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Overview of the events of 1869 in music
Overview of the events of 1869 in music
This article is about music-related events in
1869 .
Events
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Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
January 20 –
George Hamlin , American opera singer (d. 1923)
February 1 –
Kerry Mills , American violinist and songwriter (d. 1948)
February 3 –
Giulio Gatti-Casazza , opera manager (d. 1940)
February 12 –
Theodor Bertram , German opera singer (d.1907)
March 3 –
Henry Wood ,
conductor (d. 1944)
May 5 –
Hans Pfitzner , composer (d. 1949)
June 6 –
Siegfried Wagner , composer (d. 1930)
July 9 –
Arnold Volpe , composer (d. 1940)
July 13 –
Florence Perry , opera singer (d. 1949)
August 14 –
Armas Järnefelt , Finnish composer and conductor (d. 1958)
September 2 –
Carlos Hartling , composer of the national anthem of Honduras (d. 1920)
September 6 –
Walford Davies , British composer and organist, Master of the King's Musick (d. 1941)
September 21 –
Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński , Polish composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher (d. 1928)
September 30 –
E. A. Couturier , American cornet virtuoso, composer, inventor and instrument manufacturer (d. 1950)
October 8 (September 26
O.S. ) –
Komitas , born Soghomon Soghomonian, Turkish Armenian priest and ethnomusicologist (d. 1935)
date unknown
Kate Carney , born Catherine Pattinson, English music hall singer (d. 1950)
Maximilian Maksakov , born Max Schwartz, Austro-Russian operatic baritone (d. 1936)
Deaths
January 10 –
Joan Aulí , organist and composer (b. 1796)
January 17 –
Alexander Dargomyzhsky , Russian composer (b. 1813)
January 30 –
Charlotte Alington Barnard ('Claribel'), English ballad composer (b. 1830)
March 8 –
Hector Berlioz , composer (b. 1803)
March 23 –
Charles Lucas , cellist (b. 1808)
April 1 –
Alexander Dreyschock , pianist and composer (b. 1818)
April 12 –
Antonie Brentano , friend of Beethoven (b. 1780)
April 15 –
August Wilhelm Bach , German composer and organist (b. 1796)
April 20 –
Carl Loewe , composer,
baritone ,
conductor (b. 1796)
May 10 –
Bernhard Molique , German violinist and composer (b. 1802)
June 4 –
Joseph Ascher , pianist and composer (b. 1829)
June 15 –
Albert Grisar , composer (b. 1808)
July 18 –
Louis Bouilhet , lyricist (born 1822)
August 13 –
Giuseppe Persiani , opera composer (b. 1799)
August 24 –
Macedonio Alcalá , pianist, violinist and songwriter (b. 1831)
November 29 –
Giulia Grisi , opera singer (b. 1811)
December 18 –
Louis Moreau Gottschalk , composer and pianist (b. 1829) (overdose of quinine)
December 23 –
Julian Fontana , pianist (b. 1810)
December 31 –
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély , organist (b. 1817)
References