1872 in music
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See also: 1871 in music, other events of 1872, 1873 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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Events
- Friedrich Nietzsche takes up musical composition again after a long break.
Published popular music
- "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip Sousa
- "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
- "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace
Classical music
- Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 16) by Edvard Grieg
- Octet for wind, opus 156, by Franz Paul Lachner
- Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play, "L'Arlésienne" by Georges Bizet
Opera
- Les Cent Vierges - Alexandre Charles Lecocq
Musical theater
- La Fille De Madame Angot, Brussels production
- La Vie Parisienne, London production
Relevant Books
- Über die Benennung "Musikdrama" by Richard Wagner
Births
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
- January 11 - Paul Graener, composer
- January 16 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer
- March 7 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
- March 8 - Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer
- March 10 - Felix Borowski, composer
- March 18 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
- March 19 - Sergei Diaghilev, choreographer
- March 20 - Bernhard Seklas, composer
- March 30 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
- April 1 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
- April 4 - Nikolai Amani, composer
- April 4 - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, singer
- April 29 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
- May 1 - Hugo Alfvén, composer
- July 7 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
- Ben Harney
- July 8 - Harry Von Tilzer
- July 18 - Julius Fučík, composer
- July 20 - Alick Maclean and Déodat de Séverac, composers
- July 27 - Stanislav Binicki, composer
- August 10 - Bill Johnson
- August 15 - Harold Fraser-Simson and Rubin Goldmark, composers
- October 3 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
- October 12 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- November 4 - Hermann Finck, composer
- November 29 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano
- December 10 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
- December 20 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
Deaths
- March 30 - Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
- June 3 - Heinrich Esser, composer
- June 28 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
- July 26 - Michele Carafa, composer
- August 11 - Lowell Mason, organist and composer
- August 19 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
- September 7 - Antoni Stolpe, composer
- September 14 - Yury Nikolayevich Golitsin, composer
- November 29 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
