1870 in music

Events

* Musikverein opens in Vienna (January 6)
* Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture "Romeo and Juliet" debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubenstein (March 16)
* Léo Delibes' ballet "Coppélia" debuts at the Paris Opéra (May 25)
* Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre" premieres at the Munich Court Theatre (June 26)

Published popular music

* "Come In Old Adam, Come In!" by Alice Cary & C. F. Shattuck
* "Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" by Sam Mitchell & Charles Blamphin

Classical music

*Max Bruch - "Symphony No. 2 in F minor", op. 36 (premiered September 4) [cite web|title=Max Bruch Catalog of Works - Symphony No. 2|url=http://www.wooster.edu/music/twood/bruchcatalog.html#36|date=2005-11-08|accessdate=2008-02-09|last=Wood|first=Thomas]
*Antonín Dvořák - "Dramatic Overture" (overture to the opera "Alfred") (B. 16a); String Quartet no. 3 in D, B. 18; String Quartet no. 4 in E minor, B. 19 (see List of compositions by Antonín Dvořák)
*Charles Gounod - "Messe des Orphéonistes"
*Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - "Romeo and Juliet overture" (first version)

Opera

*Antonín Dvořák
**"Alfred", B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc) [cite book|last=Beckerman|first=Michael|title=Dvořák and His World|pages=109-112|isbn=0-691-00097-2|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=1993|location=Princeton, N.J.
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*Karel Miry
**"La Saint-Lucas" (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in Ghent)
**"Het Driekoningenfeest" (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
*Emile Pessard - "La cruche cassée" (comic opera in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on February 21 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris)
*Bedřich Smetana - "Prodana Nevesta" (eng. "The Bartered Bride")
*Richard Wagner - "Die Walküre"

Musical theater

* "Chilpéric" London production
* "La Mascotte" Paris production
* "La Périchole" London production

Births

*January 3 - Henry Eichheim
*January 20 - Guillaume Lekeu (d. 1894)
*January 30 - Rudolf Louis, critic, conductor and author (d. 1914)
*February 12 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (d. 1922)
*April 7 - Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (d. 1965)
*April 28 - Hermann Suter, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
*April 30 - Franz Lehár
*May 4 - Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
*August 4 - Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter
*August 12 - Arthur J. Lamb, lyricist and actor
*September 28 - Florent Schmitt, French composer (d. 1958)
*October 7 - Uncle Dave Macon, musician
*October 8 - Louis Vierne, French organist and composer
*October 24 - August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer
*November 30 - Cecil Forsyth
*December 5 - Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
*December 16 - Alfred Hill, Australian composer (d. 1960)

Deaths

*January 26 - Cesare Pugni, ballet composer
*March 10 - Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer (b. 1794)
*April 8 - Charles de Bériot, violinist (b. 1802)
*July 22 - Josef Strauss, composer (b. 1827)
*October 20 - Michael William Balfe, composer (b. 1808)
*October 31 - Mihály Mosonyi, composer (b. 1815)
*November 23 - Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (b. 1853)
*December 17 - Saverio Mercadante, composer (b. 1795)
*December 18 - Eugène Ketterer, French composer and pianist (b. 1831)
*December 28 - Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (b. 1799)

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