Music year 1861

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Music year 1861
Franz Schubert's Singspiel The Conspirators will be premiered 33 years after the composer's death.

Events

New compositions

Summer: The young Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák composes his first work, the quintet in A minor for 2 violins, 2 violas and violoncello op.1 , which, however, was not performed for the first time until 1921 .
Sommer: Richard Wagner composes the piano piece Arrival at the Black Swans in Paris , which he dedicates to Mélanie Renouard de Bussière .

Theme in the version by Johannes Brahms

September: Johannes Brahms composes Variations and Fugues on a theme by Handel in Hamburg Hamm . In addition, there are the works Variations on an own theme op. 21/1 and Variations on a Hungarian song op. 21/2.

Franz Liszt completes the first of his Mephisto waltzes and sets Heinrich Heine's poem Die Lore-Ley to music a second time.
Johann Strauss (son) composes the "musical joke" Perpetuum Mobile . The composer also brings out the following works: Thermen (waltz) op 245; Cricket Banner (Waltz) op 247; Elective parts (waltz) op 250; Sound figures (waltz) op 251; Dividends (Waltz) op 252; Enthusiasm (waltz) op 253; Rokonhangok (Polka) op 246; Camelia Polka op 248; Hesperus Polka op 249; Second Polka op 258; Furioso Polka op 260; New Melody Quadrille op 254; St. Petersburg (Quadrille) op 255 and the Chansonette Quadrille op 259.
Luisa T. Clare sets the poem The Song of the Western Men by Robert Stephen Hawker , the unofficial anthem of Cornwall .
François Benoist composes the mass à 4 voix, orgue et orchester .
Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein publishes Rusalka a work for female choir and orchestra / piano op.63
Hermann Goetz writes his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major .
François Bazin composes his opera Marianne .

World premieres

Instrumental music

November 9 : As part of a concert tour through Germany and the Netherlands, Bedřich Smetana performs for the first time the concert etude for piano solo in G sharp minor Na břehu mořském - Vzpomínka ( Am Seegestade - a memory ), which he composed in Prague in September .

Franz Lachner premieres his orchestral suite No. 1 in D minor, Op. 113.
The concert overture Hamlet op 37 by Niels Wilhelm Gade had its first performance in 1861.

Musical theater

January 1st : The opera Verbum nobile by Stanisław Moniuszko based on a libretto by Jan Chęciński has its world premiere in Warsaw and is received with enthusiasm.
January 5th : The world premiere of the 50-minute operetta Le Chanson de Fortunio by Jacques Offenbach based on a libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris was so successful that the audience applauded a complete repetition enforces.

January 16 : The world premiere of La Madone by Louis Lacombe takes place at the Théâtre-Lyrique on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris .

January 25th : The Opéra-comique Les Musiciens de l'orchestre by Léo Delibes and Aristide Hignard on a libretto by Philippe-Auguste Pittaud de Forges has its world premiere at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.

February 15 : Two years after the world premiere in Paris, the German premiere of the opera Faust by Charles Gounod based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's drama Faust takes place in Darmstadt . A tragedy. instead of. Here too she celebrates a great success.

February 28 : The opera The Amber Witch of William Vincent Wallace on the novel Maria Schweidler that Bernsteinhexe by Wilhelm Meinhold is at Her Majesty's Theater premiered at London's Haymarket. The title role is sung by the soprano Helen Lemmens-Sherrington .

March 9 : The world premiere of the opera Bánk-Bán by Ferenc Erkel takes place in Budapest.

March 23 : The operetta Le pont des soupirs ( The Bridge of Sighs ) by Jacques Offenbach has its world premiere in Paris. The piece with the libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy is so successful that Offenbach expanded it to four acts in 1868 .

March: The first performance of the Paris version of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and the Sängerkrieg on Wartburg , which is directed by Pierre-Louis Dietsch as conductor, turns into such a fiasco that the production has to be canceled after only three performances. The main reason for this is that Wagner incorporated a ballet interlude in the adaptation of his opera as a concession to the taste of the French audience, but atypically right at the beginning of the opera, and not, as was usual in French operas at this time, in the second act During the performance there was a dispute between Wagner and the conductor.

May 31 : The opera parody M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le ... by Jacques Offenbach is premiered at the Palais Bourbon in Paris.

August 29 : After a concert premiere by the Wiener Singverein on March 1, the staged world premiere of the Singspiel The Conspirators or The Domestic War by Franz Schubert takes place almost 33 years after the composer's death in Frankfurt am Main. The libretto is by Ignaz Franz Castelli . Schubert decided not to perform the work from 1823 after the Berlin composer Georg Abraham Schneider celebrated a success with the same material.

October 17th : The operetta Apothicaire et perruquier by Jacques Offenbach is performed for the first time in Paris (Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul). The libretto is by Élie Frébault.

