1860 in music
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[edit] Events
- The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, debuts at the Theater an der Wien
- First official modern Welsh Eisteddfod is held at Denbigh
[edit] Published popular music
- "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" By Stephen Foster
- "Mary Of Argyle" w. Charles H. Jefferys m. Sidney Nelson
- "Old Black Joe" By Stephen Foster
- "Virginia Belle" By Stephen Foster
[edit] Classical music
- Anton Rubinstein - Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg
- Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1
[edit] Opera
- Flor van Duyse - Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent)
[edit] Musical theater
- Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production
[edit] Births
- January 17 - Eugene Cowles
- March 1 - Joe Natus
- March 13 - Hugo Wolf, composer
- May 29 - Isaac Albéniz
- July 7 - Gustav Mahler, composer, conductor
- November 18 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist
- December 18 - Edward MacDowell
- December 20 - Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer
- December 28 - Harry B. Smith, US songwriter
[edit] Deaths
- January 26 - Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
- March 6 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
- August 26 - Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)
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