1883 in music

1883 in music

Events

*Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovered.
*The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Published popular music

* "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
* "The Farmer In The Dell" trad
* "La Golondrina" m. Narciso Serradell
* "Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day)" trad
* "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" by Sam Lucas
* "She Does The Fandango All Over The Place" w.m. G. W. Hunt
* "There Is A Tavern In The Town" anon
* "Transit Of Venus March" m. John Philip Sousa

Classical music

*Isaac Albéniz - "Barcarola for piano No. 1"
*Anton Arensky - "Piano Concerto in F minor, op. 2"; "Symphony No. 1 in B minor"
*Johannes Brahms - "Symphony No. 3"
*George Whitefield Chadwick - "Thalia" (concert overture)
*Charles Gounod - "The Redemption" (oratorio)
*Pablo de Sarasate - "Carmen Fantasy"
*Sergei Taneyev - "Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor"
*Emil Waldteufel -"Estudiantina"

Opera

*Alfredo Catalani - "Dejanice"
*César Cui - "Prisoner of the Caucasus"
*Charles Edouard Lefebvre - "Le Trésor" premiered in Angers
*Miguel Marqués - "La cruz de fuego"
*Karel Miry - "De kleine patriot" (opera in 4 acts, libretto by J. Hoste, premiered on December 23 in Brussels)

Musical theater

* "Cordelia's Aspirations" (Edward Harrigan & David Braham) Broadway production opened at the New Theatre Comique on November 5 and ran for 176 performances
* "Eine Nacht in Venedig" ("A Night In Venice") Berlin and Vienna productions

Births

*April 6 - Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
*May 26 - Mamie Smith, U.S. singer
*September 18 - Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, composer
*November 8 - Arnold Bax, composer
*December 3 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer

Deaths

*January 24 - Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)
*February 13 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
*April 26 - Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist (b. 1807)
*June 10 - Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer (b. 1812)
*July 14 - Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector (b. 1824)
*October 30 - Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)
*December 11 - Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)


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