1869 in music

1869 in music

Events

* April 3 - Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto" is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino.
* September 22 - Richard Wagner's opera "Das Rheingold" debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich.

Published popular music

* "The Little Brown Jug" by J. Eastburn Winner
* "Now the Day is Over" by w. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Joseph Barnby
* "Shew, Fly! Don't Bother Me!" by T. Bringham Bishop (possibly w. Billy Reeves m. Frank Campbell)
* "Sweet Genevieve" w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker

Classical music

*Johannes Brahms - "Ein deutsches Requiem"
*Charles Gounod - "Les Martyrs"
*George Stephanescu - "Symphony in A"

Opera

*Frederic Clay - "Ages Ago"
*Karel Miry - "Een engel op wacht" (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered on December 8 in Brussels)
*Richard Wagner - "Das Rheingold"

Births

*February 1 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter (d. 1948)
*February 3 - Giulio Gatti-Casazza, opera manager (d. 1940)
* March 3 - Henry Wood, conductor (d. 1944)
* May 5 - Hans Pfitzner, composer (d. 1949)
* June 6 - Siegfried Wagner, composer (d. 1930)
* July 9 - Arnold Volpe, composer (d. 1940)
* July 13 - Florence Perry, opera singer (d. 1949)
* September 6 - Henry Walford Davies, composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick (d. 1944)
*"date unknown"
**Kate Carney, singer (d. 1950)
**Carlos Hartling, composer of the national anthem of Honduras (d. 1920)

Deaths

*January 10 - Joan Aulí, organist and composer (b. 1796)
*March 8 - Hector Berlioz, composer (b. 1803)
*March 23 - Charles Lucas, cellist (b. 1808)
*April 1 - Alexander Dreyschock, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
*April 12 - Antonie Brentano, friend of Beethoven (b. 1780)
*April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor
*June 4 - Joseph Ascher, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
*June 15 - Albert Grisar, composer (b. 1808)
*August 13 - Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (b. 1799)
*August 24 - Macedonio Alcalá, pianist, violinist and songwriter (b. 1831)
*November 29 - Giulia Grisi, opera singer (b. 1811)
*December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist (b. 1829) (overdose of quinine)
*December 23 - Julian Fontana, pianist (b. 1810)


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