1867 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1867.

Events

• February 15 – First performance of Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube" (An der schönen blauen Donau, composed 1866) at a concert of the Vienna Men's Choral Association (Wiener Männergesangsverein). Strauss adapts it into its popular purely orchestral version for the International Exposition in Paris later this year.
• March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos is premièred at the Paris Opéra's Salle Le Peletier.
• April 12 – Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein is premièred in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés.
• April 22 – The Hyers Sisters make their professional début at Sacramento’s Metropolitan Theater.
• April 27 – Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette is premièred at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
• May 11 – The first comic opera with a score by Arthur Sullivan to be publicly performed, the one-act Cox and Box with libretto by F. C. Burnand, opens at the Adelphi Theatre in London and runs for 300 performances. It is followed by the tw0-act The Contrabandista, or The Law of the Ladrones by the same partnership which opens on December 18 at St. George's Hall, London.
• June 11 – Soprano Nina Grieg marries her cousin, composer Edvard Grieg, in Copenhagen.
• September – Premiere of the opera O ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: Spyridon Xyndas, libr. Ioannis Rinopoulos), the first full-scale opera in Greek.
• December 26 – Georges Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth is premièred at the Théâtre Lyrique.
• The Royal Danish Academy of Music is refounded in Copenhagen by Niels Gade.
• The Maple Leaf Forever is written by Alexander Muir.

Published popular music

• "The Blue Danube" (waltz) m. Johann Strauss II w. Joseph Weyl
• "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark
• "Croquet" w. C.H. Webb m. John Rogers Thomas
• "The Lambton Worm" by C M Leumane
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle & Alfred Lee
• "Not For Joseph"     w.m. Arthur Lloyd
• "The Moon Is Out To Night, Love" w.m. Will S. Hays
• "Waiting" w. Ellen H. Flagg m. Harrison Millard

Classical music

• Sir William Sterndale Bennett – The Woman of Samaria (cantata)
• Felix Draeseke
  • Zwei Konzertwalzer, op 4: Nr. 1 in E-flat; Nr. 2 in D-flat
  • Ballade for Cello and Piano in B
• Henri Duparc - Sonate pour violoncelle et piano
• Hermann Goetz – Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major

Opera

• Charles Gounod – Roméo et Juliette
• Édouard Lalo – Fiesque
• Jules Massenet – La Grand'Tante
• Karel Miry
  • Frans Ackermann (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels)
  • Brutus en Cesar (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premièred on October 14, in Ghent)
  • Le Mariage de Marguerite (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)

Musical theater

• Arthur Sullivan (libretti by F. C. Burnand)
  • The Contrabandista
  • Cox and Box

Births

• January 20 – Yvette Guilbert, singer, actress (d. 1944)
• January 28 – Eugène Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor (d. 1958)
• March 24
  • Guido Menasci, librettist (d. 1925)
  • Martinus Sieveking, pianist and composer (d. 1950)
• March 25 – Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor (d. 1957)
• May 6 – Nora Clench, violinist (d. 1938)
• June 3 – Béla Szabados, composer (d. 1936)
• June 27 – Ewald Straesser, composer (d. 1933)
• July 10 – Jules Mouquet, composer (d. 1946)
• July 27 – Enrique Granados, composer (d. 1916)
• August 28 – Umberto Giordano, opera composer (d. 1948)
• September 5 – Amy Beach, composer (d. 1944)
• September 7 – Evan Williams, operatic tenor (d. 1918)
• October 12 – Herbert L. Clarke, cornet virtuoso and composer (d. 1945)
• November 24 – Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (d. 1917)
• November 27
  • Charles Koechlin, composer, teacher and writer on music (d. 1950)
  • Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer (d. 1972)
• December 27 – Henri Christiné, composer (d. 1941)

Deaths

• February 23 – Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor (b. 1776)
• March 16 – Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (b. 1833)
• March 24 – Alfred Mellon, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1820)
• May 3 – Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, operatic soprano (b. 1812)
• May 6 – Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (b. 1779)
• September 7 – Henriette Méric-Lalande, operatic soprano (b. 1798)
• September 10 – Simon Sechter, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1788)
• September 27 – Louis Desiré Veron, opera manager (b. 1798)
• October 3 – Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (b. 1777)
• October 5 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (b. 1799)
• October 9 – Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, pianist and composer (b. 1807)
• December 2 – Nadezhda Repina, singer and actress (b. 1809)
• December 6 – Giovanni Pacini, composer (b. 1796)
• date unknown – Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (b. 1811)