1858 in music

1858 in music

Events

*January 25 - The "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter "Vicky," the Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.
*Edvard Grieg meets Ole Bull, who recognises his musical talent.
*Richard Wagner's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck is discovered by his wife, and he leaves Zurich.
*Arthur Sullivan goes to Leipzig to study music.
*The Harvard Glee Club is founded at Harvard University.

Popular music

* "Can-Can", music by Jacques Offenbach (from his operetta, "Orphée Aux Enfers")

Classical music

*Johann Strauss II - "Tritsch-Tratsch Polka"

Opera

*Peter Cornelius - "Der Barbier von Bagdad"
*Giovanni Pacini - "Il saltimbanco"

Musical theatre

* "Orphée Aux Enfers", operetta by Jacques Offenbach, Paris production opened at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens on October 21 and ran for 228 performances

Births

*January 6 - Ben Davies, operatic tenor (d. 1943)
*February 24 - Arnold Dolmetsch, musical instrument maker (d. 1940)
*March 30 - DeWolf Hopper, US actor and singer (d. 1935)
*April 22 - Ethel Smyth, composer (d. 1944)
*July 21 - Chancellor Olcott, singer and songwriter (d. 1932)
*July 16 - Eugène Ysaÿe, composer (d. 1931)
*August - Guy d'Hardelot, pianist and composer
*August 1 - Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
*August 9 - Isidore de Lara, composer (d. 1935)
*December 22 - Giacomo Puccini, composer (d. 1924)

Deaths

*January 5 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, military leader and subject of the "Radetzky March" by Johann Strauss I (b. 1766)
*January 23 - Luigi Lablache, operatic bass (b. 1794)
*April - Bernard Sarrette, founder of the Paris Conservatoire (b. 1765)
*April 8 - Anton Diabelli, publisher and composer (b. 1781)
*April 16 - Johann Baptist Cramer, pianist and composer (b. 1771)
*June 3 - Julius Reubke, pianist and composer (b. 1834)
*August 24 - Francis Edward Bache, composer (b. 1833)
*September 15 - Thomas Adams, organist and composer (b. 1785)
*October 31 - Karl Thomas Mozart, musician, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1784)
*November 15 - Johanna Kinkel, composer (b. 1810)
*December 1 - Rebecca Henriette Lejeune Dirichlet, salon hostess and sister of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel (b. 1811)
*December 27 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, pianist, organist and composer (b. 1785)


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