1870 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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 is debuted by 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
  • September – Siege of Paris (1870–71) begins: Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns are among those enrolled in the National Guard for defence of the city
  • Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels established in the United States by Michael B. Leavitt
  • Richard Wagner nears completion of his opera Siegfried
  • "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
  • "More Love to Thee" w. Elizabeth P. Prentiss m. William H. Doane
  • "Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior" w. Fanny Crosby m. William H. Doane
  • "Rescue the Perishing" w. Fanny Crosby m. William H. Doane
  • "Waiting For Pa" w. & m. Henry Clay Work

Classical music

  • Max Bruch – Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 36 (premiered September 4)[1]
  • Ignaz Brüll – Tarantella, Op.6
  • 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
  • Heinrich Lichner – 3 Sonatinen, Op.66
  • Robert Planquette – Le régiment de Sambre et Meuse
  • Joachim Raff
    • Piano Trio No.3, Op.155
    • 2 Piano Pieces, Op.157
    • Piano Trio No.4, Op.158
  • Josef Rheinberger – Piano Trio No.1, Op.34
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – 6 Romances, Op.8
  • Giovanni Sgambati – Marcia-Inno, arranged for 4-hand piano
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • Chorus of Flowers and Insects
    • Nature and Love
    • Romeo and Juliet overture (first version)
    • To Forget So Soon
    • Valse-Scherzo, Op.7
    • Capriccio, Op.8
    • 3 Pieces, Op.9
  • 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
    • La Saint-Lucas (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in Ghent)
    • Het Driekoningenfeest (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
  • 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)
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Undina, premiered March 28 in Moscow
  • 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)[3]
  • March 10 – George Evans, songwriter (died 1915)
  • March 29 – Tom Lemoinier, composer and performer (died 1945)
  • April 7 – Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (d. 1965)
  • April 9 – Colin McAlpin, English composer (died 1942)
  • April 28 – Hermann Suter, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
  • April 30 – Franz Lehár, composer of operettas and waltzes (d. 1948)
  • May 3 – Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, pianist (died 1935)
  • May 4 – Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
  • June 16 – Mon Schjelderup, composer (died 1934)
  • July 17 – Harry P. Guy, composer (died 1950)
  • July 18 – Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (d. 1935)
  • July 27 – Hilaire Belloc, lyricist (died 1953)
  • 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 9 – Théodore Labarre, composer (born 1805)
  • 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)
  • April 19 – Camille-Marie Stamaty, French pianist and composer (b. 1811)
  • 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 5
    • Alexandre Dumas, lyricist (born 1802)
    • Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (born 1815)
  • 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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Randel, Don Michael (30 October 2002). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 866. ISBN 978-0-674-25572-2.
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