1868 in music

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

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