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1855 in music
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Contents
1
Events
2
Bands formed
3
Popular music
4
Classical music
5
Opera
6
Musical theatre
7
Births
8
Deaths
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.
Bands formed
Black Dyke Band
, reformed after the failure of the Black Dyke Mills Band.
Popular music
Stephen Foster
- "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming"
George Martin Lane
-
"The Lone Fish Ball"
Mrs. Norton -
"Juanita"
Classical music
Georges Bizet
-
Symphony in C
Franz Berwald
-
Piano Concerto in D
Eduard Franck
-
String Quartet in F minor op. 49
(
[1]
)
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
Jacques Offenbach
Les deux aveugles
, a one-act bouffonerie musicale
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 25
-
Edward Solomon
, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1895)
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)
December 7
-
Gunhild Rosén
, ballerina
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)
March 17
-
Ramon Carnicer
, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
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)
December 2
-
Frédéric Bérat
, songwriter and composer (b. 1801)
date unknown
-
Olea Crøger
, collector of Norwegian folk tunes (b. 1801)