1870 in music
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Events
- January 6 – The Musikverein concert hall opens in Vienna
- March 16 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein
- May 25 – Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia debuts at the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris
- June 26 – Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre premieres at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich
- Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels established in the United States by Michael B. Leavitt
- Richard Wagner completes Siegfried (opera).
Published popular music
- "Come In Old Adam, Come In!" w. Alice Cary m. C. F. Shattuck
- "Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" w. Samuel N. Mitchell m. Charles Blamphin
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
- Charles Gounod – Messe des Orphéonistes
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet overture (first version)
- Valentin Zubiaurre - Symphony in E major
Opera
- Antonín Dvořák
- Alfred, B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc)[2]
- Karel Miry
- 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
Musical theater
- Chilpéric London production
- La Mascotte Paris production
- Jacques Offenbach - La Périchole London production
Births
- January 3 – Henry Eichheim, conductor, violinist and composer (d. 1942)
- January 20 – Guillaume Lekeu, composer (d. 1894)
- January 22 – Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (d. 1939)
- January 30 – Rudolf Louis, critic, conductor and author (d. 1914)
- February 12 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (d. 1922)
- February 13 – Leopold Godowsky, Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher (d. 1938)
- March 6 – Oscar Straus, Viennese composer of operettas (d. 1954)
- April 7 – Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (d. 1965)
- April 28 – Hermann Suter, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
- April 30 – Franz Lehár, composer of operettas and waltzes (d. 1948)
- May 4 – Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
- July 18 – Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (d. 1935)
- August 4 – Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter (d. 1950)
- August 12 – Arthur J. Lamb, lyricist and actor (d. 1928)
- September 28 – Florent Schmitt, French composer (d. 1958)
- October 7 – Uncle Dave Macon, banjo player, singer and songwriter (d.1952)
- October 8 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
- October 24 – August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer (d. 1943)
- November 30 – Cecil Forsyth, composer and musicologist (d. 1941)
- December 5 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
- December 16 – Alfred Hill, Australian composer (d. 1960)
Deaths
- January 26 – Cesare Pugni, ballet composer
- March 10 – Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer (b. 1794)
- March 16 – Theodore Oesten, musician, composer and music teacher (b. 1813)
- April 8 – Charles de Bériot, violinist (b. 1802)
- July 22 – Josef Strauss, composer (b. 1827)
- August 14 – Manuel Saumell, composer (b. 1818)
- September 17 – Joseph David Jones, composer and schoolmaster (b. 1827)
- October 20 – Michael William Balfe, composer (b. 1808)
- October 31 – Mihály Mosonyi, composer (b. 1815)
- November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (b. 1853)
- December 7 – Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer (b. 1815)
- December 17 – Saverio Mercadante, composer (b. 1795)
- December 18 – Eugène Ketterer, French composer and pianist (b. 1831)
- December 28 – Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (b. 1799)
References
- ↑ Wood, Thomas (8 November 2005). "Max Bruch Catalog of Works – Symphony No. 2". Archived from the original on 29 January 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
- ↑ Beckerman, Michael (1993). Dvořák and His World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. pp. 109–112. ISBN 0-691-00097-2. OCLC 27937811. Retrieved 9 February 2008.
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