| Year |
Event |
| 1871 |
Daniel Auber, French composer, dies |
| 1871 |
Albert Hall, London, opened |
| 1871 |
"L' Internationale" ("Debout, les damnes de la Terre!") written and composed by Pottier and Degeyter, two French workers |
| 1871 |
Saint-Saens: "Le Rouet d Omphale," symphonic poem, Opus 31 |
| 1871 |
Verdi: "Aida," Cairo |
| 1872 |
Bizet: incidental music to Daudet's " L'Arlesienne" |
| 1872 |
Alexandre Lecocq: " La Fille de Mme Angot," Brussels |
| 1872 |
Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer, born |
| 1873 |
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2, Vienna |
| 1873 |
Clara Butt, English singer, born |
| 1873 |
Carl Rosa Opera Company founded in England |
| 1873 |
Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, born |
| 1873 |
Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer, born |
| 1873 |
Delibes: "Le Roi L'a Dit," opera, Paris |
| 1873 |
Max Reger, German composer, born |
| 1873 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist, born |
| 1873 |
Rimsky-Korsakov: " Ivan the Terrible," opera, St Petersburg |
| 1873 |
Tchaichovsky: Symphony No. 2, Moscow |
| 1874 |
Brahms: "Hungarian Dances" |
| 1874 |
Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies |
| 1874 |
Hermann Gotz: "Der Widerspenstigen Zahmung, " opera, Mannheim |
| 1874 |
Gustav Holst, English composer, born |
| 1874 |
Moussorgsky "Boris Godunov," St. Petersburg |
| 1874 |
Paris Opera completed (begun in 1863) |
| 1874 |
Arnold Schonberg, German composer, born |
| 1874 |
Smetana: "Ma Vlast" ("My Fatherland"), cycle of symphonic poems |
| 1874 |
Johann Strauss II: "Die Fledermaus," operetta, Vienna |
| 1874 |
Verdi: "Requiem", Milan |
| 1875 |
Bizet: "Carmen, " Paris |
| 1875 |
Georges Bizet, French composer, dies |
| 1875 |
Ignaz Brull: "Das goldene Kreuz," opera, Berlin |
| 1875 |
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, English composer, born |
| 1875 |
"Trial by Jury" first Gilbert and Sullivan operetta |
| 1875 |
Karl Goldmark: "Die Konigin von Saba," opera, Vienna |
| 1875 |
Maurice Ravel, French composer, born |
| 1875 |
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Opus 23, Boston |
| 1876 |
Bayreuth Festspielhaus opens with first complete performance of Wagner's "Ring des Nibelungen" |
| 1876 |
Brahms: Symphony No. 1, Opus 68 |
| 1876 |
Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist, born |
| 1876 |
Leo Delibes: "Sylvia," ballet, Paris |
| 1876 |
Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer, born |
| 1876 |
Ponchielli:"La Gioconda," opera, Milan |
| 1876 |
Wagner: "Siegfried," opera, Bayreuth |
| 1876 |
Bruno Walter, German conductor, born |
| 1876 |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Italian-German composer, born |
| 1877 |
Brahms: Symphony No. 2, Opus 75 |
| 1877 |
Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian pianist and composer, born |
| 1877 |
Publication of complete edition of Mozart's works begins (completed in 1904) |
| 1877 |
Camille Saint-Saens: "Samson et Delila," opera, Weimar |
| 1877 |
Tchaikovsky: "Francesca da Rimini," symphonic poem |
| 1878 |
A.W. Ambros: "Geschichte der Musik" |
| 1878 |
Rutland Boughton, English composer, born |
| 1878 |
Gilbert and Sullivan: "H.M.S. Pinafore" |
| 1878 |
George Grove begins "Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (first complete edition 1889) |
| 1879 |
Millocker: "Grafin Dubarry," operetta, Vienna |
| 1879 |
Suppe: "Boccaccio," operetta, Vienna |
| 1879 |
Tchaikovsky: "Eugen Onegin," opera, Moscow |
| 1880 |
Henri Wieniawski, Polish violinist and conductor, dies |
| 1880 |
Ernest Bloch, Swiss - American composer, born |
| 1880 |
Gilbert and Sullivan: "The Pirates of Penzance" |
| 1880 |
London Guildhall School of Music founded |
| 1880 |
Jacques Offenbach, French composer, dies |
| 1880 |
Philipp Spitta "Johann Sebastian Bach," biography |
Music History Timeline - 1871 to 1880
