| 1880 in music | ||
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Events
- March 5 - Anton Rubinstein 's The Merchant Kalashnikov Premiere at the Mariinsky Theater , St. Petersburg
- April 3 - London premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Pirates of Penzance comic opera
- May 8 - the first performance of Robert Planket ’s comic opera “The Corneville Bells ” in Russian (theater in the Hermitage garden, Moscow)
- Premiere of the Symphony in D minor by Richard Strauss , his first large-scale work [1]
- Gustav Mahler begins his career as a conductor [2]
Classical music
- Ian Bella - string quartet number 2 in C minor
- Giovanni Bottesini - a concert for two Gran Duo Concertante double basses
- Johannes Brahms - “The Tragic Overture” in D minor, composition 81; Academic solemn overture
- Nils Gade - Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor
- Antonin Dvořák - Symphony No. 6 in D major, opus 60
- Ion Ivanovich - waltz “ Danube waves ”
- Gustav Mahler - “Sad Song”; "Three Songs"
- Giacomo Puccini - “Massa di Gloria”
- Hubert Perry - Oratorio "Scenes of Liberated Prometheus"
- Hans Rott - Symphony in E Major .
- Anton Rubinstein - Symphony No. 2
- Arthur Sullivan - Oratory of the Martyr of Antioch
- Pablo de Sarasate - Spanish Dances for Violin and Piano, Book III, op. 23.
- Camille Saint-Saens - Algerian Suite, Op. 60
- Peter Tchaikovsky - Concerto for piano and orchestra number 2 ; Overture " Romeo and Juliet "; Serenade for string orchestra
Opera
- Giovanni Bottesini - Cedar
- Leo Delibe - "Jean de Nivelle"
- Miguel Marquez - Florinda
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - “ May Night ”
- George Stefanescu - "Xinjiang and Pepel" and "Peste Dunăre"
Personalities
Born
- January 5 - Nikolai Medtner , pianist and composer (d. 1951)
- February 3 - Lina Aberbanel , singer and actress (d. 1964)
- February 19 - Arthur Shepherd , composer (died 1958)
- March 17 - Guillermo Uribe Holguin , Colombian composer, violinist, conductor, musicologist and teacher (d. 1971)
- June 13 - Vincent Rose , bandlider and composer
- July 5 - Jan Kubelik , violinist (d. 1940)
- July 24 - Ernest Bloch , composer (died 1959)
- July 31 - Manuel Penella , composer (d. 1939)
- September 19 - Zequina Jose Gomez de Abreu , musician and composer (died 1935)
- September 20 - Ildebrando Pizzetti , composer (died 1968)
- September 27 - Jacques Thibault , violinist (d. 1953)
- October 12 - Hilly Willan , composer (died 1968)
- November 2 - John Fulds , composer (died 1939)
- December 5 - Vasil Stoin , a Bulgarian musicologist, folklorist and teacher (d. 1939).
Passed away
- March 31 - Henryk Wieniawski , violinist and composer (died 1835)
- May 1 - Samuel Naumburg , composer (d. 1817)
- May 9 - Hermann Berens , composer (died 1826)
- August 17 - Ole Bull , violinist (d. 1810)
- October 4 - Jacques Offenbach , composer (d. 1819)
- October 7 - Fredrik Stenhammar , soprano opera singer (died 1836)
- November 24 - Napoleon Henri Reber , composer (d. 1807)
- November 27 - William Saurin Leister , opera impresario (died 1828)
- December 2 - Josephine Lang , composer (d. 1815)
- December 27 - Alessandro Nini , composer (d. 1805)
See also
► 1880 in music
Notes
- ↑ Youmans, 2010 , p. 46.
- ↑ Carr, 1998 , p. 23-24.
Literature
- Carr, Jonathan. Mahler: A Biography . - Woodstock, New York: The Overlook Press, 1998. - ISBN 0-87951-802-2 .
- Youmans, Charles. The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss . - Cambridge University Press, 2010. - ISBN 9781139828529 .