1877 in music

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See also: 1876 in music, other events of 1877, 1878 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

• Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
• Richard Wagner conducts in London.
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky marries Antonina Milyukova.

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

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
• 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

Opera

• Peter Heise - Monarch and Constable
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila was first produced in Weimar. Libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire.
• Charles Villiers Stanford - The Veiled Prophet of Khorossan

Musical theater

• La Belle Hélène, New York production
• 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 production
• The Sorcerer, Gilbert & Sullivan London production opened at the Opera Comique on October 17 and ran for 175 performances

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 - Ernö 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

Deaths

• 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)