1868 in music

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See also: 1867 in music, other events of 1868, 1869 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Modest Mussorgsky begins work on Boris Godunov, which is completed six years later
• Johannes Brahms completes his work for soloists, chorus and orchestra, Ein deutsches Requiem (his Opus 45)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams") is first performed in Moscow (February 3)
• Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger debuts in Munich's Hoftheater (June 21)

[edit] Published popular music

• "Come Back To Erin" by Claribel
• "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" w. J.E. Carpenter m. W.T. Wrighton
• "I Cannot Sing The Old Songs"      w.m. Claribel (Charlotte Alington [Mrs. Charles Barnard])
• "Little Footsteps" w. Michael Bennett Leavitt m. James A. Barney
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee (first published the previous year)
• "Sweet Bye and Bye" w. S. Fillmore m. Joseph P. Webster
• "Walking In The Zoo" w. Hugh Willoughby Sweny m. Alfred Lee
• "The Whispering Hope" by Septimus Winner
• "The Widow In The Cottage By The Sea"     w.m. Charles A. White
• "Yield Not To Temptation" w.m. Horatio R. Palmer

[edit] Classical music

• Jean-Baptiste Accolay - Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor
• Georges Bizet - Variations chromatiques de concert for piano
• Ignaz Brüll - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, op. 24
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Songs Without Words; Fatum

[edit] Opera

• Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele
• Gaetano Braga - Ruy Blas
• Jacques Offenbach - The Island of Tulipatan
• Gialdino Gialdini - Rosmunda premiered March 5 at the Teatro Pergola, Florence

[edit] Births

• January 7 - Hermann Bischoff, composer (d. 1936?)
• January 26 - Juventino Rosas, composer, band leader
• April 19 - Max von Schillings, composer, conductor
• April 22 - José Vianna da Motta, composer, pianist (d. 1948)
• August 7 - Granville Bantock, composer
• August 21 - Vess Ossman, ragtime banjo artist
• September 12 - Jan Brandts Buys, composer
• November 24 - Scott Joplin, US composer and pianist

[edit] Deaths

• January 3 - Moritz Hauptmann, composer
• February 25 - Sophie Schröder, actress and singer
• April 3 - Franz Berwald, composer (b. 1796)
• July 6 - Samuel Lover, songwriter
• August 11 - Halfdan Kjerulf, composer (b. 1815)
• November 13 - Gioacchino Rossini, composer
• date unknown - Berl Broder, singer/troubadour