1869 in music

[edit] Events

• April 3 - Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino.
• September 22 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich.

[edit] Published popular music

• "The Little Brown Jug" by J. Eastburn Winner
• "Now the Day is Over" by w. Sabine Baring-Gould m. Joseph Barnby
• "Shew, Fly! Don't Bother Me!" by T. Bringham Bishop (possibly w. Billy Reeves m. Frank Campbell)
• "Sweet Genevieve" w. George Cooper m. Henry Tucker

[edit] Classical music

• Johannes Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem
• Charles Gounod - Les Martyrs
• George Stephanescu - Symphony in A

[edit] Opera

• Frederic Clay - Ages Ago
• Karel Miry - Een engel op wacht (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered on December 8 in Brussels)
• Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold

[edit] Births

• February 1 - Kerry Mills, US violinist and songwriter
• March 3 - Henry Wood, conductor
• May 5 - Hans Pfitzner, composer
• June 6 - Siegfried Wagner, composer
• June 17 - Sidney Jones, composer
• September 6 - Henry Walford Davies, composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick
• November 8 - J. Bodewalt Lampe, Danish-born composer

[edit] Deaths

• March 8 - Hector Berlioz, composer
• April 1 - Alexander Dreyschock, pianist and composer
• April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor
• August 13 - Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer
• November 29 - Giulia Grisi, opera singer
• December 18 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, composer and pianist
• December 23 - Julian Fontana, pianist
• date unknown - Wilhelm Bernhardt Molique, violinist and composer