Months in 1876: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 3 of 3
Apr 8th - Amiliare Ponchielli's opera "La Gioconda," premieres in Milan
Aug 16th - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
Aug 17th - Opera "Götterdämmerung" premieres in Bayreuth
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 35 of 35
Jan 7th - William Yeates Hurlstone,
composer
Jan 12th - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari,
Venice Italy, composer
Jan 20th - Józef Hofmann,
Polish pianist (d. 1967)
Jan 29th - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen,
composer
Jan 29th - Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
Feb 4th - Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls,
composer
Feb 28th - John Alden Carpenter,
Chicago Illinois, composer (Sea Drift)
Mar 8th - Franco Alfano,
Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
Mar 11th - Carl Ruggles,
Marion Mass, composer (Evocations)
Apr 5th - Viktor Patrick Vretblad,
composer
Apr 25th - Ruben Marcos Campos,
composer
Jun 5th - Tony Jackson,
American musician (d. 1920)
Jul 23rd - William Gillies Whittaker,
composer
Jul 26th - Ernest Schelling,
Belvidere NJ, composer/conductor (Victory Ball)
Aug 7th - Mata Hari,
[Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
Sep 12th - Flor Alpaerts,
Flemish composer (Tyl Uilenspiegel, Pallieter)
Sep 15th - Bruno Walter,
[B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
Nov 2nd - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa,
composer
Nov 23rd - Manuel de Falla,
Spanish composer (d. 1946)
Dec 7th - Ludwig Schiedermair,
German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
Dec 11th - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz,
composer
Dec 29th - Pablo Casals,
Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 18 of 18
Jan 10th - Charles EH de Coussemaker,
Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
Feb 10th - Johan August Soderman,
composer, dies at 43
Feb 21st - Henry John Gauntlett,
composer, dies at 70
Feb 28th - Charles Edward Horsley,
composer, dies at 53
Mar 4th - Alfred Holmes,
composer, dies at 38
Mar 5th - Marie d'Agoult,
[pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70
Mar 19th - Jozef Stefani,
composer, dies at 75
Apr 16th - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert,
composer, dies at 83
Apr 19th - Samuel Sebastian Wesley,
composer, dies at 65
May 7th - Franz count of Pocci,
German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
Jun 18th - August Rockel,
composer, dies at 61
Jun 25th - John Patton,
trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn
Jun 28th - August W Ambros,
Austria musicologist, dies at 59
Jul 8th - Josef Dessauer,
composer, dies at 78
Jul 24th - Thomas Molleson Mudie,
composer, dies at 66
Oct 1st - Henri-Jerome Bertini,
composer, dies at 77
Oct 29th - Jacques Gregoir,
composer, dies at 59
Dec 3rd - Hermann Goetz,
composer, dies at 35
