1873 in music

1873 in music

Events

*Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Published popular music

* "The German Polka" by Gus Williams
* "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
* "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by Hart Pease Danks & Eben Eugene Rexford

Classical music

*Johannes Brahms - "String Quartet No. 1", "Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn"
*Antonín Dvořák - "String Quartet no. 5 in F; String Quartet no. 6 in A"
*Hermann Goetz - "Symphony in F, op. 9" (premiered 1874. [http://www.swissclassic.net/werk_goetz.htm] . 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

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)
*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)
*November 16 - W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)
*December 14 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)

Deaths

*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 - Kašpar Mašek, composer (b. 1794)
*July 19 - Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)
*August 26 - Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)
*September 26 - Roderich Benedix, librettist (b. 1811)
*October 6 - Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)
*October 8 - Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)


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