Music year 1870

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Music year 1870
The Vienna Musikverein building built by Theophil von Hansen is opened with a festive concert.

Events

Musikverein Vienna

Musikverein building Vienna, keystone laying on March 1st , drawing by Vinzenz Katzler

January 6th : The Wiener Musikverein building , built in the historicizing style by Theophil von Hansen , opens with a festive concert. The acoustics of the Great Hall are consistently praised by the critics. The keystone will be laid on March 1st .

Dance and dance music

Johann Strauss (son) : The composer brought out the following waltzes in 1870: Rejoice in Life op 340 and New Vienna op 342.

The Boston appeared in the USA around 1870 , a slow waltz in contrast to the Viennese waltz .

World premieres

March 16 : The Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was in Moscow under the baton of Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein their first performance . In summer the composer subjects the work to a first revision.

Il Guarany , title page of the score

March 19 : The opera Il Guarany by Antônio Carlos Gomes has its world premiere at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan with overwhelming success . The literary model for the libretto by Antonio Scalvini and Carlo D'Ormeville is the novel O Guarani by the writer José de Alencar from 1857 . The work is considered to be the first Brazilian opera and belongs to the romantic genre of Indianismo . In Brazil, the work will be performed on December 2nd in the Teatro Lyrico Fluminense on the occasion of the 45th birthday of Emperor Pedro II under the title O Guarani . The staging of this performance comes from the composer himself.
May 25 : The ballet Coppélia ou La Fille aux yeux d'émail by Léo Delibes based on a libretto by Charles Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon is premiered with triumphant success at the Paris Opera . The plot is based on ETA Hoffmann's story The Sandman . Eugenie Fiocre dances the role of Franz.
June 26th : The opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner , the second part of the tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung , is premiered at the Royal Court and National Theater in Munich under the direction of Franz Wüllner . Among others, Sophie Stehle , Kaspar Bausewein , Therese Vogl , Heinrich Vogl and August Kindermann will sing .
September 25th : The fourth and final version of the opera Prodaná nevěsta ( The Bartered Bride ) by Bedřich Smetana based on a libretto by Karel Sabina is premiered at the Prozatímní divadlo (Interim Theater) in Prague. This version is ultimately an international success.

Others

Antonín Dvořák completed his first opera Alfred , which was not performed during his lifetime. The libretto is by Carl Theodor Körner , the work is Dvořák's only opera based on a German text.

Born

First half of the year

January 13 : Henryk Opieński , Polish composer († 1942 )
January 19 : Jean-Baptiste Dubois , Canadian cellist, conductor and music teacher († 1938 )
January 20 : Guillaume Lekeu , Belgian composer († 1894 )
January 20 : Fausto Salvatori , Italian writer and librettist († 1929 )
January 22 : Charles Tournemire , French composer († 1939 )
January 28 : Marie Narelle , Australian singer († 1941 )

February 13 : Leopold Godowsky , Polish pianist and composer († 1938 )
February 22 : Joseph-Jean Goulet , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher († 1951 )
February 27 : Louis Adolphe Coerne , American composer († 1922 )

March 4 : Fausta Labia , Italian opera singer († 1935 )
March 6 : Oscar Straus , Austrian operetta composer († 1954 )
March 13 : Gaston Arman de Caillavet , French playwright and librettist († 1915 )
March 14 : Andrés Delgado Pardo , Venezuelan pianist, composer and music teacher († 1940 )
March 17 : Per Steenberg , Norwegian organist and composer († 1947 )

April 8 : Sigismond Stojowski , Polish pianist and composer († 1946 )
April 19 : Kōda Nobu , Japanese violinist, pianist and composer († 1946 )
April 28 : Jules Blangenois , Belgian composer and conductor († 1957 )

Franz Lehár with his mother Christine in 1875

April 30th : Franz Lehár , Austrian composer of Hungarian origin, co-founder of the so-called Silver Operetta Era († 1948 )

May 1 : Frédéric Pelletier , Canadian music critic, choir director and composer († 1944 )

Baptismal register entry for Juana Vargas de la Hera

May 3 : Juana la Macarrona , own Juana Vargas de la Hera, Spanish flamenco dancer († 1947 )
May 4 : Hermann Böse , German conductor, music teacher and resistance fighter († 1943 )
May 10 : Franz Xaver Müller , Austrian composer, priest and cathedral music director († 1948 )
May 19 : Victor Beigel , English pianist and singing teacher of Hungarian descent († 1930 )

June 14 : Harry Puddicombe , Canadian music teacher and composer († 1953 )
June 18 : Johannes Biehle , German professor of physics, bell and organ builder († 1941 )

Second half of the year

July 8 : Gertrud Grunow , German opera singer and pianist († 1944 )
July 17 : Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský , Czech conductor and composer († 1931 )
July 20 : Luigi von Kunits , Austrian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher († 1931 )

August 4 : Oskar Ameringer , German-American carpenter, musician, editor and politician († 1943 )
August 8 : João Itiberê da Cunha , Brazilian composer and music critic († 1953 )
August 21 : Edmond Malherbe , French composer († 1963 )

September 2 : Kennerley Rumford , English singer (baritone) († 1957 )
September 22nd : Georgette Bréjean-Silver , French opera singer († 1951 )
September 28 : Florent Schmitt , French composer († 1958 )

October 7th : Uncle Dave Macon , American country musician († 1952 )
October 8 : Louis Vierne , French composer and organist († 1937 )

November 1 : Santos Cifuentes Rodríguez , Colombian composer († 1932 )
November 22nd : Howard Brockway American composer († 1951 )

December 5 : Vítězslav Novák , Austrian composer and conductor († 1949 )
December 18 : Arseni Nikolayevich Koreschtschenko , Russian composer († 1921 )
December 24th : Rosario Scalero , Italian violinist, music teacher and composer († 1954 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Schamram Kelleciyan , Armenian chanson singer († 1955 )

Died

Date of death secured

January 7th : Carl Schwencke , German musician and composer (* 1797 )
March 9th : Théodore Labarre , French harp virtuoso and composer (* 1805 )
April 8 : Charles-Auguste de Bériot , Belgian violinist, violin teacher and composer (* 1802 )

May 30th : Gustave Vogt , French oboist, music teacher and composer (* 1781 )
May 31 : Johann Caspar Kummer , German flautist, composer and music teacher (* 1795 )