title: 1882 in music
text: # 1882 in music
  
  Events in the year 1882 in music.
  
  ## Specific locations
  
  * 1882 in Norwegian music
  
  ## Events
  
  * January – Richard Wagner completes his opera Parsifal
  * July 26 – Wagner's Parsifal is premièred at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus under the baton of Hermann Levi with the tenor Hermann Winkelmann in the title rôle and Engelbert Humperdinck assisting in the production
  * August 8–20 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is premièred in a tent near the (at this time) unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the baton of Ippolit Al'tani
  * Gustav Mahler is employed at Olomouc
  * Richard Strauss enters Munich University
  
  ## Published popular music
  
  * "Baa! Baa! Baa!" (w. Walter Greenaway m. Vincent Davies)
  * "The Band Quartette" by Charles A. White
  * "Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  * "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye" (trad Eng)
  * "In My Fust 'Usband's Time" (w.m. Harry Nicholls)
  * "The Old Miser" by Charles A. White
  * Les Patineurs (waltz) ("The Skaters' Waltz") (m. Emile Waldteufel)
  * "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet
  * "Up Went The Price" (w.m. George Ware)
  * From the score of Iolanthe:
     * "I'm Very Much Pained" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "Loudly Let The Trumpets Bray" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "The Nightmare Song" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "None Shall Part Us" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "Oh, Foolish Fay" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "Tho' P'raps I May Incur Your Blame" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "Though The Views Of The House Have Diverged" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "Welcome To Our Hearts Again" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "When All Night Long A Chap Remains" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "When Britain Really Ruled The Waves" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
     * "When I Went To The Bar" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 1
  * Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
  * Hans Huber – Symphony no. 1 "Wilhelm Tell"
  * Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Yar-khmel (Spring Overture)
  * Camille Saint-Saëns – Deux chœurs, for mixed chorus with piano ad libitum
  * Pablo de Sarasate – Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book IV
  * Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet no. 2
  * Johann Strauss – Voices of Spring
  * Sergey Tanyenev – Overture on a Russian Theme
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Friedrich Lux – Der Schmied von Ruhla, Stadtheater, Mainz, 28 March
  * Adolf Neuendorff – Don Quixote
  * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Snow Maiden, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS)
  * Camille Saint-Saëns – Henry VIII
  * Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 26 July
  
  ## Musical theater
  
  * Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student), Vienna production
  * The Grand Mogul, Broadway production
  * Iolanthe (Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert); London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25 and ran for 398 performances
  * Iolanthe, Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on December 1
  * The Queen's Lace Handkerchief, Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 21 and ran for 571 performances
  * The Smugglers (musical), Broadway production
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 15 – Henry Burr, popular tenor, prolific early recording artist (d. 1941)
  * February 11
     * Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
     * Joe Jordan, musician and composer (d. 1971)
  * February 17 – Kurt Schindler, composer (died 1935)
  * February 28 – Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
  * March 5 – Pauline Donalda, operatic soprano (d. 1970)
  * March 18 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer and musicologist (d. 1973)
  * March 24 – Gino Marinuzzi, conductor and composer (d. 1945)
  * April 4 – Mary Howe, composer and pianist (d. 1964)
  * April 17 – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
  * April 18 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor (d. 1977)
  * April 23 – Albert Coates, conductor and composer (d. 1953)
  * April 24 – Albert Valsien, conductor and composer (d. 1955)
  * May 6 – Georgi Atanasov, composer (d. 1931)
  * May 11 – Joseph Marx, composer and critic (d. 1964)
  * May 12 – Kyrylo Stetsenko, conductor, composer, critic and teacher (d. 1922)
  * June 4 – Erwin Lendvai, composer and choral conductor (d. 1949)
  * June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
  * July 8 – Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
  * July 28 – Pavel Lamm, musicologist (d. 1951)
  * August 13 – Georges Jean-Aubry, lyricist (died 1950)
  * August 15 – Marion Bauer, composer (d. 1955)
  * August 18 – Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, composer, organist and opera director (d. 1955)
  * September 6 – John Powell, composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist (d. 1963)
  * October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
  * November 3 – G. H. Elliott, blackface music hall singer (d. 1962)
  * November 10 – Rudi Gfaller, Austrian operetta singer and composer (d. 1972)
  * December 8 – Manuel María Ponce, composer and music teacher (d. 1948)
  * December 9 – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
  * December 16 – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 3 – Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer (b. 1826)
  * February 12 – Madame Céleste, dancer (b. 1815)
  * February 16 – Julián Arcas, guitarist and composer (b. 1832)
  * February 20 – Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (b. 1794)
  * February 22 – Harriett Everard, singer and actress (b. 1844)
  * February 27 – Alfred Jaëll, pianist (b. 1832)
  * March 1 – Theodor Kullak, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
  * March 16 – Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, ballerina (b. 1836)
  * April 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, composer and conductor (b. 1810)
  * June 24 (or 25) – Joachim Raff, composer (b. 1822)
  * June 28 – James Turle, organist and composer (b. 1802)
  * July – John Zundel, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1815)
  * July 4 – Joseph Brackett, songwriter (b. 1797)
  * July 12 – Alfred Pease, composer and pianist (b. 1838)
  * September 16 – Theodore Eisfeld, conductor (b. 1816)
  * October 3 – Adelaide Phillips, contralto singer (b. 1833)
  * October 22 – Oskar Ahnfelt, composer of hymn-tunes (b. 1813)
  * October 27 – Adolphe Gutmann, composer (b. 1819)
  * October 29 – Gustav Nottebohm, composer and music editor (b. 1817)
  * November 2 – Cenobio Paniagua, composer (b. 1821)
  * November 18 – Aleksander Mirecki, marischal and violinist (b. 1809)
  * November 20 – Kéler Béla, composer and conductor (b. 1820)
  * December 29 – Josabeth Sjöberg, painter and music teacher (b. 1812)
  * date unknown
     * Edward Mack, composer (b. 1826)
     * Konstantin Vilboa, composer (b. 1817)
  