1873 in music

See also: 1872 in music, other events of 1873, 1874 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

Published popular music

• "Silver Threads Among the Gold" by Hart Pease Danks & Eben Eugene Rexford
• "The German Polka" by Gus Williams
• "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley
• "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White
• "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart

Classical music

Opera

• Léo Delibes – Le Roi l'a dit

Musical theater

Births

• February 27 – Enrico Caruso, opera singer
• June 1 – Ada Jones, US singer
• August 11 – J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
• August 18 – Otto Harbach, lyricist
• September 21 – Papa Jack Laine
• November 16 – W. C. Handy
• Tom Turpin

Deaths