1877 caricature of Richard Wagner This article is about music-related events in 1877 .
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 2 , Op. 73 in D
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 3 in D minor (Novak edition)
Felix Draeseke – Fata Morgana , Op. 13
Antonín Dvořák – String Quartet No. 9, Op. 34 in D minor
Robert Fuchs – Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 20 in F♯
Karl Goldmark – Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 28 in A minor
Theodor Kirchner – 4 Notturnos, Op.28
Ignaz Lachner – 3 Charakterstücke, Op.83
Franz Liszt – Les Jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este for piano.
Giuseppe Martucci – Piano Quintet, Op.45
Jules Massenet – Aubade
Leon Minkus – La Bayadère
Joachim Raff – Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 206 in A minor
Josef Rheinberger – Violin Sonata No. 2, Op. 105 in E minor
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No.4, Op.44
La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op.50
Six Études for piano (including 'En forme de valse') Vogue, vogue la galère
John Philip Sousa
Myrrha Gavotte, Op.30
Across the Danube, Op.36
Richard Strauss – Piano Sonata No.1 in E major
Sergey Taneyev – Venice at Night
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francis Thomé – Simple aveu, Op.25
Anton Urspruch – Deutsche Tänze, Op.7
Charles-Marie Widor – 6 Mélodies, Op.22
Opera
Musical theater
Births
January 12 – Maude Nugent , songwriter (d. 1958)
February 16 – Sergei Bortkiewicz , Russian composer and pianist (d. 1952)
March 4 – Aleksandr Gedike , composer (died 1957)
April 9 – Hughie Cannon , songwriter (died 1912)
May 25 – Billy Murray , singer (d. 1954)
June 3 – Theodor Szántó , composer (died 1934)
June 8 – Thorvald Aagaard , Danish composer (d. 1937)
June 11 – Renée Vivien , lyricist (died 1901)
July 14 – Agnes Nicholls , operatic soprano (d. 1959)
July 17 – Edward Madden , American lyricist (d. 1952)
July 24 – Percy Scholes , English musicologist (d. 1958)
July 27 – Ernő Dohnányi , Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (d. 1960)
August 22 – Lucien Garban , French composer (died 1959)
September 6 – Buddy Bolden , ragtime musician (d. 1931)
September 7 – Petar Stojanović , violinist and composer (d. 1957))
September 15 – Daisy Wood , music hall singer (d. 1961)
September 20 – Kato van der Hoeven , Dutch cellist (d. 1959)
September 26 – Alfred Cortot , Franco-Swiss pianist (d. 1962)
October 15 – Helen Ware , stage actress (died 1939)
October 24 – Ernst Mielck , Finnish composer (d. 1899)
November 21 – Sigfrid Karg-Elert , German composer (d. 1933)
December 27 – Otto Gauß, organist (died 1970)
Deaths
January 1 – Julie Berwald , opera singer, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music .
January 18 – George Tolhurst , composer (b. 1827)
March 23 – Caroline Unger , operatic contralto (b. 1803)
March 30 – Charles Neate , British pianist (born 1784)
April 7 – Errico Petrella , opera composer (b. 1813)
April 26 – Louise Bertin , composer and poet (b. 1805)
June 3 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel , cataloguer of the works of Mozart (b. 1800)
June 13 – Cesare Ciardi , flautist and composer (b. 1818)
June 24 – Emilie Edie von Kalchberg, lyricist (born 1796)
June 29 – Clorinda Corradi , operatic contralto (b. 1804)
August 5 – Luigi Legnani , guitarist and composer (b. 1790)
September 12 – Julius Rietz , German cellist, composer and teacher, editor of an edition of Mendelssohn's complete works (b. 1812)
October 3 – Thérèse Tietjens , operatic soprano (b. 1831)
October 16 – Théodore Barrière , librettist (born 1823)
