1874 in music

See also:\n1873 in music,\nother events of 1874,\n1875 in music and the\nlist of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Published popular music 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

Classical music

\n* Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (for piano)\n* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1

Opera

\n* Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus

Published popular music

\n* "Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe & William Howard Doane\n* "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by Luke Schoolcraft

Musical theater

\n* Whittington, London production

Births

\n* January 29 - Charles E. King, US composer and singer\n* February 20 - Mary Garden, Operatic soprano\n* September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer\n* November 12 - Bert Williams\n* December 25 - Lina Cavalieri, glamourous opera singer (d. 1944)

Deaths