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Events in the year 1883 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- October 22 – Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.
- 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 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 Huntley[1]
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)
- Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
- Franz Liszt – La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version)
- 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-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 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 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)
- 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 19 – Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist (d. 1962)[2]
- September 18 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composer[3]
- October 2 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer[4]
- October 22 – Victor Jacobi, operetta composer (d. 1921)[5]
- November 8 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)[6]
- December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)[7]
- December 22 – Edgard Varèse, French(-born) composer (d. 1965)[8]
Deaths
- January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)[9]
- February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)[10]
- February 17 – Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (b. 1805)[11]
- April 10 – Emilie Mayer, composer (b. 1812)[12]
- 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)[13]
- July 27 – Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer (b. 1821)[14]
- October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819)
- October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)[15]
- December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813)[16]
- December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)
- date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806)
References
- Huntley, William A. (1883). "Must we leave the old home, mother?". loc.gov. W. F. Shaw.
- Albert Ernest Wier (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume. Macmillan. p. 112.
- Leopold George Wickham Legg; Edgar Trevor Williams (1959). The Dictionary of National Biography, 1941–1950. Oxford University Press. p. 896.
- Nicolas Slonimsky (1938). Music Since 1900. W.W. Norton, Incorporated. p. 460.
- Ginny Billings; Bob Billings (1990). The Billings Rollography: Pianists. Rock Soup.
- School of Music, Theatre & Dance Programs. University of Michigan School of Music. 1949. p. 139.
- Larry Sitsky (2002). Music of the Twentieth-century Avant-garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 548. ISBN 978-0-313-29689-5.
- Benjamín Boretz; Edward T. Cone (1971). Perspectives on American composers. W. W. Norton. p. 55.
- David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 592. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- Marc A. Weiner (1997). Richard Wagner and the Anti-Semitic Imagination. U of Nebraska Press. p. 349. ISBN 0-8032-9792-0.
- Albert Ernest Wier (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume. Macmillan. p. 386.
- Anne Commire (12 December 2000). Women in World History. Gale. p. 661. ISBN 978-0-7876-4069-9.
- Dag Strömbäck (1970). Leading Folklorists of the North: Biographical Studies. Universitetsforlaget. p. 189.
- David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 651. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 628. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- Laura Williams Macy (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
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