04-03 - Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto is premiered at Copenhagen's Casino
06-01 - First performance of third version Bedrich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride at the Provisional Theater in Prague. There were four revisions.
06-19 - Last day of a five-day "Great National Peace Jubilee" with an orchestra of 1000 and a chorus of 10,000. All organized by bandmaster Patrick Gilmore performing in a specially-constructed hall in Boston's Back Bay.
07-31 - First performance of Offenbach: "La Princesse de Trébizonde" Baden-Baden (1869); rev. Dec. 7, 1869.
09-22 - Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuts at the Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich
