1860 in music
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
- Johannes Brahms
- Vier Gesänge, for women's chorus, two horns and harp, Op. 17
- String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 18
- Karl Davydov â Fantasie über russische Lieder, Op.7
- Eduard Franck
- Piano Trio No.2 in Eâ major, Op.22
- Violin Sonata No.2, Op.23
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk â Jeunesse, Op.70
- Franz Liszt â First of the Mephisto Waltzes
- Joseph Mikel â Les lanciers aux bains de mer
- John Knowles Paine â Concert Variations on the Austrian Hymn in F for Organ (Op.3, No.1)
- Anton Rubinstein â Soirées àSaint-Pétersbourg
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Symphony No.2, Op.55
- Ave Maria
Opera
- Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production, is the first to include the Orphée aux enfers overture, arranged by .
Births
- January 7 â Emanuil Manolov, Bulgarian composer (d. 1902)
- January 24 â , composer (died 1928)
- March 13 â Hugo Wolf, composer (died 1903)
- May 5 â Pietro Floridia, composer (d. 1932)
- May 17 â August Stradal, pianist (died 1930)
- May 29 â Isaac Albéniz, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
- June 25 â Gustave Charpentier, composer (d. 1956)
- July 7
- Florence Farr, actress and composer (d. 1917)
- Gustav Mahler, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
- September 1 â Cleofonte Campanini, conductor (d. 1919)
- September 18 â Alberto Franchetti, opera composer (d. 1942)
- November 18 â Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist (d. 1941)
- November 27 â Victor Ewald, composer (d. 1935)
- December 4 â Lillian Russell, US singer and actress (d. 1922)
- December 18 â Edward MacDowell, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
- December 20 â Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer (d. 1904)
- December 24 â Julius Korngold, music critic (died 1945)
- December 28 â Harry B. Smith, US songwriter (d. 1936)
- December 30 â Thomas Bulch, brass-band composer (d. 1930)
Deaths
- January 26 â Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
- February 24 â James Barr, composer (born 1779)
- March 6 â Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
- March 14 â Louis Antoine Jullien, conductor and composer (b. 1812)
- May 21 â Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1806)
- June 21 â Mykola Markevych, musician, composer and poet (b. 1804)
- 10 August â Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (b. 1810)
- August 26 â Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)
- September 25 â Carl Friedrich Zöllner, composer and choirmaster (b. 1800)
- November 27 â Ludwig Rellstab, critic (b. 1799)
- date unknown â Veena Kuppayyar, composer of Carnatic music (b. 1798)
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