1869 in music

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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.

"The Little Brown Jug" by J. Eastburn Winner
"Now the Day is Over" by w. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Joseph Barnby
"Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me" attributed to T. Brigham Bishop (possibly w. Billy Reeves m. Frank Campbell)
"Sweet Genevieve" w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker

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

February 1 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter (d. 1948)
February 3 - Giulio Gatti-Casazza, opera manager (d. 1940)
March 3 - Henry Wood, conductor (d. 1944)
May 5 - Hans Pfitzner, composer (d. 1949)
June 6 - Siegfried Wagner, composer (d. 1930)
July 9 - Arnold Volpe, composer (d. 1940)
July 13 - Florence Perry, opera singer (d. 1949)
September 6 - Henry Walford Davies, composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick (d. 1944)
September 30 - Ernst Albert Couturier, cornet virtuoso, composer, inventor and instrument manufacturer
date unknown
- Kate Carney, singer (d. 1950)
- Carlos Hartling, composer of the national anthem of Honduras (d. 1920)
- Maximilian Maksakov, opera singer (d. 1936)

January 10 - Joan Aulí, organist and composer (b. 1796)
March 8 - Hector Berlioz, composer (b. 1803)
March 23 - Charles Lucas, cellist (b. 1808)
April 1 - Alexander Dreyschock, pianist and composer (b. 1818)
April 12 - Antonie Brentano, friend of Beethoven (b. 1780)
April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor
June 4 - Joseph Ascher, pianist and composer (b. 1829)
June 15 - Albert Grisar, composer (b. 1808)
August 13 - Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (b. 1799)
August 24 - Macedonio Alcalá, pianist, violinist and songwriter (b. 1831)
November 29 - Giulia Grisi, opera singer (b. 1811)
December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist (b. 1829) (overdose of quinine)
December 23 - Julian Fontana, pianist (b. 1810)