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1884 music
Specific locations
1884 in Norwegian music
Events
September 27 – The Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest opens.
December 30 – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is premiered in Leipzig, bringing the composer his first great success.
Bands formed
Cory Band
Published popular music
"Oh My Darling, Clementine" w.m. Percy Montrose
"The Coon's Salvation Army" by Sam Lucas
"The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" w.m. Ed Haley
"The Golden Wedding" m. Gabriel-Marie
"Love's Old Sweet Song" w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lynam Molloy
"March of the Plumed Knight" by Charles B. Morrell & William Howard Doane
"My Thoughts Are of Thee" by Sam Lucas
"Otchi Tchorniya" by Y. P. Grebyonka & F. Hermann
"Rest, Comrades, Rest (Memorial Hymn)" by O. B. Ormsby
"Rock-a-bye Baby" w.m. Effie I. Canning
"When the Heather Blooms Again" by Frances Jane Crosby & William Howard Doane
Classical music
Anton Bruckner – Te Deum (begun 1881)
Frederic Hymen Cowen - Symphony No. 4 "Welsh"
Henri Duparc – La vie antérieure
Antonín Dvořák – Ballade in D minor
César Franck – Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
Robert Fuchs – Symphony No. 1 in Chttp://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/F-L/fuchs_sym1.html Preface to Score of Fuchs Symphony No. 1 25 March 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060923090351/http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/prefaces/F-L/fuchs_sym1.html 23 September 2006
Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 2 Opus 10 in F major
Gustav Mahler - Der Trompeter von Säckingen
Richard Strauss – Symphony No. 2
Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 3
Hugo Wolf – String Quartet in D minor (begun 1878)
Opera
Enrico Caruso - Geraldine Farrar - Jules Massenet - Manon - On L'appelle Manon.ogg Manon! avez-vous peur...On l'appelle Manon From Manon (1884), performed by Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in 1912.
Eduard Caudella – Hatmanul Baltag
Luigi Mancinelli – Isora di Provenza
Miguel Marqués – El reloj de Lucerna
Jules Massenet – Manon
Karl Millöcker – Gasparone
Viktor Nessler – Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Canterbury Pilgrims
Arthur Sullivan – Princess Ida (London Savoy Theatre January 5 for 246 performances)
Arthur Sullivan – Princess Ida (Broadway Fifth Avenue Theatre February 11 for 48 performances)
Peter Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa
Felix Weingartner – Sakuntala
Musical theater
Adonis Broadway production opened at the Bijou Theatre on September 4 and ran for 603 performances
The Beggar Student London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on April 12 and ran for 112 performances
The Grand Mogul London production
Births
January 13 – Sophie Tucker, singer
February 22 – York Bowen, pianist and composer (died 1961)
March 14 – Wintter Watts, composer of art songs (died 1962)
March 17 – Alcide Nunez, clarinetist
March 18 – Joe Burke, pianist, composer and actor (died 1950)
March 26 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (died 1969)
April 22 – Armas Launis, Finnish composer and ethnomusicologist (died 1959)
April 23 – Jurgis Karnavičius, Lithuanian composer (died 1941)
May 19 – Arthur Meulemans, composer (died 1966)
May 27 – Max Brod, author, composer and journalist (died 1968)
August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
August 13 – Edwin Grasse, composer and violinist (died 1954)
September 6 – Emerson Whithorne (birth name Emerson Whittern), composer and historian (died 1958)
September 17 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, composer (died 1920)
September 24 – Jonny Heykens, composer and orchestra leader (died 1945)
October 6 – Oliphant Chuckerbutty, organist and composer (died 1960)
November 1 – David Roitman, hazzan and composer (died 1943)
November 6
May Brahe, composer and songwriter (died 1956)
Ludomir Rozycki, composer (d. 1953)
November 19 – Norman Allin, English singer (d. 1973)
November 23 – Guy Bolton, English librettist
November 30 – Ture Rangström, composer (died 1947)
December 29 – Foster Adolph Reynolds, brass instrument maker (died 1960 at work)
date unknown – Alfred Reynolds, English composer (d. 1969)
Deaths
January 21 – Auguste Franchomme, cellist (dedicatee of works by Chopin)
January 25 – Johann Gottfried Piefke, conductor and composer
February 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher
February 21 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
March 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, German violin teacher and composer (b. 1833)
April 24 – Marie Taglioni, ballerina
April 29 – Michael Costa, conductor and composer
May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, composer (b. 1824)
June 25 – Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
June 8 – Henry Clay Work, US composer
July 5 – Victor Massé, composer
August 18 – Franz Seraphin Hölzl de, composer (b. 1808)
November 27 – Fanny Elssler, dancer
December 4 – Alice Mary Smith, composer (b. 1839)
date unknown – Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer
References
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