1873 in music

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Year nav topic5 This article is about music-related events in 1873.

Events

April – The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.
August 27 – Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.
December 7 – Première of Camille Saint-Saëns's symphonic poem Phaéton at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, performed by the Concert National conducted by Édouard Colonne.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.

Léo Delibes — Le roi l'a dit
Karel Miry — Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)

January 8 — Grace Van Studdiford, American stage actress and opera singer (d. 1927)
February 1 — Joseph Allard, fiddler and composer (d. 1947)
February 13 — Feodor Chaliapin, operatic bass (d. 1938)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 27 — Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor (d. 1921)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 19 — Max Reger, German composer (d. 1916)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April 1 — Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer (d. 1943)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April 18 — Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer (d. 1954)
May 1 — Harry Evans, composer (d. 1914)
June 1 — Ada Jones, singer (d. 1922)
June 16 — Antonina Nezhdanova, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
July 11 — Nat M. Wills, singer, comedian, and actor (d. 1917)
August 11 — J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
August 18 — Otto Harbach, lyricist (d. 1963)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
September 21 — Papa Jack Laine, bandleader (d. 1966)
October 14 — José Serrano, composer (d. 1941)
October 23 — Ricardo Villa, composer (d. 1935)
November 1 — Charles Quef, French organist and composer (d. 1931)
November 16 — W. C. Handy, songwriter (d. 1958)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 9 — Carlo Zangarini, opera librettist and poet (d. 1943)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
December 14 — Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1953)

January 3 — John Lodge Ellerton, composer (b. 1801)
January 28 — Henry Hugo Pierson, composer (b. 1815)
February 14 — Charles Samuel Bovy-Lysberg, composer and pianist (b. 1821)
March 31 — Domenico Donzelli, operatic tenor (b. 1790)
April 13 — Carlo Coccia, opera composer (b. 1782)
April 19 — Pierre-Chéri Lafont, actor and singer (b. 1797)
May 13 — Kašpar Mašek, composer (b. 1794)
June 2 — François George-Hainl, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1807)
July 4 — Prince Józef Michal Poniatowski, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1816)
July 19 — Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (b. 1810)
August 26 — Karl Wilhelm, choral director (b. 1815)
September 26 — Roderich Benedix, librettist and singer (b. 1811)
October 6 — Friedrich Wieck, music teacher and father of Clara Schumann (b. 1785)
October 8 — Albrecht Agthe, music teacher (b. 1790)