1861 in music
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Events
- February 18 â To celebrate the opening of the parliament of the new Italian nation at Turin, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Favorita is performed in the Teatro Regio. Verdi himself is a deputy in the new parliament.[1]
- March 13â24 â The only three performances of the Paris version of Wagner's opera Tannhäuser attract increasing disturbances.
- November â Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is introduced by his teacher Feodor A. Kanille to Mily Balakirev. This completes The Five (The Mighty Handful) of composers. He begins his Symphony No. 1 in E flat under Balakirev's guidance.
- November 15 â Teaching begins at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, founded by conductor Henry Wylde, the oldest specialist performing arts school in the British Isles.[2]
- Tchaikovsky starts to attend Russian Musical Society classes in music theory taught by Nikolai Zaremba at the Mikhailovsky Palace.
Published popular music
- "Go Down, Moses", traditional African American spiritual, heard as a rallying anthem for the Contrabands at Fort Monroe; first spiritual known to be recorded in sheet music.
- "Abide With Me", w. Rev Henry Francis Lyte (1847), m. William Henry Monk ("Eventide," 1861)
- "Alice, Where Art Thou?", w. Wellington Guernsey m. Joseph Ascher
- "Aura Lea", w. W. W. Fosdick m. George R. Poulton
- "The Bonnie Blue Flag", w. Mrs Annie Chambers Ketchum m. Harry Macarthy
- "Eternal Father, Strong to Save", w. William Whiting m. Rev. John Bacchus Dykes
- "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty", w. Reginald Heber (1826), m. John Bacchus Dykes ("Nicaea," 1861)
- "I'm Going Home to Dixie", w. Dan Emmett arr. C. S. Grafully
- "John Brown's Body", w. anon m. William Steffe
- "Maryland, My Maryland", w. James Ryder Randall m. Walter de Mapers, m. "Mini est Propositum" (12th century)
- "The Privateer", w.m. anon ("Quien Sabé")
- "The Vacant Chair", w. Henry S. Washburn (1861), m. George Frederick Root (1862)
Classical music
- Peter Benoit
- Fantaisie No.4, Op.20
- Piano Sonata, Op.34, premiered March 21 by Angèle Tailhardat
- Hoogmis, premiered July 21 in Brussels
- Hermann Berens â 50 Piano Pieces for First Beginners, Op.70
- Alexander Borodin â Piano Trio in D major
- Johannes Brahms
- Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann Op.23 (based on Schumann's âlast musical thought,â sketched in February 1854)
- Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel Op.24
- Piano Quartet No.1, Op.25
- Piano Quartet No.2, Op.26
- Anton Bruckner
- Afferentur regi, WAB 1
- Am Grabe, WAB 2
- Ave Maria, WAB 6
- Du bist wie eine Blume, WAB 64, dated December 5
- Fugue in D minor, WAB 125, dated November 8
- AntonÃn DvoÅák â String Quintet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 1
- Hermann Goetz â Piano Concerto in E-flat
- Edvard Grieg â 4 Songs, Op.2
- Arthur Sullivan â The Tempest, premiered April 6 in Leipzig.
- Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen
- Marche triomphale, Op.29
- Grande Valses, Op.30
- Piano Trio, Op.31
- Henri Vieuxtemps â Violin Concerto No. 5
- Robert Volkmann
- Ungarische Skizzen, Op.24
- String Quartet No.6, Op.43
Opera
- Daniel François Esprit Auber â La Circassienne, premiered February 2 in Paris
- Ferenc Erkel â Bánk bán
- Stanislaw Moniuszko â Verbum Nobile
- Amilcare Ponchielli â La Savoiarda
Musical theater
- Orpheus In The Underworld by Offenbach, New York production (first performed in Paris, 1858)
Published Methods and Writings
- John Curwen â How to Observe Harmony
- John Hullah â The History of Modern Music
- Carl von Ledebur â Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's
- Jean-Joseph Rodolphe â Solfège
- Eugène Sauzay â Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
- Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee â Aesthetische Betrachtungen über die Schöpfung
Births
- February 1 â Emilio Pizzi, composer (died 1940)
- February 21 â Pierre de Bréville, composer (d. 1949)
- April 7 â Clara Novello Davies, singer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1943)
- April 26 â Ferdinand Buescher, instrument manufacturer (d. 1937)
- April 27 â Georgy Catoire, composer (died 1926)
- May 10 â Francisco Cimadevilla González, guitarist and composer (d. 1931)
- May 12 â Ivan Caryll, composer (died 1921)
- May 19 â Nellie Melba, operatic soprano (d. 1931)
- June 11 â Sigismund Zaremba, composer (d. 1915)
- June 15 â Ernestine Schumann-Heink, operatic contralto (d. 1936)
- June 17 â Sidney Jones, composer of musical comedies (d. 1946)
- June 27 â Fanny Davies, pianist (d. 1934)
- July 16 â Franz von Blon, composer (died 1945)
- August 11 â Anton Arensky, pianist and composer (d. 1906)
- August 19 â Sadie Martinot, actress and soprano singer (d. 1923)
- September 7 â Thomas Whitney Surette, composer (died 1941)
- November 3 â Thomas O'Brien Butler, composer (died 1915)
- November 19 â Theodor Mannborg, organ maker (died 1930)
- November 29 â Spyridon Samaras, Greek opera composer, who also set to music the Olympic Anthem (d. 1917)
- November 30 â Ludwig Thuille, composer (died 1907)
- December 5 â James Thornton, English-born US songwriter and vaudeville comedian (d. 1938)
- December 18 â Lionel Monckton, composer of musical comedies (d. 1924)
- date unknown
- Camille D'elmar, opera singer (d. 1902)
- Giuseppe Fiorini, musical instrument maker (d. 1934)
- Ferdinand Ellsworth Olds, instrument manufacturer (d. 1928)
Deaths
- January 17 â Lola Montez, dancer (b. 1821)
- January 22 â Giovanni Velluti, castrato singer (b. 1780)
- February 12 â Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
- February 20 â Eugène Scribe, librettist (b. 1791)
- March 14 â Louis Niedermeyer, composer (b. 1802)
- May 3 â Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer (b. 1781)
- August 9 â Vincent Novello, composer and music publisher (b. 1781)
- August 11 â Catherine Hayes, soprano (born c. 1818)
- October 24 â Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (b. 1793)
- December 14 â Heinrich Marschner, composer (b. 1795)
- December 16 â Karol LipiÅski, violinist and composer (b. 1790)
- December 18 â Ernst Anschütz, organist, composer and poet (b. 1780)
- December 25 â Natale Abbadia, composer (b. 1792)