Events in the year 1882 in music.

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• 1882 in Norwegian music

Events

• January – Richard Wagner completes his opera Parsifal
• July 26 – Wagner's Parsifal is premièred at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus under the baton of Hermann Levi with the tenor Hermann Winkelmann in the title rôle and Engelbert Humperdinck assisting in the production
• August 8–20 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is premièred in a tent near the (at this time) unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the baton of Ippolit Al'tani
• Gustav Mahler is employed at Olomouc
• Richard Strauss enters Munich University

Published popular music

• "Baa! Baa! Baa!" (w. Walter Greenaway m. Vincent Davies)
• "The Band Quartette" by Charles A. White
• "Bow, Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
• "Goodbye, My Lover, Goodbye" (trad Eng)
• "In My Fust 'Usband's Time" (w.m. Harry Nicholls)
• "The Old Miser" by Charles A. White
• Les Patineurs (waltz) ("The Skaters' Waltz") (m. Emile Waldteufel)
• "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet
• "Up Went The Price" (w.m. George Ware)
• From the score of Iolanthe:
  • "I'm Very Much Pained" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "Loudly Let The Trumpets Bray" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "The Nightmare Song" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "None Shall Part Us" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "Oh, Foolish Fay" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "Tho' P'raps I May Incur Your Blame" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "Though The Views Of The House Have Diverged" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "Tripping Hither, Tripping Thither" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "Welcome To Our Hearts Again" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "When All Night Long A Chap Remains" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "When Britain Really Ruled The Waves" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)
  • "When I Went To The Bar" (w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan)

Classical music

• Alexander Glazunov – String Quartet No. 1
• Charles Gounod – The Redemption (oratorio)
• Hans Huber – Symphony no. 1 "Wilhelm Tell"
• Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Yar-khmel (Spring Overture)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Deux chœurs, for mixed chorus with piano ad libitum
• Pablo de Sarasate – Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book IV
• Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet no. 2
• Johann Strauss – Voices of Spring
• Sergey Tanyenev – Overture on a Russian Theme

Opera

• Friedrich Lux – Der Schmied von Ruhla, Stadtheater, Mainz, 28 March
• Adolf Neuendorff – Don Quixote
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Snow Maiden, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 29 January 1882 (OS; 10 February NS)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Henry VIII
• Richard Wagner – Parsifal, Bayreuth Festspielhaus, 26 July

Musical theater

• Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student), Vienna production
• The Grand Mogul, Broadway production
• Iolanthe (Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert); London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25 and ran for 398 performances
• Iolanthe, Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on December 1
• The Queen's Lace Handkerchief, Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 21 and ran for 571 performances
• The Smugglers (musical), Broadway production

Births

• January 15 – Henry Burr, popular tenor, prolific early recording artist (d. 1941)
• February 11
  • Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
  • Joe Jordan, musician and composer (d. 1971)
• February 17 – Kurt Schindler, composer (died 1935)
• February 28 – Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
• March 5 – Pauline Donalda, operatic soprano (d. 1970)
• March 18 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer and musicologist (d. 1973)
• March 24 – Gino Marinuzzi, conductor and composer (d. 1945)
• April 4 – Mary Howe, composer and pianist (d. 1964)
• April 17 – Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
• April 18 – Leopold Stokowski, conductor (d. 1977)
• April 23 – Albert Coates, conductor and composer (d. 1953)
• April 24 – Albert Valsien, conductor and composer (d. 1955)
• May 6 – Georgi Atanasov, composer (d. 1931)
• May 11 – Joseph Marx, composer and critic (d. 1964)
• May 12 – Kyrylo Stetsenko, conductor, composer, critic and teacher (d. 1922)
• June 4 – Erwin Lendvai, composer and choral conductor (d. 1949)
• June 17 – Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
• July 8 – Percy Grainger, composer (d. 1961)
• July 28 – Pavel Lamm, musicologist (d. 1951)
• August 13 – Georges Jean-Aubry, lyricist (died 1950)
• August 15 – Marion Bauer, composer (d. 1955)
• August 18 – Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, composer, organist and opera director (d. 1955)
• September 6 – John Powell, composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist (d. 1963)
• October 6 – Karol Szymanowski, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
• November 3 – G. H. Elliott, blackface music hall singer (d. 1962)
• November 10 – Rudi Gfaller, Austrian operetta singer and composer (d. 1972)
• December 8 – Manuel María Ponce, composer and music teacher (d. 1948)
• December 9 – Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
• December 16 – Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

Deaths

• February 3 – Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer (b. 1826)
• February 12 – Madame Céleste, dancer (b. 1815)
• February 16 – Julián Arcas, guitarist and composer (b. 1832)
• February 20 – Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (b. 1794)
• February 22 – Harriett Everard, singer and actress (b. 1844)
• February 27 – Alfred Jaëll, pianist (b. 1832)
• March 1 – Theodor Kullak, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
• March 16 – Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, ballerina (b. 1836)
• April 3 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• June 24 (or 25) – Joachim Raff, composer (b. 1822)
• June 28 – James Turle, organist and composer (b. 1802)
• July – John Zundel, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1815)
• July 4 – Joseph Brackett, songwriter (b. 1797)
• July 12 – Alfred Pease, composer and pianist (b. 1838)
• September 16 – Theodore Eisfeld, conductor (b. 1816)
• October 3 – Adelaide Phillips, contralto singer (b. 1833)
• October 22 – Oskar Ahnfelt, composer of hymn-tunes (b. 1813)
• October 27 – Adolphe Gutmann, composer (b. 1819)
• October 29 – Gustav Nottebohm, composer and music editor (b. 1817)
• November 2 – Cenobio Paniagua, composer (b. 1821)
• November 18 – Aleksander Mirecki, marischal and violinist (b. 1809)
• November 20 – Kéler Béla, composer and conductor (b. 1820)
• December 29 – Josabeth Sjöberg, painter and music teacher (b. 1812)
• date unknown
  • Edward Mack, composer (b. 1826)
  • Konstantin Vilboa, composer (b. 1817)