1882 in music

Events

*January - Richard Wagner completes "Parsifal"
*Helsinki University Chorus ("Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat") is founded
*Gustav Mahler is employed at Olomouc
*Richard Strauss enters Munich University

Published popular music

* "Baa! Baa! Baa!" w. Walter Greenaway m. Vincent Davies
* "The Band Quartette" by Charles A. White
* "Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes" w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
* "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye" trad Eng
* "In My Fust 'Usband's Time" w.m. Harry Nicholls
* "The Old Miser" by Charles A. White
* "The Skaters' Waltz" m. Emile Waldteufel
* "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet
* "Up Went The Price" w.m. George Ware
*From the score of "Iolanthe":
**"I'm Very Much Pained" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Loudly Let The Trumpets Bray" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"The Nightmare Song" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"None Shall Part Us" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Oh, Foolish Fay" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Tho' P'raps I May Incur Your Blame" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Though The Views Of The House Have Diverged" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Welcome To Our Hearts Again" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"When All Night Long A Chap Remains" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"When Britain Really Ruled The Waves" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"When I Went To The Bar" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

Classical music

*Alexander Glazunov - "Symphony no. 1", "String Quartet no. 1"
*Charles Gounod - "The Redemption" (oratorio)
*Hans Huber - "Symphony no. 1 "Wilhelm Tell"
*Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov - "Yar-khmel (Spring Overture)"
*Bedřich Smetana - "String Quartet no. 2"
*Johann Strauss - "Voices of Spring"
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - "1812 Overture"

Opera

*Richard Wagner - "Parsifal"
*Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - "The Snow Maiden"
*Adolf Neuendorff - "Don Quixote"

Musical theater

* "Der Bettelstudent" ("The Beggar Student") Vienna production
* "The Grand Mogul" Broadway production
*"Iolanthe" (Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert) London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25 and ran for 398 performances
*"Iolanthe" Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on December 1
* "The Queen's Lace Handkerchief" Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 21 and ran for 571 performances
*"The Smugglers" Broadway production

Births

* January 15 - Henry Burr, popular tenor, prolific early recording artist (d. 1941)
*February 11
** Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
** Joe Jordan, musician and composer (d. 1971)
*February 28 - Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
*March 5 - Pauline Donalda, operatic soprano (d. 1970)
*March 18 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer and musicologist (d. 1973)
*March 24 - Gino Marinuzzi, conductor and composer (d. 1945)
*April 17 - Artur Schnabel, pianist
*April 18 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor
*April 23 - Albert Coates, conductor and composer (d. 1953)
*May 11 - Joseph Marx, composer and critic (d. 1964)
*June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
*August 15 - Marion Bauer, composer (d. 1955)
*October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
*December 8 - Manuel María Ponce, composer and music teacher (d. 1948)
*December 9 - Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
*December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

Deaths

*February 3 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer (b. 1826)
*February 12 - Madame Céleste, dancer (b. 1815)
*February 22 - Harriett Everard, singer and actress (b. 1844)
*March 1 - Theodor Kullak, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
*June 24 (or 25) - Joachim Raff, composer (b. 1822)
*September 16 - Theodore Eisfeld, conductor (b. 1816)
*October 22 - Oskar Ahnfelt, composer of hymn-tunes (b. 1813)
*October 29 - Gustav Nottebohm, composer and music editor (b. 1817)
*November 2 - Cenobio Paniagua, composer (b. 1821)
*"date unknown"
**Julián Arcas, guitarist and composer (b. 1832)
**Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, ballerina (b. 1836)
**James Turle, organist and composer (b. 1802)
**John Zundel, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1815)