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  • 2.1 First half of
  • 2.2 Second half of
  • 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

Venues

  • To make the 1843 re-opened Diana Baths in Vienna - Leopoldstadt can also be used in the bath free winter season, the swimming pool is covered and the indoor swimming pool decorated as a concert hall and ballroom. In opened on November 12, Diana Baths Hall debut in the years that followed, among others, Eduard Strauss and Carl Michael Ziehrer, and by Johann Strauss ( son ) wrote waltzes The Blue Danube has here his triumphant premiere in 1867.
  • On November 1, built from the opera tenor Karl Treumann to plans by the architects Ferdinand Fellner Theater at Franz- Josef - Kai opened in Vienna. The ground on Morzinplatz created by the demolition of the city walls of Vienna in 1858. The Treumann theater plays an important role in the establishment of Viennese operetta.
  • The young and largely unknown architect Charles Garnier surprise winner of the architectural competition for the construction of the new Paris Opera. The 15- year long construction of the Opéra Garnier is his life's work.

Premieres

  • November 26: At the Paris Opera will be premiered in the choreography of the famous dancer Marie Taglioni Jacques Offenbach's ballet - pantomime Le Papillon. The performance turns into a triumph, which is also to thank the skills of the young ballerina Emma Livry.
  • December 6: The premiere of the opera Bianca or The Bravo 's Bride by Michael William Balfe takes place in London in Covent Garden.
  • Konrad Max Kunz composed the song Bavaria. The text of the teacher and publicist Michael Öchsner it is presented for the first time on 15 December by the citizens singer - Guild Munich, at that time the most important lay association for the care of singing and music in the Kingdom of Bavaria. The piece will soon become a popular folk song. Nearly a century later, the song is charged with a slightly different text than Bavaria anthem the official anthem of the Free State of Bavaria.

Science and Technology

On one of Édouard -Léon Scott de Martinville three years previously constructed Phonautographen a sound recording succeeds: On April 9, the French folk song Au clair and children de la lune is absorbed, 17 years before the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison. It is the oldest preserved audio recording now.

Others

  • The French composer Hector Berlioz begins freely with the work on the opera Béatrice et Bénédict after William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The plant experienced its premiere in 1862.
  • Jacques Offenbach dedicated Clara students, students polka.

Born

First half year

  • January 6: Raoul Gunsbourg, Romanian opera director, writer and composer († 1955)
  • January 9: Laura Valborg Aulin, Swedish pianist and composer († 1928)
  • MARCH 13: Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer († 1903)
  • MARCH 22: Otto Barblan, Swiss composer, organist and music teacher († 1943)
  • April 7: Rudolf Nováček, Czech composer and conductor († 1929)
  • May 4: Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, Austrian composer († 1945)
  • MAY 29: Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer and pianist († 1909)
  • JUNE 10: Lucien Hillemacher, French composer († 1909)
  • JUNE 25: Gustave Charpentier, French composer († 1956)

Hugo Wolf

Isaac Albéniz

Gustave Charpentier

Second half- year

Ernst Stöhr

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Alexander von Fielitz

Exact date of birth unknown

  • Francisco Soñé, Dominican composer, music teacher, conductor and clarinetist († 1949)
  • Amy Woodforde - finding, English composer († 1919)

Died

  • JANUARY 26: Wilhelmine Schröder- Devrient, German opera singer (soprano ) (* 1804)
  • FEBRUARY 29: George Tower Bridge, English violinist and composer (* 1778)
  • March 6: Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (* 1783)
  • MARCH 28: Johann Ludwig Bohner, German musician (* 1787)
  • April 15: Karoline Christine Böhler, German singer, actress and pianist (* 1800)
  • APRIL 27: Leonhard Schulz, Austrian guitarist and composer (* 1814)
  • MAY 21: Frederik Johannes Fröhlich, Danish composer (* 1806)
  • August 26: Friedrich Silcherstraße, German composer and music teacher (* 1789)
  • SEPTEMBER 9: Johann Horzalka, Austrian pianist and composer (* 1798)
  • SEPTEMBER 25: Carl Friedrich Zöllner, German composer (* 1800)
  • OCTOBER 20: Julius Cornet, Austrian opera singer ( tenor) and theater director (* 1792)
  • NOVEMBER 5: Karl Binder, Austrian conductor and composer (* 1816)
  • NOVEMBER 27: Ludwig Rellstab, German journalist, music critic and poet (* 1799)
  • Henry Hammermeister, German opera singer (baritone ) (* 1799)
  • Wilhelm Korfmacher, German organ builder (* 1787)
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