1880 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1880.

Specific locations

* 1880 in Norwegian music

Events

*April 3 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ''The Pirates of Penzance'' has its London premiere at the Opera Comique on the Strand.
*June 12 – Richard Strauss completes composition of his first major work, his Symphony in D minor, at age 16.
*June–August – Gustav Mahler takes his first professional conducting job, in a small wooden theatre in the Austrian spa town of Bad Hall, conducting operetta.
*November 1 – Mahler completes composition of ''Das klagende Lied''.
*November 27 – The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera ''Semiramide''.

Published popular music

* "The Beauty of Limerick" – David Braham
* "Blow the Man Down"     trad
* " Funiculì Funiculà"     w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
* "Haste to the Wedding" published by Jean White
* " Roses from the South" m. Johann Strauss II
* " Sailing, Sailing"     w.m. Godfrey Marks
*From ''The Pirates of Penzance'', w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
**"Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire"
**"Now for The Pirates' Lair"
**"Oh, Better Far To Live And Die"
**"A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We"
**"To Gain A Brief Advantage"
**"When A Felon's Not Engaged"
**"When The Foeman Bares His Steel"
**"When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold"
**"Yes! I Am Brave! Oh, Family Descent"
*"Come and meet me, Rosa darling," w. by Samuel N. Mitchell, m. by William A. Huntley

Classical music

* Ján Levoslav Bella – String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
* Giovanni Bottesini – ''Gran Duo Concertante''
* Johannes Brahms
**''Tragic Overture''
**'' Academic Festival Overture''
**2 Rhapsodies, Op.79, premiered January 20 in Krefeld.
* Alfons Czibulka – Stephanie-Gavotte, Op.312
*Felix Draeseke – ''Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano''
* Antonín Dvořák
**Waltzes, Op.54
**Violin Sonata, Op. 57 (B. 106)
** Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 (B. 112)
**'' Songs My Mother Taught Me''
* Gabriel Fauré – Élégie, for cello and piano
*César Franck – Piano Quintet, premiered January 17
*Niels Gade – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op.56
*Edvard Grieg – 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34
* Emilie Mayer – '' Faust Overture''
* Ion Ivanovici – ''The Danube Waves''
*Hubert Parry – Piano Concerto
*Giacomo Puccini – '' Messa di Gloria''
*Hans Rott – Symphony in E major
* Camille Saint-Saëns
**'' Suite algérienne'' in C major
** Violin Concerto No. 3
**Septet
*Pablo Sarasate – ''Spanish Dances'' for violin and piano, Book III
* Richard Strauss – Symphony in D minor
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
**'' 1812 Overture''
**Italian Capriccio, Op.45, premiered December 18 in Moscow.
** Serenade for Strings

Opera

* Dudley Buck – ''Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction''
*Léo Delibes – '' Jean de Nivelle''
* Miguel Marqués – ''Florinda''
* Adolf Neuendorff – ''The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin''/''Der Rattenfänger von Hameln''
* Anton Rubinstein – The Merchant Kalashnikov
* George Stephănescu
**''Peste Dunare''
**''Sinziana si Pepelea''
* Johann Strauss, Jr. – '' Das Spitzentuch der Königin'', premiered October 10 in Vienna.

Musical theater

* ''La Mascotte''     Paris production
* ''The Pirates of Penzance''     London production

Published Writings

* Alexander John Ellis – ''The History of Musical Pitch''

Births

* January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)Sources differ on 1879 or 1880 as her birth year.
*January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
* January 6 – John McKenna, traditional Irish flute player (d. 1947)
* February 19 – Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
*April 7 – Fritz Grünbaum, Austrian Caberet artist (murdered 1941)
*June 13 – Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
*July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
*July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
* July 31 – Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
*September 19 – Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
*September 20 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
*September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
*October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
*November 2
**John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)
** Brian Hooker, lyricist and librettist (died 1946)
* Aunt Molly Jackson, American folk singer and union activist (d. 1960)

Deaths

*February 18 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1804)
*March 20 – Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
* March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
*May 1 – Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
*May 9 – Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
* May 30 – James Planché, word artist (born 1796)
* August 16 – Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel (born 1808)
*August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
*October 5 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
*October 7 – Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
*November 24 – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
*November 27 – William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
*December 2 – Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
*December 27 – Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
*''date unknown'' – Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)

References

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