1881 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Musical theater 4 Opera 5 Oratorio 6 Births 7 Deaths

Events

• February 10 - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman debuts in Paris
• November 9 - Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 is given its public premiere in Budapest
• December 4 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto is premiered in Vienna

• "Loch Lomond"
• "Good Bye!" by Francesco Paolo Tosti
• "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean"
• "Slowly and Sadly" (President Garfield Memorial Tribute)" by Arabella M. Root

• Les Contes d'Hoffman (Jacques Offenbach) -      Paris production
• Patience (Gilbert and Sullivan) -      London production

• Joan Of Arc by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• Rébecca by Cesar Franck

• 25 March - Béla Bartók
• 28 November - Stefan Zweig, librettist of Richard Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman)
• 3 December - Henry Fillmore

• 28 March - Modest Mussorgsky