1864 in music

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Events

  • January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song "Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March.
  • February 24 – Bedřich Smetana's symphonic poem Hakon Jarl is premiered in Prague.
  • February 29 – Composer Gioachino Rossini celebrates his 72nd (17th) birthday with a party. It is 32 years since his last opera.
  • May – Richard Wagner meets his new patron, the young Ludwig II of Bavaria, in Munich.[1]
  • 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.
  • Mili Balakirev begins sketching his Symphony No. 1. It will not be performed till 1898.
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
  • "Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" w. Harry Clifton m. traditional?
  • "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

Classical music

  • Gaetano Braga – Souvenir du Rhin
  • Johannes Brahms
    • 9 Lieder and Songs, Op.32
    • Piano Quintet Op. 34
  • Anton Bruckner
    • Mass No.1 in D minor, WAB 26
    • Herbstlied, WAB 73
    • Um Mitternacht, WAB 89
  • Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky – Kazachok
  • Félicien David – Allegretto agitato
  • Niels Gade – 3 Fantasie pieces for clarinet and piano, Op. 43
  • Hermann Goetz – Frühlings-Ouvertüre, Op.15
  • Louis Gottschalk – The Dying Poet
  • Ferdinand Hiller
    • Operette ohne Text, Op.106
    • 12 Lieder (Hiller Album), Op.111
  • Salomon Jadassohn – Symphony No.2, Op.28
  • Adolf Jensen
    • Präludium und Romanze, Op.19
    • 7 Gesänge aus dem spanischen Liederbuche, Op.21
    • 6 Lieder, Op.24
    • Piano Sonata, Op.25
  • Friedrich Kiel – Piano Concerto
  • Heinrich Lichner – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.4
  • William Mason – Ballade et barcarole, Op.15
  • Josef Rheinberger – 5 Motets, Op.40
  • Gioachino Rossini – Petite messe solennelle
  • Ernst Rudorff – String Sextet, Op.5
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano Trio No.1, Op.18
  • Franz Strauss – Nocturno for Horn and Piano
  • Peter Tchaikovsky – The Storm
  • Thomas Tellefsen – Trio for piano, violin and cello (Opus 31)
  • Stanislas Verroust – Solo de concert No.11, Op.85
  • Pauline Viardot – 12 Poems by Pushkin, Fet and Turgenev
  • Robert Volkmann – Symphony no. 2
  • Władysław Żeleński
    • Valse-caprice, Op.9
    • 2 Morceaux de salon, Op.11

Opera

  • Daniel François Esprit Auber – La fiancée du roi de Garbe (premiered January 11 in Paris)
  • Flor van Duyse – Rosalinde (libretto by Karel Versnaeyen, premiered in Antwerp)
  • Charles Gounod - Mireille, opera premiered on March 19, in Paris
  • 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)
  • George Alexander Macfarren – Helvellyn, (opera in 4 acts, libretto by John Oxenford, premiered on November 3 in London)

Musical theatre

  • La Belle Hélène (Lyrics: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Music: Jacques Offenbach) opens at the Théâtre des Variétés, Paris, on December 17.[2]

Births

  • February 6 – John Henry Mackay, lyricist (died 1933)
  • February 7
    • Ricardo Castro, Mexican concert pianist and composer (d. 1907)[3]
    • Arthur Collins, singer (d. 1933)
  • February 9 – Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor (d. 1941)[4]
  • March 12 – Alice Tegnér, organist, composer (d. 1943)[5]
  • April 10 – Eugen d'Albert, composer, pianist (d. 1932)
  • May 23 – Louis Glass, composer (d. 1936)
  • June 11 – Richard Strauss, composer, conductor (d. 1949)
  • July 6 – Alberto Nepomuceno, composer and conductor (d. 1920)
  • July 20 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, lyricist (died 1931)
  • August 18 – Gemma Bellincioni, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
  • October 7 – Louis F. Gottschalk, composer (d. 1934)
  • date unknown – Alice Esty, operatic soprano (d. 1935)

Deaths

  • January 13 – Stephen Foster, songwriter (b. 1826)
  • January 15 – Isaac Nathan, English-born composer and musicologist, "father of Australian music" (b. c.1791)[6]
  • January 26 – Otto Lindblad, composer (b. 1809)
  • February 16 – Václav Jindřich Veit, lawyer and composer (b. 1806)
  • March 30 – Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (b. 1811)
  • May 2 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer (b. 1791)
  • June 3 – Anna Maria Sessi, opera singer (b. 1790)
  • July 28 – Johann Hermann Kufferath, composer (born 1797)
  • August 13 – Berthold Sigismund, lyricist (born 1819)
  • September 4 – Manuel Antonio Carreño, Venezuelan musician, teacher and diplomat (b. 1812)[7]
  • October 1 – Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, musical instrument maker (b. 1805)
  • October 7 – Apollon Grigoryev, poet and songwriter (b. 1822) (alcoholism)
  • December 20 – Josef Proksch, pianist and composer (b. 1794)

References

  1. ↑ "Friendship with Richard Wagner". Retrieved 2020-07-24.
  2. ↑ Melnitz, Leo ed., The Opera Goer's Complete Guide, 1921
  3. ↑ Robert Murrell Stevenson (2009). South American national anthems and other area studies: Mexico after the Mexican anthem. Pacific Press. p. 131.
  4. ↑ Kändler, Tiit (2002). A Hundred Great Estonians of the 20th Century. Translated by Lengi-Cooper, Küllike. Tallinn: Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers. p. 52. ISBN 978-9-98570-103-4.
  5. ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (2006). The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London: Macmillan. p. 457. ISBN 978-0-33351-598-3.
  6. ↑ Mackerras, Catherine (1967). "Nathan, Isaac (1790–1864)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
  7. ↑ Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela (in Spanish). Fundación Polar. 1997. ISBN 980-6397-37-1.
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