Music year 1868
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Overview of the music years
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Events
World premieres
Instrumental music
- January 5th : The second version of Max Bruch's 1st Violin Concerto is premiered in Bremen under the direction of Carl Martin Reinthaler with Joseph Joachim as soloist . Another performance will take place at the Lower Rhine Music Festival at Whitsun in Cologne. The expressive melody, the beauty of the sound and the clear structure of the work are the reasons for its continued popularity.
- January 21st : The waltz Spheres Sounds by Johann Strauss (son) is premiered in the Sofiensaal in Vienna on the occasion of a medicine ball .
- February 3 : The 1st Symphony by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , composed in 1866 , is performed in full for the first time under the direction of Nikolai Rubinstein and is well received.
- April 10 : The first version of A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms is successfully premiered in Bremen Cathedral under the direction of the composer after it has been rehearsed by the Bremen cathedral music director Carl Martin Reinthaler . The fifth movement still missing at this concert is only inserted afterwards.
- May 9 : Anton Bruckner conducts the world premiere of his 1st symphony ( WAB 101) in the Altes Dom in Linz . The performance, which was positively reviewed by Eduard Hanslick , turned out to be a respectable success, but could not do anything for the composer's later career. This is probably one of the reasons for Bruckner's move to Vienna in the same year.
- The pianist and conductor Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein plans to give a concert as a conductor in Paris in May and asks his friend Camille Saint-Saëns to compose a work for it. He then composed his 2nd piano concerto in just 17 days . The premiere of the piano concerto on May 13th , in which the composer played the piano part, was a failure due to the short preparation time. Among the audience, however, was Franz Liszt , who recognized the compositional qualities of the work and encouraged Saint-Saëns to continue performing the work, which soon enjoyed growing popularity.
- June 19 : The dance waltz “ Tales from the Vienna Woods ” by Johann Strauss (son) is premiered in the kk Volksgarten by the Strauss Chapel under the direction of the composer.
- July 26 : In Sondershausen is the first symphony by Max Bruch premiered. Further performances within Germany will follow. The press did not develop any enthusiasm, but responded with praise to the symphony. The symphony is accused of orienting itself too clearly towards Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy .
- In addition to the two waltzes listed above, the composer Johann Strauss (son) also released the following works in 1868: Die Publicisten (Waltz) op. 321; City and Country (Polka) op 322; One heart, one sense (Polka) op 323; Under thunder and lightning (Schnellpolka) op 324; Free balls (Polka) op 326; Sängerslust-Polka and Le premier jour de bonheur (Quadrille) op 327.
Opera
- January 20 : The operetta Die Frau Meisterin by Franz von Suppè has its world premiere at the Carltheater in Vienna. The libretto is by Karl Costa . The reviews are ambivalent. Today only the overture is known of the music .
- March 5th : The premiere of the first version of the opera Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito takes place at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and receives extremely bad reviews.
- March 9 : The opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas premieres in the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera . The libretto is by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier , it is based on that of Alexandre Dumas the Elder. Ä. and Paul Meurice wrote the French adaptation of the tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare . Jean-Baptiste Faure sings the title role, Christine Nilsson the Ophélie. The choreography of the ballet La fête du printemps came from Marius Petipa .
- May 16 : The world premiere of the opera Dalibor by Bedřich Smetana with the libretto by Josef Wenzig takes place on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the National Theater at the České Prozatímní Divadlo ( Interim Theater ) in Prague. The premiere was well received, but in the following weeks Smetana was accused by Czech-national circles of "Germanizing" the music by introducing the leitmotif .
- June 21 : The opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner is premiered under the direction of Hans von Bülow at the National Theater in Munich .
operetta
- April 11 : The operetta La fleur du thé ( The Tea Flower ) by Alexandre Charles Lecocq based on the libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru is premiered at the Théâtre l'Athénée-Comique in Paris.
- May 6 : The opéra bouffe Totos Castle of Jacques Offenbach is in the Palais Royal premiered in Paris. After 15 successful performances, the number of visitors soon begins to decline, although the imperial couple attended the third performance. Even the new equipment that took place at the beginning of July cannot prevent the piece from being removed from the program on July 28th .
- September 30 : The world premiere of the one-act operetta L'ile de Tulipatan (The Isle of Tulipatan) by Jacques Offenbach takes place in Offenbach's own Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
- October 6 : In the Paris Théâtre des Variétés is Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Périchole with the libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy premiered. Offenbach's favorite singer Hortense Schneider shines in the title role.
