- 1850 in music
Events
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Jenny Lind tours America, withJulius Benedict as her accompanist.Published popular music
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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 BlessnerClassical music
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Hector Berlioz - "La Fuite en Égypte" (froml'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
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February 18 - SirGeorge Henschel ,Prussia -born singer, conductor, composer, founder ofLondon 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 , composerDeaths
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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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