1884 in music

Events

• late December
  December
  December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days....
  
   - Seventh Symphony
  Symphony No. 7 (Bruckner)
  Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major is one of his best-known symphonies. It was written between 1881 and 1883 and was revised in 1885. It is dedicated to Ludwig II of Bavaria. The premiere, given under Arthur Nikisch in the opera house at Leipzig in 1884, brought Bruckner the greatest...
  
   of Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
  
   is premiered in Leipzig
  Leipzig
  Leipzig is, with a population of 515,459, the largest city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.-Origins:Leipzig's name is derived from the Slavic word Lipsk, which means "settlement where the lime trees stand"....
  
  , bringing the composer his first great success.

Published popular music

• "Oh My Darling, Clementine
  Oh My Darling, Clementine
  Oh My Darling, Clementine is an American western folk ballad usually credited to Percy Montrose , even though it's sometimes referred to Barker Bradford. The song is believed to have been based on another song called Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden by H. S...
  
  "     w.m. Percy Montrose
• "The Coon's Salvation Army" by Sam Lucas
  Sam Lucas
  Sam Lucas was an African American actor, comedian, singer, and songwriter. His career began in blackface minstrelsy, but he later became one of the first African Americans to branch into more serious drama, with roles in seminal works such as The Creole Show and A Trip to Coontown...
  
  
• "The Fountain in the Park" aka "While Strolling Through the Park One Day" w.m. Ed Haley
• "The Golden Wedding"     m. Gabriel-Marie
• "Love's Old Sweet Song"     w. George Clifton Bingham m. James Lynam Molloy
  James Lynam Molloy
  James Lynam Molloy was an Irish poet, author and composer.James Molloy attended St Edmund's College as a student between 1851 & 1855 along with his brother Bernard, who later became an MP. After leaving the College, he went to the Catholic University in Dublin, graduating in 1858...
  
  
• "March of the Plumed Knight" by Charles B. Morrell & William Howard Doane
  William Howard Doane
  William Howard Doane was an industrialist who composed Christian hymn tunes. He held patents on wood-working machinery and in 1861 became President of J. A. Fay and Company. In religious work he headed the Ohio Baptist Convention Ministers Aid Society for the Midwest...
  
  
• "My Thoughts Are of Thee" by Sam Lucas
• "Otchi Tchorniya" ("Dark Eyes (song)
  Dark Eyes (song)
  Dark Eyes is a Russian song.The lyrics of the song were written by a Ukrainian poet and writer Yevhen Hrebinka. The first publication of the poem was in Literaturnaya gazeta on 17 January 1843.The words were subsequently set to Florian Hermann's Valse Hommage Dark Eyes by Y. P. Grebyonka & F. Hermann
• "Rest, Comrades, Rest (Memorial Hymn)" by O. B. Ormsby
• "Rock-a-bye Baby"     w.m. Effie I. Canning
• "When the Heather Blooms Again" by Frances Jane Crosby
  Fanny Crosby
  Frances Jane Crosby usually known as Fanny Crosby, was an American lyricist best known for her Protestant Christian hymns. A lifelong Methodist, she was one of the most prolific hymnists in history, writing over 8,000 despite becoming blind shortly after birth...
  
   & William Howard Doane

Classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times...

• Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner
  Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. His symphonies are often considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
  
   - Te Deum (begun 1881)
• Henri Duparc - La Vie Antérieure
• César Franck
  César Franck
  César Franck , a Belgian composer, organist and music teacher who lived in France, was one of the great figures in Romantic music in the second half of the 19th century.- Biography :...
  
   - Prélude, Chorale et Fugue
• Robert Fuchs
  Robert Fuchs
  Robert Fuchs was an Austrian composer and music teacher.As Professor of music theory at the Vienna Conservatory, Fuchs taught many notable composers, while he was himself a highly regarded composer in his lifetime.-Biography:He was born in Frauental an der Laßnitz in Styria in 1847 as the youngest...
  
   - Symphony No. 1 in C
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   - String Quartet No. 2 Opus 10 in F major
  F major
  F major is a musical major scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat .Its relative minor is D minor and its parallel minor is F minor....
  
  
• Charles Gounod
  Charles Gounod
  Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
  
   - Mors et Vita (oratorio)
• Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
  
   - String Quartet in D minor
  D minor
  D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. In the harmonic minor, the C is raised to C. Its key signature has one flat ....
  
