1855 in music

1855 in music

Events

* Franz Liszt gives the first performance of his "Piano Concerto No. 1", conducted by Hector Berlioz.
* Jacques Offenbach becomes director of his own opera house, Les Bouffes-Parisiennes
*Richard Wagner conducts a series of concerts in London.

Popular music

* "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" by Stephen Foster
* "Juanita" by Mrs. Norton.

Classical music

*Georges Bizet - "Symphony in C major"
*Franz Berwald - "Piano Concerto in D"
*Eduard Franck - "String Quartet in F minor op. 49" ( [http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Nov03/Franck_quartet_Quintet.htm] )
*Charles Gounod - "Symphony No. 1 in D"
*Franz Liszt - "Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H"
*Anton Rubinstein - "Quintet for Piano and Winds op. 55" (probably from this year)
*Camille Saint-Saëns - "Quintet for Piano and Strings op. 14"

Opera

* George Frederick Bristow - "Rip van Winkle"
* Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie Halévy - "L'inconsolable"
* Giuseppe Verdi - "Les Vêpres Siciliennes"

Musical theatre

* "Po-Ca-Hon-Tas" (Music: James Gaspard Maeder, Book and Lyrics: John Brougham) Broadway production opened Wallack's Lyceum Theatre on December 24 and transferred to the Bowery Theatre on June 28, 1856. Featuring John Brougham as John Smith.

Births

*January 20 - Ernest Chausson, composer (d. 1899)
*February 18 - Vera Timanova, Russian pianist
*May 9 - Julius Röntgen, composer (d. 1932)
*May 11 - Anatoly Lyadov, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1914)
*July 9 - Paul Zilcher, Dutch composer (died 1943)
*August 2 - Cornélie van Zanten, opera singer and teacher (d. 1946)
*August 27 - Domenico Salvatori, "castrato" singer (d. 1909)
*September 9 - Michele Esposito, pianist and composer (d. 1929)
*November 6 - Paul Kalisch, singer (d. 1946)

Deaths

*January 25 - Gaetano Rossi, librettist (b. 1774)
*February 1 - Claus Harms, researcher of Lutheran hymns (b. 1778)
*February 27 - Louis Lambillotte, composer and music palaeographer (b. 1796)
*April 12 - Pedro Albéniz, pianist and composer (b. 1795)
*September 27 - August Lanner, conductor and composer (b. 1835)
*November 9 - Domenico Cosselli, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1801)
*"date unknown" - Olea Crøger, collector of Norwegian folk tunes (b. 1801)


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