1868 in music
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
- January 6 â Vittorio Monti, Italian violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1922)
- January 24 â Frank Peabody Atherton, composer, educator (d. 1911)
- January 26 â Juventino Rosas, composer, band leader (d. 1894)
- April 13 â John Blackwood McEwen, composer, educator (d. 1948)
- April 19 â Max von Schillings, composer, conductor (d. 1933)
- April 22 â José Vianna da Motta, composer, pianist (d. 1948)
- July 19 â Florence Foster Jenkins, soprano (d. 1944)
- August 7 â Granville Bantock, composer (d. 1946)
- August 21 â Vess Ossman, ragtime banjo player (d. 1923)
- September 8 â Seth Weeks, African American jazz mandolinist, composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 1953)
- September 12 â Jan Brandts Buys, composer (d. 1933)
- November 30 â Ernest Newman, critic (d. 1959)
- Early? (or November 24?) â Scott Joplin, African American ragtime composer, pianist (d. 1917)
Deaths
- January 3 â Moritz Hauptmann, composer (b. 1792)
- February 25 â Sophie Schröder, actress and singer (b. 1781)
- March 2 â Carl Eberwein, composer (b. 1786)
- April 3 â Franz Berwald, composer (b. 1796)
- April 26 â Karel Strakatý, singer (b. 1804)
- June 5 â Anselm Hüttenbrenner, composer (b. 1794)
- July 6 â Samuel Lover, songwriter (b. 1797)
- August 11 â Halfdan Kjerulf, composer (b. 1815)
- November 13 â Gioacchino Rossini, composer (b. 1792)
- November 25 â Franz Brendel, music critic (b. 1811)
- December 23 â Karl Ferdinand Adam, composer and cantor (b. 1806)
- date unknown
- Berl Broder, singer and troubadour (b. 1815)
- Erik Jonsson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (b. 1816)
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