1853 in music
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Events
- March 5 – Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg sets up in business as a piano manufacturer in New York City, and the firm of Steinway and Sons is born.
- October – Louis Niedermeyer reorganizes and re-opens the school known as the École Choron, which becomes the École Niedermeyer.
- October 1 – The piano manufacturer C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik is founded by Carl Bechstein in Berlin.
- Julius Blüthner founds Blüthner (piano manufacturer) in Leipzig, Germany.
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
Classical music
- Louis Moreau Gottschalk – The Banjo, Op. 15
- Franz Liszt – Piano Sonata in B minor
- Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich – F-A-E Sonata
- Franz Berwald, Piano Trio No. 4 in C major
- Franz Berwald, Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor
Opera
- Victor Massé – Les noces de Jeannette
- Karel Miry – Anne Mie (opera in 1 act, premiered on October 9 in Antwerp)
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Il Trovatore (premiered on January 19 in Rome)
- La Traviata (premiered on March 6 in Venice)
Births
- July 24 – Alessandro Parisotti, composer and music editor (d. 1913)
- November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (d. 1870)
- December 22 – Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer, conductor and composer (d. 1917)
- December 30 – André Messager, composer (d. 1929)
- date unknown – Alfonso Rendano, pianist (d. 1931)
- date unknown – Carolina Östberg, opera singer (d. 1929)
- date unknown – Maria Westberg, ballerina (d. 1893)
Deaths
- January 16 – Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer (b. 1792)
- March 15 – Giovanni Ricordi, violinist (b. 1785)
- October 3 – George Onslow, composer (b. 1784)
- October 29 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1785)
- October 30 – Pietro Raimondi, composer (b. 1786)
- December 5 – Johann Peter Heuschkel, oboist, organist and composer (b. 1773)
- December 5 – Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano
- date unknown – James Hill, folk musician (b. c. 1811)
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