Events in Music
- Jan 1 Johannes Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig
- Mar 29 Tsjaikovski's opera "Jevgeni Onegin" premieres in Moscow
- May 16 Antonín Dvořák's "Slavonic Dances" premieres
- Dec 26 Johannes Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture" premieres
- Dec 31 Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "Pirates of Penzance" premieres in NYC
Musicians Born in 1879
- Jan 2 Sydney Baynes, British conductor, arranger, band leader and composer (Destiny Waltz; Endure to Conquer), born in Sudbury, England (d. 1938)
- Jan 24 Stanislaw Lyudkevich, Ukranian composer, born in Jaroslaw, Habsburg Empire (now Poland) (d. 1979)
- Jan 27 Sven Holger Körling, Swedish organist, music teacher, and composer of children's songs, born in Ystad, Sweden (d. 1948)
- Feb 9 [Carl] Natanael Berg, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm (d. 1957)
- Feb 10 Franz Carl Bornschein, American composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1948)
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Musicians Who Died in 1879
- Jan 23 Adolf Jensen, German composer, dies of tuberculosis at 42
- Apr 9 Ernst Richter, German musical theorist and composer, dies at 70
- Jul 6 Henry Smart, English organist and composer, dies at 65
- Aug 22 Friedrich August Kummer, German cellist, composer, and pedagogue, dies at 82
- Sep 8 Nikolay Ivanovich Zaremba, Russian musical teacher to Tchaikovsky and composer, dies at 58
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