1869 in music
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[edit] Events
- April 3 - Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino.
- September 22 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich.
[edit] Published popular music
- "The Little Brown Jug" by J. Eastburn Winner
- "Now the Day is Over" by w. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Joseph Barnby
- "Shew, Fly! Don't Bother Me!" by T. Bringham Bishop (possibly w. Billy Reeves m. Frank Campbell)
- "Sweet Genevieve" w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker
[edit] Classical music
- Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
- Charles Gounod - Les Martyrs
- George Stephanescu - Symphony in A
[edit] Opera
- Frederic Clay - Ages Ago
- Karel Miry - Een engel op wacht (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered on December 8 in Brussels)
- Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold
[edit] Births
- February 1 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter
- March 3 - Henry Wood, conductor
- May 5 - Hans Pfitzner, composer
- June 6 - Siegfried Wagner, composer
- June 17 - Sidney Jones, composer
- September 6 - Henry Walford Davies, composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick
- November 8 - J. Bodewalt Lampe, Danish-born composer
[edit] Deaths
- March 8 - Hector Berlioz, composer
- April 1 - Alexander Dreyschock, pianist and composer
- April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor
- August 13 - Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer
- November 29 - Giulia Grisi, opera singer
- December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist
- December 23 - Julian Fontana, pianist
- date unknown - Wilhelm Bernhardt Molique, violinist and composer
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