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This article is about music-related events in 1880.

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Events

  • November 27 – The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera Semiramide.
  • Richard Strauss's first major work, his Symphony in D minor, is premiered.
  • Gustav Mahler completes Das klagende Lied and obtains work as a conductor at a summer theater at Bad Hall.
  • "Blow The Man Down"     trad
  • "Funiculì Funiculà"     w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
  • "Roses From The South Waltz"     m. Johann Strauss II
  • "Sailing, Sailing"     w.m. Godfrey Marks
  • From The Pirates of Penzance, w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
  • "Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire"
  • "Now for The Pirates' Lair"
  • "Oh, Better Far To Live And Die"
  • "A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We"
  • "To Gain A Brief Advantage"
  • "When A Felon's Not Engaged"
  • "When The Foeman Bares His Steel"
  • "When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold"
  • "Yes! I Am Brave! Oh, Family Descent"

    • Classical music

  • Jan Levoslav Bella – String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
  • Giovanni Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
  • Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture, Academic Festival Overture
  • Felix Draeseke – Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
  • Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 6 in D major, op. 60, Songs My Mother Taught Me
  • Niels Gade – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor
  • Ion Ivanovici – The Danube Waves
  • Hubert Parry – Piano concerto
  • Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
  • Hans Rott – Symphony in E major
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Suite algérienne in C major
  • Pablo Sarasate – Spanish Dances for Violin and Piano
  • Richard Strauss – Symphony in D minor
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture, Serenade for Strings

    • Opera

  • Dudley Buck – Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction
  • Léo Delibes – Jean de Nivelle
  • Miguel Marqués – Florinda
  • Adolf Neuendorff – The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin/Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
  • Anton Rubinstein – The Merchant Kalashnikov
  • George Stephanescu
  • Peste Dunare
  • Sinziana si Pepelea

    • Musical theater

  • La Mascotte     Paris production
  • The Pirates Of Penzance     London production

    • Births

  • January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)
  • January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
  • January 6 – John McKenna, traditional Irish flute player (d. 1947)
  • February 19 – Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
  • June 13 – Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
  • July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
  • July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
  • July 31 – Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
  • September 19 – Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
  • September 20 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
  • September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
  • October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
  • November 2 – John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)

    • Deaths

  • March 20 – Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
  • March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
  • May 1 – Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
  • May 9 – Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
  • August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
  • October 4 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
  • October 7 – Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
  • November 24 – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
  • November 27 – William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
  • December 2 – Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
  • December 27 – Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
  • date unknown – Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)

    • References

    1880 in music Wikipedia
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