Others
- July 14th : Johannes Brahms composes his most popular song Guten Abend, gut 'Nacht on the occasion of the birth of a child of his old friend Bertha Faber. The first stanza in the form we know today appeared for the first time in 1808 under the title Gute Nacht, mein Kind! in the third volume of the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn edited by Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano . The second stanza comes from the philologist and folk song collector Georg Scherer .
- Summer: Johannes Brahms composes the love song waltzes . In the same year he completed the cantata Rinaldo , which he started in 1863 and left behind for several years.
- Modest Mussorgsky begins work on the original version of the opera Boris Godunow based on motifs from the drama of the same name by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin .
- The American teacher Septimus Winner wrote the song Ten Little Injuns .
- The Anglican hymn The King of Love My Shepherd Is is created.
- Phillips Brooks writes the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem .
Born
- January 25 : Juventino Rosas , Mexican musician and composer († 1894 )
- January 28 : Julián Aguirre , Argentine composer, pianist and music teacher († 1924 )
- February 1 : Gustav Zeitzschel , German opera singer († 1951 )
- March 8 : Georges Guiraud , French composer, organist and music teacher († 1928 )
- March 19 : Luigi Stefano Giarda , Italian composer, cellist and music teacher († 1952 )
- March 23 : John Carson , American old-time musician († 1949 )
- April 4 : Fredrik Wilhelm Gomnaes , Norwegian composer († 1925 )
- April 15 : Francisco Braga , Brazilian composer († 1945 )
- April 16 : Charles Silver , French composer († 1949 )
- April 19 : Max von Schillings , German composer, conductor and theater director († 1933 )
- April 22 : José Vianna da Motta , Portuguese composer and pianist († 1948 )
- May 31 : Jane Avril , French dancer († 1943 )
- June 3 : Georg Jarno , Hungarian composer and conductor († 1920 )
- June 3 : Henning Mankell , Swedish composer († 1930 )
- July 17 : Thorvald Otterstrom , American composer († 1942 )
- August 5 : Oskar Merikanto , Finnish composer († 1924 )
- August 7 : Granville Bantock , English composer († 1946 )
- August 16 : Charles Sanford Skilton , American composer and organist († 1941 )
- August 26 : Henry Franklin Gilbert , American composer († 1928 )
- September 12 : Jan Brandts-Buys , Dutch composer († 1933 )
- September 26 : Karel Hoffmeister , Czech pianist and musicologist († 1952 )
- October 20 : Gabriel Montoya , French chansonnier and poet († 1914 )
- November 4 : La Belle Otéro , Spanish revue dancer, singer († 1965 )
- November 13 : Pierre Maurice , Swiss composer († 1936 )
- November 24 : Scott Joplin , American composer and pianist († 1917 )
- December 8 : Giacomo Setaccioli , Italian composer († 1925 )
- December 11 : Ernst Henrik Ellberg , Swedish composer († 1948 )
- Karl Nováček , Czech cellist, conductor and military bandmaster († 1929 )
- Ramón Emilio Peralta , Dominican composer, conductor, music teacher and saxophonist († 1941 )
Died
- January 3 : Moritz Hauptmann , German composer, violinist and music theorist (* 1792 )
- January 7th : William Batchelder Bradbury , American composer (* 1816 )
- February 25 : Sophie Schröder , German singer and actress (* 1781 )
- March 2 : Franz Carl Adelbert Eberwein , music director and conductor at the grand ducal opera in Weimar (* 1786 )
- April 3 : Franz Berwald , Swedish composer and violinist (* 1796 )
- June 5 : Anselm Hüttenbrenner , Austrian composer and music critic (* 1794 )
- July 8th : Samuel Ludwig Hartig , German organ builder (* 1790 )
- July 16 : Louis François Dauprat , French horn player, composer and professor of horn (* 1781 )
- July 20 : Johann Friedrich Kittl , Czech composer (* 1806 )
- August 11 : Halfdan Kjerulf , Norwegian composer (* 1815 )
- August 27 : Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee , Swiss composer and music author (* 1786 )
- October 27 : Carl Abraham Mankell , Swedish composer (* 1802 )
- November 13th : Gioachino Rossini , Italian composer (* 1792 )
- November 25th : Franz Brendel , German music critic, journalist and musicologist (* 1811 )
- Berl Broder , Jewish folk poet and traveling singer (* 1815)
See also
Web links
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