   (begun 1878)

Opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

• Eduard Caudella
  Eduard Caudella
  Eduard Caudella was a Romanian opera composer, also a violin virtuoso, conductor, teacher and critic. He studied with Henri Vieuxtemps.-Operas:*Harţă Răzeşul *Hatmanul Baltag *Beizadea Epaminonda...
  
   - Hatmanul Baltag
• Luigi Mancinelli - Isora di Provenza
• Miguel Marqués
  Miguel Marqués
  Pedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García was a Spanish composer and violinist.-Life:He was the son of a chocolate maker...
  
   - El reloj de Lucerna (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, his style went out of fashion, and many of his operas fell into almost...
  
   - Manon
  Manon
  Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost...
  
  
• Karl Millöcker
  Karl Millöcker
  Karl Joseph Millöcker , was an Austrian composer of operettas and a conductor.He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Conservatory. While holding various conducting posts in the city, he began to compose operettas...
  
   - Gasparone
  Gasparone
  Gasparone is an operetta in three acts by Karl Millöcker to a German libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée. The libretto was later revised by Ernst Steffan and Paul Knepler...
  
  
• Viktor Nessler
  Viktor Nessler
  Viktor Ernst Nessler was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig.Nessler was born at Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace. At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled Fleurette...
  
   - Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
  Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
  Der Trompeter von Säkkingen is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Viktor Nessler. The German libretto was by Rudolf Bunge, based on an epic poem by Joseph Viktor von Scheffel.-Performance history:...
  
  
• Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Puccini
  Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
  
   - Le Villi
  Le Villi
  Le Villi is an opera-ballet in two acts composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr's story was in turn based in the Central European legend of the Willis, also used in the ballet Giselle...
  
  
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  Charles Villiers Stanford
  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, resident in England for much of his life.- Life :...
  
   - The Canterbury Pilgrims
• Felix Weingartner
  Felix Weingartner
  Paul Felix von Weingartner, Edler von Münzberg was an Austrian conductor, composer and pianist.-Biography:...
  
   - Sakuntala

Musical theater

• Adonis
  Adonis (musical)
  Adonis ' is an 1884 burlesque musical produced by Edward E. Rice who also composed the music along with John Eller. The book was written by William Gill. The musical had a run of 603 shows during its original Broadway run, making it the longest-running show on Broadway during that period. It was...
  
  Broadway
  Broadway theatre
  Broadway Theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is the theatre associated with the 40 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York in Manhattan, New York City...
  
   production opened at the Bijou Theatre
  Bijou Theatre
  The Bijou Theatre was a Broadway theatre built by the Shubert family in 1917 at 209 W. 45th Street in New York, U.S..It was one of three theatres which hosted the premiere season of the musical Fancy Free, and ‘stood in’ for the Mercury Theatre in the movie The Red Shoes, but primarily it presented...
  
   on September 4 and ran for 603 performances
• The Beggar Student London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's "Theatreland". Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking world...
  
   production opened at the Alhambra Theatre
  Alhambra Theatre
  The Alhambra was a popular theatre and music hall located on the east side of Leicester Square, in the West End of London. It was established in 1854 and demolished in 1936. Its name was adopted by many other British music hall theatres located elsewhere in the metropolis, in Bradford, in Hull and...
  
   on April 12 and ran for 112 performances
• The Grand Mogul London production
• Princess Ida
  Princess Ida
  Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5 1884, for a run of 246 performances...
  
  London production opened at the Savoy Theatre
  Savoy Theatre
  The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,...
  
   on January 5 and ran for 246 performances
• Princess Ida
  Princess Ida
  Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was their eighth operatic collaboration of fourteen. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5 1884, for a run of 246 performances...
  
  Broadway production opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre
  Fifth Avenue Theatre
  Fifth Avenue Theatre was a Broadway theatre in New York City in the United States located at 31 West 28th Street and Broadway. It was demolished in 1939....
  
   on February 11 and ran for 48 performances

Births

• January 13 - Sophie Tucker
  Sophie Tucker
  Sophie Tucker , an American singer. Known for her stentorian delivery of comical and risque songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first two-thirds of the 20th century...
  
