1871 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1871 .

Aida première set design

Events

• March 29 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened in London incorporating a grand organ by Henry Willis & Sons, the world's largest at this time, on which Anton Bruckner gives a series of recitals.
• Autumn – Charles Gounod begins a stay with soprano Georgina Weldon and her husband in London.
• December 24 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida premières at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo.
• December 26 – The Victorian burlesque Thespis , first of the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera collaborations, premières at the Gaiety Theatre, London. It does modestly well, but the two composers will not again work together until 1875.
• Asger Hamerik becomes musical director of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

Published popular music

• "The Blue and the Gray" by James W. Long
• "Good Bye, Liza Jane" (anon)
• "The Little Church Around The Corner"     w.m. Charles A. White
• "The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane" w.m. William S. Hays
• "Mollie Darling" w.m. William S. Hays
• "Oh aint I got the Blues!" by A.A. Chapman
• "Onward, Christian Soldiers"      w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan
• "Reuben and Rachel" w. Harry Birch m. William Gooch
• "Susan Jane" w.m. William S. Hays
• "The angels are calling me, Mother," words by Samuel N. Mitchell, music by William A. Huntley ^[1]

Classical music

• Georges Bizet – Jeux d'enfants
• Dudley Buck – Variations on a Scotch Air, Op.51
• Hans von Bülow – Il Carnevale di Milano, Op.21
• Peter Cornelius – Chorgesänge
• Charles Gounod – Boléro, CG 354
• Stephen Heller – Freischütz Studien, Op.127
• Adolf Jensen – 12 Lieder aus Joseph Victor Scheffels Gaudeamus, Op.40
• Jules Massenet
  • Dialogue nocturne
  • Le roman d'Arlequin
  • Rêvons, c'est l'heure
  • Scènes hongroises, premiered November 26 in Paris
• Karl Matys – 4 Solostücke, Op.15
• Olivier Metra
  • Espérance Waltz
  • La vague
• Johann Rufinatscha
  • 6 Charakterstücke, Op.14
  • Fantasie in B major for piano, Op.15
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Romance, Op. 37
• Eduard Strauss – Fesche Geister, Op.75
• Johann Strauss, Jr.
  • Indigo-Quadrille, Op.344
  • Tausend und eine Nacht, Op.346
• Arthur Sullivan – The Merchant of Venice, premiered November 19 in Manchester
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – String Quartet No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
• Robert Volkmann – Overture to Shakespeare's Richard III, Op.68

Opera

• Giovanni Bottesini – Ali Baba premiered 18 January at the Lyceum in London
• Johann Strauss Jr. – Indigo und die vierzig Räuber, premiered February 10 in Vienna
• Jacques Offenbach – Boule-de-Neige premiered December 14 in Paris
• Giuseppe Verdi – Aida 24 December 1871 in Cairo

Musical theatre

• Geneviève de Brabant , London production
• The Mascot , London production
• La Mascotte , Vienna production
• Le Roi Carotte , London production
• Thespis , London production

Births

• March 1 – Ben Harney, American composer and ragtime pianist (d. 1938)
• March 4 – Henri Delépine, composer (died 1956)
• March 8 – Gaston Borch, composer (died 1926)
• March 12 – Helene Wiet, Austrian opera singer (d. 1939)
• April 21 – Leo Blech, German conductor and composer (d. 1958)
• May 7 – Paolo Litta, Italian composer (d. 1931)
• May 30 – Harry Macdonough, Canadian-American singer and music executive (d. 1931)
• June 17 – James Weldon Johnson, African American songwriter, author, diplomat and educator (d. 1938)
• June 29 – Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian soprano (d. 1940)
• July 10 – Franz Evers, lyricist and music publisher (died 1947)
• August 1 – Oskar Fried, composer (died 1941)
• August 16 – Zacharia Paliashvili, Georgian composer (d. 1933)
• December 20 – Henry Kimball Hadley, American composer (d. 1937)

Deaths

• January 4 – Vincent Adler, pianist and composer (b. 1826)
• February 1 – Alexander Serov, composer and music critic (b. 1820)
• February 7 – Henry E. Steinway, German-American piano manufacturer (b. 1797)
• February 11 – Filippo Taglioni, dancer and choreographer (b. 1777)
• March 26 – François-Joseph Fétis, composer and musicologist (b. 1784)
• April 27 – Sigismond Thalberg, pianist and composer (b. 1812)
• May 12 – Daniel Auber, composer (born 1782)
• May 26 – Aimé Maillart, composer (b. 1817)
• July 17 – Karl Tausig, pianist and composer (b. 1841) (typhoid)
• July 20 – François Delsarte, singer and music teacher (b. 1811)
• August 12 – Tiyo Soga, composer of hymns (b. 1829)
• September 3 – Václav Emanuel Horák, church musician and composer (b. 1800)
• September 26 – Cipriani Potter, pianist and composer (b. 1792)
• December 12 – Henrik Rung, composer (b. 1807)
• date unknown
  • John Edward Pigot, music collector (b. 1822)
  • Fernando Quijano, songwriter, composer of the Uruguayan national anthem (b. 1805)

References

1. Huntley, William A. (1871). "The angels are calling me, Mother". loc.gov. Boston: G. D. Russell & Co.