# 1876 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1876.

## Events

* February – Baritone Lithgow James joins the English Opera Company, where he begins a partnership with his future wife Florence St. John.
* April - Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake
* February 24 – Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
* May 17 – Antonín Dvořák begins composing his Moravian Duets.
* August 16 – Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
* August 17 – Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
* Soprano Rosa Hasselbeck marries the conductor and composer Josef Sucher.

## Published popular music

* "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
* "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
* "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
* "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
* "Old Aunt Jemima" by Billy Kersands
* "Molly Malone"
* "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

## Classical music

* Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1
* Pietro Abbà Cornaglia – Requiem
* Felix Draeseke – Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: five piano pieces, Op. 14
* Antonín Dvořák – Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
* Gabriel Fauré – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
* César Franck – Les Éolides
* Benjamin Godard – Concerto Romantique
* Edvard Grieg – Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song (for piano), Op. 24
* Édouard Lalo – Cello Concerto
* Gustav Mahler – Piano Quartet movement in A
* Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, From My Life
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Seasons (for piano), Op. 37a
* Charles-Marie Widor – Organ Symphonies Nos. 1–3, Op. 13

## Opera

* Arrigo Boito – Mefistofele
* Luigi Denza – Wallenstein
* Amilcare Ponchielli – La Gioconda
* Bedřich Smetana – The Kiss
* Richard Wagner
** Siegfried
** Götterdämmerung
* Ivan Zajc – Nikola Šubić Zrinski

## Musical theater

* Richard Genée – Der Seekadette
* Robert Planquette – Les cloches de Corneville

## Births

* January 12
** Annie Krull, operatic soprano (died 1947)
** Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (died 1948)
* January 19 – Rosina Storchio, Italian lyric soprano (died 1945)
* January 29
** Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
** Ludolf Nielsen, composer (died 1939)
* February 2 – Giovanni Zenatello, tenor (died 1949)
* February 28 – John Alden Carpenter, composer
* March 11 – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
* May 17 – Carrie Tubb, soprano (died 1976)
* May 19 – Jan Ingenhoven, Dutch composer and conductor
* June 2 – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (died 1954)
* June 5 – Tony Jackson, jazz musician (died 1920)
* August 14 – Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer (died 1940)
* August 16 – Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
* September 15 – Bruno Walter, conductor (died 1962)
* November 23 – Manuel de Falla, composer (died 1946)
* December 11 – Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (died 1909)
* December 29
** Pablo Casals, cellist (died 1973)
** Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975)

## Deaths

* February 28 – Raimondo Boucheron, composer, 75
* March 5
** Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65
** Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70
* March 28 – Joseph Böhm, violinist, 80
* April 19 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer, 65
* June 28 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian, 69
* August 29 – Félicien-César David, composer, 66
* September 9 – Mary Shaw, operatic contralto, 62
* September 30 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer, 77
* October 1 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder, 80
* November 8 – Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone, 76
* November 9 – Édouard Batiste, organist and composer, 56
* November 18 – Nicolas Bosret, blind organist and composer, 77
* December 3 – Hermann Goetz, composer, 35 (tuberculosis)
* December 14 – George Frederick Anderson, violinist, 83