1876 In Music

This article is about music-related events in 1876.

Events

*February – Baritone Lithgow JamesBiography of St. John's 2nd husband, Lithgow James
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*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.

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)
* 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

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