1869 in music

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Events

• 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.

"Circus Galop" 1869 sheet music cover

Published popular music

• "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

Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
• Charles Gounod - Les Martyrs
• George Stephanescu - Symphony in A

Opera

• 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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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)