1883 in music

Events in the year 1883 in music.

Specific locations

• 1883 in Norwegian music

Events

• October 22 – Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.
• Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovers.
• The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Published popular music

• "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
• "The Farmer in the Dell" trad
• "I Know Whom I Have Believed" w. Daniel W. Whittle m. James McGranahan
• "La golondrina" m. Narciso Serradell Sevilla
• "Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day)" trad
• "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" by Sam Lucas
• "She Does the Fandango All Over the Place" w.m. G. W. Hunt
• "There Is a Tavern in the Town" anon
• "Transit of Venus March" m. John Philip Sousa
• "Must we leave the old home, mother?" w. by Arthur W. French, m. by William A Huntley ^[1]

Classical music

• Isaac Albéniz – Barcarola for piano No. 1
• Anton Arensky
  • Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 2
  • Symphony No. 1 in B minor
• Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3
• Emmanuel Chabrier – España, rapsodie pour orchestre
• George Whitefield Chadwick – Thalia (concert overture)
• Antonín Dvořák
  • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 65 (B. 130)
  • Scherzo capriccioso , Op. 66 (B. 131)
  • Hussite Overture, Op. 67 (B. 132)
• Cesar Franck – Le chasseur maudit
• Benjamin Godard – Piano Trio No.2, Op.72
• Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
• Augusta Mary Ann Holmès – Pologne
• Hans Huber – Piano Trio No.2, Op.65
• Franz Liszt – La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version)
• Emilie Mayer – Notturno, Op.48
• Max Meyer-Olbersleben – Fantaisie-Sonate, Op.17
• David Popper – Im Walde Suite, Op.50
• Pablo de Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy
• Sergei Taneyev – Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 2
• Emil Waldteufel –Estudiantina

Opera

• Alfredo Catalani – Dejanice
• César Cui – Prisoner of the Caucasus
• Charles-Édouard Lefebvre – Le Trésor premiered in Angers
• Miguel Marqués – La cruz de fuego
• Karel Miry – De kleine patriot (opera in 4 acts, libretto by J. Hoste, premiered on December 23 in Brussels)

Musical theater

• Cordelia's Aspirations (Edward Harrigan & David Braham) Broadway production opened at the New Theatre Comique on November 5 and ran for 176 performances
• Johann Strauss II – Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night In Venice) Berlin and Vienna productions

Births

• January 1 – Floy Little Bartlett, American composer (d. 1956) ^[2]
• January 30 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
• February 11 – Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer (d. 1946)
• March 10 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano (d. 1946)
• March 15 - Ford Dabney, American composer and vaudevillian (d. 1953)
• March 16 – Ernie Hare, U.S. bass/baritone (d. 1939)
• March 19 – Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1959)
• March 21 – Jules Van Nuffel, Belgian composer and choir conductor (d. 1953)
• March 27 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (d. 1950)
• March 28 – William Henry Harris, English organist, choral trainer and composer (d. 1973)
• April 1 – Malcolm McEachern, Australian-born concert bass singer (d. 1945)
• April 6 – Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
• April 13 (O.S. April 1) – Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian Soviet composer
• May 4 – Nikolai Malko, Ukrainian conductor
• May 5 – Petar Konjović, composer (d. 1970)
• May 28
  • George Dyson, English musician and composer (d. 1964)
  • Václav Talich, Czech conductor
  • Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer (d. 1944)
• June 16 – Fritz Krauss, German tenor (d. 1976)
• July 7 – Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer
• July 25 – Alfredo Casella, composer (d. 1947)
• July 29 – Manuel Infante, pianist and composer (d. 1958)
• August 13 – Joseph C. Smith, American dance band leader (d. 1965)
• August 15 – Benjamin M. Kaye, librettist (died 1970)
• August 19 – Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist (d. 1962) ^[3]
• September 18 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composer ^[4]
• October 2 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer ^[5]
• October 22 – Victor Jacobi, operetta composer (d. 1921) ^[6]
• November 8 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953) ^[7]
• December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945) ^[8]
• December 22 – Edgard Varèse, French(-born) composer (d. 1965) ^[9]

Deaths

• January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812) ^[10]
• February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813) ^[11]
• February 17 – Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (b. 1805) ^[12]
• April 10 – Emilie Mayer, composer (b. 1812) ^[13]
• April 26 – Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist (b. 1807)
• June 6
  • Ciprian Porumbescu, composer (b. 1853)
  • Per Lasson, composer (b. 1859)
• June 10 – Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer (b. 1812)
• July 14 – Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector (b. 1824) ^[14]
• July 27 – Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer (b. 1821) ^[15]
• September 2 – Léon Halévy, librettist (born 1802)
• October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819)
• October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815) ^[16]
• December 7 – Auguste Offenbach, composer (born 1862)
• December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813) ^[17]
• December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)
• date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806)

References

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6. Ginny Billings; Bob Billings (1990). The Billings Rollography: Pianists. Rock Soup.
7. School of Music, Theatre & Dance Programs. University of Michigan School of Music. 1949. p. 139.
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14. Dag Strömbäck (1970). Leading Folklorists of the North: Biographical Studies. Universitetsforlaget. p. 189.
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