1873 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

Births

• February 27 - Enrico Caruso
• August 11 - J. Rosamond Johnson, US composer and singer
• September 21 - Papa Jack Laine
• November 16 - W. C. Handy
• Tom Turpin

Deaths

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