1869 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino (April 3)
• Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich (September 22)

• "Das Rheingold" by Richard Wagner

• March 3 - Henry Wood, conductor
• May 5 - Hans Pfitzner, composer
• June 6 - Siegfried Wagner, composer
• June 17 - Sidney Jones, composer
• November 8 - J. Bodewalt Lampe, Danish-born composer

• March 8 - Hector Berlioz, composer
• April 20 - Carl Loewe, composer, baritone, conductor