Musicians Who Died in 1880

Mar 28 Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
Mar 29 Jacob Axel Josephson, Swedish composer, dies at 62
Mar 31 Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (Souv de Moscou), dies at 44
Apr 7 Diederich Krug, German pianist and composer (Le petit Chevalier), dies at 60
May 9 Johann Hermann Berens, German-born Swedish Romantic composer, dies at 54
May 10 John Goss, British organist and composer (Praise, My Soul, the King of Heaven), dies at 79
May 16 Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
May 26 John Curwen, English Congregationalist minister and founder of Tonic sol-fa music system, dies at 63
Jul 22 Anna Caroline Oury (née De Belleville), German concert pianist and composer, dies at 74
Aug 17 Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist and composer, dies at 70
Sep 15 William Hauser, American minister and composer, dies at 67
Oct 5 Jacques Offenbach, German-French composer (Tales of Hoffman), dies at 61
Oct 16 Edward Wolff, Polish pianist and composer, dies at 64
Nov 7 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, German composer, conductor, and music theorist, dies at 72
Nov 8 Jacob Edvard Gille, Swedish composer, dies at 66
Nov 24 Napoléon Henri Reber, French composer, dies at 73
Nov 26 Guilherme Cossoul, Portuguese composer, dies at 52
Dec 2 Josephine Lang, German composer, dies at 65
Dec 27 Alessandro Nini, Italian composer, dies at 75