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Overview of the events of 1866 in music
Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Births
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January 13 –
Vasily Kalinnikov,
composer (d. 1901)
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March 10 –
Amanda Aldridge, opera singer, teacher and composer (d. 1956)
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April 1 –
Ferruccio Busoni,
pianist, composer (d. 1924)
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April 13 –
Carl Valentin Wunderle, violinist (d. 1944)
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May 17 –
Erik Satie, composer (d. 1925)
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June 15 –
Charles Wood, composer (d. 1926)
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June 29 –
George Frederick Boyle, composer (d. 1948)
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July 13 –
La Goulue, can-can dancer (d. 1929)
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July 23 –
Francesco Cilea, composer (d. 1950)
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September 26 –
George H. Clutsam, pianist, composer and writer (d. 1951)
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November 7 –
Paul Lincke, composer (d. 1946)
- date unknown
Deaths
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January 25 –
Minna Wagner, estranged wife of
Richard Wagner, 56 (heart attack)
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February 6 –
Anna Liszt, pianist and mother of
Franz Liszt, 77
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March 20 –
Rikard Nordraak, composer, 21 (tuberculosis)
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July 25 –
Aloys Schmitt, composer, pianist and music teacher, 77
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October 2 –
Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer, 55 (suicide by drowning)
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November 26 –
Adrien-Francois Servais, cellist, 59
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November 29 –
Sophie Löwe, operatic soprano, 51
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December 1 –
Jules Demersseman, flautist and composer, 33 (tuberculosis)
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December 3 –
Jan Kalivoda, violinist, conductor and composer, 65
References
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^ Nectoux, Jean-Michel; Roger Nichols, trans. (1991). Gabriel Fauré – A Musical Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 12.
ISBN
0-521-23524-3.
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^ Zon, Bennett, ed. (1999). Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Vol. 3. Aldershot: Ashgate.
ISBN
0754636143.