page_title: 1872 in music
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1872 in music / Events
context_section_description: June 5 – closure of the Teatro Re following its final performance, Rossini's The Barber of Seville
  June 24 – Karl Müller-Hartung founds an "Orchesterschule" ("Orchestra School") at Weimar.
  Friedrich Nietzsche takes up musical composition again after a long break.
  Tomás Bretón and Ruperto Chapí receive the first prize of the Madrid Conservatory.
  Anton Rubinstein begins a tour of the United States at the behest of Steinway and Sons.
  Richard Wagner completes the full draft of Götterdämmerung.
caption: At the Ballet, 1872, by Edgar Degas
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