1867 in music

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Events

Premieres

Teaching and research

• The Danish composer and conductor Niels Wilhelm Gade is the first director of the newly founded Københavns of Music in Copenhagen.

Others

• Gioachino Rossini wrote for, taking place from April 1 to November 3 World Exhibition in Paris the piece hymn to Napoleon III. and his fine strong people as the official exhibition anthem.
• Alexander Muir wrote after the establishment of the Canadian Confederation patriotic song The Maple Leaf Forever.
• Edvard Grieg married his cousin Nina Hagerup.

Born

• JANUARY 21: Ivan Ivanovich Krischanowski, Russian composer († 1924)
• January 27: Claude Terrasse, French operetta composer († 1923)
• March 3: Gustav Strube, American composer († 1953)
• March 25: Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor († 1957)
• MARCH 28: Ferruccio Cattelani, Italian composer († 1932)
• April 4: Victoria Cartier, Canadian organist and music teacher († 1955)
• April 11: William Edwin Bunnies, American composer († 1929)
• APRIL 24: Karel Navratil, Czech composer († 1936)
• 9 June: Jules Bouver, French organist and composer († 1914)
• June 19: Česlovas Sasnauskas, Lithuanian composer († 1916)
• July 27: Enrique Granados, Spanish composer and pianist († 1916)
• August 22: Maud Powell, American violinist († 1920)
• AUGUST 28: Umberto Giordano, Italian composer († 1948)
• September 5: Amy Beach, American composer († 1944)
• September 6: Franciszek Brzezinski, Polish composer († 1944)
• November 6: Eduard Bernoulli, Swiss musicologist († 1927)
• November 8: Ilmari Krohn, Finnish composer and musicologist († 1960)
• November 27: Charles Koechlin, French composer († 1950)
• NOVEMBER 27: Margaret Ruthven Lang, American composer († 1972)
• December 20: Fini Valdemar Henriques, Danish composer and violinist († 1940)

• William E., Go, American organist († 1962)

Died

• MARCH 6: Viktor Każyński, Polish composer (* 1812)
• June 14: Jean Vidal, French violinist and conductor (* 1789)
• July 21: Antonio Barezzi, Italian businessman and philanthropist, patron of Giuseppe Verdi ( * 1787)
• September 1: Edward Hodges, American organist and composer (* 1796)
• September 10: Simon Sechter, Austrian musicologist, music teacher, organist, conductor and composer (* 1788)
• October 9: Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, Polish composer (* 1807)
• November 26: August Müller, German bassist (* 1808)
• December 6: Giovanni Pacini, an Italian opera composer (* 1796)