1878 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1878.

Events

April 9? – Franz Berwald's Symphony No. 4 receives its premiere performance, conducted by Ludvig Norman.
May 25 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London at the Opera Comique with a first run of 571 performances.
November 18 – Soprano Marie Selika Williams becomes the first African American artist to perform at the White House.
A Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by George Grove begins publication in the U.K.

Johannes Brahms
- Motets Op. 74
- Eight Pieces (for piano) Op. 76
- Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
Anton Bruckner
- Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner) – 2nd version
- Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)
Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra
George Whitefield Chadwick – String Quartet No. 1
Felix Otto Dessoff – String Quartet in F, Op. 7
Antonín Dvořák
- Serenade for Wind Instruments (Dvořák) (op. 44/B. 77)
- String Sextet (Dvořák), (op. 48/B. 80)
- Slavonic Dances, Set 1 (op. 46/B. 83)
- Three Slavonic Rhapsodies (op. 45/B. 86)
Gabriel Fauré – Chanson Après un rêve (Op. 7 No. 1)
Niels Gade – Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor
Edvard Grieg – String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
Hans Huber – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 36
Vincent d'Indy – La forêt enchantée
Édouard Lalo – Fantaisie norvégienne
Giuseppe Martucci
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor
- Piano Quintet in C major, Op. 45
Ole Olsen – Asgårdsreien, Op 10 (symphonic poems)
Joachim Raff – Symphony No. 9 Im Sommer, Op. 208
Josef Rheinberger
- Mass in E-flat (Cantus Missæ) for double choir, Op. 109
- Organ Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 111
- Trio for Piano and Strings No. 2 in A, Op. 112
- Piano Quintet in C, Op. 114^[1]
Bernhard Scholz – String Quintet Op. 47^[2]
Sergei Taneyev – Symphony no 2 in B flat minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Alfred Cellier – After All!
Charles Gounod – Polyeucte (opera)
Charles Edouard Lefebvre – Lucrèce
Miguel Marqués – El anillo de hierro (libretto by Marcos Zapata, premiered in Madrid)
Joseph Parry – Blodwen
Emile Pessard
- Le char premiered on January 18 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris
- Le Capitaine Fracasse premiered on July 2 at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris
Joachim Raff – Benedetto Marcello

January 23 – Rutland Boughton, English composer
February 16 – Selim Palmgren, Finnish composer^[3]
February 26 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano
February 28 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer
March 4 – Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter
March 23 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer, conductor and teacher
March 29 – Albert Von Tilzer, American songwriter
May 24 – Louis Fleury, flautist (d. 1926)
May 25 – Bill Robinson, American tap dancer, singer, actor
July 3 – George M. Cohan, American songwriter, entertainer
July 5 – Joseph Holbrooke, English composer
July 12 – Percy Hilder Miles, composer, violinist and teacher
July 22 – Ernest Ball, American composer
July 25 – Heinrich Gebhard, composer
August 18 – Fritz Brun, composer and conductor
August 22 – Edward Johnson (tenor), Canadian tenor
August 28 – Laura de Turczynowicz (née Laura Christine Blackwell), Canadian-born opera singer
September 17 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer
October 18 – Blind Uncle Gaspard, American Cajun vocalist and guitarist (d. 1937)
October 19 – Alphonse Picou, American jazz clarinettist
November 4 – Jean Schwartz, songwriter
November 23 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor

January 15 – Carlo Blasis, dancer and choreographer (b. 1797)
February 2 – Josif Runjanin, composer (b. 1821)
April 8 – Henriette "Jetty" Treffz, singer, first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II (b. 1818)
April 21 – Temistocle Solera, librettist and composer (b. 1815)
May 6 – François Benoist, organist and composer (b. 1794)
July 2 – François Bazin, opera composer (b. 1816)
August 23 – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer (b. 1801)
October 13-October 25 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
November – Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, guitarist and composer (b. 1801)
November 13 – Carl Heissler, violinist (b. 1826)
December 18 – Heinrich Proch, composer (b. 1809)
December 28 – José Bernardo Alcedo, composer of the Peruvian national anthem (b. 1788)
date unknown – Robert Heller, pianist and magician (b. 1826)

↑ Rheinberger quintet op. 114 given date 1878 at Sheetmusicplus.com.
↑ Musgrave, Michael (1999). The Cambridge Companion to Brahms at Google Books. Cambridge University Press. page 296. ISBN 978-0-521-48581-4.
↑ "FIMIC Link About Selim Palmgren". Archived from the original on October 26, 2007. Retrieved 2009-01-05.

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