title: 1873 in music
text: # 1873 in music
  
  This article is about music-related events in 1873.
  
  ## Events
  
  * April – The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.
  * August 27 – Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.
  * Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
  * Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.
  
  ## Published popular music
  
  * "The German Polka" by Gus Williams (vaudeville)
  * "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
  * "Home on the Range" w. Brewster M. Higley m. Daniel E. Kelley
  * "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White (musician)
  * "Little sweetheart, come listen to me". Words and music by Arthur W. French
  * "Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Johannes Brahms
     * Two String Quartets, Op. 51
     * Variations on a Theme by Haydn
  * Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 3
  * Antonín Dvořák – String Quartet No. 5; String Quartet no. 6 in A
  * Hermann Goetz – Symphony in F, Op. 9 (premiered 1874; some sources give 1866 for composition however)
  * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Tempest
  * Giuseppe Verdi – String Quartet in E minor
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Léo Delibes — Le roi l'a dit
  * Karel Miry — Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)
  
  ## Musical theater
  
  * 1492 Up to Date, Libretto by R. A. Barnet, music by Carl Pflueger
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 8 — Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress and opera singer (d. 1927)
  * February 1 — Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer (d. 1947)
  * February 13 — Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)
  * February 27 — Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (d. 1921)
  * March 19 — Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)
  * April 1 — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)
  * April 18 — Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer (d. 1954)
  * May 1 — Harry Evans, composer (d. 1914)
  * June 1 — Ada Jones, singer (d. 1922)
  * June 16 — Antonina Nezhdanova, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
  * July 11 — Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (d. 1917)
  * August 11 — J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
  * August 18 — Otto Harbach, lyricist (d. 1963)
  * September 21 — Papa Jack Laine, bandleader (d. 1966)
  * October 14 — José Serrano, composer (d. 1941)
  * October 23 — Ricardo Villa, composer (d. 1935)
  * November 1 — Charles Quef, French organist and composer (d. 1931)
  * November 16 — W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)
  * December 9 — Carlo Zangarini, opera librettist and poet (d. 1943)
  * December 14 — Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 3 — John Lodge Ellerton, composer (b. 1801)
  * January 28 — Henry Hugo Pierson, composer (b. 1815)
  * February 14 — Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg, composer and pianist (b. 1821)
  * March 31 — Domenico Donzelli, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
  * April 13 — Carlo Coccia, opera composer (b. 1782)
  * April 19 — Pierre-Chéri Lafont, actor and singer (b. 1797)
  * May 13 — Kašpar Mašek, composer (b. 1794)
  * June 2 — François George-Hainl, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1807)
  * July 4 — Prince Józef Michal Poniatowski, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1816)
  * July 19 — Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)
  * August 26 — Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)
  * September 26 — Roderich Benedix, librettist and singer (b. 1811)
  * October 6 — Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)
  * October 8 — Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)
  