1857 in music

Interior of the Crystal Palace, London, for a music festival in 1857.
Interior of the Crystal Palace, London, for a music festival in 1857.
List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 7 – Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 receives its first public performance. Hans von Bronsart is the pianist with Liszt conducting, in Weimar.
  • January 21 – Giacomo Meyerbeer conducts a work by Mikhail Glinka, at a concert in Berlin attended by the composer. Glinka catches a cold and dies a few weeks later, aged 52; autopsy results are inconclusive.[1]
  • January 27 – Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor (Liszt) is given its first public performance by Hans von Bülow in Berlin.
  • February 7 – Louis Gottschalk leaves New York to begin a concert tour of Cuba.[1]
  • March 14 – Stephen Foster sells all his copyrights to his music publisher for $1,872.28.[1]
  • April 28 – Richard Wagner moves into Green Hill at Zürich, a villa owned by Otto Wesendonck.[1]
  • July 4 – Georges Bizet wins the Prix de Rome.
  • August 27 – Joseph Joachim writes to Franz Liszt, ending their professional relationship.[1]
  • October 8 – Irish opera diva Catherine Hayes marries her manager, William Avery Bushnell, in San Francisco; he dies less than a year later.[2]
  • November 12 – 73-year-old Louis Spohr is forced into retirement from his post at the Hesse-Kassel court.[1]
  • Gioacchino Rossini begins Péchés de vieillesse.
  • Hans von Bülow marries Cosima Liszt daughter of Franz Liszt. They had two daughters.
  • "Le beau Monde (Fashionable Society)" m. Johann Strauss II
  • "Does He Love Me?" w. Annie Chambers Bradford m. F. W. Smith
  • "Jingle Bells w.m. James Pierpont originally published as "One Horse Open Sleigh"
  • "Lorena" w. Reverend Henry D. L. Webster m. Joseph Philbrick Webster
  • "Annie Lisle" w.m. H. S. Thompson

Classical music

  • Charles-Valentin Alkan
    • Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and piano
    • Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs for piano
  • Woldemar Bargiel – Ouvertüre zu einem Trauerspiel, Op.18
  • Georges Bizet – Herminie (cantata)
  • Adolphe Blanc
    • String Quintet No.3, Op.21
    • String Quintet No.4, Op.22
    • Trio in B♭ major for piano, violin (or clarinet) and cello, Op.23
  • Johannes Brahms - Eleven Variations on an Original Theme, in D major Opus 21 No.1
  • Hans von Bülow – 5 Lieder, Op.5
  • Louise Farrenc – Trio no.4 for Flute, Cello, and Piano, Op.45
  • Wilhelm Kalliwoda – Scherzo, Op.4
  • Franz Liszt
    • Dante Symphony
    • Hunnenschlacht (premiered on 29 December)
    • Die Ideale (premiered on 5 September)
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Près de toi
  • Modest Mussorgsky – Souvenir d'Enfance
  • Joachim Raff
    • Ode to Spring: Concert Piece in G major, Op. 76, for piano and orchestra
    • String Quartet No. 2 in A major; Op. 90
  • Napoléon Henri Reber – Symphony No.4, Op.33
  • Julius Reubke – The 94th Psalm
  • Camille Saint-Saëns - Tarantelle in A minor for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra
  • Bedřich Smetana – Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (revised version – original finished 1855)
  • Johann Strauss Jr.
    • Strelna-Terrassen-Quadrille, Op.185
    • La Berceuse Quadrille, Op.194

Opera

  • François Bazin – Maître Pathelin
  • Karel Miry – Karel V (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 29 in Ghent)
  • Jacques Offenbach – Croquefer, premiered February 12 in Paris
  • Ambroise Thomas – Le Carnaval de Venise
  • Giuseppe Verdi
    • Simon Boccanegra, premiered March 12 in Venice
    • Aroldo, premiered August 16 in Rimini

Births

  • January 5 – David Bispham, opera singer (died 1921)
  • January 17 – Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (died 1941)
  • January 22 – Marie Krysińska, musician and composer (died 1908)
  • February 28 – Gustave Kerker, German-born composer (died 1923)
  • March 3 – Alfred Bruneau, French composer (died 1934)
  • March 4
    • Gustav Kobbé, American music critic and author (died 1918)
    • Henry W. Petrie, American songwriter (died 1925)
  • April 21 – Paul Dresser, American composer (died 1906)
  • April 23 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer (died 1919)
  • April 29 – František Ondříček, Czech violinist and composer (died 1922)
  • May 2 – Frederic Cliffe, English composer (died 1931)
  • May 9 – Luigi Illica, Italian librettist for Puccini, Catalani, Giordano and others (died 1919)
  • May 12 – Lillian Nordica, American opera singer (died 1914)
  • June 2 – Edward Elgar, English composer (died 1934)
  • June 5 – Árpád Doppler, Hungarian-German composer (died 1927)
  • June 12 – Achille Simonetti, violinist (died 1928)
  • July 8 – Rudolf Dellinger, composer (died 1910)
  • July 16 – Bolesław Domaniewski, pianist (died 1925)
  • August 8 – Cécile Chaminade, French composer (died 1944)
  • August 18 – Eusebius Mandyczewski, publisher and musician (died 1929)
  • September 8 – Olga Björkegren, Swedish opera singer (died 1950)
  • October 12 – Paul Lange, German musician, teacher, orchestra and choir leader (died 1919)
  • November 5 – Joseph Tabrar, English music hall songwriter (d. 1931)
  • November 14 – Rosalind Ellicott, English composer (died 1924)
  • December 14 – Frederic Lillebridge, pianist (died 1934)
  • December 18 – Rosa Newmarch, née Jeaffreson, English musicologist (died 1940)
  • December 27 – Charles Manners, né Southcote Mansergh, English operatic bass and opera company manager (died 1935)
  • December 30 – Sylvio Lazzari, Italian composer and conductor (died 1944)
  • date unknown – Thomas Adams, organist (died 1918)

Deaths

  • January 19 – Franz Limmer, conductor and composer (b. 1808)
  • February 3 – Johann Gottlieb Kotte, musician (born 1797)
  • February 14 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1801)
  • February 15 – Mikhail Glinka, composer (b. 1804)
  • March 1 – Benjamin Cross, organist, singer, conductor and composer (b. 1786)
  • April – Alessandro Curmi, pianist and composer (b. 1801)
  • June 28 – Joseph Fischhof, pianist, composer and music teacher (born 1804)
  • July 15 – Carl Czerny, pianist and composer (b. 1791)
  • July 16 – Pierre-Jean de Béranger, songwriter (b. 1780)
  • August 1 – Emilie Zumsteeg, pianist and songwriter (b. 1796)
  • September 18 – Karol Kurpiński, composer (born 1785)
  • October 20 – John Diamond, dancer (born 1823)
  • October 21 – Ananias Davisson, singing teacher and printer of shape note books (b. 1780)
  • November 7 – Charles Zeuner, organist (born 1795)
  • December 11 – Castil-Blaze, music critic, musicologist and composer (b. 1784)
  • probable – Ferdinand Prévôt, operatic baritone (born c.1800)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 MusicAndHistory.com. Accessed 10 March 2013
  2. ↑ Australian Dictionary of Biography. Accessed 10 March 2013
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