Opera Walk, 1856-1900

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Events

• January - Evan James and his son James James write the words and music of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, which later becomes the Welsh national anthem.
• March 23 - Richard Wagner completes the score of Die Walküre
• May 15 - Following his discovery of the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and his growing interest in Buddhist philosophy, Wagner drafts a brief summary of a proposed Buddhist opera, called Die Sieger (The Victors). At about the same time he changes the ending of the Ring cycle, and changes the titles of Der junge Siegfried and Siegfried’s Tod to Siegfried and Götterdämmerung respectively.
• Foundation of the Teatro de la zarzuela by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri.
• In St Petersburg, Russia, Mily Balakirev (the leader) meets César Cui, as the first 2 Russian composers of The Mighty Five.
• The words of the "Himno Nacional de El Salvador" are written by General Juan José Cañas; it becomes the National Anthem of El Salvador in 1953.

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• Stephen Foster - "Gentle Annie"
• Benjamin Hanby - "Darling Nelly Gray"

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• William B. Bradbury - Esther, the Beautiful Queen (oratorio)
• Antonín Dvořák - Polka Pomnenka

[edit]Opera

• Alexander Dargomyzhsky - Rusalka
• Aimé Maillart - Les Dragons de Villars
• Giovanni Pacini - Margherita Pusterla

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• Hiawatha. Broadway production opened at Wallack's Lyceum Theatre on December 25 and ran for 24 performances.
• Novelty (Music: Thomas Baker). Broadway production opened at Laura Keene's Variety House on February 22.

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1857

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Events

• Georges Bizet wins the Prix de Rome.
• Irish opera diva Catherine Hayes marries her manager, William Avery Bushnell, in San Francisco.

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Published popular music

• "Does He Love Me?" w. Annie Chambers Bradford m. F. W. Smith
• "Lorena" w. Reverend Henry D. L. Webster m. Joseph Philbrick Webster
• James Pierpont - "Jingle Bells"
• Johann Strauss II - Le beau Monde

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Classical music

• Charles-Valentin Alkan - Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and piano
• Georges Bizet - Herminie (cantata)
• Franz Liszt
  • Dante Symphony
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat
• Modest Mussorgsky - Souvenir d'Enfance
• Bedřich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (revised version - original finished 1855)
• Julius Reubke - The 94th Psalm

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Opera

• Karel Miry - Karel V (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 29 in Ghent)
• Giuseppe Verdi - Simon Boccanegra

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Events

• January 25 — The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter "Vicky," the Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.
• September 7 — Queen Victoria opens Leeds Town Hall; the celebratory concert marks the first Leeds Festival.
• Edvard Grieg meets Ole Bull, who recognises his musical talent.
• Richard Wagner's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck is discovered by his wife, and he leaves Zurich.
• Arthur Sullivan goes to Leipzig to study music.
• The Harvard Glee Club is founded at Harvard University.

Poster for premier of Offenbach'sOrphée Aux Enfers

[edit]Published popular music

• "Can-Can", music by Jacques Offenbach (from his operetta, Orphée Aux Enfers)
• "Warblings at Eve" m. Henry Brinley Richards

[edit]Classical music

• Johann Strauss II — Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

[edit]Opera

• Peter Cornelius — Der Barbier von Bagdad
• Giovanni Pacini — Il saltimbanco

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• Orphée Aux Enfers, operetta by Jacques Offenbach, Paris production opened at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens on October 21 and ran for 228 performances

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Events

• March 4 - Charter of the French Opera House, New Orleans, which opens on December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini's William Tell.
• April 4 - Bryants Minstrels debut "Dixie" at Mechanics' Hall, New York City.
• Alexander Borodin begins a period of research at Heidelberg, working on benzene derivatives.
• Alberto Mazzucato becomes musical director of La Scala opera house.

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Published popular music

• "Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley
• In 1859, John Freeman Young published the English translation of Silent Night that is most frequently sung today.

