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This article is about
music-related events in
1878
.
Events
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April 9
? –
Franz Berwald
's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by
Ludvig Norman
.
May 25
–
Gilbert and Sullivan
's
comic opera
H.M.S. Pinafore
debuts in
London
at the
Opera Comique
with a first run of 571 performances.
November 18
– Soprano
Marie Selika Williams
becomes the first African American artist to perform at the
White House
.
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians
edited by
George Grove
begins publication in the U.K.
Published popular music
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]
"
Aloha ʻOe
" w.m. Queen
Liliuokalani of Hawaii
"
Carry Me Back To Old Virginny
" w.m.
James A. Bland
"De Gospel Raft" by
Frank Dumont
"Emmet's Lullaby" Joseph K. Emmet
From
H.M.S. Pinafore
: (words by
W. S. Gilbert
, music by
Arthur Sullivan
)
"I Am the Captain of the Pinafore"
"I Am the Ruler of the Queen's Navee"
"I'm Called Little Buttercup"
"Kind Captain"
"
Never Mind the Why and Wherefore
"
"When I Was a Lad"
"In The Evening By the Moonlight" w.m.
James A. Bland
"Keep In De Middle Ob De Road" w.m.
Will Hays
"
Ten Little Injuns
" w. & m.
Septimus Winner
"When the birds have gone to sleep," words by
Arthur W. French
, music by
William A. Huntley
[1]
Classical music
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Johannes Brahms
Motets Op. 74
Eight Pieces (for piano) Op. 76
Violin Concerto in D major
, Op. 77
Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 4
– 2nd version
Symphony No. 5
Ferruccio Busoni
–
Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
George Whitefield Chadwick
– String Quartet No. 1
Felix Otto Dessoff
– String Quartet in F, Op. 7
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Wind Instruments (Dvořák)
(op. 44/B. 77)
Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
Slavonic Dances
, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
Bagatelles, Op.47
String Sextet (Dvořák)
, (op. 48/B. 80)
Gabriel Fauré
– Chanson
Après un rêve
(Op. 7 No. 1)
Zdeněk Fibich
String Quartet No.2, Op.8
Věčnost
(Eternity), Concert Melodrama for Narrator and Piano, Op.14
Niels Gade
–
Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 1
in G minor, Op. 27
Improvisations on 2 Norwegian Folk Songs, Op.29
Albumblad, EG 109
Hans Huber
– Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
Vincent d'Indy
–
La forêt enchantée
Joseph Joachim
– Elegiac Overture 'In Memoriam Heinrich von Kleist', Op.13
Cyrill Kistler
– 4 Lieder, Op.20 (including "Am Waldessaume")
Édouard Lalo
Cello Concerto
in D minor
Fantaisie norvégienne
Giuseppe Martucci
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
Siegfried Ochs
– 'S kommt ein Vogel geflogen
Ole Olsen
– Asgårdsreien, Op 10 (symphonic poems)
Robert Radecke
– Symphony in F major, Op.50
Joachim Raff
Aus Thüringen, WoO.45
Symphony No. 9
Im Sommer
, Op. 208
Josef Rheinberger
Mass in E-flat (Cantus Missæ) for double choir, Op. 109
Ouvertüre zu Schillers Demetrius, Op.110
Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111
Trio for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A, Op. 112
Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114
[2]
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
– 6 Variations on the Theme B-A-C-H, Op.10
Pablo de Sarasate
–
Spanish Dances
for violin and piano, Book I
Bernhard Scholz
– String Quintet Op. 47
[3]
Richard Strauss
– Alphorn, TrV 64
Sergei Taneyev
– Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, op. 36
Violin Concerto in D major
Piano Sonata in G major
, Op. 37.
6 Romances, Op.38
Anton Urspruch
– Variationen über ein eigenes Thema, Op.10
Opera
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Alfred Cellier
–
After All!
