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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Relevant Books 7 Births 8 Deaths

Events

At the Ballet, 1872, by Edgar Degas

• Friedrich Nietzsche takes up musical composition again after a long break.
• Tomás Bretón and Ruperto Chapí receive the first prize of the Madrid Conservatory.

Published popular music

• "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip Sousa
• "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
• "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace

Classical music

• Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 16) by Edvard Grieg
• Octet for wind, opus 156, by Franz Paul Lachner
• L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, by Georges Bizet

Opera

• Georges Bizet - Djamileh
• Gialdino Gialdini - La secchia rapita premiered at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence
• Alexandre Charles Lecocq - Les Cent Vierges
• Miguel Marqués - Justos por pecadores
• Karel Miry
  • De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels)
  • De twee zusters (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Gudonov, Revised Version

Musical theater

• La fille de Madame Angot, Brussels production
• La vie parisienne, London production

Relevant Books

• Über die Benennung "Musikdrama" by Richard Wagner

Births

• January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
• January 11 - Paul Graener, composer
• January 16 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer
• March 6 - Ben Harney, ragtime pianist and songwriter
• March 7 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
• March 8 - Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer
• March 10 - Felix Borowski, composer
• March 18 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
• March 19 - Sergei Diaghilev, choreographer
• March 20 - Bernhard Seklas, composer
• March 30 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
• April 1 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
• April 4 - Nikolai Amani, composer
• April 4 - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, singer
• April 29 - Eyvind Alnæs, composer
• May 1 - Hugo Alfvén, composer
• July 7 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
• July 8 - Harry Von Tilzer
• July 18 - Julius Fučík, composer
• July 20 - Alick Maclean and Déodat de Séverac, composers
• July 27 - Stanislav Binicki, composer
• August 10 - Bill Johnson
• August 15 - Harold Fraser-Simson and Rubin Goldmark, composers
• October 3 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
• October 12 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
• November 29 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano
• December 10 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
• December 20 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer

Deaths

• January 20 - Raffaele Sacco, lyricist (b. 1787)
• February 16 - Henry Fothergill Chorley, music critic (b. 1808)
• April 3 - Henriette Widerberg, operatic soprano (b. 1796)
• May 5 - Johann Kulik, luthier (b. 1800)
• May 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer of hymns (b. 1784)
• July 26 - Michele Carafa, opera composer (b. 1787)
• August 4 - Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht, conductor and composer (b. 1802)
• August 11 - Lowell Mason, organist and composer (b. 1792)
• August 19 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
• September 7 - Antoni Stolpe, composer
• September 14 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
• September 16 - Gall Morel, choirmaster (b. 1803)
• November 29 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
• date unknown - Karolina Bock, singer, dancer and actress (b. 1792)

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