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This article is about music-related events in 1867.

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Events

  • February 15 – First performance of Johann Strauss II's waltz "The Blue Danube" (An der schönen blauen Donau, composed 1866) at a concert of the Vienna Men's Choral Association (Wiener Männergesangsverein). Strauss adapts it into its popular purely orchestral version for the International Exposition in Paris later this year.
  • March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos premiered at the Paris Opéra's Salle Le Peletier.
  • April 12 – Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein premiered in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés.
  • April 22 – The Hyers Sisters make their professional debut at Sacramento’s Metropolitan Theater.
  • April 27 – Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
  • May 11 – The first comic opera with a score by Arthur Sullivan to be publicly performed, the one-act Cox and Box with libretto by F. C. Burnand, opens at the Adelphi Theatre in London and runs for 300 performances. It is followed by the two-act The Contrabandista, or The Law of the Ladrones by the same partnership which opens on December 18 at St. George's Hall, London.
  • June 11 – Soprano Nina Grieg marries her cousin, composer Edvard Grieg, in Copenhagen.
  • September – Premiere of the opera O ypopsifios [The Parliamentary Candidate] (music: Spyridon Xyndas, libr. Ioannis Rinopoulos), the first full-scale opera in Greek.
  • December 1 - Johann von Herbeck conducts the first three movements of Brahms' A German Requiem in Vienna.
  • December 26 – Georges Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique.
  • The Royal Danish Academy of Music is founded in Copenhagen by Niels Gade.
  • The Maple Leaf Forever is written by Alexander Muir.
  • "The Blue Danube" (waltz) m. Johann Strauss II w. Joseph Weyl
  • "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark
  • "Croquet" w. C.H. Webb m. John Rogers Thomas
  • "The Lambton Worm" by C M Leumane
  • "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle & Alfred Lee
  • "Not For Joseph"     w.m. Arthur Lloyd
  • "The Moon Is Out To Night, Love" w.m. Will S. Hays
  • "Waiting" w. Ellen H. Flagg m. Harrison Millard

    • Classical music

  • Sir William Sterndale Bennett – The Woman of Samaria (cantata)
  • Felix Draeseke
  • Zwei Konzertwalzer, op 4: Nr. 1 in E-flat; Nr. 2 in D-flat
  • Ballade for Cello and Piano in B
  • Henri Duparc - Sonate pour violoncelle et piano
  • Hermann Goetz – Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major
  • Edvard Grieg - Book 1 (Op. 12) of the Lyric Pieces for piano.
  • Modest Mussorgsky - Night on Bear Mountain
  • Joachim Raff
  • String Quartet No. 4 in A minor, Op. 137
  • String Quartet No. 5 in G major, Op. 138
  • Festival March, Op. 139, for orchestra
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Souvenir de Hapsal, suite of three pieces for piano.
  • Scherzo à la russe, first of Two Pieces for Piano, Op. 1.
  • Franz Liszt - Marche funèbre, En mémoire de Maximilian I, Empereur du Mexique

    • Opera

  • Georges Bizet - La jolie fille de Perth
  • Charles Gounod – Roméo et Juliette
  • Édouard Lalo – Fiesque
  • Jules Massenet – La Grand'Tante
  • Karel Miry
  • Frans Ackermann (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premièred on October 13, in Brussels)
  • Brutus en Cesar (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premièred on October 14, in Ghent)
  • Le Mariage de Marguerite (opera in 1 act, libretto by M. de Wille, premièred on November 27, in Ghent)

    • Musical theater

  • Arthur Sullivan (libretti by F. C. Burnand)
  • The Contrabandista
  • Cox and Box

    • Births

  • January 28 – Eugène Goossens, fils, violinist and conductor (d. 1958)
  • March 24
  • Guido Menasci, librettist (d. 1925)
  • Martinus Sieveking, pianist and composer (d. 1950)
  • March 25 – Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor (d. 1957)
  • May 6 – Nora Clench, violinist (d. 1938)
  • June 3 – Béla Szabados, composer (d. 1936)
  • June 27 – Ewald Straesser, composer (d. 1933)
  • July 10 – Jules Mouquet, composer (d. 1946)
  • July 27 – Enrique Granados, composer (d. 1916)
  • August 28 – Umberto Giordano, opera composer (d. 1948)
  • September 5 – Amy Beach, composer (d. 1944)
  • September 7 – Evan Williams, operatic tenor (d. 1918)
  • October 12 – Herbert L. Clarke, cornet virtuoso and composer (d. 1945)
  • November 24 – Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (d. 1917)
  • November 27
  • Charles Koechlin, composer, teacher and writer on music (d. 1950)
  • Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer (d. 1972)
  • December 27 – Henri Christiné, composer (d. 1941)

    • Deaths

  • February 23 – Sir George Thomas Smart, multi-instrumentalist and conductor (b. 1776)
  • March 16 – Benjamin Hanby, songwriter (b. 1833)
  • March 24 – Alfred Mellon, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1820)
  • May 3 – Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, operatic soprano (b. 1812)
  • May 6 – Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (b. 1779)
  • September 7 – Henriette Méric-Lalande, operatic soprano (b. 1798)
  • September 10 – Simon Sechter, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1788)
  • September 27 – Louis Desiré Veron, opera manager (b. 1798)
  • October 3 – Hedda Hjortsberg, ballerina (b. 1777)
  • October 5 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (b. 1799)
  • October 9 – Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński, pianist and composer (b. 1807)
  • December 2 – Nadezhda Repina, singer and actress (b. 1809)
  • December 6 – Giovanni Pacini, composer (b. 1796)
  • date unknown – Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (b. 1811)

    • References

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