1882 in music

	... 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876; 1877; 1878 ...; 1879; 1880; 1881; 1882; 1883; 1884; 1885; ... 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892 ...;
	Art; Archaeology; Architecture; Literature; Music; Philosophy; Science +...;

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Events in the year 1882 in music.

Events

January - Richard Wagner completes his opera Parsifal
July 26 - Wagner's Parisifal is premièred at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus under the baton of Hermann Levi with the tenor Hermann Winkelmann in the title rôle and Engelbert Humperdinck assisting in the production
August 20 (August 8 O.S.) - Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is premièred in a tent near the (at this time) unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow under the baton of Ippolit Al'tani
Gustav Mahler is employed at Olomouc
Richard Strauss enters Munich University

Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student), Vienna production
The Grand Mogul, Broadway production
Iolanthe (Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan Book and Lyrics: W. S. Gilbert); London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on November 25 and ran for 398 performances
Iolanthe, Broadway production opened at the Standard Theatre on December 1
The Queen's Lace Handkerchief, Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 21 and ran for 571 performances
The Smugglers, Broadway production

January 15 - Henry Burr, popular tenor, prolific early recording artist (d. 1941)
February 11
- Gheorghe Cucu composer (d. 1932)
- Joe Jordan, musician and composer (d. 1971)
February 28 - Geraldine Farrar, operatic soprano (d. 1967)
March 5 - Pauline Donalda, operatic soprano (d. 1970)
March 18 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, composer and musicologist (d. 1973)
March 24 - Gino Marinuzzi, conductor and composer (d. 1945)
April 17 - Artur Schnabel, pianist (d. 1951)
April 18 - Leopold Stokowski, conductor (d. 1977)
April 23 - Albert Coates, conductor and composer (d. 1953)
May 6 - Georgi Atanasov, composer (d. 1931)
May 11 - Joseph Marx, composer and critic (d. 1964)
May 12 - Kyrylo Stetsenko, conductor, composer, critic and teacher (d. 1922)
June 4 - Erwin Lendvai, composer and choral conductor (d. 1949)
June 17 - Igor Stravinsky, composer (d. 1971)
August 15 - Marion Bauer, composer (d. 1955)
August 18 - Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, composer, organist, and opera director (d. 1955)
September 6 - John Powell, composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist (d. 1963)
October 6 - Karol Szymanowski, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
December 8 - Manuel María Ponce, composer and music teacher (d. 1948)
December 9 - Joaquín Turina, composer (d. 1949)
December 16 - Zoltán Kodály, composer (d. 1967)

February 3 - Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer (b. 1826)
February 12 - Madame Céleste, dancer (b. 1815)
February 16 - Julián Arcas, guitarist and composer (b. 1832)
February 20 - Louis Adolphe le Doulcet, comte de Pontécoulant, soldier and musicologist (b. 1794)
February 22 - Harriett Everard, singer and actress (b. 1844)
February 27 - Alfred Jaëll, pianist (b. 1832)
March 1 - Theodor Kullak, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
March 16 - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, ballerina (b. 1836)
April 3 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, composer and conductor (b. 1810)
June 24 (or 25) - Joachim Raff, composer (b. 1822)
June 28 - James Turle, organist and composer (b. 1802)
July - John Zundel, organist, composer and arranger (b. 1815)
July 4 - Joseph Brackett, songwriter (b. 1797)
July 12 - Alfred Pease, composer and pianist (b. 1838)
September 16 - Theodore Eisfeld, conductor (b. 1816)
October 3 - Adelaide Phillips, contralto singer (b. 1833)
October 22 - Oskar Ahnfelt, composer of hymn-tunes (b. 1813)
October 29 - Gustav Nottebohm, composer and music editor (b. 1817)
November 2 - Cenobio Paniagua, composer (b. 1821)
November 18 - Aleksander Mirecki, marischal and violinist (b. 1809)
November 20 - Kéler Béla, composer and conductor (b. 1820)
December 29 - Josabeth Sjöberg, painter and music teacher (b. 1812)
date unknown
- Edward Mack, composer (b. 1826)
- Konstantin Vilboa, composer (b. 1817)