# 1882 in music

Events in the year 1882 in music.

## Specific locations

* 1882 in Finnish music
* 1882 in Norwegian music
* 1882 in Swedish music

## Events

* January – Richard Wagner completes his opera Parsifal
* July 26 – Wagner's Parsifal is premièred at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus under the baton of Hermann Levi with the tenor Hermann Winkelmann in the title rôle and Engelbert Humperdinck assisting in the production
* August 8–20 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is premièred in a tent near the (at this time) unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the baton of Ippolit Al'tani
* Gustav Mahler is employed at Olomouc
* Richard Strauss enters Munich University

## Published popular music

* "Baa! Baa! Baa!" (w. Walter Greenaway m. Vincent Davies)
* "The Band Quartette" by Charles A. White
* "Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
* "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye" (trad Eng)
* "In My Fust 'Usband's Time" (w.m. Harry Nicholls)
* "The Old Miser" by Charles A. White
* Les Patineurs (waltz) ("The Skaters' Waltz") (m. Emile Waldteufel)
* "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet
* "Up Went The Price" (w.m. George Ware)
* From the score of Iolanthe:
** "I'm Very Much Pained" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "Loudly Let The Trumpets Bray" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "The Nightmare Song" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "None Shall Part Us" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "Oh, Foolish Fay" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "Tho' P'raps I May Incur Your Blame" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "Though The Views Of The House Have Diverged" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "Welcome To Our Hearts Again" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "When All Night Long A Chap Remains" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "When Britain Really Ruled The Waves" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
** "When I Went To The Bar" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)

## Classical music

* Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 1
* Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
* Hans Huber – Symphony no. 1 "Wilhelm Tell"
* Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Yar-khmel (Spring Overture)
* Camille Saint-Saëns – Deux chœurs, for mixed chorus with piano ad libitum
* Pablo de Sarasate – Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book IV
* Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet no. 2
* Johann Strauss – Voices of Spring
* Sergey Taneyev – Overture on a Russian Theme

## Opera

* Friedrich Lux – Der Schmied von Ruhla, Stadtheater, Mainz, 28 March
* Adolf Neuendorff – Don Quixote
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Snow Maiden, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS)
* Camille Saint-Saëns – Henry VIII
* Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 26 July

## Musical theater

* Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student), Vienna production
* The Grand Mogul, Broadway production
* Iolanthe (Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert); London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25 and ran for 398 performances
* Iolanthe, Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on December 1
* The Queen's Lace Handkerchief, Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 21 and ran for 571 performances
* The Smugglers (musical), Broadway production

## Births

* January 15 – Henry Burr, popular tenor, prolific early recording artist (d. 1941)
* February 11
** Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
** Joe Jordan, musician and composer (d. 1971)
* February 17 – Kurt Schindler, composer (died 1935)
* February 28 – Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
* March 5 – Pauline Donalda, operatic soprano (d. 1970)
* March 18 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer and musicologist (d. 1973)
* March 24 – Gino Marinuzzi, conductor and composer (d. 1945)
* April 4 – Mary Howe, composer and pianist (d. 1964)
* April 17 – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
* April 18 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor (d. 1977)
* April 23 – Albert Coates, conductor and composer (d. 1953)
* April 24 – Albert Valsien, conductor and composer (d. 1955)
* May 6 – Georgi Atanasov, composer (d. 1931)
* May 11 – Joseph Marx, composer and critic (d. 1964)
* May 12 – Kyrylo Stetsenko, conductor, composer, critic and teacher (d. 1922)
* June 4 – Erwin Lendvai, composer and choral conductor (d. 1949)
* June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
* July 8 – Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
* July 28 – Pavel Lamm, musicologist (d. 1951)
* August 13 – Georges Jean-Aubry, lyricist (died 1950)
* August 15 – Marion Bauer, composer (d. 1955)
* August 18 – Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, composer, organist and opera director (d. 1955)
* September 6 – John Powell, composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist (d. 1963)
* October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
* November 3 – G. H. Elliott, blackface music hall singer (d. 1962)
* November 10 – Rudi Gfaller, Austrian operetta singer and composer (d. 1972)
* December 8 – Manuel María Ponce, composer and music teacher (d. 1948)
* December 9 – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
* December 16 – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

## Deaths

* February 3 – Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer (b. 1826)
* February 12 – Madame Céleste, dancer (b. 1815)
* February 16 – Julián Arcas, guitarist and composer (b. 1832)
* February 20 – Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (b. 1794)
* February 22 – Harriett Everard, singer and actress (b. 1844)
* February 27 – Alfred Jaëll, pianist (b. 1832)
* March 1 – Theodor Kullak, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
* March 16 – Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, ballerina (b. 1836)
* April 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, composer and conductor (b. 1810)
* June 24 (or 25) – Joachim Raff, composer (b. 1822)
* June 28 – James Turle, organist and composer (b. 1802)
* July – John Zundel, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1815)
* July 4 – Joseph Brackett, songwriter (b. 1797)
* July 12 – Alfred Pease, composer and pianist (b. 1838)
* August 28 - Fred Godfrey, bandmaster and music arranger (b. 1837)
* September 16 – Theodore Eisfeld, conductor (b. 1816)
* October 3 – Adelaide Phillips, contralto singer (b. 1833)
* October 22 – Oskar Ahnfelt, composer of hymn-tunes (b. 1813)
* October 27 – Adolphe Gutmann, composer (b. 1819)
* October 29 – Gustav Nottebohm, composer and music editor (b. 1817)
* November 2 – Cenobio Paniagua, composer (b. 1821)
* November 18 – Aleksander Mirecki, marischal and violinist (b. 1809)
* November 20 – Kéler Béla, composer and conductor (b. 1820)
* December 29 – Josabeth Sjöberg, painter and music teacher (b. 1812)
* date unknown
** Edward Mack, composer (b. 1826)
** Konstantin Vilboa, composer (b. 1817)