1860 in music

[edit] Events

• The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, debuts at the Theater an der Wien
• First official modern Welsh Eisteddfod is held at Denbigh

[edit] Published popular music

• "Down Among the Cane-Brakes" By Stephen Foster
• "Mary Of Argyle"     w. Charles H. Jefferys m. Sidney Nelson
• "Old Black Joe" By Stephen Foster
• "Virginia Belle" By Stephen Foster

[edit] Classical music

• Anton Rubinstein - Soirées à Saint-Pétersbourg
• Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1

[edit] Opera

• Flor van Duyse - Teniers te Grimbergen (libretto by Prudens van Duyse, premiered at Ghent)

[edit] Musical theater

• Orphée Aux Enfers, Vienna production

[edit] Births

• January 17 - Eugene Cowles
• March 1 - Joe Natus
• March 13 - Hugo Wolf, composer
• May 29 - Isaac Albéniz
• July 7 - Gustav Mahler, composer, conductor
• November 18 - Ignacy Jan Paderewski, pianist
• December 18 - Edward MacDowell
• December 20 - Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, dancer and singer
• December 28 - Harry B. Smith, US songwriter

[edit] Deaths

• January 26 - Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient, opera singer (b. 1804)
• March 6 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, French cellist and composer (b. 1783)
• August 26 - Friedrich Silcher, composer (b. 1789)