1860 in music
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Events
- The first VienneseViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
operettaOperettaOperetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...
, Das Pensionat by Franz von SuppéFranz von SuppéFranz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli was an Austrian composer of light operas who was born in what is now Croatia during the time his father was working in this outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
, debuts at the Theater an der WienTheater an der WienThe Theater an der Wien is a historic theatre on the Left Wienzeile in the Mariahilf district of Vienna. Completed in 1801, it has seen the premieres of many celebrated works of theatre, opera, and symphonic music... - First official National Eisteddfod of WalesNational Eisteddfod of WalesThe National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.- Organisation :...
is held at DenbighDenbighDenbigh is a market town and community in Denbighshire, Wales. Before 1888, it was the county town of Denbighshire. Denbigh lies 8 miles to the north west of Ruthin and to the south of St Asaph. It is about 13 miles from the seaside resort of Rhyl. The town grew around the glove-making industry...
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Published popular music
- "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" by Stephen FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
- "Kalinka" by Ivan LarionovIvan LarionovIvan Petrovich Larionov was a Russian composer, writer and folklorist. He is mostly remembered for the famous song "Kalinka", that he wrote in 1860....
- "Mary Of Argyle" w. Charles H. Jefferys m. Sidney Nelson
- "Old Black JoeOld Black Joe"Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster . It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1853. Ken Emerson, author of Doo-Dah!, indicates that Foster's fictional Joe was inspired by a servant in the home of his father-in-law, Dr. McDowell of Pittsburgh...
" By Stephen FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century... - "Virginia Belle" By Stephen FosterStephen FosterStephen Collins Foster , known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in the United States of the 19th century...
- "When The Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear" w.m. Charles BlamphinCharles BlamphinCharles Blamphin was a British composer and harpist. Among his popular compositions were When The Corn Is Waving, Annie Dear and Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise .. , The Day -External links:* by the Peerless Quartet...
- Wildwood FlowerWildwood Flower"Wildwood Flower" is an American song, best known through performances and recordings by the Carter Family. However, the song predates them. The original title was "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets"...
w. Maud Irving m. Joseph Philbrick WebsterJoseph Philbrick WebsterJoseph Philbrick Webster, also known as J.P. Webster , was an American songwriter and composer most notable for his musical compositions during the Antebellum and American Civil War periods of United States history, and his post-war religious hymns.Amongst his most notable works are the ballad...
Classical music
- Anton RubinsteinAnton RubinsteinAnton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian-Jewish pianist, composer and conductor. As a pianist he was regarded as a rival of Franz Liszt, and he ranks amongst the great keyboard virtuosos...
- Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
- Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Opera
- Flor van DuyseFlor van DuyseFlorimond van Duyse was a Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist.He was born in Ghent and went to school at Veurne, and to high school at the Atheneum in Ghent. Then he studied Law at the Gentse Rijksuniversiteit, graduating as Doctor of Law in 1867...
- Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at GhentGhentGhent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
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Births
- March 13 - Hugo WolfHugo WolfHugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
, composer (d. 1903) - May 5 - Pietro FloridiaPietro FloridiaPietro Floridia was an Italian composer of classical music.According to David Johnson , Floridia was born in Modica, Sicily, and studied in Naples, where he created his first opera, Carlotta Clepier...
, composer (d. 1932) - May 29 - Isaac AlbénizIsaac AlbénizIsaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
, pianist and composer (d. 1909) - June 25 - Gustave CharpentierGustave CharpentierGustave Charpentier, , born in Dieuze, Moselle on 25 June 1860, died Paris, 18 February 1956) was a French composer, best known for his opera Louise.-Life and career:...
, composer (d. 1956) - July 7
- Florence FarrFlorence FarrFlorence Beatrice Emery Farr was a British West End leading actress, composer and director. She was also a women's rights activist, journalist, educator, singer, novelist, leader of the occult order, The Golden Dawn and one time mistress of playwright George Bernard Shaw...
, actress and composer (d. 1917) - Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
- Florence Farr
- September 1 - Cleofonte CampaniniCleofonte CampaniniCleofonte Campanini was an Italian conductor. His brother was the tenor Italo Campanini.Born in Parma, Campanini studied music at that city's conservatory, making his debut with a performance of Carmen, also in Parma, in 1883...
