1864 in music

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See also: 1863 in music, other events of 1864, 1865 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• Anton Bruckner composes his Symphony No. 0 ("Die Nullte").
• Jacques Offenbach's operetta La belle Hélène debuts at the Paris Variétés (December 17).
• Hans von Bülow takes over from Franz Lachner at the Munich opera.

Published popular music

• "Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster
• "The Picture on the Wall" by Henry Clay Work
• "Somebody's Darling" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
• "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Boys Are Marching)" by George F. Root

Classical music

• Louis Gottschalk - The Dying Poet
• Friedrich Kiel - Piano Concerto
• Franz Strauss - Nocturno for Horn and Piano
• Thomas Tellefsen - Trio for piano, violin and cello (opus 31)
• Robert Volkmann - Symphony no. 2

Opera

• Jacques Offenbach - Die Rhinenixen (The Rhine Fairies)

Births

• January 15 - S. H. Dudley
• February 7 - Arthur Collins
• April 10 - Eugen d'Albert, composer, pianist
• June 11 - Richard Strauss, composer, conductor
• November 17 - Rosalia Chalia

Deaths

• January 13 - Stephen Foster, songwriter
• January 26 - Otto Lindblad, composer
• May 2 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
• December 11 - Aloys Ander, tenor with the Royal Italian Opera