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Classical music

• Overture to King Lear by Mily Balakirev ^[1]
• Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms
• Serenade No. 2 in A by Johannes Brahms
• Helges Treue by Felix Draeseke\
• Concerto for Solo Piano by Charles-Valentin Alkan
• Totentanz (finished); first version of Psalm 23; Psalm 137 (begun, finished 1862); Prelude after a theme from Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen for piano; and orchestral version of Deux Épisodes d'apres le Faust de Lenau by Franz Liszt

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Opera

• César Cui - The Mandarin's Son
• Léo Delibes - L'Omelette à la Follembuche
• Charles Gounod - Faust first performed in Paris. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Giuseppe Verdi - Un ballo in maschera

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Musical theater

• Going It Blind - Broadway production

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1860

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Events

• 9 April - Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville records himself singing "Au Clair de la Lune" - the first known recording of the human voice.
• The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, debuts at the Theater an der Wien
• First official National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Denbigh.

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• "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" by Stephen Foster
• "Kalinka" by Ivan Larionov
• "Lincoln and Liberty" w. Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.
• "Mary Of Argyle"     w. Charles H. Jefferys m. Sidney Nelson
• "Old Black Joe" By Stephen Foster
• "Virginia Belle" By Stephen Foster
• "When the Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear" w.m. Charles Blamphin
• Wildwood Flower w. Maud Irving m. Joseph Philbrick Webster

[edit]Classical music

• Anton Rubinstein - Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg
• Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1

[edit]Opera

• Flor van Duyse - Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent)

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• Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production

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Events

• Tannhäuser scandal in Paris.
• Giuseppe Verdi is elected a deputy in the first parliament of the new Italian nation.

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Published popular music

• "Abide With Me", w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte m. William Henry Monk (Words 1847)
• "Alice, Where Art Thou", w. Wellington Guernsey m. Joseph Ascher
• "Aura Lea", w. W. W. Fosdick m. George R. Poulton
• "The Bonnie Blue Flag", w. Mrs Annie Chamber-Ketchum m. Harry MacCarthy
• "Eternal Father, Strong to Save", w. William Whiting m. Rev. John Bacchus Dykes
• "Go Down, Moses", trad spiritual
• "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty", w. Reginald Heber m. John Bacchus Dykes
• "I'm Going Home to Dixie", w. Dan Emmett a. C. S. Grafully
• "John Brown's Body", w. anon m. William Steffe
• "Maryland, My Maryland", w. James Ryder Randall m. Walter de Mapers (Music "Mini est Propositum" 12th century)
• "The Vacant Chair", w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root

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Classical music

• Antonín Dvořák - String Quintet No. 1 in A-minor, Op. 1
• Hermann Goetz - Piano Concerto in E-flat

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Opera

• Ferenc Erkel - Bank Ban
• Amilcare Ponchielli - La Savoiarda

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Musical theater

• Orpheus In The Underworld by Offenbach, New York production

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Events

• February 1 - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe is published in Atlantic Monthly.
• August 9 - Béatrice et Bénédict, opera by Hector Berlioz, debuts in Baden-Baden.
• November 10 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera La forza del destino debuts in Saint Petersburg.
• Ludwig von Köchel publishes Chonologisch-thematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher Tonwerke Wolfgang Amadé Mozarts (Catalogue of Mozart's Works or "The Köchel Catalog").
• Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category.
• The Saint Petersburg Conservatory is founded by Anton Rubinstein.
• Edvard Grieg gives his first concert in his home town of Bergen, Norway.
• Stephen Heller and Charles Hallé performMozart's E-flat concerto for two pianos at The Crystal Palace.

[edit]Published popular music

Sheet music cover

• "Here's Your Mule - C. D. Benson
• "Kingdom Coming - Henry C. Work
• "The Merry, Merry Month of May" - Stephen Foster
• "We Are Coming, Father Abra'am, 300,000 More", a poem by James S. Gibbons, set to music by eight different composers, including Stephen Foster.

