1877 in music
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[edit] Events
- Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
- Richard Wagner conducts in London.
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky marries Antonina Milyukova.
[edit] Published popular music
- "Abdulla Bulbul Ameer" w.m. Percy French
- "Captain Cuff" w.m. G. W. Hunt
- "Chopstics" 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Births
- February 16 - Sergei Bortkiewicz, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1952)
- April 24 - Blanche Ring, US singer and actress
- May 25 - Billy Murray, singer
- July 17 - Edward Madden, US lyric writer
- July 27 - Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1960)
- August 16 - Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
- September 6 - Buddy Bolden
- November 21 - Sigfrid Karg-Elert, German composer, d. 1933
[edit] Deaths
- January 18 - George Tolhurst, composer
- June 3 - Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, cataloguer of the works of Mozart
- September 12 - Julius Rietz, German cellist, composer and teacher, editor of an edition of Mendelssohn's complete works (b. 1812)
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