1883 in music

none 1883 1883 music Events in the year 1883 in music. Specific locations 1883 in Norwegian music Events January 2025 October 22 – Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House. Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovers. 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 "I Know Whom I Have Believed" w. Daniel W. Whittle m. James McGranahan "La golondrina" m. Narciso Serradell Sevilla "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 "Must we leave the old home, mother?" w. by Arthur W. French, m. by William A HuntleyHuntley William A. loc.gov Must we leave the old home, mother? W. F. Shaw 1883 https://www.loc.gov/item/sm1883.07718/ 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 Emmanuel Chabrier – España, rapsodie pour orchestre George Whitefield Chadwick – Thalia (concert overture) Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 65 (B. 130) Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 (B. 131) Hussite Overture, Op. 67 (B. 132) Cesar Franck – Le chasseur maudit Benjamin Godard – Piano Trio No.2, Op.72 Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio) Augusta Mary Ann Holmès – Pologne Hans Huber – Piano Trio No.2, Op.65 Franz Liszt – La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version) Emilie Mayer – Notturno, Op.48 Max Meyer-Olbersleben – Fantaisie-Sonate, Op.17 David Popper – Im Walde Suite, Op.50 Pablo de Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy Sergei Taneyev – Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 2 Emil Waldteufel –Estudiantina Opera Alfredo Catalani – Dejanice César Cui – Prisoner of the Caucasus Charles-Édouard 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 Johann Strauss II – Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night In Venice) Berlin and Vienna productions Births January 1 – Floy Little Bartlett, American composer (d. 1956)Howes, Durward, ed. (1937). American Women : The Official Who's Who Among the Women of the Nation, Vol. II (1937-38). Los Angeles, CA: American Publications, Inc. p. 42. 435906904. January 30 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920) February 11 – Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer (d. 1946) March 10 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano (d. 1946) March 15 - Ford Dabney, American composer and vaudevillian (d. 1953) March 16 – Ernie Hare, U.S. bass/baritone (d. 1939) March 19 – Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1959) March 21 – Jules Van Nuffel, Belgian composer and choir conductor (d. 1953) March 27 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (d. 1950) March 28 – William Henry Harris, English organist, choral trainer and composer (d. 1973) April 1 – Malcolm McEachern, Australian-born concert bass singer (d. 1945) April 6 – Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer April 13 (O.S. April 1) – Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian Soviet composer May 4 – Nikolai Malko, Ukrainian conductor May 5 – Petar Konjović, composer (d. 1970) May 28 George Dyson, English musician and composer (d. 1964) Václav Talich, Czech conductor Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer (d. 1944) June 16 – Fritz Krauss, German tenor (d. 1976) July 7 – Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer July 25 – Alfredo Casella, composer (d. 1947) July 29 – Manuel Infante, pianist and composer (d. 1958) August 13 – Joseph C. Smith, American dance band leader (d. 1965) August 15 – Benjamin M. Kaye, librettist (died 1970) August 19 – Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist (d. 1962)Albert Ernest Wier The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ 1938 Macmillan 112 September 18 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composerLeopold George Wickham Legg Edgar Trevor Williams The Dictionary of National Biography, 1941–1950 https://books.google.com/books?id=0BMTAQAAIAAJ 1959 Oxford University Press 896 October 2 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composerNicolas Slonimsky Music Since 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=W5PlAAAAMAAJ 1938 W.W. Norton, Incorporated 460 October 22 – Victor Jacobi, operetta composer (d. 1921)Ginny Billings Bob Billings The Billings Rollography: Pianists https://books.google.com/books?id=d2k5AQAAIAAJ 1990 Rock Soup November 8 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)School of Music, Theatre & Dance Programs https://books.google.com/books?id=olAJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT139 1949 University of Michigan School of Music 139 December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)Larry Sitsky Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=sgDJKVXraE0C&pg=PA548 2002 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-29689-5 548 December 22 – Edgard Varèse, French(-born) composer (d. 1965)Benjamín Boretz Edward T. Cone Perspectives on American composers https://books.google.com/books?id=S4sXAQAAIAAJ 1971 W. W. Norton 55 9780393021554 Deaths January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA592 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 592 February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)Marc A. Weiner Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination https://books.google.com/books?id=pXIXkG3D8cUC&pg=PA349 1997 U of Nebraska Press 0-8032-9792-0 349 February 17 – Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (b. 1805)Albert Ernest Wier The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume https://books.google.com/books?id=nx8KAQAAMAAJ 1938 Macmillan 386 April 10 – Emilie Mayer, composer (b. 1812)Anne Commire Women in World History https://books.google.com/books?id=RT0OAQAAMAAJ 12 December 2000 Gale 978-0-7876-4069-9 661 April 26 – Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist (b. 1807) June 6 Ciprian Porumbescu, composer (b. 1853) Per Lasson, composer (b. 1859) June 10 – Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer (b. 1812) July 14 – Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector (b. 1824)Dag Strömbäck Leading Folklorists of the North: Biographical Studies https://books.google.com/books?id=12bYAAAAMAAJ 1970 Universitetsforlaget 189 July 27 – Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer (b. 1821)David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA651 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 651 September 2 – Léon Halévy, librettist (born 1802) October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819) October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA628 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 628 December 7 – Auguste Offenbach, composer (born 1862) December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813)Laura Williams Macy The Grove Book of Opera Singers https://books.google.com/books?id=N0zthpCZuAUC&pg=PA225 2008 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-533765-5 225 December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810) date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806) References Category:1880s in music Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year