1867 in music

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Events

• Arthur Sullivan scores his first operetta Cox and Box
• The Maple Leaf Forever written by Alexander Muir
• Giuseppe Verdi's opera Don Carlos premieres at the Paris Opéra (March 11)
• Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein debuts in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés (April 12)
• Charles Gounod's opera Roméo et Juliette debuts at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris (April 27)
• Georges Bizet's opera La Jolie Fille de Perth premieres at Paris's Théâtre Lyrique (December 26)

• "Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss II
• "Champagne Charlie" by Alfred Lee & H. J. Whymark
• "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" by George Leybourne, Gaston Lyle, & Alfred Lee
• "Not For Joseph"     w.m. Arthur Lloyd

• January 20 - Yvette Guilbert, singer, actress (d. 1944)
• March 25 - Arturo Toscanini, noted conductor
• September 5 - Amy Beach, composer
• November 24 - Scott Joplin, ragtime composer

• December 6 - Giovanni Pacini, composer