1852 in music

Events

• May 15 – Teatro Comunale Alighieri, the opera house in Ravenna, is inaugurated with a production of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable followed by Giovanni Pacini's Medea.
• Michael William Balfe sets off for Danzig to visit his daughter.

Popular music

• Stephen Foster – "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground"
• Gustav Reichardt – Des Deutschen Vaterland (words by Ernst Moritz Arndt)
• S.M. Grannis – "Do They Miss Me At Home?" (lyrics by Carolina A.Mason)^[1]

Classical music

• Joachim Raff – Two Lieder with words by Gotthold Logau
• Johannes Brahms - Piano Sonata No. 2 (Brahms)

Opera

• Fredrik Pacius – Kung Karls jakt

Births

• January 29 – Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1935)
• March 6 – Josef Bayer, composer and music director (d. 1913)
• April 5 – Franz Eckert, bandmaster and composer (d. 1916)
• April 14 – Henrique Oswald, composer (d. 1931)
• May 23 – Mathilda Grabow, opera singer (d. 1940)
• June 23 – Raoul Pugno, organist, pianist and composer (d. 1914)
• June 28 – Hans Huber, composer (d. 1921)
• July 3 – Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer (d. 1915)
• July 6 – Otto Neitzel, composer and pianist (d. 1920)
• September 30 – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer (d. 1924)
• November 21 – Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (d. 1909)

Deaths

• February 25 – Thomas Moore, poet and songwriter (b. 1779)
• March 5 – Sophie Gay, librettist (b. 1776)
• March 7 – Jacopo Ferretti, librettist (b. 1784)
• March 15 – Antoine de Lhoyer, guitarist and composer (b. 1768)
• June 6 – Tommaso Marchesi, composer (b. 1773)
• July 17 – Salvadore Cammarano, librettist (b. 1801)
• September 20 – Anton Weidinger, trumpet virtuoso (b. 1767)
• October 6 – Stephen Codman, composer (b. 1796)
• November 12 – Georg Hellmesberger, Jr., violinist and composer (b. 1830)
• date unknown – Ulrika Åberg, ballerina (b. 1771)

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