1850 in music

1850 in music

Events

*Jenny Lind tours America, with Julius Benedict as her accompanist.

Published popular music

*Stephen Foster
** "Camptown Races"
** "Molly Do You Love Me?"
** "Nelly Bly"
*M. S. Pike - "Home Again"
*"I Have Got The Blues To Day!" w. Miss Sarah M. Graham, m. Gustave Blessner

Classical music

* Hector Berlioz - "La Fuite en Égypte" (from l'Enfance du Christ)
* Edouard Lalo - "Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor"
* Robert Schumann - "Symphony No. 3 op. 97 in E-flat", "Cello Concerto op. 129 in A minor"
* Louis Spohr - "String Quintet No. 7 in G minor" (of 7)
* Robert Volkmann - "Piano Trio No. 2 op. 5 in B-flat minor"

Opera

*Jacques Fromental Halévy - "La Tempesta"
*Robert Schumann - "Genoveva"
*Richard Wagner - "Lohengrin"

Births

*February 18 - Sir George Henschel, Prussia-born singer, conductor, composer, founder of London Symphony Orchestra (d. 1934)
*March 9 - Alexandre Luigini, composer
*July 4 - Ole Olsen, Norwegian composer
*December 1 - Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Danish composer (d. 1926)
*December 9 - Emma Abbott, singer
*December 21 - Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900)
*December 29 - Tomás Bretón, composer
*"unknown date" - Franz Xaver Scharwenka, composer

Deaths

*January 27 - Philipp Roth, composer
*February 15- Elisabeth Forsselius, actress and singer (b. 1771)
*March 19 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (b. 1763)
*April 3 - Václav Tomášek, pianist and composer (b. 1774)
*December 3 - Andrei Sychra, guitarist and composer (b. c. 1773)


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