1865 in music

1865 in music

Events

*January 1 - Hector Berlioz completes his Memoirs.
*April 28 - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "L'Africaine" is premiered in Paris at the Grand Opéra, after the composer's death.
*June 10 - Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" debuts in Munich at the Court Opera
*September 9 - Franz von Suppé's operetta "Die schöne Galathee" debuts in Vienna's Carl-Theater.
*December 17 - Franz Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" debuts in Vienna, following the composer's death.
*Philipp Scharwenka relocates to Berlin.
*Joseph Parry is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Published popular songs

* "Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker
* "Marching Through Georgia" w.m. Henry Clay Work
* "Roll Jordan Roll" traditional spiritual
* "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" w.m. George Frederick Root

Classical music

*Elfrida Andrée - "Piano quintet in E minor"
*Johannes Brahms - "Trio for violin, horn and piano op. 40"
*Felix Draeseke - "Lacrimosa"
*Antonín Dvořák - "Symphony no. 1 (The Bells of Zlonice)", also "Cello concerto no. 1 in A major" (later reconstructed by Günter Raphael and by Jaromir Burghauser
*Edvard Grieg - "Piano sonata op. 7 in E minor", "Violin sonata no. 1 op. 8"
*Franz Liszt - "Missa Choralis"

Opera

*François Bazin - "Le voyage en Chine"
*Giacomo Meyerbeer - "L'Africaine"
*Richard Wagner - "Tristan und Isolde"

Musical theater

* "Orpheus In The Underworld", London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on December 26 and ran for 76 performances

Births

* May 9 - August de Boeck, Belgian composer (d. 1937)
* June 9
** Carl Nielsen, composer (d. 1931)
** Albéric Magnard, composer (d. 1914)
* July 21 - Robert Kahn, composer (d. 1951)
* August 10 - Alexander Glazunov, composer (d. 1936)
* October 1 - Paul Dukas, composer (d. 1935)
* December 3 - Gustav Jenner, composer (d. 1920)
* December 8 - Jean Sibelius, composer (d. 1957)
*December 25 - Fay Templeton, US singer and actress

Deaths

*January 23 - Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer and music critic (b. 1824)
*January 27 - Giuseppe Rocca, violin maker (b. 1807)
*January 28 - Felice Romani, librettist for Donizetti and Bellini (b. 1788)
*April 1 - Giuditta Pasta, operatic soprano (b. 1797)
*September 10 - George Linley, poet and composer (b. 1798)
*October 8 - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer (b. 1814)
*October 12 - William Vincent Wallace, composer (b. 1812)
*December 6 - Sebastián Iradier, composer (b. 1809)
*December 18 - Francisco Manuel da Silva, songwriter and music professor (b. 1795)
*"date unknown" - François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (b. 1824) (cholera)


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