1873 in music
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[edit] Events
- Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.
[edit] Published popular music
- "The German Polka" by Gus Williams
- "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
- "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley
- "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White
- "Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks
[edit] Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - String Quartet No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
- Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet no. 5 in F; String Quartet no. 6 in A
- Hermann Goetz - Symphony in F, op. 9 (premiered 1874. [1]. Some sources give 1866 for composition however.)
- Giuseppe Verdi - String Quartet in E minor
[edit] Opera
- Léo Delibes - Le Roi l'a dit
- Karel Miry - Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)
[edit] Musical theater
[edit] Births
- February 1 - Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer (d. 1947)
- February 13 - Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)
- February 27 - Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (d. 1921)
- March 19 - Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
- April 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)
- April 18 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer (d. 1954)
- May 1 - Harry Evans, composer (d. 1914)
- June 1 - Ada Jones, singer (d. 1922)
- August 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
- August 18 - Otto Harbach, lyricist (d. 1963)
- September 21 - Papa Jack Laine, bandleader (d. 1966)
- October 14 - José Serrano, composer (d. 1941)
- November 1 - Charles Quef, French organist and composer (d. 1931)
- November 16 - W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)
- December 14 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)
[edit] Deaths
- March 31 - Domenico Donzelli, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
- April 13 - Carlo Coccia, opera composer (b. 1782)
- April 19 - Pierre-Chéri Lafont, actor and singer (b. 1797)
- May - Kašpar Mašek, composer (b. 1794)
- July 19 - Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)
- August 26 - Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)
- September 26 - Roderich Benedix, librettist (b. 1811)
- October 6 - Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)
- October 8 - Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)
