1870 in music
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[edit] Events
- Musikverein opens in Vienna (January 6)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein (March 16)
- Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia debuts at the Paris Opéra (May 25)
- Richard Wagner's Die Walküre premieres at the Munich Court Theatre (June 26)
[edit] Published popular music
- "Come In Old Adam, Come In!" by Alice Cary & C. F. Shattuck
- "Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" by Sam Mitchell & Charles Blamphin
[edit] Classical music
- Symphony No. 2 in F minor, op. 36 - Max Bruch (premiered September 4)[1]
- 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 (see List of compositions by Antonín Dvořák) - Antonín Dvořák
- Messe des Orphéonistes - Charles Gounod
- Romeo and Juliet overture (first version) - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
[edit] Opera
- Antonín Dvořák
- Alfred, B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc)[2]
- Karel Miry
- 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)
- Richard Wagner - Die Walküre
[edit] Musical theater
- Chilpéric London production
- La Mascotte Paris production
- La Périchole London production
[edit] Births
- January 3 - Henry Eichheim
- January 20 - Guillaume Lekeu (d. 1894)
- January 30 - Rudolf Louis, critic, conductor and author (d. 1914)
- February 12 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (d. 1922)
- April 7 - Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (d. 1965)
- April 28 - Hermann Suter, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
- April 30 - Franz Lehár
- May 4 - Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
- August 4 - Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
- August 12 - Arthur J. Lamb, lyricist and actor
- September 28 - Florent Schmitt, French composer (d. 1958)
- October 7 - Uncle Dave Macon, musician
- October 8 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer
- October 24 - August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer
- November 30 - Cecil Forsyth
- December 5 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
- December 16 - Alfred Hill, Australian composer (d. 1960)
[edit] Deaths
- January 26 - Cesare Pugni, ballet composer
- March 10 - Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer (b. 1794)
- July 22 - Josef Strauss, composer
- October 20 - Michael William Balfe, composer
- October 31 - Mihály Mosonyi, composer
- November 23 - Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina
- December 17 - Saverio Mercadante, composer
- December 18 - Eugène Ketterer, French composer and pianist
- Unknown date? - Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (b. 1799)
[edit] References
- ^ Wood, Thomas (2005-11-08). Max Bruch Catalog of Works - Symphony No. 2. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
- ^ Beckerman, Michael (1993). Dvořák and His World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 109-112. ISBN 0-691-00097-2. OCLC 27937811. Retrieved on 2008-02-09.