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• Felix Draeseke - Fantasiestücke in Walzerform, opus 3: Nr. 1 in B; Nr. 2 in A-flat
• Asger Hamerik - Quintetto
• Joachim Raff - Piano quintet opus 107 in A minor

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• Julius Benedict - The Lily of Killarney
• Frederic Clay - Court and Cottage (libretto by Tom Taylor)
• Charles Gounod - La Reine de Saba
• Franz von Suppé - Die Kartenschlägerin
• Hector Berlioz - Béatrice et Bénedict

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1863

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Events

• May 10 - Violinist Joseph Joachim marries contralto Amalie Schneeweiss.
• September 30 - Georges Bizet's opera, Les pêcheurs de perles debuts at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
• November 4 - Les Troyens, opera by Hector Berlioz, debuts, also at the Théâtre Lyrique
• Modest Mussorgsky begins work on an opera, Salammbô, which is never finished.
• Jules Massenet wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category.

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Published popular music

• "All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"     w. Ethel Lynn Beers m. John Hill Hewitt
• "Eton Boating Song" w. William Johnson Cory m. Capt. Algernon Drummond
• "Just Before the Battle, Mother" by George F. Root
• "Mother Would Comfort Me" w.m. Charles C. Sawyer
• "Oh My Darling, Clementine" by Percy Montrose & H S. Thompson
• "Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" w. Harry Clifton m. traditional
• "Sweet and Low" words by Alfred Tennyson, music by Joseph Barnby
• "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground" w.m. Walter Kittredge
• "Weeping Sad And Lonely" w. Charles Carroll Sawyer m. Henry Tucker
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again" by Louis Lambert & Patrick Gilmore
• "You Are Going to the Wars, Willie Boy!"     w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "The Young Volunteer"     w.m. John Hill Hewitt

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Classical music

• Anton Bruckner - Study Symphony in F minor
• Franz Liszt - Christus completed about now; Salve Polonia (S 518), Rhapsodie espagnole (S 254), 'Venezia e Napoli' - Tarantella, and St Francis of Paule walking on the waveswritten
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Piano Trio No. 1 in F major opus 18, Spartacus overture for overture in E-flat major

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Opera

• Hector Berlioz - Les Troyens
• Georges Bizet - Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)
• Charles Gounod - Mireille
• Giovanni Pacini - Carmelita (not performed)
• Jacques Offenbach - Il signor Fagotto

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Musical theater

• Ixion London production opened at the Royalty Theatre on September 28 and ran for 153 performances

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1864

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• February 29 - Composer Gioachino Rossini celebrates his 72nd (18th) birthday with a party.
• December 17 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélène receives its first performance at the Paris Variétés
• Hans von Bülow takes over from Franz Lachner at the Munich opera.
• Anton Bruckner composes his Symphony No. 0 ("Die Nullte").

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Published popular music

Cover of the 1864 publication of the sheet music of "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!"

• "Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster
• "Der Deitcher's Dog" ("O Where, O Where Has My Little Dog Gone?") by Septimus Winner
• "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

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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

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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)

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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.

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Published popular songs

• "Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker
• "Marching Through Georgia" w.m. Henry Clay Work
• "Roll Jordan Roll" traditional spiritual
• "The Ship That Never Returned" w.m. Henry Clay Work

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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

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Opera

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

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Musical theater

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

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1866

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Events

• Sir William Sterndale Bennett becomes Principal of the British Royal Academy of Music.
• May 30 - Bedřich Smetana's opera Prodana Nevesta (The Bartered Bride) debuts in Prague at the Provisional Theater
• August 4 - First performance of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine
• October 21 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Vie Parisienne debuts in Paris's Palais Royale
• November 17 - Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon debuts in Paris at the Opéra-Comique.
• Marie Trautmann marries fellow musician Alfred Jaëll.

