, composer (b. 1821)
  • April 8 – Henriette "Jetty" Treffz, singer, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818)
  • April 21 – Temistocle Solera, librettist and composer (b. 1815)
  • May 6 – François Benoist, organist and composer (b. 1794)
  • July 2 – François Bazin, opera composer (b. 1816)
  • August 23 – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (b. 1801)
  • October 13-October 25 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
  • November – Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, guitarist and composer (b. 1801)
  • November 13 – Carl Heissler, violinist (b. 1826)
  • December 18 – Heinrich Proch, composer (b. 1809)
  • December 28 – José Bernardo Alcedo, composer of the Peruvian national anthem (b. 1788)
  • date unknown – Robert Heller, pianist and magician (b. 1826)

    • References

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