1872 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1872.

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Events

At the Ballet, 1872, by Edgar Degas

• June 5 – closure of the Teatro Re following its final performance, Rossini's The Barber of Seville
• June 24 – Karl Müller-Hartung founds an "Orchesterschule" ("Orchestra School") at Weimar.
• Friedrich Nietzsche takes up musical composition again after a long break.
• Tomás Bretón and Ruperto Chapí receive the first prize of the Madrid Conservatory.
• Anton Rubinstein begins a tour of the United States at the behest of Steinway and Sons.
• Richard Wagner completes the full draft of Götterdämmerung.

Published popular music

• "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip Sousa
• "Waste Not, Want Not [You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry]" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
• "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace

Classical music

• Georges Bizet – L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 3
• Franz Paul Lachner -Octet for winds, Op. 156
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto No. 1
• August Winding - Three Fantasy Pieces, for clarinet or violin and piano, Op. 19
• Franz Liszt - Sunt lacrymae rerum

Opera

• Georges Bizet – Djamileh
• Gialdino Gialdini – La secchia rapita premiered at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence
• Alexandre Charles Lecocq – Les cent vierges
• Miguel Marqués – Justos por pecadores
• Karel Miry
  • De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels)
  • De twee zusters (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Gudonov, Revised Version
• Jacques Offenbach – Fantasio
• Camille Saint-Saëns – La princesse jaune, Op. 30

Musical theater

• La fille de Madame Angot, Brussels production
• La Vie parisienne, London production

Publications

• Richard Wagner – Über die Benennung "Musikdrama"

Births

• January 6 – Alexander Scriabin, composer (d. 1915)
• January 11 – Paul Graener, conductor and composer (d. 1944)
• January 16 – Henri Büsser, conductor and composer (d. 1973)
• January 23 – Adelina de Lara, pianist and composer (d. 1961)
• March 6 – Ben Harney, ragtime pianist and songwriter (d. 1938)
• March 7 – Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
• March 8 – Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer (d. 1940)
• March 10 – Felix Borowski, composer and music teacher (d. 1956)
• March 19 – Sergei Diaghilev, choreographer (d. 1929)
• March 20 – Bernhard Sekles, composer and music teacher (d. 1934)
• March 30 – Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer (d. 1956)
• April 1 – Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
• April 29 – Eyvind Alnæs, composer (d. 1932)
• May 1 – Hugo Alfvén, composer (d. 1960)
• July 7 – Juan Lamonte de Grignon, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1949)
• July 8 – Harry Von Tilzer, songwriter (d. 1946)
• July 18 – Julius Fučík, composer (d. 1916)
• July 20 – Déodat de Séverac, composer (d. 1921)
• August 10 – Bill Johnson, dixieland jazz double-bassist (d. 1972)
• August 15
  • Harold Fraser-Simson, composer and songwriter (d. 1944)
  • Rubin Goldmark, composer (d. 1936)
• October 12 – Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer (d. 1958)
• November 29 – Anna von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano (d. 1947)
• December 17 – Walter Loving, military bandleader (k. 1945)
• December 20 – Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer (d. 1956)

Deaths

• January 20 – Raffaele Sacco, lyricist (b. 1787)
• February 16 – Henry Fothergill Chorley, music critic (b. 1808)
• March 22 – Karolina Bock, singer, dancer and actress (b. 1792)
• March 23? - Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger (b. 1827) (poss. born May 23)
• April 3 – Henriette Widerberg, operatic soprano (b. 1796)
• April 12 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, composer (b. 1795)
• May 5 – Johann Kulik, luthier (b. 1800)
• May 9 – Viktorin Hallmayer, conductor and composer (b. 1831)
• May 15 – Thomas Hastings, composer of hymns (b. 1784)
• July 26 – Michele Carafa, opera composer (b. 1787)
• August 4 – Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht, conductor and composer (b. 1802)
• August 11 – Lowell Mason, organist and composer (b. 1792)
• September 16 – Gall Morel, choirmaster (b. 1803)
• November 21 – Myllarguten, folk musician (b. 1801)
• November 29 – Giovanni Tadolini, composer