1866 in music

none 1866 music thumb|250px Events January – Gabriel Fauré becomes organist at the Church of Saint-Sauveur, at Rennes in Brittany.Nectoux, Jean-Michel; Roger Nichols, trans. (1991). Gabriel Fauré – A Musical Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12. 0-521-23524-3. March–December – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky writes his Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams. May 30 – Bedřich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride (Prodana Nevesta) debuts at the Provisional Theatre (Prague). August – Sir William Sterndale Bennett becomes Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London.Zon, Bennett Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies 3 Ashgate Aldershot 1999 0754636143 August 4 – First performance of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine. August 9 – Marie Trautmann marries fellow musician Alfred Jaëll. October 21 – Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Vie parisienne debuts in Paris at the Théâtre du Palais Royale. November 17 – Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon debuts in Paris at the Opéra-Comique. Theodore Thomas conducts the New York Philharmonic in the American premiere of the Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Mily Balakirev publishes his Collection of Russian Folksongs, including "The Song of the Volga Boatmen". Georges Bizet completes the opera La jolie fille de Perth; it is premiered the following year. Brahms completes all but the fifth movement of the A German Requiem Published popular music "Beautiful River" "Come Back To Erin" w.m. Claribel "Father's a Drunkard and Mother Is Dead" w. Stella m. Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst "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 "You Naughty, Naughty Men" (in The Black Crook) w. T. Kennick m. G. Bickwell Classical music Felix Draeseke – Fantasie on Themes from Boieldieus "Weisse Dame" Johann Gottfried Piefke – Königgrätzer Marsch Amilcare Ponchielli – Concerto for Trumpet in F major Arthur Sullivan – Irish Symphony Franz von Suppé - Light Cavalry Overture Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams" Opera Karel Miry nl Maria van Boergondië (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on August 28 in Ghent) nl De Keizer bij de Boeren (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on October 29 in Ghent) nl De occasie maakt den dief (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on December 24 in Ghent) Bedřich Smetana- The Bartered Bride Franz von Suppé – Leichte Kavallerie Musical theater 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 Births January 13 – Vasily Kalinnikov, composer (d. 1901) March 10 – Amanda Aldridge, opera singer, teacher and composer (d. 1956) April 1 – Ferruccio Busoni, pianist, composer (d. 1924) April 13 – Carl Valentin Wunderle, violinist (d. 1944) May 17 – Erik Satie, composer (d. 1925) June 15 – Charles Wood, composer (d. 1926) June 29 – George Frederick Boyle, composer (d. 1948) July 13 – La Goulue, can-can dancer (d. 1929) July 23 – Francesco Cilea, composer (d. 1950) September 26 – George H. Clutsam, pianist, composer and writer (d. 1951) November 7 – Paul Lincke, composer (d. 1946) date unknown Annibale Fagnola, violin maker (d. 1939) Dorothea Ruggles-Brise, née Stewart-Murray, collector of traditional Scottish music (d. 1937) Deaths January 25 – Minna Wagner, estranged wife of Richard Wagner, 56 (heart attack) February 6 – Anna Liszt, pianist and mother of Franz Liszt, 77 March 20 – Rikard Nordraak, composer, 21 (tuberculosis) July 25 – Aloys Schmitt, composer, pianist and music teacher, 77 October 2 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer, 55 (suicide by drowning) November 26 – Adrien-Francois Servais, cellist, 59 November 29 – Sophie Löwe, operatic soprano, 51 December 1 – Jules Demersseman, flautist and composer, 33 (tuberculosis) December 3 – Jan Kalivoda, violinist, conductor and composer, 65 References Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year