  , singer
• March 17 - Alcide Nunez
  Alcide Nunez
  Alcide Patrick Nunez was an early United States jazz clarinetist. Also known as Yellow Nunez and Al Nunez, he was born in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana of an Isleño family and moved to New Orleans in his childhood.He initially played guitar, then switched to clarinet about 1902...
  
  , clarinetist
• May 19 - Arthur Meulemans, composer (died 1966)
• May 27 - Max Brod
  Max Brod
  Max Brod was an Czech-Jewish author, composer, and journalist, known for his close friendship with Franz Kafka.- Biography :...
  
  , author, composer and journalist (died 1968)
• September 17 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes
  Charles Griffes
  Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.-Musical career:...
  
  , composer (died 1920)
• September 24 - Jonny Heykens
  Jonny Heykens
  Jonny Heykens was a Dutch composer of light classical music, remembered above all for his jaunty Ständchen No.1 Opus 21....
  
  , composer and orchestra leader (died 1945)
• November 6 - Ludomir Rozycki
  Ludomir Rozycki
  Ludomir Różycki was a Polish composer and conductor. He was, with Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Karol Szymanowski and Grzegorz Fitelberg, a member of the group called Young Poland, intended to invigorate the Polish musical culture of their generation.He was a son of professor of Warsaw Conservatoire...
  
  , composer (d. 1953)
• November 23 - Guy Bolton
  Guy Bolton
  Guy Reginald Bolton was a British-American playwright and writer of musical comedies.Born Guy Reginald Bolton to American parents in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England, Bolton studied architecture before beginning his writing career in 1914 with the play The Rule of Three...
  
  , English librettist
• November 30 - Ture Rangström
  Ture Rangström
  Ture Rangström belonged to a new generation of Swedish composers who in the first decade of the 20th century introduced modernism to their compositions. In addition to composing Rangström was also a musical critic and conductor.Rangström was born in Stockholm, where initially he studied music...
  
  , composer (died 1947)

Deaths

• January 21 - Auguste Franchomme
  Auguste Franchomme
  Auguste-Joseph Franchomme was a French cellist and composer.Born in Lille Franchomme studied at the local conservatoire with M...
  
  , cellist (dedicatee of works by Chopin)
• January 25 - Johann Gottfried Piefke
  Johann Gottfried Piefke
  Johann Gottfried Piefke was a German conductor, Kapellmeister and composer of military music....
  
  , conductor and composer
• February 14 - Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher
• April 24 - Marie Taglioni
  Marie Taglioni
  Marie Taglioni was a famous Italian/Swedish ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.- External links :*...
  
  , ballerina
• April 29 - Michael Costa
  Michael Costa (conductor)
  Sir Michael Andrew Angus Costa was an Italian-born conductor and composer. He was born in Naples as Michaele Andrea Agniello Costa, to a family, according to some, of Sephardic stock...
  
  , conductor and composer
• May 12 - Bedřich Smetana
  Bedrich Smetana
  Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
  
  , composer
• June 25 - Hans Rott
  Hans Rott
  Hans Rott was an Austrian composer. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from the likes of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner.-Life:...
  
  , composer
• June 8 - Henry Clay Work
  Henry Clay Work
  Henry Clay Work was an American composer and songwriter. He was born in Middletown, Connecticut, to Alanson and Amelia Work. His father opposed slavery, and Work was himself an active abolitionist and Union supporter...
  
  , US composer
• July 5 - Victor Massé
  Victor Massé
  Victor Massé was a French composer.- Biography :...
  
  , composer
• November 27 - Fanny Elssler
  Fanny Elssler
  Fanny Elssler , born Franziska Elssler, was an Austrian ballerina.- Life :Daughter of Johann Florian Elssler, a second generation employee of Prince Esterhazy in Eisenstadt. Both Johann and his brother Josef were employed as copyists to the Prince's Kapellmeister, Joseph Haydn...
  
  , dancer
• December 4 - Alice Mary Smith
  Alice Mary Smith
  Alice Mary Smith, married name Alice Mary Meadows-White was an English composer. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music under William Sterndale Bennett and George Macfarren. In November 1867 she was elected Female Professional Associate of the Philharmonic Society and in 1884 Hon. RAM...
  
  , composer (born 1839)
• date unknown - Velvel Zbarjer
  Velvel Zbarjer
  Velvel Zbarjer , birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz , a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were precursors of Yiddish theater.Born in Zbarj, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845...
  
  , Brody singer