1877 in music

1877 in music

Events

*Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
*Richard Wagner conducts in London.
*Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky marries Antonina Milyukova.

Published popular music

* "Abdul Abulbul Amir" w.m. Percy French
* "Captain Cuff" w.m. G. W. Hunt
* "Chopstics" m. Arthur de Lulli
* "Dear Old Pals" w.m. G. W. Hunt
* "Early In De Mornin'" w.m. Will Hays
* "In The Gloaming" w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison (Words 1874)
* "Little Daisy's Request" by Arabella M. Root
* "The Lost Chord" w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan (Words 1858)
* "My Name Is John Wellington Wells" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
* "Phelim O'Toole" by Harry Banks
* "Time Was When Love And I Were Well Acquainted" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

Classical music

*Johannes Brahms - "Symphony No. 2 op. 73 in D"
*Anton Bruckner - "Symphony No. 3 in D minor" (Novak edition)
*Felix Draeseke - "Fata Morgana", op 13
*Antonín Dvořák - "String Quartet no. 9 op. 34 in D minor"
*César Franck - "Lesson Eolides"
*Robert Fuchs - "Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 20 in F# minor"
*Karl Goldmark - "Violin Concerto no. 1 op. 28 in A minor"
*Edouard Lalo - "Cello Concerto"
*Leon Minkus - "La Bayadère" (ballet)
*Joachim Raff - "Violin Concerto no. 2 op. 206 in A minor"
*Josef Rheinberger - "Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 105 in E minor"
*Camille Saint-Saëns - "La Jeunesse d'Hercule"

Opera

*Emmanuel Chabrier - "Jean Hunyade"
* Peter Heise - "Monarch and Constable"
* Jules Massenet - "Le roi de Lahore"
* Camille Saint-Saëns - "Samson et Dalila"
* Charles Villiers Stanford - "The Veiled Prophet of Khorossan"

Musical theater

* "The Chimes of Normandy" adapted from "Les Cloches de Corneville" Broadway production opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on October 22 and ran for 16 performances
* "Les Cloches de Corneville" by Robert Planquette, Paris production opened at the Folies-Dramatique on April 19 and ran for 408 performances
* "Le Grand Mogol", Marseilles production
* "Orpheus in the Underworld" by Jacques Offenbach, London revival
* "The Sorcerer", Gilbert & Sullivan London production opened at the Opera Comique on November 17 and ran for 175 performances

Births

*January 12 - Maude Nugent, songwriter (d. 1958)
*February 16 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1952)
*May 25 - Billy Murray, singer (d. 1954)
*July 14 - Agnes Nicholls, operatic soprano (d. 1959)
*July 17 - Edward Madden, US lyricist
*July 27 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1960)
*August 16 - Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
*September 6 - Buddy Bolden, ragtime musician (d. 1931)
*September 7 - Petar Stojanović, violinist and composer (d. 1957))
*September 15 - Daisy Wood, music hall singer (d. 1961)
*November 21 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer (d. 1933)

Deaths

*January 18 - George Tolhurst, composer (b. 1827)
*March 23 - Caroline Unger, operatic contralto (b. 1803)
*April 7 - Errico Petrella, opera composer (b. 1813)
*April 26 - Louise Bertin, composer and poet (b. 1805)
*June 3 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, cataloguer of the works of Mozart (b. 1800)
*June 29 - Clorinda Corradi, operatic contralto (b. 1804)
*August 5 - Luigi Legnani, guitarist and composer (b. 1790)
*September 12 - Julius Rietz, German cellist, composer and teacher, editor of an edition of Mendelssohn's complete works (b. 1812)
*October 3 - Thérèse Johanne Alexandra Tietjens, operatic soprano (b. 1831)
*"date unknown" - Cesare Ciardi, flautist and composer (b. 1818)


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