1864 in music
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Events
- Anton Bruckner composes his Symphony No. 0 ("Die Nullte").
- Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélène debuts at the Paris Variétés (December 17).
- Hans von Bülow takes over from Franz Lachner at the Munich opera.
Published popular music
- "Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster
- "The Picture on the Wall" by Henry Clay Work
- "Shall We Gather at the River?" w.m. Robert Lowry
- "Somebody's Darling" w.m. John Hill Hewitt
- "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Boys Are Marching)" by George F. Root
Classical music
- Louis Gottschalk - The Dying Poet
- Friedrich Kiel - Piano Concerto
- Franz Strauss - Nocturno for Horn and Piano
- Thomas Tellefsen - Trio for piano, violin and cello (opus 31)
- Robert Volkmann - Symphony no. 2
Opera
- Flor van Duyse - Rosalinde (libretto by Karel Versnaeyen, premiered in Antwerp)
- Karel Miry - Bouchard-d'Avesnes (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 6 in Ghent)
- Jacques Offenbach - Die Rheinnixen (The Rhine Fairies)
Births
- February 7 - Arthur Collins, singer (d. 1933)
- April 10 - Eugen d'Albert, composer, pianist
- June 11 - Richard Strauss, composer, conductor (d. 1949)
- July 6 - Alberto Nepomuceno, composer and conductor (d. 1920)
- August 18 - Gemma Bellincioni, operatic soprano (d. 1950)
- October 7 - Louis F. Gottschalk, composer (d. 1934)
- date unknown - Alice Esty, operatic soprano (d. 1935)
Deaths
- January 13 - Stephen Foster, songwriter (b. 1826) (domestic accident)
- January 26 - Otto Lindblad, composer (b. 1809)
- February 16 - Václav Jindřich Veit, lawyer and composer (b. 1806)
- March 30 - Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (b. 1811)
- May 2 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer (b. 1791)
- October 1 - Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann, musical instrument maker (b. 1805)
- October 7 - Apollon Grigoryev, poet and songwriter (b. 1822) (alcoholism)
- December 20 - Josef Proksch, pianist and composer (b. 1794)
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