1880 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1880.

Events

November 27 – The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera Semiramide.
Richard Strauss's first major work, his Symphony in D minor, is premiered.
Gustav Mahler completes Das klagende Lied and obtains work as a conductor at a summer theater at Bad Hall.

Jan Levoslav Bella – String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
Giovanni Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
Johannes Brahms – Tragic Overture, Academic Festival Overture
Felix Draeseke – Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 6 in D major, op. 60, Songs My Mother Taught Me
Niels Gade – Concerto for violin and orchestra in D minor
Ion Ivanovici – The Danube Waves
Hubert Parry – Piano concerto
Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
Hans Rott – Symphony in E major
Camille Saint-Saëns – Suite algérienne in C major
Pablo Sarasate – Spanish Dances for Violin and Piano
Richard Strauss – Symphony in D minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture, Serenade for Strings

January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)^[1]
January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
February 19 – Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
June 13 – Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
July 31 – Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
September 19 – Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
September 20 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
November 2
- John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)
- Ramón Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist (d. 1949)

March 20 – Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
May 1 – Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
May 9 – Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
October 4 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
October 7 – Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
November 24 – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
November 27 – William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
December 2 – Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
December 27 – Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
date unknown – Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)

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