1868 in music

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Popular music
3 Classical music
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

Modest Mussorgsky begins work on Boris Godunov, which is completed six years later
Johannes Brahms completes his orchestral and choral work, Ein deutsches Requiem (Opus 25)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 ("Winter Dreams") is first performed in Moscow (February 3)
Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger debuts in Munich's Hoftheater (June 21)

Popular music

"Come Back To Erin" by Claribel
"I Cannot Sing The Old Songs]] w.m. Claribel (Charlotte Alington [Mrs. Charles Barnard])
"The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee (first published the previous year)
"Sweet Bye and Bye" by Joseph P. Webster
"The Whispering Hope" by Septimus Winner
"The Widow In The Cottage By The Sea" w.m. Charles A. White

Classical music

Song Without Words m. Peter Tchaikovsky

Births

April 19 - Max von Schillings, composer, conductor
August 7 - Granville Bantock, composer
August 21 - Vess Ossman, ragtime banjo artist

Deaths

November 13 - Gioacchino Rossini, composer