1881 in music explained
This article is about music-related events in 1881.
Specific locations
Events
Bands formed
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Musical theater
Births
- January 4 – Nikolai Roslavets, Ukrainian composer (d. 1944)
- February 6 – Karl Weigl, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
- February 12 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1931)[1]
- February 21 – Kenneth J. Alford, English band composer (d. 1945)
- March 10 – Frank Mullings, English tenor (d. 1953)
- March 16 – Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (d. 1947)[2]
- March 18 – Paul Le Flem, French composer (d. 1984)
- March 23 – Egon Petri, Dutch-born pianist (d. 1962)
- March 25 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
- April 15 – David Thomas, Welsh composer (d. 1928)
- April 17 – Anton Wildgans, lyricist and playwright (died 1942)
- April 20 – Nikolai Myaskovsky, Polish-born Russian composer and teacher (d. 1950)
- May 11 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (d. 1944)
- May 29 – Frederick Septimus Kelly, Australian-born musician (k. 1916)
- July 6 – Nancy Dalberg, Danish composer (d. 1949)
- August 15 – Ted Snyder, American composer and music publisher (d. 1965)
- August 18 – Hermann Zilcher, German composer (died 1948)
- August 19 – George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
- August 29 – Edvin Kallstenius, Swedish composer (d. 1967)
- November 22 – Ethel Levey, American singer, dancer and actress (d. 1955)
- November 28 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (suicide 1942)
- December 3 – Henry Fillmore, American band composer (d. 1956)
- December 24 – Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer and songwriter (d. 1946)
Deaths
- January 30 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Belgian, organist and composer, 58
- March 13 – Sophie Daguin, ballerina and choreographer, 79
- March 23 – Nikolai Rubinstein, pianist and composer, 45
- March 28 – Modest Mussorgsky, composer, 42 (alcohol-related)
- June 5 – Franjo Krežma, violinist and composer, 18 (tuberculosis)
- June 6 – Henri Vieuxtemps, composer, 61
- June 7 – Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard, music teacher and composer, 66
- July 3 – Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone, 62
- September 7 – Sidney Lanier, poet and flautist, 39 (tuberculosis)
- October 9 – Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher, 57
- November 25 – Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute, 87
- December 17 – Giulio Briccialdi, composer, 63
- December 30 – Corrado Miraglia, opera singer, 60
- date unknown – Francisco de Sá Noronha, violinist and composer (b. 1820)
Notes and References
- Book: Magill, Frank N.. Great Lives from History: Mas-Ror. Pasadena. Salem Press. 1990. 1814. 978-0-89356-569-5.
- Book: Julie Anne. Sadie. Rhian. Samuel. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London. Macmillan. 1996. 143. 978-0-33351-598-3.