1867 in music

Events

* Arthur Sullivan scores his first operetta, "Cox and Box".
* "The Maple Leaf Forever" is written by Alexander Muir.
* March 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres at the Paris Opéra.
* April 12 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein" debuts in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés.
* April 27 - Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette debuts at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris.
* December 26 - Georges Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth premieres at Paris's Théâtre Lyrique.
* September - Premiere of the opera "O ypopsifios" [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: Spyridon Xyndas, libr. Ioannis Rinopoulos), the first full-scale opera in Greek.

Published popular music

* "Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss II
* "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark
*"Croquet" w. C.H. Webb m. John Rogers Thomas
* "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee
* "Not For Joseph" w.m. Arthur Lloyd
* "The Moon Is Out To Night, Love" w.m. Will S. Hays
*"Waiting" w. Ellen H. Flagg m. Harrison Millard

Classical music

*Sir William Sterndale Bennett - "The Woman of Samaria" (cantata)
*Felix Draeseke
**"Zwei Konzertwalzer, op 4: Nr. 1 in E-flat; Nr. 2 in D-flat"
**"Ballade for Cello and Piano in B" -
*Hermann Goetz - "Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major" -

Opera

*Charles Gounod - "Roméo et Juliette"
*Édouard Lalo - "Fiesque"
*Jules Massenet - "La Grand'Tante"
*Karel Miry
**"Frans Ackermann" (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels)
**"Brutus en Cesar" (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premièred on October 14, in Ghent)
**" _fr. Le Mariage de Marguerite" (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)

Musical theater

*"The Contrabandista or The Law of the Ladrones" Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand; Music: Arthur Sullivan. London production opened at St. George's Opera House on December 18
*"Cox and Box" Lyrics: Francis Cowley Burnand; Music: Arthur Sullivan. London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on May 11 and ran for 300 performances

Births

*January 20 - Yvette Guilbert, singer, actress (d. 1944)
*January 28 - Eugène Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor (d. 1958)
*March 24 - Guido Menasci, librettist (d. 1925)
*March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor (d. 1957)
*May 6 - Nora Clench, violinist (d. 1938)
*July 27 - Enrique Granados, composer (d. 1916)
*September 5 - Amy Beach, composer (d. 1944)
*November 24 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (d. 1917)

Deaths

*February 23 - Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor (b. 1776)
*March 16 - Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (b. 1833)
*May 3 - Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, operatic soprano (b. 1812)
*September 10 - Simon Sechter, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1788)
*September 27 - Louis Desiré Veron, opera manager (b. 1798)
*October 3 - Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (b. 1777)
*October 9 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, pianist and composer (b. 1807)
*December 2 - Nadezhda Repina, singer and actress (b. 1809)
*December 6 - Giovanni Pacini, composer (b. 1796)