1880 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1880.

Events

• November 27 – The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera Semiramide.
• Richard Strauss's first major work, his Symphony in D minor, is premiered.
• Gustav Mahler completes Das klagende Lied and obtains work as a conductor at a summer theater at Bad Hall.

Published popular music

• "Blow The Man Down"     trad
• "Funiculì Funiculà"     w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
• "Roses From The South Waltz"     m. Johann Strauss II
• "Sailing, Sailing"     w.m. Godfrey Marks
• From The Pirates of Penzance, w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
  • "Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire"
  • "Now for The Pirates' Lair"
  • "Oh, Better Far To Live And Die"
  • "A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We"
  • "To Gain A Brief Advantage"
  • "When A Felon's Not Engaged"
  • "When The Foeman Bares His Steel"
  • "When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold"
  • "Yes! I Am Brave! Oh, Family Descent"

Classical music

• Jan Levoslav Bella – String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
• Giovanni Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
• Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture, Academic Festival Overture
• Felix Draeseke – Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
• Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 6 in D major, op. 60, Songs My Mother Taught Me
• Niels Gade – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor
• Ion Ivanovici – The Danube Waves
• Hubert Parry – Piano concerto
• Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
• Hans Rott – Symphony in E major
• Pablo Sarasate – Spanish Dances for Violin and Piano
• Richard Strauss – Symphony in D minor
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture, Serenade for Strings

Opera

• Dudley Buck – Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction
• Léo Delibes – Jean de Nivelle
• Miguel Marqués – Florinda
• Adolf Neuendorff – The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin/Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
• Anton Rubinstein – The Merchant Kalashnikov
• George Stephanescu
  • Peste Dunare
  • Sinziana si Pepelea

Musical theater

• La Mascotte     Paris production
• The Pirates Of Penzance     London production

Births

• January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)^[1]
• January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
• February 19 – Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
• June 13 – Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
• July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
• July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
• July 31 – Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
• September 19 – Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
• September 20 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
• September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
• October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
• November 2
  • John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)
  • Ramón Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist (d. 1949)

Deaths

• March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
• May 1 – Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
• May 9 – Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
• August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
• October 4 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
• October 7 – Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
• November 24 – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
• November 27 – William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
• December 2 – Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
• December 27 – Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
• date unknown – Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)

References

1. Sources differ on 1879 or 1880 as her birth year.