1873 | Music
Music
Opera: Ivan the Terrible (The Maid of Pskov) 1/1 at St. Petersburg's Maryinski Theater, with music by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov; Le Roi l'a Dit 5/24 at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, with music by Leo Delibes. German soprano Therese Malten, 18, makes her debut singing the role of Pamina in the 1791 Mozart opera Die Zauberflöte at Dresden, where she will sing for the next 30 years.
First performances: Concerto No. 1 in A minor for Violoncello and Orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns 1/19 at the Paris Conservatoire; Symphony No. 5 by the late Franz Schubert (who wrote it in 1816) 2/1 at London's Crystal Palace; Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Anton Bruckner 10/26 at Vienna; Variations on a Theme by Haydn by Johannes Brahms 11/2 at Vienna; The Tempest (Fantasy for Orchestra after Shakespeare) by Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky 12/19 at Moscow.
Popular songs: "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by English composer Hart Pease Danks, 39, lyrics by Eban E. Rexford, 25; "Home on the Range" lyrics by Kansas homesteader Bruce (Brewster) Higley appear in the December Smith County Pioneer under the title "Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Roam." Kansas guitarist Daniel E. Kelly writes a tune to the lyrics, U.S. composer William Goodwin will revise it, and it will be published in 1904 under the title "Arizona Annie."