1870 in Music

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"

Composer Richard Wagner — Composer
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, Polish pianist and composer (Java Suite, 53 Studies on Chopin's Études) born in Žasliai, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), (d. 1938)
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 Lehár, Austrian-Hungarian composer (Naughty Marietta), born in Komárom, Austria-Hungary (d. 1948)
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

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, Italian 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

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