- 1870 in music
Events
* Musikverein opens in
Vienna (January 6 )
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 's fantasy-overture "Romeo and Juliet" debuts inMoscow , conducted byNikolai Rubenstein (March 16 )
*Léo Delibes 'ballet "Coppélia" debuts at theParis Opéra (May 25 )
*Richard Wagner 's "Die Walküre " premieres at theMunich Court Theatre (June 26 )Published popular music
* "Come In Old Adam, Come In!" by Alice Cary & C. F. Shattuck
* "Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" by Sam Mitchell & Charles BlamphinClassical music *
Max Bruch - "Symphony No. 2 in F minor", op. 36 (premiered September 4) [cite web|title=Max Bruch Catalog of Works - Symphony No. 2|url=http://www.wooster.edu/music/twood/bruchcatalog.html#36|date=2005-11-08 |accessdate=2008-02-09|last=Wood|first=Thomas]
*Antonín Dvořák - "Dramatic Overture" (overture to the opera "Alfred") (B. 16a); String Quartet no. 3 in D, B. 18; String Quartet no. 4 in E minor, B. 19 (seeList of compositions by Antonín Dvořák )
*Charles Gounod - "Messe des Orphéonistes"
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - "Romeo and Juliet overture" (first version)Opera *
Antonín Dvořák
**"Alfred", B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 inOlomouc ) [cite book|last=Beckerman|first=Michael|title=Dvořák and His World|pages=109-112|isbn=0-691-00097-2|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=1993|location=Princeton, N.J.
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*Karel Miry
**"La Saint-Lucas" (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 inGhent )
**"Het Driekoningenfeest" (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered inBrussels )
*Emile Pessard - "La cruche cassée" (comic opera in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on February 21 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique inParis )
*Bedřich Smetana - "Prodana Nevesta" (eng. "The Bartered Bride")
*Richard Wagner - "Die Walküre "Musical theater * "
Chilpéric " London production
* "La Mascotte " Paris production
* "La Périchole " London productionBirths
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January 3 -Henry Eichheim
*January 20 -Guillaume Lekeu (d.1894 )
*January 30 -Rudolf Louis , critic, conductor and author (d.1914 )
*February 12 –Marie Lloyd , British music-hall singer (d.1922 )
*April 7 -Joseph Ryelandt , Belgian composer (d.1965 )
*April 28 -Hermann Suter , Swiss composer and conductor (d.1926 )
*April 30 -Franz Lehár
*May 4 -Zygmunt Stojowski , Polish pianist and composer (d.1946 )
*August 4 -Harry Lauder , Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
*August 12 -Arthur J. Lamb , lyricist and actor
*September 28 -Florent Schmitt , French composer (d.1958 )
*October 7 -Uncle Dave Macon , musician
*October 8 -Louis Vierne , French organist and composer
*October 24 -August Brunetti-Pisano , Austrian composer
*November 30 -Cecil Forsyth
*December 5 -Vítězslav Novák , Czech composer (d.1949 )
*December 16 -Alfred Hill , Australian composer (d.1960 )Deaths
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January 26 -Cesare Pugni , ballet composer
*March 10 -Ignaz Moscheles , Bohemian composer (b.1794 )
*April 8 -Charles de Bériot , violinist (b. 1802)
*July 22 -Josef Strauss , composer (b. 1827)
*October 20 -Michael William Balfe , composer (b. 1808)
*October 31 -Mihály Mosonyi , composer (b. 1815)
*November 23 -Giuseppina Bozzachi , ballerina (b. 1853)
*December 17 -Saverio Mercadante , composer (b. 1795)
*December 18 -Eugène Ketterer , French composer and pianist (b. 1831)
*December 28 -Alexei Lvov , Russian composer (b.1799 )References
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