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Overview of the events of 1880 in music
Overview of the events of 1880 in music
This article is about music-related events in 1880.
Specific locations
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Musical theater
Births
- January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)[1]
- January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
- January 6 – John McKenna, traditional Irish flute player (d. 1947)
- 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)
Deaths
- February 18 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1804)
- March 20 – Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
- 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 5 – 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
- ^ Sources differ on 1879 or 1880 as her birth year.