- 1877 in music
Events
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Thomas Edison invents thephonograph .
*Richard Wagner conducts in London.
*Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky marriesAntonina Milyukova .Published popular music
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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. SirArthur 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
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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 theFifth Avenue Theatre onOctober 22 and ran for 16 performances
* "Les Cloches de Corneville " byRobert Planquette , Paris production opened at theFolies-Dramatique onApril 19 and ran for 408 performances
* "Le Grand Mogol ", Marseilles production
* "Orpheus in the Underworld " byJacques Offenbach , London revival
* "The Sorcerer ",Gilbert & Sullivan London production opened at theOpera Comique onNovember 17 and ran for 175 performancesBirths
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January 12 -Maude Nugent , songwriter (d. 1958)
*February 16 -Sergei Bortkiewicz ,Russia n composer and pianist (d. 1952)
*May 25 - Billy Murray, singer (d. 1954)
*July 14 -Agnes Nicholls , operatic soprano (d. 1959)
*July 17 -Edward Madden , USlyricist
*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
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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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