1869 in music

none March 2019 1869 music This article is about music-related events in 1869. Events February 28 – The premiere of Brahms' Rinaldo took place in Vienna at a concert of the Akademischer Gesangverein. The composer conducted, with the tenor Gustav Walter, a student chorus numbering 300, and the Court Opera orchestra. April 3 – Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino. May 25 – The Vienna State Opera is inaugurated with a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni. September 22 – Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich. Approximate date – Start of "golden age" of flamenco.September 2017 Tchaikovsky completes the initial version of Romeo and Juliet. It will be revised the next year and in 1880. Richard Wagner resumes work on Siegfried after a twelve year break. Act 3 is begun in March. Also in 1869 Ernesto Köhler leaves his native Italy at the age of twenty to acquire a position as an orchestral flautist in Vienna.My Complete Story of the Flute. De Lorenzo, Leonardo. Texas Tech University Press, 1992 p. 161-166 ISBN 9780896722774 Biography of Ernesto Kohler on Google Books thumb|right|"Circus Galop" 1869 sheet music cover Published popular music "The Little Brown Jug" by J. Eastburn Winner "Now the Day is Over" 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 Classical music Mili Balakirev – Islamey an "Oriental Fantasy" for piano. Johannes Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Hungarian Dances Anton Bruckner Mitternacht, WAB 80 Symphony in D minor ("Die Nullte") Teresa Carreño – Un bal en rêve, Op.26 Henri Duparc Feuilles volantes, Op.1 Soupir Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Grande fantaisie triomphale sur l'hymne national brésilien, Op.69 Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély – Vade-mecum de l'organiste, Op. 187 Heinrich Lichner – Figurinen, Op.57 Joachim Raff – Fantaisie, Op.142 Camille Saint-Saëns Orient et occident, Op. 25 La coccinelle Paraphrase sur Mandolinata de Paladilhe George Stephanescu – Symphony in A Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Six Romances, Op. 6 including None but the lonely heart 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 RheingoldDas Rheingold — Productions — Royal Opera House https://www.roh.org.uk/productions/das-rheingold-by-keith-warner www.roh.org.uk 28 March 2019 Births January 20 – George Hamlin, American opera singer (d. 1923) February 1 – Kerry Mills, American violinist and songwriter (d. 1948) February 3 – Giulio Gatti-Casazza, opera manager (d. 1940) February 12 – Theodor Bertram, German opera singer (d.1907) March 3 Franz Wilczek, Austrian-American violinist (d.1916) Henry Wood, conductor (d. 1944) March 23 – Frederick E. Hahn, American violinist, composer, and music educator (d. 1942)Biographical Encyclopedia of American Jews Hahn, Frederick E. 206 1935 Leo M. Glassman Maurice Jacobs / Herald Nathan Press 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) August 14 – Armas Järnefelt, Finnish composer and conductor (d. 1958) September 2 – Carlos Hartling, composer of the national anthem of Honduras (d. 1920) September 6 – Walford Davies, British composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick (d. 1941) September 21 – Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher (d. 1928) September 30 – E. A. Couturier, American cornet virtuoso, composer, inventor and instrument manufacturer (d. 1950) October 8 (September 26 O.S.) – Komitas, born Soghomon Soghomonian, Turkish Armenian priest and ethnomusicologist (d. 1935) date unknown Kate Carney, born Catherine Pattinson, English music hall singer (d. 1950) Maximilian Maksakov, born Max Schwartz, Austro-Russian operatic baritone (d. 1936) Deaths January 10 – Joan Aulí, organist and composer (b. 1796) January 17 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Russian composer (b. 1813) January 30 – Charlotte Alington Barnard ('Claribel'), English ballad composer (b. 1830) 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 15 – August Wilhelm Bach, German composer and organist (b. 1796) April 20 – Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor (b. 1796) May 10 – Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer (b. 1802) May 16 – Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian opera librettist, poet, and translator of German literature (b. 1815)John Black 2002 Peruzzini, Giovanni Grove Music Online Oxford University Press 10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O005160 June 4 – Joseph Ascher, pianist and composer (b. 1829) June 15 – Albert Grisar, composer (b. 1808) July 18 – Louis Bouilhet, lyricist (born 1822) 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) December 31 – Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (b. 1817) References Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year