1873 in music explained

This article is about music-related events in 1873.

Events

• April – The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.
• August 27 – Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.
• Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.

Published popular music

• "The German Polka" by Gus Williams (vaudeville)
• "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
• "Home on the Range" w. Brewster M. Higley m. Daniel E. Kelley
• "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White (musician)
• "Little sweetheart, come listen to me". Words and music by Arthur W. French^{[1] [2]}
• "Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms
  • Two String Quartets, Op. 51
  • Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 3
• Antonín Dvořák – String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet no. 6 in A
• Hermann Goetz – Symphony in F, Op. 9 (premiered 1874;^[3] some sources give 1866 for composition however)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Tempest
• Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet in E minor

Opera

• Léo Delibes — Le roi l'a dit
• Karel Miry — Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)

Musical theater

• 1492 Up to Date, Libretto by R. A. Barnet, music by Carl Pflueger

Births

• January 8 — Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress and opera singer (d. 1927)
• February 1 — Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer (d. 1947)
• February 13 — Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)^[4]
• February 27 — Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (d. 1921)^[5]
• March 19 — Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)^[6]
• April 1 — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)^[7]
• April 18 — Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer (d. 1954)
• May 1 — Harry Evans, composer (d. 1914)
• June 1 — Ada Jones, singer (d. 1922)
• June 16 — Antonina Nezhdanova, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
• July 11 — Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (d. 1917)
• August 11 — J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
• August 18 — Otto Harbach, lyricist (d. 1963)^[8]
• September 21 — Papa Jack Laine, bandleader (d. 1966)
• October 14 — José Serrano, composer (d. 1941)
• October 23 — Ricardo Villa, composer (d. 1935)
• November 1 — Charles Quef, French organist and composer (d. 1931)
• November 16 — W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)^[9]
• December 9 — Carlo Zangarini, opera librettist and poet (d. 1943)^[10]
• December 14 — Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)

Deaths

• January 3 — John Lodge Ellerton, composer (b. 1801)
• January 28 — Henry Hugo Pierson, composer (b. 1815)
• February 14 — Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg, composer and pianist (b. 1821)
• March 31 — Domenico Donzelli, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
• April 13 — Carlo Coccia, opera composer (b. 1782)
• April 19 — Pierre-Chéri Lafont, actor and singer (b. 1797)
• May 13 — Kašpar Mašek, composer (b. 1794)
• June 2 — François George-Hainl, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1807)
• July 4 — Prince Józef Michal Poniatowski, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1816)
• July 19 — Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)
• August 26 — Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)
• September 26 — Roderich Benedix, librettist and singer (b. 1811)
• October 6 — Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)
• October 8 — Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)

Notes and References

1. Web site: French . Arthur W. . loc.gov. Little sweetheart, come listen to me . J. L. Peters . New York . 1873 .
2. News: Songs of other days, their author Arthur Wells French is now the Bard of Monroe and still at it. The Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer . Bridgeport, Connecticut . 2 Oct 1911 . 8. I harken back to "Little Sweetheart" which was publicly appreciated to the extent of several hundred thousand sold copies....
3. Web site: Goetz_Werke . July 2, 2005 . August 20, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070820000235/http://www.swissclassic.net/werk_goetz.htm . dead .
4. Book: Jaffé, Daniel . Historical dictionary of Russian music . Scarecrow Press . Lanham, Md . 2012 . 9780810879805 . 83.
5. Book: Caruso, Enrico . Enrico Caruso : my father and my family . Amadeus Press . Portland, Ore . 1997 . 9781574670226 . 19.
6. Book: Steinberg, Michael . The concerto : a listener's guide . Oxford University Press . Oxford New York . 2000 . 9780195103304 . 380.
7. Book: Steinberg, Michael . The symphony : a listener's guide . Oxford University Press . New York . 1995 . 9780195126655 . 443.
8. Book: Bloom, Ken . Routledge Guide to Broadway . Taylor and Francis . Hoboken . 2013 . 9781135871178 . 104.
9. Book: Hardy, Phil . The Da Capo companion to 20th-century popular music . Da Capo Press . New York . 1995 . 9780306806407 . 402.
10. Encyclopedia: 2001 . Zangarini, Carlo. . Oxford Music Online . Oxford University Press. Julian Budden. 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002282. 9781561592630 .