16 December:ALFRED HILL = Australian composer = [died: 1960]
Timeline of Musical Events
6 January: The Musikverein opens in Vienna
16 March:PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet debuts in Moscow, conducted by NIKOLAI RUBENSTEIN
25 May:LEO DELIBES' ballet Coppelia debuts at the Paris Opera
26 June:RICHARD WAGNER'sDie Walkure premieres at the Munich Court Theatre
Published Popular Music
"Come In Old Adam, Come In!" = by ALICE CARY & C. F. SHATTUCK
"Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" = by SAM MITCHELL & CHARLES BLAMPHIN
Classical Music
MAX BRUCH
Symphony No. 2 in F minor, op. 36 (premiered September 4)
ANTONÍN DVORAK
Dramatic Overture (overture to the opera Alfred) (B. 16a)
String Quartet no. 3 in D, B. 18
String Quartet no. 4 in E minor, B. 19
CHARLES GOUNOD
Messe des Orpheonistes
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo and Juliet overture (first version)
Opera
ANTONÍN DVORAK
Alfred, B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Korner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc)
KAREL MIRY
La Saint-Lucas (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in Ghent)
Het Driekoningenfeest (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
EMILE PESSARD
La cruche cassee (comic opera in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on February 21 at the Theatre de l'Opera-Comique in Paris)
BEDRICH SMETANA
Prodana Nevesta (eng. The Bartered Bride)
RICHARD WAGNER
Die Walkure
Musical Theatre
CHILPERIC
London production
LA MASCOTTE
Paris production
LA PERICHOLE
London production
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Mark Chard BSc
Page created: 13th February 2011
Last edited: 20th October 2023