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1866 in music
Overview of the events of 1866 in music
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- January – Gabriel Fauré becomes organist at the Church of Saint-Sauveur, at Rennes in Brittany.[1]
- March–December – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky writes his Symphony No. 1, Winter Daydreams.
- May 30 – Bedřich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride (Prodana Nevesta) debuts at the Provisional Theatre (Prague).
- August – Sir William Sterndale Bennett becomes Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London.[2]
- August 4 – First performance of Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine.
- August 9 – Marie Trautmann marries fellow musician Alfred Jaëll.
- October 21 – Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Vie parisienne debuts in Paris at the Théâtre du Palais Royale.
- November 17 – Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon debuts in Paris at the Opéra-Comique.
- Theodore Thomas conducts the New York Philharmonic in the American premiere of the Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
- Mily Balakirev publishes his Collection of Russian Folksongs, including "The Song of the Volga Boatmen".
- Georges Bizet completes the opera La jolie fille de Perth; it is premiered the following year.
- "Beautiful River"
- "Come Back To Erin" w.m. Claribel
- "Father's a Drunkard and Mother Is Dead" w. Stella m. Mrs. E. A. Parkhurst
- "We Parted By The River" w.m. William Shakespeare Hays
- "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" by James A. Butterfield & George Washington Johnson
- "Write Me A Letter Home" w.m. Will S. Hays
- "You Naughty, Naughty Men" (in The Black Crook) w. T. Kennick m. G. Bickwell
- Felix Draeseke – Fantasie on Themes from Boieldieus "Weisse Dame"
- Johann Gottfried Piefke – Königgrätzer Marsch
- Amilcare Ponchielli – Concerto for Trumpet in F major
- Arthur Sullivan – Irish Symphony
- Franz von Suppé - Light Cavalry Overture
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 1 "Winter Dreams"
- Karel Miry
- Maria van Boergondië (opera in 4 acts, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on August 28 in Ghent)
- De Keizer bij de Boeren (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on October 29 in Ghent)
- De occasie maakt den dief (opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on December 24 in Ghent)
- Bedřich Smetana- The Bartered Bride
- Franz von Suppé – Leichte Kavallerie
- La Belle Hélène (Lyrics: Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Music: Jacques Offenbach) London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on June 30
- The Black Crook – the first "book musical". Broadway production opened at Niblo's Garden on September 12 and ran for 474 performances
- January 13 – Vasily Kalinnikov, composer (d. 1901)
- March 10 – Amanda Aldridge, opera singer, teacher and composer (d. 1956)
- April 1 – Ferruccio Busoni, pianist, composer (d. 1924)
- April 13 – Carl Valentin Wunderle, violinist (d. 1944)
- May 17 – Erik Satie, composer (d. 1925)
- June 15 – Charles Wood, composer (d. 1926)
- June 29 – George Frederick Boyle, composer (d. 1948)
- July 13 – La Goulue, can-can dancer (d. 1929)
- July 23 – Francesco Cilea, composer (d. 1950)
- September 26 – George H. Clutsam, pianist, composer and writer (d. 1951)
- November 7 – Paul Lincke, composer (d. 1946)
- date unknown
- Annibale Fagnola, violin maker (d. 1939)
- Dorothea Ruggles-Brise, née Stewart-Murray, collector of traditional Scottish music (d. 1937)
- January 25 – Minna Wagner, estranged wife of Richard Wagner, 56 (heart attack)
- February 6 – Anna Liszt, pianist and mother of Franz Liszt, 77
- March 20 – Rikard Nordraak, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
- July 25 – Aloys Schmitt, composer, pianist and music teacher, 77
- October 2 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer, 55 (suicide by drowning)
- November 26 – Adrien-Francois Servais, cellist, 59
- November 29 – Sophie Löwe, operatic soprano, 51
- December 1 – Jules Demersseman, flautist and composer, 33 (tuberculosis)
- December 3 – Jan Kalivoda, violinist, conductor and composer, 65
- Nectoux, Jean-Michel; Roger Nichols, trans. (1991). Gabriel Fauré – A Musical Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-521-23524-3.
- Zon, Bennett, ed. (1999). Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Vol. 3. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0754636143.