1876 in music
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See also: 1875 in music, other events of 1876, 1877 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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[edit] Events
- February 24 - Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
- August 16 - Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in Bayreuth
[edit] Published popular music
- "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" by Thomas Payne Westendorf
- "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
- "The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
- "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
- "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
- "Old Aunt Jemima" by James Grace
- "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas
[edit] Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1 completed
- Pietro Abbà Cornaglia - Requiem
- Felix Draeseke - Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: Five piano pieces, op 14
- Antonín Dvořák - Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33
- César Franck - Les Éolides
- Benjamin Godard - Concerto Romantique
- Bedřich Smetana - String Quartet No. 1 in E minor From My Life
- Charles-Marie Widor - Organ Symphonies Nos. 1-3 Op. 13
[edit] Opera
- Amilcare Ponchielli - La Gioconda
- Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele
- Luigi Denza - Wallenstein
- Bedřich Smetana - The Kiss
[edit] Musical theater
[edit] Births
- January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer
- January 29
- Havergal Brian, composer (d. 1972)
- Ludolf Nielsen, composer (d. 1939)
- February 2 - Giovanni Zenatello, tenor
- February 28 - John Alden Carpenter, composer
- March 11 - Carl Ruggles, composer (d. 1971)
- May 19 - Alice Mary Smith, composer
- June 2 - Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (d. 1954)
- June 5 - Tony Jackson, jazz musician (d. 1920)
- August 14 - Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer
- September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962)
- November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (d. 1946)
- December 11 - Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (d. 1909)
[edit] Deaths
- March 5
- Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi
- Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner
- April 19 - Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer
- August 29 - Félicien-César David, composer
- September 30 - Henri Bertini, pianist and composer
- November 8 - Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone
- December 3 - Hermann Goetz, composer
