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Overview of the events of 1868 in music
List of years in music
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table
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Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
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Philosophy
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+...
Events
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January 5
–
Max Bruch
's
Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor
is first performed in its revised version by
Joseph Joachim
in
Bremen
with
Karl Martin Rheinthaler
conducting.
February 3
–
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
's
Symphony No. 1
("Winter Daydreams") is first performed in
Moscow
at a
Russian Musical Society
concert (having been premièred in Saint Petersburg).
April 10
(Good Friday) – The six movement version of
Brahms
'
A German Requiem
(
Ein deutsches Requiem
) is premièred in
Bremen Cathedral
with Brahms conducting and
Julius Stockhausen
as the baritone soloist.
June 21
–
Richard Wagner
's
opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
debuts at the
Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich
with
Hans von Bülow
conducting.
August 15
–
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi
opens in
Busseto
, Italy.
October –
Modest Mussorgsky
begins work on his opera
Boris Godunov
, which is completed six years later.
December 21
– The newly rebuilt
Gaiety Theatre, London
(in the
West End
) reopens with operatic
parodies
, including the
burlesque
Robert the Devil, or The Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a Gun
, setting new lyrics by
W. S. Gilbert
to popular continental opera tunes.
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
's organ at
Notre-Dame de Paris
is dedicated.
Edvard Grieg
writes his
Piano Concerto
while staying on
Zealand
.
Published popular music
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"Captain Jinks"
"Come Back To Erin" by
Claribel
"Crown Him with Many Crowns" w. Matthew Bridges (1851) m. George Job Elvey (1868)
"Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still" w. J.E. Carpenter m. W.T. Wrighton
"I Cannot Sing The Old Songs" w.m. Claribel
"Little Footsteps" w. Michael Bennett Leavitt m. James A. Barney
"
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
" by
George Leybourne
, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee (first published the previous year)
"
The Sweet By and By
" w. S. Fillmore m.
Joseph P. Webster
"Walking In The Zoo" w. Hugh Willoughby Sweny m. Alfred Lee
"
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
" w.
Joseph M. Scriven
(1855) m.
Charles C. Converse
(1868)
"The Whispering Hope" by
Septimus Winner
"The Widow In The Cottage By The Sea" w.m. Charles A. White
"Yield Not To Temptation" w.m. Horatio R. Palmer
Classical music
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Jean-Baptiste Accolay
– Concerto for Violin No. 1 in A minor
Georges Bizet
–
Variations chromatiques de concert
for piano
Ignaz Brüll
– Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, op. 24
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem
, op. 45
5 Lieder
, op. 49
Anton Bruckner
-
Symphony No. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns
–
Piano Concerto No. 2
Johann Strauss II
–
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Peter Tchaikovsky
Songs Without Words
Fatum
Opera
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"Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein"
1910
Edison Records
recording of Walther's Prize Song from
Richard Wagner
's
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
by
Leo Slezak
.
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Arrigo Boito
–
Mefistofele
[1]
Gaetano Braga
–
Ruy Blas
John Thomas Douglass
–
Virginia's Ball
performed (once) at the Stuyvesant Institute on Broadway in New York City, generally regarded as the first opera written by a black composer
Gialdino Gialdini
–
Rosmunda
premiered March 5 at the Teatro Pergola,
Florence
Jacques Offenbach
–
The Island of Tulipatan
Richard Wagner
–
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
, premièred in the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater,
Munich
Musical theatre
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La Belle Hélène
(Music by
Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) New York production opened at
Pike's Opera House
on
November 2
and ran for 14 performances
Ixion
Broadway production opened at
Wood's Museum and Metropolitan
on
September 28
and ran for 120 performances. Starring
Lydia Thompson
.
The White Fawn
Broadway production opened at
Niblo's Garden
on
January 17
and ran for 176 performances
Births
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January 6
–
Vittorio Monti
, Italian violinist, composer and conductor (d.
1922
)
[2]
January 24
–
Frank Peabody Atherton
, composer, educator (d. 1911)
January 26
–
Juventino Rosas
, composer, band leader (d. 1894)
April 13
–
John Blackwood McEwen
, composer, educator (d. 1948)
April 19
–
Max von Schillings
, composer, conductor (d. 1933)
April 22
–
José Vianna da Motta
, composer, pianist (d. 1948)
July 19
–
Florence Foster Jenkins
, soprano (d. 1944)
[3]
August 7
–
Granville Bantock
, composer (d. 1946)
[4]
August 21
–
Vess Ossman
, ragtime
banjo
player (d. 1923)
September 8
–
Seth Weeks
, African American jazz mandolinist, composer, arranger and bandleader (d.
1953
)
September 12
–
Jan Brandts Buys
, composer (d. 1933)
November 30
–
Ernest Newman
, critic (d.
1959
)
[5]
Early? (
or
November 24
?
) –
Scott Joplin
, African American
ragtime
composer, pianist (d. 1917)
Deaths
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]
January 3
–
Moritz Hauptmann
, composer (b. 1792)
[6]
February 25
–
Sophie Schröder
, actress and singer (b. 1781)
March 2
–
Carl Eberwein
, composer (b. 1786)
April 3
–
Franz Berwald
, composer (b. 1796)
[7]
April 26
–
Karel Strakatý
, singer (b. 1804)
June 5
–
Anselm Hüttenbrenner
, composer (b. 1794)
July 6
–
Samuel Lover
, songwriter (b. 1797)
August 11
–
Halfdan Kjerulf
, composer (b. 1815)
[8]
November 13
–
Gioacchino Rossini
, composer (b. 1792)
[9]
November 25
–
Franz Brendel
, music critic (b. 1811)
[10]
December 23
–
Karl Ferdinand Adam
, composer and cantor (b. 1806)
[11]
date unknown
Berl Broder
, singer and troubadour (b. 1815)
Erik Jonsson Helland
, Hardanger fiddle maker (b. 1816)
References
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]
^
Lorna Fitzsimmons; Charles McKnight (2019).
The Oxford Handbook of Faust in Music
. Oxford University Press. p. 306.
ISBN
978-0-19-993518-5
.
^
Philip James Bone (1914).
The Guitar and Mandolin: Biographies of Celebrated Players and Composers
. Schott. p. 243.
^
Nicholas Martin; Jasper Rees (5 May 2016).
Florence Foster Jenkins
. Pan Macmillan. p. 12.
ISBN
978-1-5098-2469-4
.
^
H. Orsmond Anderton (1915).
Granville Bantock
. John Lane. p. 14.
^
Ernest Newman (1955).
Fanfare for Ernest Newman
. A. Barker. p. 2.
ISBN
9781404792340
.
^
The Musical World
. J. Alfredo Novello. 1868. p. 60.
^
BBC Music Magazine
. BBC Magazines. 2000. pp. 45–47.
^
Arthur Hubbell Palmer (25 September 2019).
Poems and Songs of Björnstjerne Björnson
. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 174.
ISBN
978-3-7340-8923-7
.
^
Edward Ledger (1874).
The Era Almanack, Dramatic & Musical
. Era. p. 2.
^
Franz Liszt (1894).
From Paris to Rome. Years of travel as virtuoso
. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 164.
^
Albert Ernest Wier (1938).
The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume
. Macmillan. p. 11.
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