1881 In Music

Events

• February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman debuts in Paris
• November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest
• December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna

Published popular music

• "Loch Lomond"
• "Good Bye!" by Francesco Paolo Tosti
• "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"
• "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root

Classical music

• Rbecca (oratorio) by Cesar Franck

Opera

• Joan Of Arc by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Musical theater

• Les Contes d'Hoffman (Jacques Offenbach) -      Paris production
• Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) -      London production

Births

• March 25 - Bla Bartk
• August 15 - Ted Snyder, US composer and music publisher
• November 22 - Ethel Levey, US singer, dancer & actress
• November 28 - Stefan Zweig, librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)
• December 3 - Henry Fillmore
• December 24 - Charles Wakefield Cadman, composer and songwriter

Deaths

• 28 March - Modest Mussorgsky

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