1881 in music

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See also: 1880 in music, other events of 1881, 1882 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

• February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman debuts in Paris
• November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest
• December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna

Published popular music

• "Loch Lomond"
• "Good Bye!" by Francesco Paolo Tosti
• "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"
• "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root

Classical music

• Victor Bendix - Symphony No. 1 in C op. 16 Mountain Climbing
• Johannes Brahms - Tragic Overture op. 81 revised
• Max Bruch - Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra finished
• Cesar Franck - Rébecca (oratorio)
• Giuseppe Martucci - Fantasia for piano op. 51
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Septet op. 65 for piano, trumpet and strings; Hymne à Victor Hugo
• Charles-Marie Widor - First Sonata for Piano and Violin op. 50 ([1])

Opera

• Joan Of Arc by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Musical theater

• Les Contes d'Hoffman (Jacques Offenbach) -      Paris production
• Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) -      London production

Births

• January 4 (or 5) - Nikolai Roslavetz, Ukrainian composer (d. 1944)
• February 6 - Karl Weigl, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
• March 18 - Paul Le Flem, French composer (d. 1984)
• March 23 - Egon Petri, pianist (d. 1962)
• March 25 - Béla Bartók
• April 20 - Nikolai Myaskovsky, Russian composer and teacher of Polish birth (d. 1950)
• May 11 - Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer (d. 1944)
• August 15 - Ted Snyder, US composer and music publisher
• August 29 - Edvin Kallstenius, Swedish composer (d. 1967)
• August 19 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• November 22 - Ethel Levey, US singer, dancer & actress
• November 28 - Stefan Zweig, librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)
• December 3 - Henry Fillmore
• December 24 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer and songwriter
• unknown date - David John Thomas, Welsh composer

Deaths

• 30 January - Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Belgian composer (b. 1823)
• 23 March - Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein (b. 1835)
• 28 March - Modest Mussorgsky
• 6 June - Henri Vieuxtemps (b. 1820)