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Events in the year 1883 in music.

Specific locations

  • 1883 in Norwegian music

Events

  • October 22 – Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.
  • Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovers.
  • The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
  • "The Farmer in the Dell" trad
  • "I Know Whom I Have Believed" w. Daniel W. Whittle m. James McGranahan
  • "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
  • "Must we leave the old home, mother?" w. by Arthur W. French, m. by William A Huntley

Classical music

  • 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
  • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 65 (B. 130)
  • Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 (B. 131)
  • Hussite Overture, Op. 67 (B. 132)
  • Cesar Franck – Le chasseur maudit
  • Benjamin Godard – Piano Trio No.2, Op.72
  • Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
  • Augusta Mary Ann Holmès – Pologne
  • Hans Huber – Piano Trio No.2, Op.65
  • Franz Liszt – La lugubre gondola (possible date of early version)
  • Emilie Mayer – Notturno, Op.48
  • Max Meyer-Olbersleben – Fantaisie-Sonate, Op.17
  • David Popper – Im Walde Suite, Op.50
  • Pablo de Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy
  • Sergei Taneyev – Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
  • Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 2
  • Emil Waldteufel –Estudiantina

Opera

  • 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

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

Births

  • January 1 – Floy Little Bartlett, American composer (d. 1956)
  • January 30 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
  • February 11 – Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer (d. 1946)
  • March 10 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano (d. 1946)
  • March 15 - Ford Dabney, American composer and vaudevillian (d. 1953)
  • 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)
  • March 27 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (d. 1950)
  • March 28 – William Henry Harris, English organist, choral trainer and composer (d. 1973)
  • 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 28
  • George Dyson, English musician and composer (d. 1964)
  • Václav Talich, Czech conductor
  • Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer (d. 1944)
  • June 16 – Fritz Krauss, German tenor (d. 1976)
  • 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 15 – Benjamin M. Kaye, librettist (died 1970)
  • 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

  • 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)
  • September 2 – Léon Halévy, librettist (born 1802)
  • October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819)
  • October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)
  • December 7 – Auguste Offenbach, composer (born 1862)
  • December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813)
  • December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)
  • date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806)

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