1854 in music

1854 in music

Events

* The accordion is patented by Anthony Foss.
*Robert Schumann unsuccessfully attempts suicide.

Published popular music

* "Hard Times Come Again No More" Stephen Foster
* "(I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" Stephen Foster
* "Maggie by My Side" Stephen Foster
* "Old Dog Tray" Stephen Foster
* "What Is Home Without A Mother", w.m. Septimus Winner

Classical music

*Hector Berlioz - "The Infant Christ" (oratorio)
*Charles Gounod - "Chant de paix"
*Franz Liszt - "Les Préludes"
*Henri Wieniawski - "Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano"

Opera

*Karel Miry - "La Lanterne magique" (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)

Births

*July 3 - Leoš Janáček
*July 14 - Alexander Kopylov
*September 1 - Engelbert Humperdinck
*November 6 - John Philip Sousa
*November 9 - Joseph Miroslav Weber
*December 13 - G. H. Chirgwin, English music hall comedian and singer

Deaths

*January 12 - Philip Klitz, composer (born 1805)
*March 3 - Giovanni Battista Rubini, operatic tenor (born 1794)
*April 18 - Józef Elsner, composer and teacher (born 1769)
*May 1 - Jean Coralli, dancer and choreographer (born 1779)
*May 31 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819)
*June 17 - Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera)
*August 21 - August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (born 1790)
*October - Luigi Tarisio, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790)
*November 2 - Anton Pann, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790)
*November 18 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808)
*"date unknown" - Louis-Pierre Norblin, cellist (born 1781)


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