1853 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • March 5 – The American-German piano company Steinway & Sons is founded by Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.
  • 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.
  • October 22 – The overture to Tannhäuser is performed in Boston Music Hall by the Germania Musical Society conducted by Carl Bergmann. It is the first American performance.
  • November 1 – Richard Wagner begins composing the music for The Ring of the Nibelung.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk returns the United States after eleven years in Europe.
  • Brahms meets Joseph Joachim and Robert and Clara Schumann.
  • Julius Blüthner founds Blüthner (piano manufacturer) in Leipzig, Germany.
  • Danmarks gamle Folkeviser collected by Svend Grundtvig
  • "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
  • "The Yellow Rose of Texas"

Classical music

  • Franz Berwald
    • Piano Trio No. 4 in C major
    • Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor
  • Johannes Brahms – Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 3
  • Ida Henriette da Fonseca
    • Der Abschied
    • Byrons Statue
    • Die Erwartung
    • Granen ved Lougen
    • Regnbuen
    • Wechsellied zum Tanze
    • Zum neuen Jahr
  • William Henry Fry – Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk – The Banjo, Op. 15
  • Charles Gounod – Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach, later known as Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
  • Franz Liszt
    • Piano Sonata in B minor
    • Hungarian Rhapsodies 1–15
    • Ballade No. 2
  • Camille Saint-Saëns
    • Piano Quartet in E major
    • Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major
  • Robert Schumann - Gesänge der Frühe
  • Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich – F-A-E Sonata
  • Henryk Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 1

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 at Teatro Apollo in Rome)
    • La traviata (premiered on March 6 at La Fenice in Venice)

Births

  • May 17 – Carolina Östberg, opera singer (d. 1929)
  • 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)
    • 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)
    • Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano
  • date unknown – James Hill, folk musician (b. c. 1811)
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