1861 in music
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Events
- Tannhäuser scandal in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. - Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
is elected a deputy in the first parliament of the new ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
nation.
Published popular music
- "Abide With Me", w. Rev Henry Francis LyteHenry Francis LyteHenry Francis Lyte was a Scottish Anglican divine and hymn-writer.-Youth and education:Henry Francis Lyte was born to Thomas and Anna Maria Lyte on a farm at Ednam, near Kelso, Scotland...
m. William Henry MonkWilliam Henry MonkProbably better known in his day as an organist, church musician, and music editor, William Henry Monk composed a fair number of popular hymn tunes, including one of the most famous from nineteenth century England, "Eventide", used for the hymn Abide with Me...
(Words 1847) - "Alice, Where Art Thou", w. Wellington Guernsey m. Joseph Ascher
- "Aura Lea", w. W. W. Fosdick m. George R. Poulton
- "The Bonnie Blue FlagThe Bonnie Blue Flag"The Bonnie Blue Flag", also known as "We Are a Band of Brothers", is an 1861 marching song associated with the Confederate States of America. The words were written by Irish born entertainer Harry McCarthy, with the melody taken from the song "The Irish Jaunting Car"...
", w. Mrs Annie Chamber-Ketchum m. Harry MacCarthy - "Eternal Father, Strong To Save", w. William Whiting m. Rev. John Bacchus Dykes
- "Go Down, Moses", trad spiritual
- "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty", w. Reginald HeberReginald HeberReginald Heber was the Church of England's Bishop of Calcutta who is now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.-Life:Heber was born at Malpas in Cheshire...
m. John Bacchus Dykes - "I'm Going Home to DixieI'm Going Home to Dixie"I'm Going Home to Dixie" is an American walkaround, a type of dance song. It was written by Dan Emmett in 1861 as a sequel to the immensely popular walkaround "Dixie". The sheet music was first published that same year by Firth, Pond & Company in an arrangement by C. S. Grafully...
", w. Dan EmmettDan EmmettDaniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:...
a. C. S. Grafully - "John Brown's BodyJohn Brown's Body"John Brown's Body" is an American marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The tune arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the 19th century...
", w. anon m. William Steffe - "Maryland, My Maryland", w. James Ryder Randall m. Walter de Mapers (Music "Mini est Propositum" 12th century)
- "The Vacant Chair", w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick RootGeorge Frederick RootGeorge Frederick Root was an American songwriter, who found particular fame during the American Civil War.-Biography:...
Musical theater
- Orpheus In The UnderworldOrpheus in the UnderworldOrphée aux enfers is an opéra bouffon , or opéra féerie in its revised version, by Jacques Offenbach. The French text was written by Ludovic Halévy and later revised by Hector-Jonathan Crémieux....
by OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
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Births
- February 21 - Pierre de BrévillePierre de BrévillePierre Onfroy de Bréville was a French composer.-Biography:Pierre de Bréville was born was born in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse. Following the wishes of his parents, he studied law with the goal of becoming a diplomat. However, he abandoned his plans after a few years and entered the Conservatoire de Paris...
, composer (d. 1949) - April 7 - Clara Novello DaviesClara Novello DaviesClara Novello Davies was a well-known Welsh singer, teacher and conductor.Clara Novello Davies was born in Cardiff to Jacob, a miner, and Margaret Davies and named after Clara Novello, a famous soprano . Her father, leader of the church choir, taught her to play the harmonium...
, singer, conductor and music teacher (d. 1943) - April 26 - Ferdinand BuescherBuescher Band Instrument CompanyThe Buescher Band Instrument Company was a manufacturer of musical instruments in Elkhart, Indiana.-History:The company was founded by Ferdinand August "Gus" Buescher . He accompanied his family to Goshen, Indiana and then to Elkhart in 1875. In 1876 he found employment with C.G...
, instrument manufacturer (d. 1937) - May 19 - Nellie MelbaNellie MelbaDame Nellie Melba GBE , born Helen "Nellie" Porter Mitchell, was an Australian operatic soprano. She became one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian Era and the early 20th century...
, operatic soprano (d. 1931) - June 15 - Ernestine Schumann-HeinkErnestine Schumann-HeinkErnestine Schumann-Heink was a celebrated Austrian, later American, operatic contralto, noted for the size, beauty, tonal richness, flexibility and wide range of her voice.- Early life:...
, operatic contralto (d. 1936) - June 17 - Sidney JonesSidney JonesJames Sidney Jones , usually credited as Sidney Jones, was an English conductor and composer, most famous for producing the musical scores for a series of musical comedy hits in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods....
, composer of musical comedies (d. 1946) - June 27 - Fanny DaviesFanny DaviesFanny Davies was an English pianist who was particularly admired in Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, and the early schools, but was also a very early London performer of the works of Debussy and Scriabin...
