| Year |
Event |
| 1861 |
Heinrich Marschner, German opera composer, dies |
| 1861 |
Nellie Melba, Australian operatic soprano, born |
1861 |
"Tannhauser," a scandal in Paris |
| 1862 |
Berlioz: "Beatrice et Benedict," opera, Baden-Baden |
| 1862 |
Claude Debussy, French composer, born |
| 1862 |
Frederick Delius, English composer, born |
| 1862 |
Edward German, English composer, born |
| 1862 |
Ludwig von Köchel ( Koechel ) "Catalogue of Mozart's Works" |
| 1862 |
Verdi: "La Forza del Destino," opera, St. Petersburg |
| 1863 |
Berlioz: "Les Troyens," opera, Paris |
| 1863 |
Bizet: " Les Pecheurs de perles," opera, Paris |
| 1863 |
Peitro Mascagni, Italian composer, born |
| 1863 |
Felix von Weingartner, Austrian composer and conductor, born |
| 1864 |
Eugen D'Albert, Scottich born German composer and pianist, born |
| 1864 |
Bruckner: Symphony No. 0 ("Die Nullte") revised 1869 |
| 1864 |
Stephen Foster, American songwriter, dies |
| 1864 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer, dies |
| 1864 |
Offenbach: "La Belle Helene, " operetta, Paris |
| 1864 |
Richard Strauss, German composer, born |
| 1865 |
Paul Dukas, French composer, born |
| 1865 |
Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, born |
| 1865 |
Meyerbeer: "L' Africaine," posth. opera, Paris |
| 1865 |
Schubert: "Unfinished Symphony," first performed |
| 1865 |
Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer, born |
| 1865 |
Suppe: "Die schone Galathee," operetta, Vienna |
| 1865 |
Wagner: "Tristan and Isolde," Munich |
| 1866 |
Ferruccio Busoni, Italian painist and composer, born |
| 1866 |
Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne," operetta, Paris |
| 1866 |
Smetana: "Prodana Nevesta" (The Bartered Bride), opera, Prague |
| 1866 |
Ambroise Thomas: "Mignon," opera, Paris |
1867 |
Bizet: "La Jolie Fille de Perth," opera, Paris |
| 1867 |
Gounod: "Romeo et Juliette," opera, Paris |
| 1867 |
Offenbach: "La Grande-duchesse de Gerolstein," operetta, Paris |
| 1867 |
Johann Strauss II: "The Blue Danube," waltz |
| 1867 |
A.S. Sullivan: "Cox and Box," comic opera |
| 1867 |
Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor, born |
| 1867 |
Verdi: "Don Carlos, " Paris |
| 1868 |
Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer, dies |
| 1868 |
Granville Bantock, English composer, born |
| 1868 |
Brahms: "Ein deutsches Requiem," Opus 45 |
| 1868 |
Mussorgsky begins work on "Boris Godunov" (completed in 1874) |
| 1868 |
Rossini dies |
| 1868 |
Max von Schillings, German composer and conductor, born |
| 1868 |
Wagner: "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" Munich |
| 1868 |
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 1 |
| 1869 |
Karl Loewe, German composer, dies |
| 1869 |
Louis Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, dies |
| 1869 |
Berlioz dies |
| 1869 |
Sidney Jones, English composer, born |
| 1869 |
Karl Loewe, German composer, dies |
| 1869 |
Hans Pfitzner, German musician and director, born |
| 1869 |
Siegfried Wagner, German composer, born (Wagner's son) |
| 1869 |
Richard Wagner: "Rheingold," opera, Munich |
| 1869 |
Henry J. Wood, Englsh conductor, born |
| 1870 |
Delibes: "Coppelia," ballet, Paris |
| 1870 |
Founding of Societe Nationale de Musique, France |
| 1870 |
Tchaikovsky: Fantasy-overture "Romeo and Juliet," Moscow |
| 1870 |
Wagner marries Cosima von Bulow, daughter of Franz Liszt |
| 1870 |
Wagner: "Die Walkure," Munich |
Music History Timeline - 1861 to 1870
