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.

"The German Polka" by Gus Williams (vaudeville)
"Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
"Home on the Range" w. Brewster M. Higley m. Daniel E. Kelley
"I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White (musician)
"Little sweetheart, come listen to me". Words and music by Arthur W. French<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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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)