1857 in music

1857 in music

Events

* Georges Bizet wins the Prix de Rome.

Published popular songs

* "Does He Love Me?" w. Annie Chambers Bradford m. F. W. Smith
* "Lorena" w. Reverend Henry D. L. Webster m. Joseph Philbrick Webster

Christmas songs

* "Jingle Bells", by James Pierpont

Classical music

* Charles-Valentin Alkan - "Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47" for cello and piano
* Georges Bizet - "Herminie" (cantata)
* Franz Liszt - "Dante" symphony and "Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat"
* Modest Mussorgsky - "Souvenir d'Enfance"
* Bedřich Smetana - "Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15" (revised version - original finished 1855)
* Julius Reubke - "The 94th Psalm"

Opera

*Karel Miry - "Karel V" (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 29 in Ghent)
* Giuseppe Verdi - "Simon Boccanegra"

Births

* January 17 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
* February 28 - Gustav Kerker, German-born composer.
* March 3 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (d. 1934)
* March 4 - Henry W. Petrie, US songwriter
* March 8 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer (d. 1919)
* April 21 - Paul Dresser, US composer
* April 29 - František Ondříček, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1922)
* May 2 - Frederic Cliffe, English composer (d. 1931)
*May 9 - Luigi Illica, librettist for Puccini, Catalani, Giordano and others (d. 1919)
*May 12 - Lillian Nordica, opera singer
* June 2 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
* August 8 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer (d. 1944)
*November 5 - Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (d. 1931)
*November 14 - Rosalind Ellicott, composer (d. 1924)
* December 30 - Sylvio Lazzari, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1944)

Deaths

*February 14 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1801)
*February 15 - Mikhail Glinka, composer (b. 1804)
*July 15 - Carl Czerny, pianist and composer (b. 1791)
*July 16 - Pierre-Jean de Béranger, songwriter (b. 1780)
*August 1 - Emilie Zumsteeg, pianist and songwriter (b. 1796)
*October 21 - Ananias Davisson, singing teacher and printer of shape note books (b. 1780)
*December 11 - Castil-Blaze, music critic, musicologist and composer (b. 1784)
*"date unknown" - John Diamond, dancer (b. 1823)


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