1872 in music

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Events

At the Ballet, 1872, by Edgar Degas

• June 24 - Karl Müller-Hartung founds an "Orchesterschule" ("Orchestra School") at Weimar.
• Friedrich Nietzsche takes up musical composition again after a long break.
• Tomás Bretón and Ruperto Chapí receive the first prize of the Madrid Conservatory.

Published popular music

• "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip Sousa
• "Waste Not, Want Not [You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry]" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
• "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace

Classical music

• Georges Bizet - L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name
• Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 16)
• Franz Paul Lachner -Octet for wind, opus 156

Opera

• Georges Bizet - Djamileh
• Gialdino Gialdini - La secchia rapita premiered at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence
• Alexandre Charles Lecocq - Les Cent Vierges
• Miguel Marqués - Justos por pecadores
• Karel Miry
  • De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels)
  • De twee zusters (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Gudonov, Revised Version
• Jacques Offenbach - Fantasio

Musical theater

• La fille de Madame Angot, Brussels production
• La vie parisienne, London production

Publications

• Richard Wagner - Über die Benennung "Musikdrama"

Births

• January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer (d. 1915)
• January 11 - Paul Graener, conductor and composer (d. 1944)
• January 16 - Henri Büsser, conductor and composer (d. 1973)
• January 23 - Adelina de Lara, pianist and composer (d. 1961)
• March 6 - Ben Harney, ragtime pianist and songwriter (d. 1938)
• March 7 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
• March 8 - Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer (d. 1940)
• March 10 - Felix Borowski, composer and music teacher (d. 1956)
• March 19 - Sergei Diaghilev, choreographer (d. 1929)
• March 20 - Bernhard Sekles, composer and music teacher (d. 1934)
• March 30 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer (d. 1956)
• April 1 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
• April 29 - Eyvind Alnæs, composer (d. 1932)
• May 1 - Hugo Alfvén, composer (d. 1960)
• July 7 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1949)
• July 8 - Harry Von Tilzer, songwriter (d. 1946)
• July 18 - Julius Fučík, composer (d. 1916)
• July 20 - Déodat de Séverac, composer (d. 1921)
• August 10 - Bill Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1972)
• August 15
  • Harold Fraser-Simson, composer and songwriter (d. 1944)
  • Rubin Goldmark, composer (d. 1936)
• October 12 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer (d. 1958)
• November 29 - Anna von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano (d. 1947)
• December 20 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)

Deaths

• January 20 - Raffaele Sacco, lyricist (b. 1787)
• February 16 - Henry Fothergill Chorley, music critic (b. 1808)
• April 3 - Henriette Widerberg, operatic soprano (b. 1796)
• April 12 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, composer (b. 1795)
• May 5 - Johann Kulik, luthier (b. 1800)
• May 9 - Viktorin Hallmayer, conductor and composer (b. 1831)
• May 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer of hymns (b. 1784)
• July 26 - Michele Carafa, opera composer (b. 1787)
• August 4 - Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht, conductor and composer (b. 1802)
• August 11 - Lowell Mason, organist and composer (b. 1792)
• September 16 - Gall Morel, choirmaster (b. 1803)
• November 21 - Myllarguten, folk musician (b. 1801)
• November 29 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
• date unknown - Karolina Bock, singer, dancer and actress (b. 1792)