1876 in music

See also:\n1875 in music,\nother events of 1876,\n1877 in music\nand the list of 'years in music'.

Table of contents

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

Events

\n* August 16 - Ricard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in Bayreuth

Published popular music

\n* "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" by Thomas Payne Westendorf\n* "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work\n* "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang\n* "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner\n* "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)\n* "Old Aunt Jemima" by James Grace\n* "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

Classical music

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Opera

\n*Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele

Musical theater

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Births

\n*January 12 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer \n*January 29 - Havergal Brian, composer (d. 1972) \n*February 2 - Giovanni Zenatello, tenor\n*March 11 - Carl Ruggles, composer (d. 1971)\n*June 5 - Tony Jackson, jazz musician (d. 1920)\n*August 14 - Florrie Forde, Australian-born English Music Hall singer\n*September 15 - Bruno Walter, conductor (d. 1962) \n*November 23 - Manuel de Falla, composer (d. 1946)

Deaths