1874 in music

See also: 1873 in music, other events of 1874, 1875 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

Classical music

• Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (for piano)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1

Opera

• Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus

Published popular music

• "Crimson Roses In the Heather" by Caroline Dana Howe & William Howard Doane
• "Oh! Dat Watermelon!" by Luke Schoolcraft

Musical theater

• Whittington, London production

Births

• January 29 - Charles E. King, US composer and singer
• February 20 - Mary Garden, Operatic soprano
• September 13 - Arnold Schoenberg, composer
• November 12 - Bert Williams
• December 25 - Lina Cavalieri, glamourous opera singer (d. 1944)

Deaths