1870 in music

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Musical theater
4 Opera
5 Births
6 Deaths

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)
Leo Delibes' ballet Copp�lia debuts at the Paris Op�ra (May 25)
Richard Wagner's Die Walk�re premieres at the Munich Court Theatre (June 26)

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