1860 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 1 – Julius Friedländer buys the Leipzig music publishing house, CF Peters.[1]
  • February 9 – The second "Querelle des Bouffons" is sparked when Hector Berlioz criticizes Richard Wagner's music in the Journal des débats.[1] Wagner responds on February 15.
  • February 10 – The Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16 by Johannes Brahms is given its first public performance in Hamburg.
  • March 3 – The Serenade No. 1 in D, Op. 11 by Johannes Brahms is given its first public performance in Hanover.
  • April 9 – Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville records himself singing "Au Clair de la Lune" – the earliest known intelligible recording of the human voice.
  • May 4 – Charles Bacon's bronze statue of the late Felix Mendelssohn is unveiled at Crystal Palace in London.[1]
  • September 14 – Franz Liszt makes a will.[1]
  • October 22 – The city of Weimar pays tribute to Franz Liszt with a torchlight procession and honorary citizenship.[1]
  • The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, is premièred at the Theater an der Wien.
  • Richard Wagner essay on "Music of the Future" is first published, in French translation.
  • First official National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Denbigh.
  • "Dixie" by Dan Emmett
  • "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" by Stephen Foster
  • "Kalinka" by Ivan Larionov
  • "Lincoln and Liberty" words by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.
  • "Mary Of Argyle" words by Charles Jefferys, music by Sidney Nelson
  • "Old Black Joe" by Stephen Foster
  • "Virginia Belle" by Stephen Foster
  • "When the Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear" by Charles Blamphin
  • "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" words by Maud Irving, music by Joseph Philbrick Webster

Classical music

  • Johannes Brahms
    • Vier Gesänge, for women's chorus, two horns and harp, Op. 17
    • String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
  • Karl Davydov – Fantasie über russische Lieder, Op.7
  • Eduard Franck
    • Piano Trio No.2 in E♭ major, Op.22
    • Violin Sonata No.2, Op.23
  • Joseph Mikel – Les lanciers aux bains de mer
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk – Jeunesse, Op.70
  • Franz Liszt – First of the Mephisto Waltzes
  • John Knowles Paine – Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn in F for Organ (Op.3, No.1)
  • Anton Rubinstein – Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    • Symphony No.2, Op.55
    • Ave Maria

Opera

  • Gaetano Donizetti – Rita, ou Le mari battu (Posthumously discovered, premiered, and published)
  • Flor van Duyse – Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent)
  • Charles Gounod – La colombe, premiered August 3 in Baden-Baden
  • Stanislaw Moniuszko – Hrabina
  • Jacques Offenbach
    • Barkouf
    • Le carnaval des revues

Musical theater

  • Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production

Births

  • January 7 – Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
  • January 24 – Philippe Bellenot, composer (died 1928)
  • March 13 – Hugo Wolf, composer (d. 1903)
  • May 5 – Pietro Floridia, composer (d. 1932)
  • May 17 – August Stradal, pianist (died 1930)
  • May 29 – Isaac Albéniz, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
  • June 25 – Gustave Charpentier, composer (d. 1956)
  • July 7
    • Florence Farr, actress and composer (d. 1917)
    • Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
  • September 1 – Cleofonte Campanini, conductor (d. 1919)
  • September 18 – Alberto Franchetti, opera composer (d. 1942)
  • November 18 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist (d. 1941)[2]
  • November 27 – Victor Ewald, composer (d. 1935)
  • December 4 – Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (d. 1922)
  • December 18 – Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
  • December 20 – Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer (d. 1904)
  • December 24 – Julius Korngold, music critic (died 1945)
  • December 28 – Harry B. Smith, US songwriter (d. 1936)
  • December 30 – Thomas Bulch, brass-band composer (d. 1930)

Deaths

  • January 26 – Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)[3]
  • February 24 – James Barr, composer (born 1779)
  • March 6 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
  • March 14 – Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor and composer (b. 1812)[4]
  • May 21 – Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1806)
  • June 21 – Mykola Markevych, musician, composer and poet (b. 1804)
  • 10 August – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (b. 1810)
  • August 26 – Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)
  • September 25 – Carl Friedrich Zöllner, composer and choirmaster (b. 1800)
  • November 27 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (b. 1799)
  • date unknown
    • James Barr, composer (b. 1779)
    • Veena Kuppayyar, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1798)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 MusicAndHistory.com: 1860 Archived 2013-04-11 at archive.today. Accessed 8 March 2013
  2. ↑ Marian Marek Drozdowski (1981). Ignacy Jan Paderewski: A Political Biography. Interpress. p. 15. ISBN 978-83-223-1771-6.
  3. ↑ Richard Wagner; Wagner, Edward (17 November 1983). Richard Wagner: My Life. CUP Archive. p. 774. ISBN 978-0-521-22929-6.
  4. ↑ John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Easter-Mystères. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 60.
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