Events in Music
Music Premiere
Jun 26 Richard Wagner's opera "Valkyrie", second in his Ring Cycle premieres in Munich, featuring "Ride of the Valkyries"
Richard Wagner
- Oct 13 Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 3 Henry Eichheim, composer
- Jan 4 Percy Pitt, English composer (BBC), born in London (d. 1932)
- Jan 13 Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
- Jan 20 Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer
- Jan 22 Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer
- Feb 12 Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922)
- Feb 13 Leopold Godowsky, Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
- Feb 27 Louis Coerne, composer
- Mar 6 Oscar Straus, composer (Ein Walzertraum), born in Vienna, Austria
- Mar 10 Alfred Kastner, composer
- Apr 7 Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
- Apr 20 Simeon Roncal, Bolivian composer, born in Sucre, Bolivia (d. 1953)
- Apr 28 Hermann Suter, Swiss composer, born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Switzerland (d. 1926)
- Apr 30 Franz Lehar, operetta composer (Naughty Marietta)
- May 14 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
- Jun 29 Joseph Carl Breil, American composer (Les amours de la reine Élisabeth), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1926)
- Jul 15 Ernest Walker, composer
- Jul 18 Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor and composer, born in Kybartai, Lithuania (d. 1935)
- Aug 4 Harry Lauder, Scottish comedian and singer (Roamin' in the Gloamin), born in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1950)
- Sep 1 Timotei Popovici, composer
- Sep 8 Hermann Hans Wetzler, German-American composer, born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1943)
- Sep 22 Arthur Pryor, American band composer and trombone player, born in Saint Joseph, Missouri (d. 1942)
- Sep 23 John Lomax, Miss, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist
- Oct 8 Louis Vierne, French organist and composer, born in Poitiers, France (d. 1937)
- Nov 16 Alfred Hill, New Zealand Australian composer (Hinemoa), born in Melbourne (d. 1960)
- Nov 19 Vicente Lleó, Spanish composer (La Corte de Faraón), born in Torrent, Valencia (d. 1922)
- Nov 22 Howard Brockway, composer
- Nov 30 Cecil Forsyth, composer
- Dec 2 Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor
- Dec 5 Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer, born in Kamenice nad Lipou, Czech Republic (d. 1949)
- Dec 24 Rosario Scalero, Italian composer, born in Moncalieri, Italy (d. 1954)
Weddings in Music
Wedding of Interest
Aug 25 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
Richard Wagner
Deaths in Music
- Jan 7 Karl Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
- Jan 11 Adolf Ganz, German composer and violinist, dies at 73
- Jan 26 Cesare Pugni, composer, dies at 67
- Feb 11 Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer, dies at 66
- Mar 9 Theodore Labarre, composer, dies at 65
- Mar 10 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer, dies at 75
- Mar 18 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48
- Apr 8 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist/composer, dies at 68
- Apr 19 Camille Marie Stamaty, composer, dies at 59
- Apr 19 William Henry Havergal, composer, dies at 77
- May 14 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer, dies at 69
- May 30 Gustave Vogt, French composer, dies at 89
- Jun 8 Johann Gottlob Topfer, German composer, dies at 78
- Jun 9 Erik Drake, Swedish composer (Swedish Academy of Music), dies at 82
- Jul 22 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer (Dynamids), dies at 42
- Jul 25 Pierre Dupont, French songwriter, dies at 49
- Aug 16 Edmund Passy, Swedish composer, dies at 80
- Sep 2 Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48
- Oct 20 Michael William Balfe, composer (Bohemian Girl), dies at 62
- Oct 31 Mihály Mosonyi, Hungarian composer, dies at 55
- Dec 16 Stanisław Duniecki, Polish composer, dies at 31
- Dec 17 Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, composer, dies at 75
- Dec 28 Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, Russian composer, dies at 72