1865 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1865.

Events

• January 1 – Hector Berlioz completes his Memoirs.
• April 20 – Crosby's Opera House (Chicago, Illinois) opens
• April 28 – Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine is premiered in Paris at the Grand Opéra, after the composer's death.
• June 10 – Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde debuts in Munich at the Court Opera
• September 9 – Franz von Suppé's operetta Die schöne Galathee debuts in Vienna's Carl-Theater.
• December 17 – Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony debuts in Vienna, 43 years after of its composition.
• Philipp Scharwenka relocates to Berlin.
• Joseph Parry is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov completes his Symphony No. 1 (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Published popular songs

• "Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker
• "Marching Through Georgia" w.m. Henry Clay Work
• "Roll, Jordan, Roll" traditional spiritual
• "The Ship That Never Returned" w.m. Henry Clay Work

Classical music

• Elfrida Andrée – Piano quintet in E minor
• Johannes Brahms – Trio for violin, horn and piano op. 40
• Felix Draeseke – Lacrimosa
• Antonín Dvořák – Symphony no. 1 (The Bells of Zlonice), also Cello concerto no. 1 in A major (later reconstructed by Günter Raphael,^{[note 1]} and later^{[note 2]} by Jarmil Burghauser)
• Edvard Grieg – Piano sonata op. 7 in E minor, Violin sonata no. 1 op. 8
• Franz Liszt – Missa Choralis

Opera

• François Bazin – Le voyage en Chine
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – L'Africaine
• Stanislaw Moniuszko -The Haunted Manor
• Richard Wagner – Tristan und Isolde

Musical theater

• Orpheus In The Underworld, London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on December 26 and ran for 76 performances

Births

• May 9 – August de Boeck, Belgium Composer (d. 1937)
• June 9
  • Carl Nielsen, composer (d. 1931)
  • Albéric Magnard, composer (d. 1914)
• July 21 – Robert Kahn, composer (d. 1951)
• August 10 – Alexander Glazunov, composer (d. 1936)
• October 1 – Paul Dukas, composer (d. 1935)
• October 15 – Charles W. Clark, American baritone (d. 1925)
• December 3 – Gustav Jenner, composer (d. 1920)
• December 8 – Jean Sibelius, composer (d. 1957)
• December 25 – Fay Templeton, US singer and actress

Deaths

• January 23 – Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer and music critic (b. 1824)
• January 27 – Giuseppe Rocca, violin maker (b. 1807)
• January 28 – Felice Romani, librettist for Donizetti and Bellini (b. 1788)
• February 20 – Pierre-Louis Dietsch, French composer and conductor (b. 1808)
• April 1 – Giuditta Pasta, operatic soprano (b. 1797)
• August 1 – François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (b. 1824) (cholera)
• September 10 – George Linley, poet and composer (b. 1798)
• October 8 – Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer (b. 1814)
• October 12 – William Vincent Wallace, composer (b. 1812)
• December 6 – Sebastián Iradier, composer (b. 1809)
• December 18 – Francisco Manuel da Silva, songwriter and music professor (b. 1795)

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