1865 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1865.

Events

January 1 – Hector Berlioz completes his Memoirs.
April 20 – Crosby's Opera House opens
April 28 – Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine is premiered in Paris at the Grand Opéra, after the composer's death.
June 10 – Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde debuts in Munich at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater.
September 9 – Franz von Suppé's operetta Die schöne Galathee debuts in Vienna's Carl-Theater.
September 11 – Johann Strauss II conducts a performance of 'Characteristic Dances' by Peter Tchaikovsky at Pavlovsk Park. It is the first public performance of Tchaikovsky's music. The piece would later become the 'Dances of the Hay Maidens', in The Voyevoda.
December 17 – Franz Schubert's Unfinished Symphony debuts in Vienna, 43 years after of its composition.
Philipp Scharwenka relocates to Berlin.
Joseph Parry is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.

Published popular songs

"Follow the Flag" m. John Rogers Thomas
"Jeff in Pettycoats" by Henry Tucker
"Marching Through Georgia" w.m. Henry Clay Work
"Roll, Jordan, Roll" traditional spiritual
"The Ship That Never Returned" w.m. Henry Clay Work

Classical music

Elfrida Andrée – Piano Quintet in E minor
Antonio Bazzini – String Quartet in F major
Johannes Brahms
*Piano Quintet, Op.34
*String Sextet No. 2 Op. 36
*Cello Sonata No. 1 Op. 38
*Sixteen Waltzes, Op. 39
*Trio for violin, horn and piano Op. 40
Anton Bruckner
*Military March in E-flat major, WAB 116
*Trauungschor ("Wedding chorus")
Hans von Bulow – 3 Valses caractéristiques, Op.18
Felix Draeseke – Lacrimosa
Antonín Dvořák
*Cello concerto No. 1 in A major
*Symphony No. 2
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine
César Franck – Quare fremuerunt gentes
Herman Goetz – Sonata for Piano, Op.17
Carl Goldmark – Sakuntala, Op.13
Edvard Grieg
*Piano sonata Op. 7 in E minor
*Violin sonata No. 1 Op. 8
Franz Liszt – Missa Choralis
Jules Massenet – Suite No.1, Op.13
Modest Mussorgsky
*Prayer, Op.5
*Cradle Song, Op.16
*Memories of Childhood
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Symphony No. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns – Serenade in E flat major, Op. 15
Pablo de Sarasate – Souvenirs de Faust
Johan Svendsen
*String Quartet, Op. 1
*2 Songs, Op. 2
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
*Overture in F major
*Piano Sonata in C-sharp minor
*Quartet Movement in B-flat major
Henri Wieniawski – Fantasia on Themes from 'Faust', Op.20

Opera

François Bazin – Le voyage en Chine
Giacomo Meyerbeer – L'Africaine
Stanislaw Moniuszko – The Haunted Manor
Camille Saint-Saëns – Le timbre d'argent
Richard Wagner – ''Tristan und Isolde''

Musical theater

Die schöne GalathéeOrpheus In The Underworld, London production opened at Her Majesty's Theatre on December 26 and ran for 76 performances

Births

January 7 – Olga Islar, German soprano
February 18 – Marie Jahn, Austrian soprano
May 9 – August de Boeck, Belgium Composer
June 9
*Carl Nielsen, composer
*Albéric Magnard, composer
June 13 – William Butler Yeats, lyricist
June 14 – Auguste Sérieyx, composer
July 8 – Rita Strohl, composer
July 21 – Robert Kahn, composer
August 10 – Alexander Glazunov, composer
October 1 – Paul Dukas, composer
October 13 – Jón Laxdal, Icelandic composer
October 15 – Charles W. Clark, American baritone
November 2 – Marie Goetze, German contralto
December 3 – Gustav Jenner, composer
December 8 – Jean Sibelius, composer
December 25 – Fay Templeton, US singer and actress

Deaths

January 23 – Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer and music critic
January 27 – Giuseppe Rocca, violin maker
January 28 – Felice Romani, librettist for Donizetti and Bellini
February 20 – Pierre-Louis Dietsch, French composer and conductor
April 1 – Giuditta Pasta, operatic soprano
April 2 – John Cassell, music publisher
August 1 – François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker
September 10 – George Linley, poet and composer
October 8 – Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer
October 12 – William Vincent Wallace, composer
December 6 – Sebastián Iradier, composer
December 18 – Francisco Manuel da Silva, songwriter and music professor