November 30 : The opera The Puritan's Daughter by Michael William Balfe is in Italian opera premiered at Covent Garden in London.

December 10 : With the work Le roman comique , the fifth stage work of the year by the composer Jacques Offenbach is released. The world premiere will take place again in Paris at the Bouffes-Parisiens Theater (Salle Choiseul). The libretto is by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy.

Further stage work premieres

Friedrich von Flotow's ballet The Tannkönig, a Christmas fairy tale, is premiered in Schwerin.

The two-act Zarzuela Llamada y tropa by Emilio Arrieta based on a libretto by Antonio García Gutiérrez will be premiered.

Franz von Suppé writes the stage and theater music for the following eight plays: (1) A Hole in Hell by Johann Schönau; (2) OF Berg's political cobbler ; (3) A Mardi Gras Thursday in Venice by Giovanni Golinelli (choreography); (4) The Hell candidate by Blank and Bernhofer; (5) Viennese moth by Ludwig Gottsleben ; (6) A swindler by Johann Heinrich Mirani; (7) Journey through the fairy tale world by Anton Bittner and (8) The child prodigies from California by Karl Swiedack .

Other events

General German music association

4th to 8th August : The second Tonkünstler meeting takes place in Weimar. In the session on August 7th, the General German Music Association is founded. Founding members include Louis Köhler , Franz Brendel and Franz Liszt , who left Weimar a little later.

September 1st : The last performance of Mozart's Magic Flute takes place at the opera house on Hagenmarkt in Braunschweig . On October 1 , the new venue is on Steinweg inaugurated.

October 26 : Ernst Leberecht Fischer founds a drum factory in Markneukirchen , today's Lefima .

The Hlahol Committee 1862

The Czech Patriotic Male Choral Society Hlahol is founded.
Léon Minkus becomes violin soloist at the Bolshoi Theater .

Born

January 2 : Sofie Röhr-Brajnin , Polish-German opera singer († 1937 )
January 19 : George Whitfield Andrews , American composer, organist and music teacher († 1932 )
January 30th : Charles Martin Loeffler , German-American composer, violinist and violist († 1935 )

February 5 : Bjarnat Krawc , Sorbian composer († 1948 )
February 16 : Antonietta Dell'Era , Italian ballerina, first "Sugar Fairy" († 1945 )
February 21 : Pierre de Bréville , French composer († 1949 )
February 22nd : Gustav Lange , Norwegian composer, violinist and music teacher († 1939 )

March 4 : Franz Xaver Engelhart , German Catholic priest, church musician, choir director and composer († 1924 )
March 8 : Francis Lodowick York , American organist, composer and music teacher († 1955 )
March 14 : Everett Ellsworth Truette , American organist, composer, music publisher and author († 1933 )

April 11 : Émile Bouichère , French organist († 1895 )
April 25 : Marco Enrico Bossi , Italian organist and composer († 1925 )
April 25 : Rudolf Dittrich , Austrian musician († 1919 )
April 27 : Georgi Catoire , Russian composer († 1926 )
May 15 : Augustin Savard , French composer and music teacher († 1942 )

June 12 : Edmond Missa , French composer († 1910 )
June 15 : Ernestine Schumann-Heink , Austrian opera singer († 1936 )
June 17 : Sidney Jones , English composer and conductor († 1946 )
June 22nd : John Lemmoné , Australian flautist, composer and music manager († 1949 )

July 12 : Anton Arensky , Russian composer († 1906 )
July 16 : Franz von Blon , German composer and conductor († 1945 )
July 31 : Wilhelm Busch , German instrument maker († 1929 )
August 31 : Alexandre-M. Clerk , Canadian composer and conductor († 1932 )

November 30th : Ludwig Thuille , Austrian composer († 1907 )
December 20 : Ludwig Sauer , German organist († 1940 )

Died

Hippolyte Chelard 1860

January 16 : Georg Heinrich Lux , German school teacher, organist and composer (* 1779 )
February 12 : Hippolyte Chelard , French composer (* 1791 )
March 17th : Per Conrad Boman , Swedish composer (* 1804 )
April 18 : Heinrich August Neithardt , German composer (* 1793 )
August 11 : Catherine Hayes , Irish opera soprano (* 1818 )
August 26 : Johan Fredrik Berwald , Swedish composer (* 1787 )
September 13 : Toussaint Poisson , French composer and music teacher (* 1797 )
September 20 : Maximilien Simon , French composer and civil servant (* 1797 )
December 4th : José María Bustamante , Mexican composer (* 1777 )

Heinrich Marschner's grave in the Neustädter Friedhof in Hanover

December 14th : Heinrich Marschner , German composer (* 1795 )
December 18 : Ernst Anschütz , German teacher, organist, poet and composer (* 1780 )
December 24th : Carl Gottlieb Bellmann , German musician (* 1772 )

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