1881 in music

See also:\n1880 in music,\nother events of 1881,\n1882 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* February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman debuts in Paris\n* November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest\n* December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna

Published popular music

\n* "Loch Lomond" \n* "Good Bye!" by Francesco Paolo Tosti\n* "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"\n* "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root \n

Classical music

• Rébecca (oratorio) by Cesar Franck

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Opera

• Joan Of Arc by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Musical theater

• Les Contes d'Hoffman (Jacques Offenbach) -      Paris production\n* Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) -      London production

Births

\n* 25 March - Béla Bartók\n* 28 November - Stefan Zweig, librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)\n* 3 December - Henry Fillmore

Deaths

\n* 28 March - Modest Mussorgsky