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1884 in music

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Events

  • September 27 – The Hungarian Royal Opera House in Budapest opens.
  • December 30 – Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 is premiered in Leipzig, bringing the composer his first great success.

Bands formed

  • Cory Band

[[Classical music]]

  • Anton Bruckner – Te Deum (begun 1881)
  • Henri Duparc – La Vie Antérieure
  • Antonín Dvořák – Ballade in D minor
  • César Franck – Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
  • Robert Fuchs – Symphony No. 1 in C
  • Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 2 Opus 10 in F major
  • Charles Gounod – Mors et Vita (oratorio)
  • Richard Strauss – Symphony No. 2
  • Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 3
  • Hugo Wolf – String Quartet in D minor (begun 1878)

[[Opera]]

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  • Eduard Caudella – Hatmanul Baltag
  • Luigi Mancinelli – Isora di Provenza
  • Miguel Marqués – El reloj de Lucerna
  • Jules Massenet – Manon
  • Karl Millöcker – Gasparone
  • Viktor Nessler – Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
  • Giacomo Puccini – Le Villi
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – The Canterbury Pilgrims
  • Arthur Sullivan – Princess Ida (London Savoy Theatre January 5 for 246 performances)
  • Arthur Sullivan – Princess Ida (Broadway Fifth Avenue Theatre February 11 for 48 performances)
  • Peter Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa
  • Felix Weingartner – Sakuntala

[[Musical theater]]

  • Adonis Broadway production opened at the Bijou Theatre on September 4 and ran for 603 performances
  • The Beggar Student London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on April 12 and ran for 112 performances
  • The Grand Mogul London production

Births

  • January 13 – Sophie Tucker, singer
  • February 22 – York Bowen, pianist and composer (died 1961)
  • March 14 – Wintter Watts, composer of art songs (died 1962)
  • March 17 – Alcide Nunez, clarinetist
  • March 18 – Joe Burke, pianist, composer and actor (died 1950)
  • March 26 – Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (died 1969)
  • April 22 – Armas Launis, Finnish composer and ethnomusicologist (died 1959)
  • April 23 – Jurgis Karnavičius, Lithuanian composer (died 1941)
  • May 19 – Arthur Meulemans, composer (died 1966)
  • May 27 – Max Brod, author, composer and journalist (died 1968)
  • August 7 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer (d. 1970)
  • August 13 – Edwin Grasse, composer and violinist (died 1954)
  • September 6 – Emerson Whithorne (birth name Emerson Whittern), composer and historian (died 1958)
  • September 17 – Charles Tomlinson Griffes, composer (died 1920)
  • September 24 – Jonny Heykens, composer and orchestra leader (died 1945)
  • October 6 – Oliphant Chuckerbutty, organist and composer (died 1960)
  • November 1 – David Roitman, hazzan and composer (died 1943)
  • November 6
    • May Brahe, composer and songwriter (died 1956)
    • Ludomir Rozycki, composer (d. 1953)
  • November 19 – Norman Allin, English singer (d. 1973)
  • November 23 – Guy Bolton, English librettist
  • November 30 – Ture Rangström, composer (died 1947)
  • December 29 – Foster Adolph Reynolds, brass instrument maker (died 1960 at work)
  • date unknown – Alfred Reynolds, English composer (d. 1969)

Deaths

  • January 21 – Auguste Franchomme, cellist (dedicatee of works by Chopin)
  • January 25 – Johann Gottfried Piefke, conductor and composer
  • February 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher
  • February 21 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
  • March 14 – Franz Wohlfahrt, German violin teacher and composer (b. 1833)
  • April 24 – Marie Taglioni, ballerina
  • April 29 – Michael Costa, conductor and composer
  • May 12 – Bedřich Smetana, composer (b. 1824)
  • June 25 – Hans Rott, composer (b. 1858)
  • June 8 – Henry Clay Work, US composer
  • July 5 – Victor Massé, composer
  • August 18 – , composer (b. 1808)
  • November 27 – Fanny Elssler, dancer
  • December 4 – Alice Mary Smith, composer (b. 1839)
  • date unknown – Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer

References

References

  1. "Preface to Score of Fuchs Symphony No. 1".
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