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1879 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1879.

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Events

  • January 1 - The Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms is premiered in Leipzig. Joseph Joachim was the soloist with Brahms conducting.
  • December 31 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance opens at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City (following a token performance the day before for U.K. copyright reasons in Paignton, Devon).
  • Engelbert Humperdinck becomes the first winner of the Mendelssohn Award awarded by the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) of Berlin.
  • The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra gains a permanent home at the Garnier Palace.
  • "O Dem Golden Slippers by James A. Bland
  • "In the Morning By the Bright Light" by James A. Bland
  • "My Visit to the Opera" by Joseph P. Skelly

    • Classical music

  • Henri Duparc – Le Manoir de Rosemonde
  • César Franck – Piano Quintet
  • Asger Hamerik – Concert Romance for 'cello and piano
  • Franz Lachner – Elegie for Flute and Organ
  • Charles-Marie Widor – Symphony for Organ No. 5
  • Bedřich Smetana – Ten Czech Dances (for piano)

    • Opera

  • Giovanni Bottesini – Ero e Leandro
  • Miguel Marqués – Camoens
  • Viktor Nessler – Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
  • Peter Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

    • Musical theater

  • The Mulligan Guards' Ball Broadway production opens at the Comique Theatre on January 13 and runs for 153 performances
  • The Mulligan Guards' Chowder Broadway production opens at the Comique Theatre on August 11 and runs for 112 performances
  • The Mulligan Guards' Christmas Broadway production opens at the Comique Theatre on November 17 and runs for 104 performances

    • Births

  • January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American soprano (d. 1963)
  • February 9 – Natanael Berg, Swedish composer (d. 1957)
  • February 26 – Frank Bridge, composer (d. 1941)
  • April 1 – Louise Gunning, Broadway and vaudeville singer (d. 1960)
  • May 22
  • Jean Cras, French composer (d. 1932)
  • Eastwood Lane, composer (d. 1951)
  • June 13 – Maria Gay, opera singer (d. 1943)
  • June 21 – Henry Creamer, US songwriter (d. 1930)
  • July 5 – Philippe Gaubert, composer (d. 1941)
  • July 9 – Ottorino Respighi, composer (d. 1936)
  • August 1 – Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star (d. 1947)
  • August 18 – Gus Edwards, Prussian-born US songwriter and entertainer (d. 1945)
  • August 31 – Alma Mahler, born Alma Schindler, Viennese-born composer and wife of Gustav Mahler (d. 1964)
  • September 30 – Henri Casadesus, violist and music publisher (d. 1947)
  • October 12 – Chris Smith, composer (d. 1949)
  • October 18 – Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish conductor, violinist and composer (d. 1953)
  • October 21 – Joseph Canteloube, composer (d. 1957)
  • November 2 – Ramón Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist (d. 1949)
  • December 1 – Beth Slater Whitson, US lyric writer (d. 1930)
  • December 4 – Hamilton Harty, composer (d. 1941)
  • December 19 – Otto Olsson, Swedish composer (d. 1964)
  • December 26 - Julius Weismann, German conductor and composer (d. 1950)

    • Deaths

  • January 8 – Ferdo Livadić, composer (born 1799)
  • February 20 – John Orlando Parry, pianist, singer and comedian (born 1810)
  • April 9 – Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter, music theorist
  • May 27 – E. S. Engelsberg, composer
  • June 3 – Frances Ridley Havergal, hymn-writer
  • July 6 – Henry Smart, organist and composer (born 1813)
  • August 4 – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer
  • September 12 – Peter Arnold Heise, composer
  • October 14 – Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (born 1820)
  • November 30 – August Bournonville, Danish ballet-master and choreographer (born 1805)

    • References

    1879 in music Wikipedia
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