, conductor (d. 1919) - September 18 - Alberto FranchettiAlberto FranchettiAlberto Franchetti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then in Dresden under Felix Draeseke, and finally at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger. His first major success...
, opera composer (d. 1942) - November 6 - Ignacy Jan PaderewskiIgnacy Jan PaderewskiIgnacy Jan Paderewski GBE was a Polish pianist, composer, diplomat, politician, and the second Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland.-Biography:...
, pianist (d. 1941) - November 27 - Victor EwaldVictor Ewald-Biography:Victor Ewald , was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. Ewald was a professor of Civil Engineering in St. Petersburg, and was also the cellist with the Beliaeff Quartet for sixteen years. This was the...
, composer (d. 1935) - December 4 - Lillian RussellLillian RussellLillian Russell was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th century and early 20th century, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence.Russell was born in Iowa but raised in Chicago...
, US singer and actress (d. 1922) - December 18 - Edward MacDowellEdward MacDowellEdward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idylls". "Woodland Sketches" includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose"...
, pianist and composer (d. 1908) - December 20 - Dan LenoDan LenoDan Leno , born George Wild Galvin, was an English comedian and actor, famous for appearing in music hall and dozens of comic plays, pantomimes, Victorian burlesques and musical comedies during the Victorian era...
, English music hallMusic hallMusic Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
comedian, dancer and singer (d. 1904) - December 28 - Harry B. SmithHarry B. SmithHarry Bache Smith was a writer, lyricist and composer. The most prolific of all American stage writers, he is said to have written over 300 librettos and more than 6000 lyrics. Some of his best-known works were librettos for the composer Victor Herbert...
, US songwriter (d. 1936)
Deaths
- January 26 - Wilhelmine Schröder-DevrientWilhelmine Schröder-DevrientWilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, born Wilhelmine Schröder , was a German operatic soprano. As a singer she combined a rare quality of tone with dramatic intensity of expression, which was as remarkable on the concert platform as in opera.- Biography :Schröder was born in Hamburg, the daughter of the...
, opera singer (b. 1804) - March 6 - Justus Johann Friedrich DotzauerJustus Johann Friedrich DotzauerJustus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer was a German cellist and composer.-Life:Born in Haselrieth, near Hildburghausen, to a father who was a church music minister, he learned at a young age to play a number of instruments, including piano, double bass, violin, clarinet, and horn...
, French cellist and composer (b. 1783) - March 14 - Louis Antoine JullienLouis Antoine JullienLouis Antoine Jullien was a French conductor and composer of light music.Jullien was born in Sisteron, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and was baptised Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noë Jean Lucien Daniel Eugène Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Barême Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas...
, conductor and composer (b. 1812) - August 26 - Friedrich SilcherFriedrich SilcherPhillipp Friedrich Silcher , was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder , and an important folksong collector.-Life:...
, composer (b. 1789) - September 25 - Carl Friedrich ZöllnerCarl Friedrich ZöllnerCarl Friedrich Zöllner was a German composer and choir director. He wrote organ variations on God Save the Queen and wrote several songs. His son was composer Heinrich Zöllner.-External links:*...
, composer and choirmaster (b. 1800) - date unknown
- James BarrJames Barr (composer)James Barr was a Scottish composer who composed the tune which inspired the tune now used for the unofficial Australian anthem "Waltzing Matilda." Born in Tarbolton in South Ayrshire, Barr taught music and worked for a publisher in Glasgow...
, composer (b. 1779) - Johannes Frederik FröhlichJohannes Frederik FröhlichJohannes Frederik Fröhlich , a Danish violinist, conductor and composer, was a precursor of Niels Gade and J.P.E. Hartmann, and a central figure in Danish musical circles during the Romantic era....
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1806) - Veena KuppayyarVeena KuppayyarVeena Kuppayyar was an exponent of Veena and a composer of Carnatic music. He was a student of the famous composer Tyagaraja. Kuppayar composed his songs in Telugu language and has left behind a number of popular kritis-Early life:...
, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1798) - Mykola MarkevychMykola MarkevychMykola Markevych was a Ukrainian musician, composer, historian, ethnographer, and poet.Mykola Markevych was born in Dunaiets, Ukraine on 7 February 1804. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Pedagogical Institute from 1817 to 1820 and studied piano and composition in Moscow...
, musician, composer and poet (b. 1804)
- James Barr