1875 in music

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See also: 1874 in music, other events of 1875, 1876 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

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

Events

• March 3 - Georges Bizet's Carmen debuts in Paris.
• May 6 - Richard Wagner conducts portions of Götterdämmerung in concert in Vienna (the complete opera is premiered in 1876).
• Robert Volkmann becomes professor of harmony and counterpoint at the National Academy of Music in Budapest, under Franz Liszt.

Published popular music

• "Angels, Meet Me At the Cross Road"     w.m. Will Hays
• "Carve Dat Possum" by Sam Lucas & Herbert Hershy
• "Dreaming Forever of Thee"      w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "Grandfather's Clock"     w.m. Henry C. Work
• "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"     w.m. Thomas P. Westendorf
• "Nancy Lee" w. Frederick Edward Weatherly, m. Stephen Adams (pseudonym of Michael Maybrick)
• "The Witches Flight (Galop Caprice)" by Henry A. Russell

Classical music

• Alexander Borodin, String Quartet No. 1
• Johannes Brahms, Fifteen Liebeslieder for piano duet; String Quartet No. 3
• Gabriel Fauré, Allegro Symphonique (for orchestra); Suite for Orchestra; Les Djinns (for chorus and orchestra)
• Édouard Lalo, Allegro Symphonique
• Modest Mussorgsky, Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death), song cycle for bass voice and piano
• Amilcare Ponchielli, cantata A Gaetano Donizetti
• Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 3; ballet Swan Lake; String Quartet
• Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 5; Serenade for Strings; String Quintet (with double bass) (orig Op. 18); Piano Quartet in D; Piano Trio in Bb; Moravian duets (for voices and piano)
• Jules Massenet, oratorio Eve
• Edvard Grieg, incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, String Quartet No. 1
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Allegro appassionato for Cello and Piano in B minor
• Ma Vlast (My Country) - Six symphonic poems by Bedrich Smetana

Opera

• Carmen first performed in Paris. Music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
• The Queen of Sheba, by Karl Goldmark
• Angelo, by Cesar Cui

Musical theater

• Trial By Jury, Gilbert & Sullivan, London production opened at the Royalty Theatre on March 25
• Trial By Jury Philadelphia production opened at the Arch Street Theatre on October 22
• Trial By Jury, New York production opened at the Eagle Theatre on November 15
• The Zoo, Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe Music: Arthur Sullivan, London production opened at St. James Theatre on June 5

Births

• February 2 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer
• February 28 - Christie MacDonald, actress and singer
• March 7 - Maurice Ravel, French composer
• May - Paul Sarebresole
• August 9 - Albert William Ketelbey, composer
• August 18 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer

Deaths

• February 1 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer
• June 3 - Georges Bizet