Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1870s ==
* '''[[1879 in music]]''', '''[[1879 in Norwegian music]]''' – Birth of [[Jean Cras]]
* '''[[1878 in music]]''' – Birth of [[George M. Cohan]]; [[William S. Gilbert]] and [[Arthur Sullivan]], [[H.M.S. Pinafore]]; reshapes British and American musical theater;
* '''[[1877 in music]]''' – [[Phonograph]] and [[phonograph cylinder]] invented by [[Thomas Alva Edison]]; ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson and Delilah]]'' by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] Birth of [[Billy Murray (singer)]]
* '''[[1876 in music]]''' – ''[[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]'' and ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premiere in [[Bayreuth]]; Birth of [[Carl Ruggles]]
* '''[[1875 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Maurice Ravel|Joseph-Maurice Ravel]], French composer and pianist; ''[[Carmen]]'' by [[Georges Bizet]] premieres in Paris; ''[[Swan Lake]]'' by [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] premieres
* '''[[1874 in music]]''' – ''[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]'' by [[Modest Mussorgsky]] premieres in [[Saint Petersburg]]; ''[[Die Fledermaus]]'' by [[Johann Strauss II]] premieres in [[Vienna]]; [[Richard Wagner]] concludes [[Götterdämmerung]], finishing [[Der Ring des Nibelungen|The Ring Cycle]]; ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Requiem]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]]; ''[[Danse macabre]]'' by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Arnold Schoenberg]]
* '''[[1873 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Enrico Caruso]], [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], Russian composer, ultra virtuoso pianist and conductor
* '''[[1872 in music]]''' – The [[Cello Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)]] by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]]; Birth of [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], English composer; birth of [[Sergei Diaghilev]], choreographer (d. 1929)
* '''[[1871 in music]]''' – [[Richard Wagner]] concludes [[Siegfried (opera)|Siegfried]]; ''[[Aida]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] premieres in [[Cairo]]
* '''[[1870 in music]]''' – ''[[Die Walküre]]'' (the Valkyrie) by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Munich]]