1877 in music

1877 caricature of Richard Wagner

Events

• Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
• Richard Wagner conducts in London.
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky marries Antonina Milyukova.
• Ludwig Thuille and Richard Strauss meet as students at Innsbruck. They become lifelong friends.

Published popular music

• "Abdul Abulbul Amir"     w.m. Percy French
• "Captain Cuff"     w.m. G. W. Hunt
• "Chopsticks"     m. Arthur de Lulli
• "Dear Old Pals"     w.m. G. W. Hunt
• "Early In De Mornin'"     w.m. Will Hays
• "In The Gloaming"     w. Meta Orred m. Annie Fortescue Harrison (Words 1874)
• "Little Daisy's Request" by Arabella M. Root
• "The Lost Chord"     w. Adelaide Anne Procter m. Sir Arthur Sullivan (Words 1858)
• "My Name Is John Wellington Wells"     w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
• "Phelim O'Toole" by Harry Banks
• "Time Was When Love And I Were Well Acquainted"     w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 2 op. 73 in D
• Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 3 in D minor (Novak edition)
• Felix Draeseke - Fata Morgana, op 13
• Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet no. 9 op. 34 in D minor
• César Franck - Lesson Eolides
• Robert Fuchs - Violin Sonata no. 1 op. 20 in F# minor
• Karl Goldmark - Violin Concerto no. 1 op. 28 in A minor
• Edouard Lalo - Cello Concerto
• Leon Minkus - La Bayadère (ballet)
• Joachim Raff - Violin Concerto no. 2 op. 206 in A minor
• Josef Rheinberger - Violin Sonata no. 2 op. 105 in E minor
• Camille Saint-Saëns - La Jeunesse d'Hercule

Opera

• Emmanuel Chabrier - Jean Hunyade
• Peter Heise - Monarch and Constable
• Jules Massenet - Le roi de Lahore
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila
• Charles Villiers Stanford - The Veiled Prophet of Khorossan

Musical theater

• The Chimes of Normandy, adapted from Les Cloches de Corneville, Broadway production opened at the Fifth Avenue Theatre on October 22 and ran for 16 performances
• Les Cloches de Corneville by Robert Planquette, Paris production opened at the Folies-Dramatique on April 19 and ran for 408 performances
• Le Grand Mogol, Marseilles production
• Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach, London revival
• The Sorcerer, Gilbert & Sullivan London production opened at the Opera Comique on November 17 and ran for 175 performances

Births

• January 12 - Maude Nugent, songwriter (d. 1958)
• February 16 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1952)
• May 25 - Billy Murray, singer (d. 1954)
• July 14 - Agnes Nicholls, operatic soprano (d. 1959)
• July 17 - Edward Madden, US lyricist
• July 27 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1960)
• September 6 - Buddy Bolden, ragtime musician (d. 1931)
• September 7 - Petar Stojanović, violinist and composer (d. 1957))
• September 15 - Daisy Wood, music hall singer (d. 1961)
• November 21 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer (d. 1933)

Deaths

• 1 January - Julie Berwald, opera singer, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.
• January 18 - George Tolhurst, composer (b. 1827)
• March 23 - Caroline Unger, operatic contralto (b. 1803)
• April 7 - Errico Petrella, opera composer (b. 1813)
• April 26 - Louise Bertin, composer and poet (b. 1805)
• June 3 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, cataloguer of the works of Mozart (b. 1800)
• June 13 - Cesare Ciardi, flautist and composer (b. 1818)
• June 29 - Clorinda Corradi, operatic contralto (b. 1804)
• August 5 - Luigi Legnani, guitarist and composer (b. 1790)
• September 12 - Julius Rietz, German cellist, composer and teacher, editor of an edition of Mendelssohn's complete works (b. 1812)
• October 3 - Thérèse Johanne Alexandra Tietjens, operatic soprano (b. 1831)

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