1874 in music

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See also: 1873 in music, other events of 1874, 1875 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Published popular music 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• Richard Wagner moves into the villa at Bayreuth.

Classical music

• Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4
• Antonín Dvořák - String Quartet No. 7 opus 16 in A minor
• Friedrich Kiel - Christus (oratorio)
• Edouard Lalo - Symphonie Espagnole opus 21 in D minor
• Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (for piano)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1

Opera

• Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus

Published popular music

• "Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe & William Howard Doane
• "Laughing Eyes Of Blue" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Edward E. Rice. Performed by Eliza Weathersby in the burlesque musical Evangeline
• "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by Luke Schoolcraft

Musical theater

• Evangeline a US burlesque musical based upon a poem by Longfellow opened at Niblo's Gardens on July 27 and ran for only 16 performances before moving to Boston.
• Whittington, London production

Births

• January 4 - Josef Suk - Czech composer and violinist (d. 1935)
• January 29 - Charles E. King, US composer and singer
• February 20 - Mary Garden, Operatic soprano
• March 31 - Henri Marteau, French composer and violinist
• July 26 - Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-born conductor and double-bassist
• September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer
• September 21 - Gustav Holst, English composer
• October 20 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
• November 12 - Bert Williams
• December 13 - Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist
• December 22 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (d. 1939)
• December 25 - Lina Cavalieri, glamourous opera singer (d. 1944)

Deaths

• March 20 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810) ([1], [2])
• October 26 - Peter Cornelius, German composer (b. 1824)