1853 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg sets up in business as a piano manufacturer in New York City, and the firm of Steinway and Sons is born.
• The piano manufacturer C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik is founded by Carl Bechstein in Berlin.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Farewell My Lilly Dear" by Stephen Foster
• "My Cottage Home" w.m. Alice Hawthorne
• "My Old Kentucky Home" by Stephen Foster
• "P'tit quinquin" (in Picard) by Alexandre Desrousseaux

[edit] Classical music

[edit] Opera

• Victor Massé - Les noces de Jeannette
• January 19 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome
• March 6 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata premieres in Venice

[edit] Births

• April 21 - Charles-Theodore Malherbe
• December 22 - Maria Teresa Carreno
• December 30 - André Messager

[edit] Deaths

• January 16 - Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer
• October 3 - George Onslow, composer
• October 30 - Pietro Raimondi, composer
• December 5 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer