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1874 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. * January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. * January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...

Events

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...

– Modest Mussorgsky's opera

Boris Godunov Borís Fyodorovich Godunóv (; russian: Борис Фёдорович Годунов; 1552 ) ruled the Tsardom of Russia as ''de facto'' regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. After the end of his ...

premiers in Mariinsky Theatre in

St.Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

*February–March – A memorial exhibition of drawings and watercolors by Viktor Hartmann is held at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg and inspires his friend Modest Mussorgsky to compose the piano

suite Suite may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Suite (music), a set of musical pieces considered as one composition ** Suite (Bach), a list of suites composed by J. S. Bach ** Suite (Cassadó), a mid-1920s composition by Gaspar Cassadó ** ''Suite' ...

Pictures at an Exhibition ''Pictures at an Exhibition'', french: Tableaux d'une exposition, link=no is a suite (music), suite of ten piano pieces, plus a recurring, varied Promenade theme, composed by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The piece is Mussorgsky's ...

''. *October – Bedřich Smetana completely loses his hearing, after being deaf in one ear for some time. *

Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most op ...

moves into Wahnfried, the villa built for him at

Bayreuth Bayreuth (, ; bar, Bareid) is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany, on the Red Main river in a valley between the Franconian Jura and the Fichtelgebirge Mountains. The town's roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of U ...

and completes Götterdämmerung. *

Franz Xaver Haberl Franz Xaver Haberl (12 April 1840, in Oberellenbach (today Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg), Lower Bavaria – 5 September 1910, in Ratisbon) was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt, Perosi, and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske. He m ...

founds a school for church musicians at

Regensburg Regensburg or is a city in eastern Bavaria, at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers. It is capital of the Upper Palatinate subregion of the state in the south of Germany. With more than 150,000 inhabitants, Regensburg is the f ...

Published popular music

* "Christ Arose" w. m. Robert Lowry * "Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe & William Howard Doane * "Laughing Eyes Of Blue" w.

J. Cheever Goodwin John Cheever Goodwin (1850 – December 1912) was an American musical theatre librettist, lyricist and producer. Goodwin was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard University. He began a career in journalism before turning to writing for the ...

, m.

Edward E. Rice Edward Everett Rice (December 21, 1847 – November 16, 1924) was an American musical theatre composer and producer active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known as a pioneer of American musical theatre, who introduced to Broadway ' ...

. Performed by

Eliza Weathersby ELIZA is an early natural language processing computer program created from 1964 to 1966 at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Joseph Weizenbaum. Created to demonstrate the superficiality of communication between humans and machines, ...

in the Victorian burlesque musical '' Evangeline'' * "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by

Luke Schoolcraft Luke Schoolcraft (November 13, 1847 - March 10, 1893) was an American minstrel music composer and performer. He appeared in numerous minstrel shows throughout the North after the American Civil War. Early life Schoolcraft was born in New Orlean ...

* "Ninety and Nine" w.

Elizabeth Clephane Elizabeth Cecilia Douglas Clephane (18 June 1830 – 19 February 1869) was a Scottish songwriter, who wrote the hymns "The Ninety and Nine" and "Beneath the Cross of Jesus". Early life Clephane was born at 5 West Circus Place in Edinburgh ...

(1868), m. Ira Sankey (1874) * "We met by chance, sweet Jenny," words by

Samuel N. Mitchell Samuel N. Mitchell (1846–1905) was an American song lyricist and newspaperman who wrote lyrics for a number of popular songs in the 1870s.

, music by

William A. Huntley William A. Penno (1843–1929), known by his stage name William A. Huntley, was a composer, music teacher, and vocal and instrumental performer in minstrel and vaudeville traditions. Playing his 5-string banjo before crowds that came to number i ...

* "Won't You Buy My Pretty Flowers?" w.

Arthur W. French Arthur Wells French (1846–1916) was a journalist from Connecticut who was also a successful songwriter of sentimental songs in the 1870s and 1880s. Born in Monroe, Connecticut, he moved to Bridgeport as a young man. He was inclined to write, e ...

, m. George W. Wesley

Classical music

* Max Bruch – Romance in A minor, Op. 42 *

Anton Bruckner Josef Anton Bruckner (; 4 September 182411 October 1896) was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-Germ ...

– Symphony No. 4 *

Albert Dietrich Albert Hermann Dietrich (28 August 182920 November 1908), was a German composer and conductor. In addition to his work, he is remembered for his friendship with Johannes Brahms. Dietrich was born at Golk, near Meissen. From 1851 he studied com ...

– Violin Concerto *

Antonín Dvořák Antonín Leopold Dvořák ( ; ; 8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czechs, Czech composer. Dvořák frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravian traditional music, Moravia and his native Bohemia, following t ...

– String Quartet No. 7 opus 16 in A minor * Friedrich Kiel – ''Christus'' (oratorio) * Edouard Lalo – ''

Symphonie Espagnole The ''Symphonie espagnole'' in D minor, Op. 21, is a work for violin and orchestra by Édouard Lalo. History The work was written in 1874 for violinist Pablo Sarasate, and premiered in Paris on February 7, 1875. Although called a "Spanish Sympho ...

'' Op. 21, in D minor * Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky – ''

'' (for piano) *

Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...

–

Requiem A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead ( la, Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead ( la, Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, ...

Camille Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (; 9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic music, Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Piano C ...

– Allegro appassionato in C minor for piano.

Opera

* Alfred Cellier – ''

The Sultan of Mocha ''The Sultan of Mocha'' is a three act comic opera of 1874 with a libretto by Albert Jarrett and a score by Alfred Cellier. It was first produced at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester in 1874 and revived in London in 1876 and 1887 (with a new lib ...

'' (premiered at Manchester) * Gialdino Gialdini – ''L'Idolo cinese'' (premiered at the Teatro delle Logge, in Florence) *

Karel Miry Karel Miry (14 August 1823 – 5 October 1889) was a Belgian composer. He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch and is known as the composer of the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw, the national anthem of Fland ...

– ''Het arme kind'' (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered in Ghent) * Modest Mussorgsky - ''

'' premiers in Mariinsky Theatre in

on January 27 *

Emile Pessard Emil or Emile may refer to: Literature *'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau * ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life *'' Emil and the Detecti ...

– ''Don Quichotte'' (premiered on February 13 at the Salle Érard, in Paris) *

Johann Strauss II Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ov ...

– '' Die Fledermaus''

Musical theater

* '' Evangeline'', a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, opened at Niblo's Gardens on July 27 and ran for only 16 performances before moving to Boston. * ''

Whittington Whittington may refer to: Places * Whittington, Victoria, Australia * Whittington, Illinois, United States England * Old Whittington, Derbyshire * New Whittington, Derbyshire * Whittington Moor, Derbyshire * Whittington, Gloucestershire * Whitti ...

'', London production

Births

January 4 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...

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Josef Suk Josef Suk may refer to: * Josef Suk (composer) (1874–1935), Czech composer and violinist * Josef Suk (violinist) (1929–2011), his grandson, Czech violinist and conductor {{Hndis, Suk, Josef ...

– Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935) *

February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...

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David Evans David, Dave, or Dai Evans may refer to: Academics * Sir David Emrys Evans (1891–1966), Welsh classicist and university principal * David Evans (microbiologist) (1909–1984), British microbiologist * David Stanley Evans (1916–2004), British a ...

, composer (d. 1948) *

February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...

– Mary Garden, operatic soprano d. 1967) *

March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V� ...

– Henri Marteau,

French French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

composer and violinist (d. 1934) * July 5 – Anna Lang, Swedish harpist * July 26 –

Serge Koussevitzky Sergei Alexandrovich KoussevitzkyKoussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (SeThe Koussevit ...

, Russian-born conductor and double-bassist (d. 1951) * August 9 ** Reynaldo Hahn,

composer and conductor (d. 1947) **

Lee Orean Smith Lee Orean Smith (9 August 1874 – 6 April 1942) was an American composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor. A diverse composer who began his career writing Tin Pan Alley songs and music for the ...

, American composer, arranger, music editor, publisher, music teacher, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor (d. 1942) * September 13 –

Arnold Schoenberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

, composer (d. 1951) * September 21 – Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934) * October 20 –

Charles Ives Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

composer (d. 1954) * November 12 – Bert Williams, entertainer (d. 1922) * November 15 –

Alberto Zelman (Samuel Victor Albert) Alberto Zelman (15 November 18743 March 1927) was an Australian musician and conductor, and founder of one of the predecessors to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Life and career Alberto Zelman was born in Melbourne, Aus ...

, conductor (d. 1927) * December 13 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944) * December 21 – Adele Ritchie,

singer (d. 1930) * December 22 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939) * December 25 – Lina Cavalieri, glamorous opera singer (d. 1944) * December 31 – Ernest Austin, English composer (d. 1947)

Deaths

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. *1462 – The ...

– Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, pianist and composer (b. 1806) * March 20 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Denmark composer and conductor (b. 1810) * May 1 – Vilém Blodek, flautist, pianist and composer (b. 1834) * June 30 –

Blanche d'Antigny Blanche d'Antigny (May 9, 1840 – June 30, 1874) was a French singer, actress and courtesan whose fame today rests chiefly on the fact that Émile Zola used her as the principal model for his novel ''Nana''. Life Blanche d'Antigny was born Marie ...

, singer and actress (b. 1840) (typhoid) * July 3 –

Franz Bendel Franz Bendel (23 March 18333 July 1874) was a German Bohemian pianist, composer, and teacher. Bendel was born in Schönlinde, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was a student of Franz Liszt for five years in Weimar. From 1862, he lived in Berlin an ...

, composer (b. 1832) * October 6 –

Thomas Tellefsen Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen (26 November 1823 – 6 October 1874) was a Norwegians, Norwegian pianist, composer, and Piano pedagogy, teacher. As a composer, Tellefsen wrote 44 opuses, including solo piano works, two Piano concerto, piano conc ...

, pianist and composer (b. 1823) * October 26 – Peter Cornelius, German composer (b. 1824) * November 24 – Friedrich Wilhelm Grund, German composer (b. 1791) * December 19 –

Josef Vorel Josef Vorel (also Worel) (13 November 1801 – 19 December 1874) was a Czechs, Czech priest and composer. He is known mainly as a composer of songs and choirs in the Folk music, folk style. Vorel was born in Opočno, the son of a teacher. He began ...

, composer (b. 1801) * December 22 –

Johann Peter Pixis Johann Peter Pixis (10 February 178822 December 1874) was a German pianist and composer, born in Mannheim. He lived in Vienna from 1808 to 1824, then in Paris to 1840, during which time he was among the city's most prominent pianists and composers ...

, German pianist and composer (b. 1788) *''date unknown'' ** Salvatore Agnelli, composer (b. 1817) **

Sandford C. Faulkner Sandford C. Faulkner (March 3, 1803August 4, 1874), better known as Sandy Faulkner, was an American planter, raconteur and fiddler who personified the mid- 19th century folk song " Arkansas Traveler," for which he received writing credit. It ha ...

, fiddler and composer (b. 1806) ** Dominique Peccatte, luthier (b. 1810)

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