1876 in music

none 1876 music This article is about music-related events in 1876. Events February – Baritone Lithgow JamesBiography of St. John's 2nd husband, Lithgow James joins the English Opera Company, where he begins a partnership with his future wife Florence St. John. April - Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake February 24 – Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres. May 17 – Antonín Dvořák begins composing his Moravian Duets. August 16 – Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus. August 17 – Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Soprano Rosa Hasselbeck marries the conductor and composer Josef Sucher. right|thumb|150px Published popular music "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon) "Old Aunt Jemima" by Billy Kersands "Molly Malone" "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas Classical music Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 Pietro Abbà Cornaglia – Requiem Felix Draeseke – Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: five piano pieces, Op. 14 Antonín Dvořák – Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33 Gabriel Fauré – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 César Franck – Les Éolides Benjamin Godard – Concerto Romantique Edvard Grieg – Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song (for piano), Op. 24 Édouard Lalo – Cello Concerto Gustav Mahler – Piano Quartet movement in A Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, From My Life Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Seasons (for piano), Op. 37a Charles-Marie Widor – Organ Symphonies Nos. 1–3, Op. 13 Opera Arrigo Boito – Mefistofele Luigi Denza – Wallenstein Amilcare Ponchielli – La Gioconda Bedřich Smetana – The Kiss Richard Wagner Siegfried Götterdämmerung Ivan Zajc – Nikola Šubić Zrinski Musical theater Richard Genée – Der Seekadette Robert Planquette – Les cloches de Corneville Births January 12 Annie Krull, operatic soprano (died 1947) Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (died 1948) January 19 – Rosina Storchio, Italian lyric soprano (died 1945) January 29 Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972) Ludolf Nielsen, composer (died 1939) February 2 – Giovanni Zenatello, tenor (died 1949) February 28 – John Alden Carpenter, composer March 11 – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971) May 17 – Carrie Tubb, soprano (died 1976) May 19 – Jan Ingenhoven, Dutch composer and conductor June 2 – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (died 1954) June 5 – Tony Jackson, jazz musician (died 1920) August 14 – Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer (died 1940) August 16 – Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer September 15 – Bruno Walter, conductor (died 1962) November 23 – Manuel de Falla, composer (died 1946) December 11 – Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (died 1909) December 29 Pablo Casals, cellist (died 1973) Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975) Deaths February 28 – Raimondo Boucheron, composer, 75 March 5 Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65 Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70 March 28 – Joseph Böhm, violinist, 80 April 19 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer, 65 June 28 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian, 69 August 29 – Félicien-César David, composer, 66 September 9 – Mary Shaw, operatic contralto, 62 September 30 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer, 77 October 1 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder, 80 November 8 – Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone, 76 November 9 – Édouard Batiste, organist and composer, 56 November 18 – Nicolas Bosret, blind organist and composer, 77 December 3 – Hermann Goetz, composer, 35 (tuberculosis) December 14 – George Frederick Anderson, violinist, 83 References Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year