1859 in music
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[edit] Events
- March 4 - Charter of the French Opera House, New Orleans, which opens on December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini's William Tell.
- April 4 - Bryants Minstrels debut "Dixie" at Mechanics' Hall, New York City.
- Alexander Borodin begins a period of research at Heidelberg, working on benzene derivatives.
[edit] Published popular music
- "Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley
- In 1859, John Freeman Young published the English translation of Silent Night that is most frequently sung today.
[edit] Classical Music
- Overture to King Lear by Mily Balakirev [1]
- Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms
- Serenade No. 2 in A by Johannes Brahms
- Helges Treue by Felix Draeseke
- Totentanz (finished); first version of Psalm 23; Psalm 137 (begun, finished 1862); Prelude after a theme from Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen for piano; and orchestral version of Deux Épisodes d'apres le Faust de Lenau by Franz Liszt
[edit] Opera
- César Cui - The Mandarin's Son
- Léo Delibes - L'Omelette à la Follembuche
- Charles Gounod - Faust first performed in Paris. Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
- Giuseppe Verdi - Un ballo in maschera
[edit] Musical theater
- Going It Blind - Broadway production
[edit] Births
- January 26 - W. O. Forsyth, pianist and composer (d. 1937)
- February 1 - Victor Herbert, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1924)
- April 3 - Reginald de Koven, US composer (d. 1920)
- April 5 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
- April 11 - Basil Harwood, organist and composer (d. 1949)
- May 13 - August Enna, composer (d. 1939)
- June 22 - Frank Heino Damrosch, founder of Institute of Music (d. 1937)
- June 27 - Mildred J. Hill, composer of "Happy Birthday to You" (d. 1916)
- July 21 - Charles H. Taylor, lyricist (d. 1907)
- September 24 - Julius Klengel, cellist, composer (d. 1933)
- October 14 - Camille Chevillard, conductor and composer (d. 1923)
- November 15 - Joseph Vidal, composer (d. 1924)
- November 19 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, conductor and composer (d. 1935)
- November 30 - Sergei Lyapunov, pianist and composer (d. 1924)
- December 21 - Max Fiedler, conductor and composer (d. 1939)
- December 23 - Adrian Ross, English lyricist (d. 1933)
- December 27 - William Henry Hadow, musicologist (d. 1937)
- December 30 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster, composer (d. 1951)
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 - Francisco José Debali, composer (b. 1791)
- March 14 - Nicola Tacchinardi, cellist and operatic tenor (b. 1772)
- April 14 - Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer (b. 1796)
- July - Lewis Henry Lavenu, conductor, composer and impresario (d. 1818)
- July 23 - Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, actress, singer and poet (b. 1786)
- July 29 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer and singing teacher (b. 1796)
- November 7 - Carl Gottlieb Reißiger, Kapellmeister and composer (b. 1798)
- November 22 - Louis Spohr, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1784)
- December 31 - Luigi Ricci, composer (b. 1805)
[edit] References
- ^ "Review of Recording of King Lear Overture". http://www.recordsinternational.com/archive/RICatalogNov98.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
