1883 in music

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Events in the year 1883 in music.

Specific locations[edit]

• 1883 in Norwegian music

Events[edit]

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

Published popular music[edit]

• "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
• "The Farmer in the Dell" trad
• "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

Classical music[edit]

• 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 – Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66/B. 131
• Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
• Franz Liszt – La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version)
• Pablo de Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy
• Sergei Taneyev – Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
• Emil Waldteufel –Estudiantina

Opera[edit]

• 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[edit]

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

Births[edit]

• February 11 – Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer (d. 1946)
• March 10 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano (d. 1946)
• 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)
• 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 26 – Mamie Smith, U.S. singer (d. 1946)
• May 28
  • George Dyson, English musician and composer (d. 1964)
  • Václav Talich, Czech conductor
  • Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer (d. 1944)
• 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 19 – Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist (d. 1962)
• September 18 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composer
• October 2 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer
• October 22 – Victor Jacobi, operetta composer (d. 1921)
• November 8 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)
• December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)
• December 22 – Edgard Varèse, French(-born) composer (d. 1965)

Deaths[edit]

• January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)
• February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
• February 17 – Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (b. 1805)
• April 10 – Emilie Mayer, composer (b. 1812)
• 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)
• July 27 – Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer (b. 1821)
• October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819)
• October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)
• December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813)
• December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)
• date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806)