1883 in music

See also: 1882 in music, other events of 1883, 1884 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• Friedrich Kiel is involved in a traffic accident from which he will never completely recover.

Published popular music

• "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother"     w. Henry Miller m. Joseph P. Skelly
• "The Farmer In The Dell"     trad
• "La Golondrina"      m. Narisco Serradell
• "Polly Wolly Doodle (All The Day)"     trad
• "Ring Dem Heavenly Bells" by Sam Lucas
• "She Does The Fandango All Over The Place"     w.m. G. W. Hunt
• "There Is A Tavern In The Town"     anon
• "Transit Of Venus March"     m. John Philip Sousa

Classical music

• Barcarola for piano No. 1 – Isaac Albeniz
• Symphony No. 1 in B minor – Anton Arensky
• Symphony No. 3 by Johannes Brahms
• Thalia (concert overture) – George Whitefield Chadwick
• The Redemption (oratorio) – Charles Gounod
• Carmen Fantasy – Pablo de Sarasate
• Voices of Spring – Johann Strauss
• Canzona for Clarinet and Strings in F minor – Sergei Taneyev
• Estudiantina – Emil Waldteufel

Opera

• Cesar Cui – Prisoner of the Caucasus

Musical theater

• Ein Nacht In Venedig (A Night In Venice) Berlin and Vienna productions

Births

• April 6 – Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
• May 26 – Mamie Smith, U.S. singer
• September 18 – Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, composer
• November 8 – Arnold Bax, composer
• December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer

Deaths

• February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer
• October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer