Year of music 1869
◄◄ | ◄ | 1865 | 1866 | 1867 | 1868 | Music year 1869 | 1870 | 1871 | 1872 | 1873 | ► | ►►
Overview of the music years
Further events
| Year of music 1869 | |
|---|---|
 a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni opened. |
Events
The new Vienna Court Opera
- May 25 : The “New House” of the Vienna Court Opera opens with a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth . The first director is Franz von Dingelstedt .
World premieres
ballet
- Don Quixote , a ballet by the choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Léon Minkus , will be premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. The libretto is based on the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes .
Instrumental music
- April 3 : The Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg , the only perfect concert of the Norwegian composer, has in Copenhagen's premiere .
- July 6th : The Egyptian March , composed by Johann Strauss Sohn on the occasion of the upcoming opening of the Suez Canal , is performed for the first time on the composer's trip to Russia.
- November 13th : The first performance of the Messa per Rossini on the first anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's death , a joint composition by thirteen Italian composers, does not take place, after which the work is forgotten for more than 100 years.
- The 3rd piano concerto by Camille Saint-Saëns premiered in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig and failed the audience.
- Johann Strauss (son) : The composer brought out the following works in 1869: Wein, Weib und Gesang (Waltz) op 333; King's Songs (Waltz) op 334; Fata Morgana (Polka Mazur) op 330; Éljen a Magyar! (Polka) op 332; Im Krapfenwald'l (Polka) op 336; Von der Börse (Polka) op 337; Louischen (Polka) op 339; Egyptian March op 335 and the Slovianka Quadrille op 338.
Opera
- February 26th : The opera William Ratcliff by César Cui is premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg
- February 27th : The new version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La forza del destino with the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni is performed for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano . The first version had its world premiere on November 10, 1862 .
- September 22nd : The opera Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner is premiered under the direction of Franz Wüllner against the will of the composer at the Royal Court and National Theater in Munich.
- 29 October : More than 20 years after the composer's death, Gaetano Donizetti's opera Gabriella di Vergy, composed in 1829, is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
- 11 December : The world premiere of the opera Paria by Stanisław Moniuszko based on a libretto by Jan Chęciński based on the tragedy Le Paria by Casimir Delavigne takes place at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. Despite positive criticism from the Warschauer Kurier, Paria was dropped from the opera repertoire after six more performances.
operetta
- January 16 : The world premiere of the operetta L'Ecossais de Chatou by Léo Delibes takes place at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
- July 31st : The opera-bouffe La princesse de Trébizonde by Jacques Offenbach is premiered at the Theater Baden-Baden . Offenbach's own ensemble, the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens Paris, is on the stage, while Offenbach himself is at the conductor's desk.
requiem
- February 18 : The final version of A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms has its world premiere in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. On January 3rd, however , there was a private performance of the piano reduction version with a small choir and soloists in Dessau, as Brahms learned from his friend Adolf Schubring.
Others
- May 2nd : A musical entertainment establishment opens in Paris under the name Folies Trévise . After its beginnings as Folies Bergère, it developed into an erotic variety theater and cabaret .
- Summer: The first Estonian song festival is held in Tartu on the initiative of the publicist Johann Voldemar Jannsen . The first day is devoted to sacred songs, the second to secular ones. However, there are only two Estonian songs in the program: Mu isamaa on minu arm and Surmani , composed by Aleksander Kunileid and written by Lydia Koidula .
- Richard Wagner publishes the anti-Semitic essay Das Judenthum in der Musik , written by him in 1850, as a brochure.
Born
- January 3 : Leo Feist , American music publisher († 1930 )
- January 3 : Charles Levadé , French composer († 1948 )
- January 27 : Will Marion Cook , American composer († 1944 )
- January 28 : Peter Fassbands , German-Swiss composer († 1920 )
- February 1 : July Konjus , Russian violinist († 1942 )
- February 10 : Wassili Kalafati , Russian composer († 1942 )
- February 11 : Abel Decaux , French composer, organist and music teacher († 1943 )
- February 12 : André Pirro , French musicologist and organist († 1943 )
- February 13 : Louis-Edouard Vuillermoz , French horn player and music teacher († 1939 )
- March 3 : Henry Wood , British conductor († 1944 )
- April 5 : Albert Roussel , French composer († 1937 )
- April 30 : Arthur Letondal , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer († 1956 )
- May 5 : Hans Pfitzner , German composer and conductor († 1949 )
- June 6 : Siegfried Wagner , German composer († 1930 )
- June 16 : George Waring Stebbins , American organist and composer († 1930 )
- July 2 : Liane de Pougy , French ballet dancer and writer († 1950 )
- August 14 : Armas Järnefelt , Finnish composer († 1958 )
- August 20 : Franz Bölsche , German musician and composer († 1935 )
- September 29 : Miguel Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican composer († 1941 )
- October 15 : Alfred Andersen-Wingar , Norwegian composer († 1952 )
- October 26 : August Halm , German composer († 1929 )
- November 4 : Lucienne Bréval , Swiss-French soprano and opera singer († 1935 )
- November 8 : Jens Bodewalt Lampe , Danish-American composer, violinist and orchestra leader of Ragtime († 1929 )
- December 1 : Vladimir R. Đorđević , Serbian musicologist and ethnologist († 1938 )
- December 12 : Clara Mannes , German-American pianist and music teacher († 1948 )
- December 23 : Hugh Allen , English conductor, organist and music teacher († 1946 )
- Edward Kreiser , American organist and composer († 1916 )
Died
- January 1 : Franz Josef Greith , Swiss music teacher and composer (* 1799 )
- January 17th : Émile Bienaimé , French composer (* 1802 )
- January 17th : Alexander Dargomyschski , Russian composer (* 1813 )
- March 8 : Hector Berlioz , French composer (* 1803 )
- March 11 : Vladimir Odojewski , Russian writer and composer (* 1803 )
- March 12th : Ernst Haberbier , German composer, Imperial Russian court pianist (* 1813 )
- March 23 : Albert Methfessel , German composer and conductor (* 1785 )
- March 23 : Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio , German native writer and folk song researcher (* 1803 )
- March 28 : Jules Joseph Gabriel de Lurieu , French theater poet and librettist (* 1792 )
- April 1 : Alexander Dreyschock , Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer (* 1818 )
- April 8 : Karl Joseph's childhood friend , Austrian writer, composer and music teacher (* 1793 )
- April 15 : August Wilhelm Bach , German composer and organist (* 1796 )
- April 20 : Carl Loewe , German composer (* 1796 )
- July 14th : Adolphe Claire Le Carpentier , French music teacher and composer (* 1809 )
- August 21 : Salvatore Patti , Italian opera tenor (* 1800 )
- October 30 : Leopold Knebelsberger , Austrian composer (* 1814 )
- November 29th : Giulia Grisi , Italian opera singer (* 1811 )
- December 18 : Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American pianist and composer (* 1829 )
- December 23 : Julian Fontana , Polish pianist and composer (* 1810 )
- December 31 : Louis Lefébure-Wély , French organist, composer (* 1817 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1869 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretto 1869 - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Tanz 1869 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files