1864 in music

1864 in music

Events

* Anton Bruckner composes his Symphony No. 0 ("Die Nullte").
* Jacques Offenbach's operetta "La Belle Hélène" debuts at the Paris Variétés (December 17).
*Hans von Bülow takes over from Franz Lachner at the Munich opera.

Published popular music

*"Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster
*"The Picture on the Wall" by Henry Clay Work
* "Shall We Gather at the River?" w.m. Robert Lowry
* "Somebody's Darling" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
*"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Boys Are Marching)" by George F. Root

Classical music

*Louis Gottschalk - "The Dying Poet"
*Friedrich Kiel - "Piano Concerto"
*Franz Strauss - "Nocturno for Horn and Piano"
*Thomas Tellefsen - "Trio for piano, violin and cello" (opus 31)
*Robert Volkmann - "Symphony no. 2"

Opera

*Flor van Duyse - "Rosalinde" (libretto by Karel Versnaeyen, premiered in Antwerp)
*Karel Miry - "Bouchard-d'Avesnes" (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 6 in Ghent)
*Jacques Offenbach - "Die Rheinnixen (The Rhine Fairies)"

Births

*February 7 - Arthur Collins, singer (d. 1933)
*April 10 - Eugen d'Albert, composer, pianist
*June 11 - Richard Strauss, composer, conductor (d. 1949)
*July 6 - Alberto Nepomuceno, composer and conductor (d. 1920)
*August 18 - Gemma Bellincioni, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
*October 7 - Louis F. Gottschalk, composer (d. 1934)
*"date unknown" - Alice Esty, operatic soprano (d. 1935)

Deaths

*January 13 - Stephen Foster, songwriter (b. 1826) (domestic accident)
*January 26 - Otto Lindblad, composer (b. 1809)
*February 16 - Václav Jindřich Veit, lawyer and composer (b. 1806)
*March 30 - Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (b. 1811)
*May 2 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer (b. 1791)
*October 1 - Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, musical instrument maker (b. 1805)
*October 7 - Apollon Grigoryev, poet and songwriter (b. 1822) (alcoholism)
*October 12 - John Louis Dinia, writer and composer (b. 1784)
*December 20 - Josef Proksch, pianist and composer (b. 1794)


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