1871 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Musical theater 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• December 24 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Aida premiers

• "The Blue and the Gray" by James W. Long
• "Good Bye, Liza Jane" (anon)
• "The Little Church Around The Corner"     w.m. Charles A. White
• "Onward, Christian Soldiers"      w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan
• "Reuben and Rachel" by William Gooch

• Geneviève De Brabant     London production
• The Mascot     London production
• La Mascotte     Vienna production
• Le Roi Carotte     London production
• Thespis     London production

• Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

• June 17 - James Weldon Johnson, US songwriter, author, diplomat and educationalist

• May 12 - Daniel Auber