, pianist (d. 1934) - August 11 - Anton ArenskyAnton ArenskyAnton Stepanovich Arensky -Biography:Arensky was born in Novgorod, Russia. He was musically precocious and had composed a number of songs and piano pieces by the age of nine...
, pianist and composer (d. 1906) - November 29 - Spyridon SamarasSpyridon SamarasSpyridon-Filiskos Samaras was a Greek composer particularly admired for his operas who was part of the generation of composers that heralded the works of Giacomo Puccini...
, Greek opera composer, who also set to music the Olympic Anthem (d. 1917) - December 5 - James Thornton, English-born US songwriter and vaudevilleVaudevilleVaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...
comedian (d. 1938) - December 18 - Lionel MoncktonLionel MoncktonLionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He was Britain's most popular musical theatre composer of the early years of the 20th century.-Early life:...
, English composer 9d. 1924) - date unknown
- Camille D'elmarCamille D'elmarCamille D'elmar was a stage actress and opera performer from Rochester, New York. Her father was Dr. Long of Rochester. She appeared on stage as a youth. D'elmar was the name she was known by to theater audiences in American and England. Her married name was Mrs...
, opera singer (d. 1902) - Giuseppe FioriniGiuseppe FioriniGiuseppe Fiorini was an Italian musical instrument maker.- Biography :Fiorini was born at Bazzano, Emilia-Romagna, the son and pupil of Raffaele :it:Fiorini Raffaele. Having inherited his parents' cultivated propensities in arts and sciences, he built his first instrument at the age of 16...
, musical instrument maker (d. 1934) - Sigismund ZarembaSigismund ZarembaSigismund Vladislavovitch Zaremba was a Ukrainian and Russian composer of Polish ethnicity, born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, son of Vladislav Ivanovitch Zaremba, also a composer....
, composer (d. 1915) - Ferdinand Ellsworth Olds, instrument manufacturer (d. 1928)
- Camille D'elmar
Deaths
- January 17 - Lola MontezLola MontezEliza Rosanna Gilbert, Countess of Landsfeld , better known by the stage name Lola Montez, was an Irish dancer and actress who became famous as a "Spanish dancer", courtesan and mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, who made her Countess of Landsfeld. She used her influence to institute liberal...
, dancer (b. 1821) - January 22 - Giovanni Velluti, castrato singer (b. 1780)
- February 12 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste ChélardHippolyte André Jean Baptiste ChélardHippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard was a French composer, violist, and conductor of the Classical era....
, conductor and composer (b. 1789) - February 20 - Eugène ScribeEugène ScribeAugustin Eugène Scribe , was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" . This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater for over 100 years.-Biography:...
, librettist (b. 1791) - March 14 - Louis NiedermeyerLouis NiedermeyerAbraham Louis Niedermeyer was a composer chiefly of church music but also of a few operas, and a teacher who took over the Ecole Choron, duly renamed École Niedermeyer, a school for the study and practice of church music, where several eminent French musicians studied including Gabriel Fauré and...
, composer (b. 1802) - August 9 - Vincent NovelloVincent NovelloVincent Novello , English musician, son of an Italian who married an English wife, was born in London....
, composer and music publisher (b. 1781) - October 24 - Elisabeth FrösslindElisabeth FrösslindKristina Elisabet Frösslind, also called Elise Frösslind, Kristina Elisabet Frösslind, also called Elise Frösslind, Kristina Elisabet Frösslind, also called Elise Frösslind, (27 February 1793 - 24 October 1861, was a Swedish opera singer and actor at the Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Dramatic...
, opera singer (b. 1793) - December 14 - Heinrich MarschnerHeinrich MarschnerHeinrich August Marschner , was the most important composer of German Romantic opera between Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner, and is remembered principally for his operas Hans Heiling , Der Vampyr , and Der Templer und die Jüdin...
, composer (b. 1795) - December 16 - Karol LipińskiKarol LipinskiKarol Józef Lipiński was a Polish virtuoso violinist and composer.-Life:Lipiński was born in Radzyń Podlaski. In 1810 he became the first violin and two years later the conductor of the opera orchestra at Lwów . In 1817 he went to Italy in the hope of hearing Niccolò Paganini...
, violinist and composer (b. 1790) - December 18 - Ernst AnschützErnst AnschützErnst Gebhard Anschütz was a German teacher, organist, poet, and composer. He is also known for his account of the death of Johann Christian Woyzeck in 1824...
, organist, composer and poet (b. 1780) - December 25 - Natale AbbadiaNatale AbbadiaNatale Abbadia, Italian composer , composed the opera Giannina di Pontieu , the musical farce L'imbroglione ed il castigamatti, masses, motets, and other religious music....
, composer (b. 1792) - date unknown - Anthony Philip HeinrichAnthony Philip HeinrichAnthony Philip Heinrich was the first "full-time" American composer, and the most prominent before the American Civil War. He did not start composing until he was 36, after losing his business fortune in the Napoleonic Wars. For most of his career he was known as "Father Heinrich," an emeritus...
, composer (b. 1781)