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• "Come Back To Erin" w.m. Claribel
• "We Parted By The River" w.m. William Shakespeare Hays
• "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" by James A. Butterfield & George Washington Johnson
• "Write Me A Letter Home"     w.m. Will S. Hays

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• Georges Bizet - La jolie fille de Perth: suite
• Felix Draeseke - Fantasie on Themes from Boieldieus "Weisse Dame"
• Johann Gottfried Piefke - Königgrätzer Marsch
• Amilcare Ponchielli - Concerto for Trumpet in F major
• Franz von Suppé - Light Cavalry Overture

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• Karel Miry
  • Maria van Boergondië (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on August 28 in Ghent)
  • De Keizer bij de Boeren (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on October 29 in Ghent)
  • De occasie maakt den dief (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on December 24 in Ghent)

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• La Belle Hélène (Lyrics: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Music: Jacques Offenbach) London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on June 30
• The Black Crook - the first "book musical". Broadway production opened at Niblo's Garden on September 12 and ran for 474 performances

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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 is premièred at the Paris Opéra's Salle Le Peletier.
• April 12 - Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein is premièred in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés.
• April 22 - The Hyers Sisters make their professional début at Sacramento’s Metropolitan Theater.
• April 27 - Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette is premièred at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
• June 11 - Soprano Nina Grieg marries her cousin, composer Edvard Grieg, in Copenhagen.
• September - Premiere of the opera O ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: Spyridon Xyndas, libr. Ioannis Rinopoulos), the first full-scale opera in Greek.
• December 26 - Georges Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth is premièred at the Théâtre Lyrique.
• The Royal Danish Academy of Music is founded in Copenhagen by Niels Gade.

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Published popular music

• Johann Strauss II "Blue Danube Waltz"
• "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

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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 -

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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)
  • Le Mariage de Marguerite (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)

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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

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Events

• Modest Mussorgsky begins work on Boris Godunov, which is completed six years later.
• Johannes Brahms completes his work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Ein deutsches Requiem (his Opus 45).
• February 3 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams") is first performed in Moscow.
• June 21 - Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger debuts in Munich's Hoftheater. The conductor is Hans von Bülow.

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Published popular music

• "Come Back To Erin" by Claribel
• "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" w. J.E. Carpenter m. W.T. Wrighton
• "I Cannot Sing The Old Songs"      w.m. Claribel (Charlotte Alington [Mrs. Charles Barnard])
• "Little Footsteps" w. Michael Bennett Leavitt m. James A. Barney
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee (first published the previous year)
• "Sweet Bye and Bye" w. S. Fillmore m. Joseph P. Webster
• "Walking In The Zoo" w. Hugh Willoughby Sweny m. Alfred Lee
• "The Whispering Hope" by Septimus Winner
• "The Widow In The Cottage By The Sea"     w.m. Charles A. White
• "Yield Not To Temptation" w.m. Horatio R. Palmer

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Classical music

• Jean-Baptiste Accolay - Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor
• Georges Bizet - Variations chromatiques de concert for piano
• Ignaz Brüll - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, op. 24
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Songs Without Words; Fatum

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Opera

"Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein" 1910 Edison Records recording of Walther's Prize Song from Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Leo Slezak. Problems listening to this file? See media help.

• Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele
• Gaetano Braga - Ruy Blas
• Gialdino Gialdini - Rosmunda premiered March 5 at the Teatro Pergola, Florence
• Jacques Offenbach - The Island of Tulipatan
• Richard Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, premièred in the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich

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Musical theater

• La Belle Hélène (Music by Jacques Offenbach Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) New York production opened at Pike's Opera House on November 2 and ran for 14 performances
• Ixion Broadway production opened at Wood's Museum and Metropolitan on September 28 and ran for 120 performances. Starring Lydia Thompson.
• The White Fawn Broadway production opened at Niblo's Garden on January 17 and ran for 176 performances

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• 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.

