1883 in music
Events in the year 1883 in music.
Specific locations
Events
- October 22 – Opening of the first Metropolitan Opera House.
- Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he never completely recovers.
- The Gretsch Company, manufacturers of drums, banjos and guitars, opens in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Published popular music
- "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
- "The Farmer in the Dell" trad
- "I Know Whom I Have Believed" w. Daniel W. Whittle m. James McGranahan
- "La golondrina" m. Narciso Serradell Sevilla
- "Polly Wolly Doodle " trad
- "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" by Sam Lucas
- "She Does the Fandango All Over the Place" w.m. G. W. Hunt
- "There Is a Tavern in the Town" anon
- "Transit of Venus March" m. John Philip Sousa
- "Must we leave the old home, mother?" w. by Arthur W. French, m. by William A Huntley
[Classical music]
- Isaac Albéniz – Barcarola for piano No. 1
- Anton Arensky
- *Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 2
- *Symphony No. 1 in B minor
- Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 3
- Emmanuel Chabrier – España, rapsodie pour orchestre
- George Whitefield Chadwick – Thalia
- Antonín Dvořák
- * Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 65
- * Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66
- * Hussite Overture, Op. 67
- Cesar Franck – Le chasseur maudit
- Benjamin Godard – Piano Trio No.2, Op.72
- Charles Gounod – The Redemption
- Augusta Mary Ann Holmès – Pologne
- Hans Huber – Piano Trio No.2, Op.65
- Franz Liszt – La lugubre gondola
- Emilie Mayer – Notturno, Op.48
- Max Meyer-Olbersleben – Fantaisie-Sonate, Op.17
- David Popper – Im Walde Suite, Op.50
- Pablo de Sarasate – Carmen Fantasy
- Sergei Taneyev – Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor
- Peter Tchaikovsky - Orchestral Suite No. 2
- Emil Waldteufel –''Estudiantina''
[Opera]
- Alfredo Catalani – Dejanice
- César Cui – Prisoner of the Caucasus
- Charles-Édouard Lefebvre – Le Trésor premiered in Angers
- Miguel Marqués – La cruz de fuego
- Karel Miry – ''De kleine patriot''
[Musical theater]
Cordelia's Aspirations Broadway production opened at the New Theatre Comique on November 5 and ran for 176 performances- Johann Strauss II – Eine Nacht in Venedig Berlin and Vienna productions
Births
- January 1 – Floy Little Bartlett, American composer
- January 30 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer
- February 11 – Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer
- March 10 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano
- March 15 - Ford Dabney, American composer and vaudevillian
- March 16 – Ernie Hare, U.S. bass/baritone
- March 19 – Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and theorist
- March 21 – Jules Van Nuffel, Belgian composer and choir conductor
- March 27 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist
- March 28 – William Henry Harris, English organist, choral trainer and composer
- April 1 – Malcolm McEachern, Australian-born concert bass singer
- April 6 – Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
- April 13 – Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian Soviet composer
- May 4 – Nikolai Malko, Ukrainian conductor
- May 5 – Petar Konjović, composer
- May 28
- *George Dyson, English musician and composer
- *Václav Talich, Czech conductor
- *Riccardo Zandonai, opera composer
- June 16 – Fritz Krauss, German tenor
- July 7 – Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer
- July 25 – Alfredo Casella, composer
- July 29 – Manuel Infante, pianist and composer
- August 13 – Joseph C. Smith, American dance band leader
- August 15 – Benjamin M. Kaye, librettist
- August 19 – Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist
- September 18 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composer
- October 2 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer
- October 22 – Victor Jacobi, operetta composer
- November 8 – Arnold Bax, English composer
- December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer
- December 22 – Edgard Varèse, French composer
Deaths
- January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer
- February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer
- February 17 – Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer
- April 10 – Emilie Mayer, composer
- April 26 – Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist
- June 6
- *Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
- *Per Lasson, composer
- June 10 – Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer
- July 14 – Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector
- July 27 – Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer
- September 2 – Léon Halévy, librettist
- October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer
- October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer
- December 7 – Auguste Offenbach, composer
- December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone
- December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor
- date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker