Music year 1874

Music year 1874

Events

Verdi's Requiem; Title page of the first edition

Johann Strauss (son) : Fledermaus-Polka , Opus 362; Bat Quadrille , Opus 363; Tik-Tak-Polka , Fast Polka, Opus 365; On the Moldau , Polka française, Opus 366; You and You , Waltz, Opus 367; Happy is he who forgets! , Polka Mazurka, Opus 368; Ballet music from “Die Fledermaus” ; Where the Lemons Bloom (Waltz) op.364
Antonín Dvořák : 3rd symphony ; Rhapsody in A minor, Op. 14 ; String Quartet in A minor op. 16;
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22
Charles Gounod : Jésus sur le lac de Tibériade (biblical scene)

February 8 : In the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg which takes place premiere of the opera Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky after the eponymous drama by Alexander Pushkin .
March 21 : The world premiere of the French operetta Giroflé-Girofla by Charles Lecocq takes place at the Théâtre de Fantaisies-Parisiennes in Brussels.
March 27 : The first version of Bedřich Smetana's opera Two Widows is premiered with little success at the Ceské Prozatimní Divadlo in Prague.

Caricature for the premiere of the operetta Die Fledermaus in the satirical newspaper Die Bombe (1874)

April 5th : The operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss with the libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée is premiered with Marie Geistinger in the role of Rosalinde at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. It is considered the high point of the so-called golden operetta era and the classic Viennese operetta .
April 24 : World premiere of the opera Opritschnik ( The Bodyguard ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky at the St. Petersburg Court Opera.
May 20th : World premiere of the opera Brankovics György by Ferenc Erkel in Budapest
October 11th : World premiere of the comic opera The Taming of the Shrew by Hermann Goetz in Mannheim
December 19 : The world premiere of the operetta El Barberillo de Lavapies by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri takes place at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid.

Further stage work premieres

0January 4 : Josef Suk , Czech composer, († 1935 )
January 10 : Frederick H. Blair , Canadian organist, choir director, pianist and music teacher († 1939 )
January 29 : Robert Lach , Austrian musicologist († 1958 )

March 26 : Oskar Nedbal , Bohemian composer and conductor († 1930 )
March 31 : Andrés Gaos , Spanish composer, violinist and music teacher († 1959 )
March 31 : Henri Marteau , German-French violinist and composer († 1934 )

April 17 : Rudolf Berger , German singer († 1915 )
April 20 : Frank Martin Church , American organist, composer and music teacher († 1959 )
April 21 : Giulio Bas , Italian composer and organist († 1929 )
April 23 : Alfonso Castaldi , Italian composer († 1942 )

May 14 : Polaire , Algerian-French ballet dancer, singer and actress († 1939 )
0June 9 : Enrico Rosati , Italian singing teacher († 1963 )
June 16 : František Neumann , Czech composer, conductor and music teacher († 1929 )
June 30 : Paul Pierné , French composer († 1952 )

July 12 : Arne Oldberg , American composer († 1962 )
July 13 : Ludwig Gruber , Austrian composer, singer, writer and conductor († 1964 )
July 15 : Enrico Dassetto , Swiss composer and conductor († 1971 )

0August 8 : Tristan Klingsor , French writer, painter, composer and music critic († 1966 )
0August 9 : Reynaldo Hahn , French composer († 1947 )
August 10 : Bill Johnson , American jazz bassist and band leader († 1972 )
August 22nd : Edward Bairstow , English organist, teacher, composer, choir director and conductor († 1946 )

0December 2 : Johannes Hanssen , Norwegian composer, conductor and military musician († 1967 )
December 22nd : Franz Schmidt , Austrian composer († 1939 )
December 26th : Léon Rothier , French singer (bass) († 1951 )
December 29 : Pyotr Spiridonowitsch Agafoschin , Russian guitarist and music teacher († 1950 )

August 14 : Julius Freudenthal , German composer and numismatist (* 1805 )
September 29 : Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen , Württemberg teacher, musician and composer (* 1798 )

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