1874 in music
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[edit] Events
- Richard Wagner moves into the villa at Bayreuth.
- Franz Xaver Haberl founds a school for church musicians at Regensburg.
[edit] Classical music
- Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4
- Albert Dietrich - Violin Concerto
- Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet No. 7 opus 16 in A minor
- Friedrich Kiel - Christus (oratorio)
- Edouard Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole opus 21 in D minor
- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (for piano)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
- Giuseppe Verdi - Requiem
[edit] Opera
- Alfred Cellier - The Sultan of Mocha (premiered at Manchester)
- Gialdino Gialdini - L'Idolo cinese (premiered at the Teatro delle Logge, in Florence)
- Karel Miry - Het arme kind (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered in Ghent)
- Emile Pessard - Don Quichotte (premiered on February 13 at the Salle Erard, in Paris)
- Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus
[edit] Published popular music
- "Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe & William Howard Doane
- "Laughing Eyes Of Blue" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Edward E. Rice. Performed by Eliza Weathersby in the burlesque musical Evangeline
- "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by Luke Schoolcraft
[edit] Musical theater
- Evangeline a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by Longfellow opened at Niblo's Gardens on July 27 and ran for only 16 performances before moving to Boston.
- Whittington, London production
[edit] Births
- January 4 - Josef Suk - Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
- February 6 - David Evans, composer (d. 1948)
- February 20 - Mary Garden, operatic soprano d. 1967)
- March 31 - Henri Marteau, French composer and violinist (d. 1934)
- July 26 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-born conductor and double-bassist (d. 1951)
- September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer (d. 1951)
- September 21 - Gustav Holst, English composer (d. 1934)
- October 20 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
- November 12 - Bert Williams, entertainer (d. 1922)
- November 15 - Alberto Zelman, conductor (d. 1927)
- December 13 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist (d. 1944)
- December 22 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
- December 25 - Lina Cavalieri, glamourous opera singer (d. 1944)
- December 31 - Ernest Austin, English composer (d. 1947)
[edit] Deaths
- February 13 - Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, pianist and composer (b. 1806)
- March 20 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
- May 1 - Vilém Blodek, flautist, pianist and composer (b. 1834)
- June 30 - Blanche d'Antigny, singer and actress (b. 1840) (typhoid)
- October 6 - Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (b. 1823)
- October 26 - Peter Cornelius, German composer (b. 1824)
- November 24 - Friedrich Wilhelm Grund, German composer (b. 1791)
- December 27 - Johann Peter Pixis, German pianist and composer (b. 1788)
- date unknown
- Sanford Faulkner, fiddle player and composer (b. 1806)
- Dominique Peccatte, luthier (b. 1810)