"Circus Galop" 1869 sheet music cover

[edit]Published popular music

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

[edit]Classical music

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

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• 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

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• January 6 - The Musikverein opens in Vienna.
• March 16 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein
• May 25 - Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia debuts at the Paris Opéra
• June 26 - Richard Wagner's Die Walküre premieres at the Munich Court Theatre

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Published popular music

• Come In Old Adam, Come In! by Alice Cary & C. F. Shattuck
• Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise by Samuel N. Mitchell & Charles Blamphin

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Classical music

• Max Bruch - Symphony No. 2 in F minor, op. 36 (premiered September 4)^[1]
• 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 (see List of compositions by Antonín Dvořák)
• Charles Gounod - Messe des Orphéonistes
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet overture (first version)

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Opera

• Antonín Dvořák
  • Alfred, B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc)^[2]
• Karel Miry
  • La Saint-Lucas (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in Ghent)
  • Het Driekoningenfeest (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• 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 in Paris)
• Bedřich Smetana - Prodana Nevesta (eng. The Bartered Bride)
• Richard Wagner - Die Walküre

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Musical theater

• Chilpéric     London production
• La Mascotte     Paris production
• La Périchole     London production

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• December 24 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Aida premieres.
• Anton Bruckner gives a series of organ recitals in London.
• Asger Hamerik becomes musical director of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Published popular music

• "The Blue and the Gray" by James W. Long
• "Good Bye, Liza Jane" (anon)
• "The Little Church Around The Corner"     w.m. Charles A. White
• "The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane" w.m. William S. Hays
• "Mollie Darling" w.m. William S. Hays
• "Oh aint I got the Blues!" by A.A. Chapman
• "Onward, Christian Soldiers"      w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Sir Arthur Sullivan
• "Reuben and Rachel" w. Harry Birch m. William Gooch
• "Susan Jane" w.m. William S. Hays

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Classical music

• Georges Bizet - Jeux d'enfants
• Peter Cornelius - Chorgesänge
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 11

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Opera

• Giovanni Bottesini - Ali Baba
• Giuseppe Verdi - Aida

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Musical theatre

• Geneviève de Brabant, London production
• The Mascot, London production
• La Mascotte, Vienna production
• Le Roi Carotte, London production
• Thespis, London production

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At the Ballet, 1872, by Edgar Degas

• June 24 - Karl Müller-Hartung founds an "Orchesterschule" ("Orchestra School") at Weimar.
• Friedrich Nietzsche takes up musical composition again after a long break.
• Tomás Bretón and Ruperto Chapí receive the first prize of the Madrid Conservatory.

[edit]Published popular music

• "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip Sousa
• "Waste Not, Want Not [You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry]" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
• "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace

[edit]Classical music

• Georges Bizet - L'Arlésienne Suite No. 1 from the incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name
• Edvard Grieg - Piano Concerto in A minor (op. 16)
• Franz Paul Lachner -Octet for wind, opus 156

[edit]Opera

• Georges Bizet - Djamileh
• Gialdino Gialdini - La secchia rapita premiered at the Teatro Goldoni, Florence
• Alexandre Charles Lecocq - Les Cent Vierges
• Miguel Marqués - Justos por pecadores
• Karel Miry
  • De dichter en zijn droombeeld (opera in 4 acts, libretto by Hendrik Conscience, premiered on December 2 in Brussels)
  • De twee zusters (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
• Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Gudonov, Revised Version
• Jacques Offenbach - Fantasio

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• La fille de Madame Angot, Brussels production
• La vie parisienne, London production

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• April — The Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria during their first European tour.
• August 27 — Sir Arthur Sullivan's oratorio The Light of the World (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.
• Joseph Parry becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
• Therese Malten makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.

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Published popular music

• "The German Polka" by Gus Williams (vaudeville)
• "Good Sweet Ham" by Henry Hart
• "Home on the Range" by Daniel Kelly & Brewster M. Higley
• "I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" by Charles A. White
• "Silver Threads Among the Gold" w. Eben Eugene Rexford m. Hart Pease Danks

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Classical music

• Johannes Brahms — String Quartet No. 1, Variations on a Theme by Haydn
• Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet no. 5 in F; String Quartet no. 6 in A
• Hermann Goetz — Symphony in F, op. 9 (premiered 1874. [1]. Some sources give 1866 for composition however.)
• Giuseppe Verdi — String Quartet in E minor

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Opera

• Léo Delibes — Le roi l'a dit
• Karel Miry — Muziek in t'huisgezin (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg)

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Musical theater

• 1492 Up To Date, Libretto by R. A. Barnet, music by Carl Pflueger

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