🔍
🏠
Wikipedia
🎲
1859 in music
List of years in music
(
Table
)
…
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
…
Related time period or subjects
…
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
…
…
1820s
1830s
1840s
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
…
…
18th century
19th century
20th century
…
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Science
more
Contents
1
Events
2
Published popular music
3
Classical music
4
Opera
5
Musical theater
6
Births
7
Deaths
8
References
Events
March 4
- Charter of the French Opera House,
New Orleans
, which opens on
December 1
of the same year with a gala performance of
Rossini
's
William Tell
.
April 4
-
Bryants Minstrels
debut "
Dixie
" at
Mechanics' Hall, New York City
.
Alexander Borodin
begins a period of research at Heidelberg, working on benzene derivatives.
Alberto Mazzucato
becomes musical director of
La Scala
opera house.
Published popular music
"Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley
In 1859,
John Freeman Young
published the English translation of
Silent Night
that is most frequently sung today.
Classical music
Overture to
King Lear
by
Mily Balakirev
[
1
]
Piano Concerto No. 1
by
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 2 in A
by Johannes Brahms
Helges Treue
by
Felix Draeseke
\
Concerto for Solo Piano
by
Charles-Valentin Alkan
Totentanz
(finished); first version of Psalm 23; Psalm 137 (begun, finished 1862); Prelude after a theme from Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen for piano; and orchestral version of
Deux Épisodes d'apres le Faust de Lenau
by
Franz Liszt
Opera
César Cui
-
The Mandarin's Son
Léo Delibes
-
L'Omelette à la Follembuche
Charles Gounod
-
Faust
first performed in Paris. Libretto by
Jules Barbier
and
Michel Carré
, based on a work by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
.
Giuseppe Verdi
-
Un ballo in maschera
Musical theater
Going It Blind
-
Broadway
production
Births
January 26
-
W. O. Forsyth
, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
February 1
-
Victor Herbert
, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1924)
April 3
-
Reginald de Koven
, US composer (d. 1920)
April 5
-
Wilhelm Harteveld
, composer
April 11
-
Basil Harwood
, organist and composer (d. 1949)
May 13
-
August Enna
, composer (d. 1939)
June 22
-
Frank Heino Damrosch
, founder of Institute of Music (d. 1937)
June 27
-
Mildred J. Hill
, composer of "Happy Birthday to You" (d. 1916)
July 21
-
Charles H. Taylor
, lyricist (d. 1907)
September 21
-
Otto Lohse
, conductor and composer (d. 1925)
September 24
-
Julius Klengel
, cellist, composer (d. 1933)
October 14
-
Camille Chevillard
, conductor and composer (d. 1923)
November 15
-
Joseph Vidal
, composer (d. 1924)
November 19
-
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
, conductor and composer (d. 1935)
November 30
-
Sergei Lyapunov
, pianist and composer (d. 1924)
December 21
-
Max Fiedler
, conductor and composer (d. 1939)
December 23
-
Adrian Ross
, English lyricist (d. 1933)
December 27
-
William Henry Hadow
, musicologist (d. 1937)
December 30
-
Josef Bohuslav Foerster
, composer (d. 1951)
Deaths
January 13
-
Francisco José Debali
, composer (b. 1791)
March 14
-
Nicola Tacchinardi
, cellist and operatic tenor (b. 1772)
April 14
-
Ignaz Bösendorfer
, piano manufacturer (b. 1796)
July -
Lewis Henry Lavenu
, conductor, composer and impresario (d. 1818)
July 23
-
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
, actress, singer and poet (b. 1786)
July 29
-
Auguste Mathieu Panseron
, composer and singing teacher (b. 1796)
October 22
-
Louis Spohr
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1784)
November 7
-
Carl Gottlieb Reißiger
, Kapellmeister and composer (b. 1798)
December 31
-
Luigi Ricci
, composer (b. 1805)
References
^
"Review of Recording of King Lear Overture"
.
http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogNov98.html
. Retrieved 2007-09-21
.