1876 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1876.

Events

• February – Baritone Lithgow James^[1] joins the English Opera Company, where he begins a partnership with his future wife Florence St. John.
• February 24 – Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
• May 17 – Antonín Dvořák begins composing his Moravian Duets.
• August 16 – Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
• August 17 – Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
• Soprano Rosa Hasselbeck marries the conductor and composer Josef Sucher.
  

Published popular music

• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" by Thomas Payne Westendorf
• "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
• "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
• "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
• "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
• "Old Aunt Jemima" by James Grace
• "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1 completed
• Pietro Abbà Cornaglia – Requiem
• Felix Draeseke – Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: Five piano pieces, op 14
• Antonín Dvořák – Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33
• César Franck – Les Éolides
• Benjamin Godard – Concerto Romantique
• Édouard Lalo – Cello Concerto
• Gustav Mahler - Piano Quartet movement in A
• Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor From My Life
• Charles-Marie Widor – Organ Symphonies Nos. 1–3 Op. 13
• Edvard Grieg - Ballade in the Form of Variations for piano
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Seasons (Tchaikovsky) (for piano) Op. 37a.
• Gabriel Faure - Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Opus 13

Opera

• Amilcare Ponchielli – La Gioconda
• Arrigo Boito – Mefistofele
• Luigi Denza – Wallenstein
• Bedřich Smetana – The Kiss
• Richard Wagner – Siegfried
• Richard Wagner – Götterdämmerung

Musical theater

• Richard Genée – Der Seekadette
• Robert Planquette – Les cloches de Corneville

Births

• January 12
  • Annie Krull, operatic soprano (died 1947)
  • Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
• January 19 - Rosina Storchio, Italian lyric soprano (died 1945)
• January 29
  • Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
  • Ludolf Nielsen, composer (died 1939)
• February 2 – Giovanni Zenatello, tenor
• February 28 – John Alden Carpenter, composer
• March 11 – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
• May 19 – Alice Mary Smith, composer
• June 2 – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (died 1954)
• June 5 – Tony Jackson, jazz musician (died 1920)
• August 14 – Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer (died 1940)
• August 16 – Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
• September 15 – Bruno Walter, conductor (died 1962)
• November 23 – Manuel de Falla, composer (died 1946)
• December 11 – Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (died 1909)

Deaths

• February 28 – Raimondo Boucheron, composer, 75
• March 5
  • Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65
  • Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70
• March 28 – Joseph Böhm, violinist, 80
• April 19 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer, 65
• June 28 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian, 69
• August 29 – Félicien-César David, composer, 66
• September 9 – Mary Shaw, operatic contralto, 62
• September 30 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer, 77
• October 1 - James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder, 80
• November 8 – Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone, 76
• November 9 – Édouard Batiste, organist and composer, 56
• November 18 – Nicolas Bosret, blind organist and composer, 77
• December 3 – Hermann Goetz, composer, 35 (tuberculosis)
• December 14 – George Frederick Anderson, violinist, 83

References

1. Biography of St. John's 2nd husband, Lithgow James