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Overview of the events of 1881 in music
List of years in music
(table )
This article is about music-related events in 1881 .
Specific locations [ ]
Events [ ]
Ilya Repin 's celebrated portrait of
Mussorgsky , painted 2–5 March 1881, only a few days before the composer's death.
Bands formed [ ]
Published popular music [ ]
Classical music [ ]
Opera [ ]
Musical theater [ ]
Births [ ]
January 4 – Nikolai Roslavets , Ukrainian composer (d. 1944)
February 6 – Karl Weigl , Austrian composer (d. 1949)
February 12 – Anna Pavlova , Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1931)[1]
February 21 – Kenneth J. Alford , English band composer (d. 1945)
March 10 – Frank Mullings , English tenor (d. 1953)
March 16 – Fannie Charles Dillon , American composer (d. 1947)[2]
March 18 – Paul Le Flem , French composer (d. 1984)
March 23 – Egon Petri , Dutch -born pianist (d. 1962)
March 25 – Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer (d. 1945)
April 15 – David Thomas , Welsh composer (d. 1928)
April 20 – Nikolai Myaskovsky , Polish -born Russian composer and teacher (d. 1950)
May 11 – Jan van Gilse , Dutch composer (d. 1944)
May 29 – Frederick Septimus Kelly , Australian-born musician (k. 1916)
July 6 – Nancy Dalberg , Danish composer (d. 1949)
August 15 – Ted Snyder , American composer and music publisher (d. 1965)
August 19 – George Enescu , Romanian composer (d. 1955)
August 29 – Edvin Kallstenius , Swedish composer (d. 1967)
November 22 – Ethel Levey, American singer, dancer and actress (d. 1955)
November 28 – Stefan Zweig , Austrian librettist of Richard Strauss 's Die schweigsame Frau (suicide 1942)
December 3 – Henry Fillmore , American band composer (d. 1956)
December 24 – Charles Wakefield Cadman , American composer and songwriter (d. 1946)
Deaths [ ]
January 30 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens , Belgian , organist and composer, 58
March 13 – Sophie Daguin , ballerina and choreographer, 79
March 23 – Nikolai Rubinstein , pianist and composer, 45
March 28 – Modest Mussorgsky , composer, 42 (alcohol-related)
June 5 – Franjo Krežma , violinist and composer,19 (tuberculosis)
June 6 – Henri Vieuxtemps , composer, 61
June 7 – Marie Gabriel Augustin Savard , music teacher and composer, 66
July 3 – Achille De Bassini , operatic baritone, 62
September 7 – Sidney Lanier , poet and flautist, 39 (tuberculosis)
October 9 – Richard Wüerst , composer and music teacher, 57
November 25 – Theobald Boehm , inventor of the modern flute, 87
December 17 – Giulio Briccialdi , composer, 63
December 30 – Corrado Miraglia , opera singer, 60
date unknown – Francisco de Sá Noronha , violinist and composer (b. 1820)
References [ ]
^ Magill, Frank N. (1990). Great Lives from History: Mas-Ror . Pasadena: Salem Press. p. 1814. ISBN 978-0-89356-569-5 .
^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1996). The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers . London: Macmillan. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-33351-598-3 .
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