Charles Gounod
–
Polyeucte (opera)
Charles Edouard Lefebvre
–
Lucrèce
Miguel Marqués
–
El anillo de hierro
(libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
Joseph Parry
–
Blodwen
Emile Pessard
Le char
premiered on
January 18
at the
Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique
, Paris
Le Capitaine Fracasse
premiered on
July 2
at the
Théâtre Lyrique
, Paris
Joachim Raff
–
Benedetto Marcello
Musical theater
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]
Gilbert and Sullivan
–
H.M.S. Pinafore
, London production
Jacques Offenbach
–
Madame Favart
, Paris production
Births
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]
January 4
–
Rosa Grünberg
, Swedish actress and soprano (d. 1960)
January 6
–
Carl Sandburg
, American poet and lyricist (died 1967)
January 22
–
Ben Deeley
, American actor and lyricist (died 1924)
January 23
–
Rutland Boughton
, English composer (d. 1960)
January 26
–
Rudolf Alexander Schröder
, lyricist (died 1962)
January 28
–
Walter Kollo
,
Singspiele
composer (died 1940)
February 16
–
Selim Palmgren
, Finnish composer (d. 1951)
[4]
February 26
–
Emmy Destinn
, Czech soprano (d. 1930)
February 28
–
Artur Kapp
, Estonian composer (d. 1952)
March 4
–
Egbert Van Alstyne
, American songwriter (d. 1951)
March 23
–
Franz Schreker
, Austrian composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1934)
March 29
–
Albert Von Tilzer
, American songwriter (d. 1956)
May 24
–
Louis Fleury
, French flautist (d. 1926)
May 25
–
Bill Robinson
, American tap dancer, singer, actor (d. 1949)
July 3
–
George M. Cohan
, American songwriter, entertainer (d. 1942)
July 5
–
Joseph Holbrooke
, English composer (d. 1958)
July 9
–
Eduard Sõrmus
, Estonian violinist (d. 1940)
July 12
Bert Grant
, composer (died 1951)
Percy Hilder Miles
, English composer, violinist and teacher (d. 1922)
July 22
–
Ernest Ball
, American singer-songwriter (d. 1927)
July 25
–
Heinrich Gebhard
, German-born composer (d. 1963)
August 18
–
Fritz Brun
, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1959)
August 22
–
Edward Johnson
, Canadian operatic tenor (d. 1959)
August 28
–
Laura de Turczynowicz
(née Laura Christine Blackwell), Canadian-born opera singer (d. 1953)
September 7
–
Adolphe Piriou
, French composer and musician (died 1964)
September 17
–
Vincenzo Tommasini
, Italian composer (d. 1950)
October 18
–
Blind Uncle Gaspard
, American Cajun vocalist and guitarist (d. 1937)
October 19
Hermann Claudius
, lyricist (died 1980)
Alphonse Picou
, American jazz clarinettist (d. 1961)
November 4
–
Jean Schwartz
, Hungarian-born songwriter (d. 1956)
November 23
–
André Caplet
, French composer and conductor (d. 1925)
December 23
–
Wilfred Sanderson
, composer (died 1935)
Undated –
Ustad Qasim
, Afghan musician (d. 1957)
Deaths
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January 15
–
Carlo Blasis
, dancer and choreographer (b. 1797)
February 2
–
Josif Runjanin
, composer (b. 1821)
April 8
–
Henriette "Jetty" Treffz
, singer, first wife and business manager of
Johann Strauss II
(b. 1818)
April 21
–
Temistocle Solera
, librettist and composer (b. 1815)
May 6
–
François Benoist
, organist and composer (b. 1794)
May 24
–
Franz Espagne
, musicologist (born 1828)
July 2
–
François Bazin
, opera composer (b. 1816)
August 23
–
Adolf Fredrik Lindblad
, composer (b. 1801)
October 13
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October 25
–
Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
November –
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti
, guitarist and composer (b. 1801)
November 13
–
Carl Heissler
, violinist (b. 1826)
December 18
–
Heinrich Proch
, composer (b. 1809)
December 28
–
José Bernardo Alcedo
, composer of the Peruvian national anthem (b. 1788)
date unknown
–
Robert Heller
, pianist and magician (b. 1826)
References
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^
Huntley, William A. (1878).
"When the birds have gone to sleep"
.
loc.gov
. Cincinnati: F. W. Helmick.
^
Rheinberger quintet op. 114 given date 1878 at Sheetmusicplus.com.
^
Musgrave, Michael (1999).
The Cambridge Companion to Brahms
at
Google Books
. Cambridge University Press. page 296.
ISBN
978-0-521-48581-4
.
^
"FIMIC Link About Selim Palmgren"
. Archived from
the original
on October 26, 2007
. Retrieved
2009-01-05
.
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