# 1875 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1875.

## Events

* January 5 – Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera, designed by Charles Garnier, opens.
* January 24 - Camille Saint-Saëns' orchestral Danse Macabre receives its première.
* March 3 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen debuts, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
* May – The score for the ballet Swan Lake is commissioned from Tchaikovsky (premiered in 1877).
* May 6 – Richard Wagner conducts portions of Götterdämmerung in concert in Vienna (the complete opera is premiered in 1876).
* August 23 – Composer Zdeněk Fibich marries operatic contralto Betty Hanušová, sister of his first wife Růžena Hanušová.
* October 25 – The first performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is given in Boston, Massachusetts, with Hans von Bülow as soloist.
* Robert Volkmann becomes professor of harmony and counterpoint at the National Academy of Music in Budapest, under Franz Liszt.
* T. B. Harms is established as a pioneering popular music publisher in New York City.

## Published popular music

* "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" w. Fanny Crosby m. Robert Lowry
* "Angels, Meet Me At the Cross Road" w.m. Will Hays
* "Carve Dat Possum" by Sam Lucas & Herbert Hershy
* "Draw Me Nearer" w. Fanny Crosby m. William H. Doane
* "Dreaming Forever of Thee" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
* "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" w.m. Thomas P. Westendorf
* "Myfanwy" w.m. Joseph Parry
* "Nancy Lee" w. Frederic Edward Weatherly, m. Stephen Adams (pseudonym of Michael Maybrick)
* "The Spelling Bee" w.m. Septimus Winner
* "Take me back to home and mother," w. by Arthur W. French, m. by William A. Huntley
* "To God Be the Glory" w. Fanny Crosby m. William H. Doane
* "A Warrior Bold" w. Edwin Thomas m. Stephen Adams (pseudonym of Michael Maybrick)
* "The Witches Flight (Galop Caprice)" by Henry M. Russell

## Classical music

* Johannes Brahms
** Fifteen Liebeslieder for piano duet
** String Quartet No. 3
* Antonín Dvořák
** Moravian duets (for voices and piano)
** Piano Quartet No. 1
** Piano Trio No. 1
** Serenade for Strings
** String Quintet (with double bass) (orig Op. 18)
** Symphony No. 5
* Gabriel Fauré
** Allegro Symphonique (for orchestra)
** Suite for Orchestra
** Les Djinns (for chorus and orchestra)
* Edvard Grieg – incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt
* Édouard Lalo – Allegro Symphonique
* Alexandre Luigini – Ballet égyptien
* Jules Massenet – oratorio Eve
* Modest Mussorgsky – Pesni i plyaski smerti (Songs and Dances of Death), song cycle for bass voice and piano
* Amilcare Ponchielli – cantata A Gaetano Donizetti
* Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – String Quartet No. 1
* Camille Saint-Saëns
** Piano Quartet, Op. 41
** Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 44
* Bedřich Smetana – Má vlast (My Country) – Six symphonic poems
* Tchaikovsky
** Piano Concerto No. 1
** Symphony No. 3
** Swan Lake (ballet, composition begun)

## Opera

* Carmen first performed in Paris. Music by Georges Bizet and libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
* Die Königin von Saba, music by Karl Goldmark and libretto by Salomon Mosenthal (at the Hofoper (now the State Opera) in Vienna, on 10 March 1875)
* Angelo, music by César Cui

## Musical theater

* Gilbert & Sullivan – Trial By Jury
** London production opens at the Royalty Theatre on March 25
** Philadelphia production opens at the Arch Street Theatre on October 22
* The Zoo, Lyrics and Book: Bolton Rowe Music: Arthur Sullivan, London production opened at St. James Theatre on June 5

## Births

* February 2 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1962)
* February 8 – Georgette Leblanc, operatic soprano (d. 1941)
* February 26 – Richard Wetz, German composer
* February 28 – Viliam Figuš-Bystrý, Slovak composer
* March 7 – Maurice Ravel, French composer
* April 4 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
* April 5 – Mistinguett, actress and singer (d. 1956)
* May – Paul Sarebresole, ragtime composer (d. 1911)
* July 17 – Donald Tovey, composer and musicologist (d. 1940)
* August 9 – Albert Ketèlbey, composer (d. 1959)
* August 18 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer (d. 1912)

## Deaths

* January 18 – Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer (b. 1819)
* January 25 – Leopold Jansa, violinist, composer and music teacher (b. 1795)
* February 1 – William Sterndale Bennett, composer (b. 1816)
* February 23 – Louise Michaëli, opera singer (b. 1830)
* March 3 – Adolf Reubke, organ builder (b. 1805)
* March 15 – Christian Julius Hansen, composer (b. 1814)
* March 17 – Ferdinand Laub, violinist (b. 1832)
* March 19 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, violin maker (b. 1798)
* May 2 – Matthias Durst, violinist and composer (b. 1815)
* June 3 – Georges Bizet, composer (b. 1838) (heart attack)
* September 15 – Louise Farrenc, pianist and composer (b. 1804)
* September 24 – William Walker, songwriter (b. 1809)