1854 in music
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Events
- February 27 – Robert Schumann unsuccessfully attempts suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the River Rhine.
- June 24 - Franz Liszt premieres Franz Schubert's opera Alfonso und Estrella in Weimar, thirty-two years after it was composed.
Published popular music
- "Hard Times Come Again No More" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster
- "(I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster
- "Maggie by My Side" Stephen Collins Foster
- "Old Dog Tray" Stephen Collins Foster
- "What Is Home Without A Mother" w.m. Septimus Winner
Classical music
- Hector Berlioz – L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ) (oratorio)
- Charles Gounod – Chant de paix
- Franz Liszt – Les préludes
- Henri Wieniawski – Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano
Opera
- Karel Miry – La Lanterne magique (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)
Births
- April 13 – António D'Andrade, opera singer (d. 1942)
- May 6 – Laura Joyce Bell, contralto singer and actress (d. 1904)
- July 3 – Leoš Janáček, composer (d. 1928)
- July 14 – Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (d. 1911)
- August 24 – Alfred Dudley Turner, composer (some sources have b.1853) (d.1888)
- September 1 – Engelbert Humperdinck, composer (d. 1921)
- November 6 – John Philip Sousa, composer (d. 1932)
- November 14 – Dina Edling, opera singer (d. 1935)
Deaths
- January 12 – Philip Klitz, composer (born 1805)
- March 3 – Giovanni Battista Rubini, operatic tenor (born 1794)
- March 26 – Emilie Hammarskjöld, pianist, singer and composer (born 1821)
- April 18 – Józef Elsner, composer and teacher (born 1769)
- May 1 – Jean Coralli, dancer and choreographer (born 1779)
- May 31 – Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819)
- June 17 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera)
- July 14 – Louis-Pierre Norblin, cellist (born 1781)
- August 21 – August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (born 1790)
- October – Luigi Tarisio, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790)
- November 2 – Anton Pann, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790)
- November 17 – Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808)