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This article is about music-related events in 1880.

Specific locations

  • 1880 in Norwegian music

Events

  • April 3 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance has its London premiere at the Opera Comique on the Strand.
  • June 12 – Richard Strauss completes composition of his first major work, his Symphony in D minor, at age 16.
  • June–August – Gustav Mahler takes his first professional conducting job, in a small wooden theatre in the Austrian spa town of Bad Hall, conducting operetta.
  • November 1 – Mahler completes composition of Das klagende Lied.
  • November 27 – The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera Semiramide.
  • "The Beauty of Limerick" – David Braham
  • "Blow the Man Down"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;trad
  • "Funiculì Funiculà"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
  • "Keep the Horseshoe Over the Door" w. m. Joseph P. Skelly
  • "Haste to the Wedding" published by Jean White
  • "In The Evening By The Moonlight" w. m. James A. Bland
  • "O Canada!" w. Adolphe-Basile Routhier m. Calixa Lavallée
  • "Roses from the South" m. Johann Strauss II
  • "Sailing, Sailing"&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;w.m. Godfrey Marks
  • "Softly and Tenderly" w.m. Will L. Thompson
  • From The Pirates of Penzance, w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
  • "Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire"
  • "Now for The Pirates' Lair"
  • "Oh, Better Far To Live And Die"
  • "A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We"
  • "To Gain A Brief Advantage"
  • "When A Felon's Not Engaged"
  • "When The Foeman Bares His Steel"
  • "When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold"
  • "Yes! I Am Brave! Oh, Family Descent"
  • "Come and meet me, Rosa darling," w. by Samuel N. Mitchell, m. by William A. Huntley

Classical music

  • Ján Levoslav Bella – String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
  • Giovanni Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Tragic Overture
  • Academic Festival Overture
  • 2 Rhapsodies, Op.79, premiered January 20 in Krefeld.
  • Alfons Czibulka – Stephanie-Gavotte, Op.312
  • Felix Draeseke – Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
  • Antonín Dvořák
  • Waltzes, Op.54
  • Violin Sonata, Op. 57 (B. 106)
  • Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 (B. 112)
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me
  • Gabriel Fauré – Élégie, for cello and piano
  • César Franck – Piano Quintet, premiered January 17
  • Niels Gade – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op.56
  • Edvard Grieg – 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34
  • Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1
  • Emilie Mayer – Faust Overture
  • Ion Ivanovici – The Danube Waves
  • Hubert Parry – Piano Concerto
  • Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
  • Hans Rott – Symphony in E major
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Suite algérienne in C major
  • Violin Concerto No. 3
  • Septet
  • Pablo Sarasate – Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book III
  • Richard Strauss – Symphony in D minor
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • 1812 Overture
  • Italian Capriccio, Op.45, premiered December 18 in Moscow.
  • Serenade for Strings

Opera

  • Dudley Buck – Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction
  • Léo Delibes – Jean de Nivelle
  • Miguel Marqués – Florinda
  • Adolf Neuendorff – The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin/Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
  • Anton Rubinstein – The Merchant Kalashnikov
  • George Stephănescu
  • Peste Dunare
  • Sinziana si Pepelea
  • Johann Strauss, Jr. – Das Spitzentuch der Königin, premiered October 10 in Vienna.

Musical theater

  • La Mascotte&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Paris production
  • The Pirates of Penzance&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;London production

Published Writings

  • Alexander John Ellis – The History of Musical Pitch

Births

  • January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)
  • January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
  • January 6 – John McKenna, traditional Irish flute player (d. 1947)
  • February 19 – Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
  • April 7 – Fritz Grünbaum, Austrian Caberet artist (murdered 1941)
  • June 13 – Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
  • July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
  • July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
  • July 31 – Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
  • September 19 – Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
  • September 20 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
  • September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
  • October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
  • November 2
  • John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)
  • Brian Hooker, American lyricist and librettist (died 1946)
  • Aunt Molly Jackson, American folk singer and union activist (d. 1960)

Deaths

  • January 24 – George Jackson Lambert, English organist and composer (born 1794)
  • February 18 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1804)
  • March 20 – Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
  • March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
  • May 1 – Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
  • May 9 – Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
  • May 30 – James Planché, word artist (born 1796)
  • August 16 – Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel (born 1808)
  • August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
  • October 5 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
  • October 7 – Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
  • November 24 – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
  • November 27 – William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
  • December 2 – Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
  • December 27 – Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
  • date unknown – Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)

References