1873 in music
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See also: 1872 in music, other events of 1873, 1874 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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Events
Published popular music
- "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by Hart Pease Danks & Eben Eugene Rexford
- "The German Polka" by Gus Williams
- "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley
- "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White
- "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - String Quartet No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
- Hermann Goetz - Symphony in F, op. 9 (premiered 1874. [1]. Some sources give 1866 for composition however.)
- Giuseppe Verdi - String Quartet in E minor
Opera
- Léo Delibes - Le Roi l'a dit
Musical theater
Births
- February 27 - Enrico Caruso, Operatic tenor
- March 19 - Max Reger, German composer
- April 1 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer
- April 18 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer
- June 1 - Ada Jones, US singer
- August 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
- August 18 - Otto Harbach, lyricist
- September 21 - Papa Jack Laine
- November 16 - W. C. Handy
- December 14 - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer
- Tom Turpin
Deaths
- October 6 - Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann
