1854 in music
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Events
- The accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
is patented by Anthony Foss. - Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
unsuccessfully attempts suicide.
Published popular music
- "Hard Times Come Again No MoreHard Times Come Again No More"Hard Times Come Again No More," is a parlor song by Stephen Foster. It was published in New York by Firth, Pond & Co. in 1854 as Foster's Melodies No. 28...
" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster - "(I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown HairJeanie with the Light Brown Hair"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster . It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854. Foster wrote the song with his wife Jane McDowell in mind. "Jeanie" was a notorious beneficiary of the ASCAP boycott of 1941...
" 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 WinnerSeptimus WinnerSeptimus Winner is best known as a songwriter of the nineteenth century. He used his own name, and also the pseudonyms Alice Hawthorne, Percy Guyer, Mark Mason, Apsley Street, and Paul Stenton...
Classical music
- Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
- L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ)(oratorio) - Charles GounodCharles GounodCharles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
- Chant de paix - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
- Les préludes - Henri Wieniawski - Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano
Opera
- Karel MiryKarel MiryKarel Miry was a Belgian composer.He was one of the first Belgian composers to write operas to librettos in Dutch. He composed the music for De Vlaamse Leeuw the national anthem of Flanders, and for which Hippoliet van Peene wrote the lyrics...
- La Lanterne magique (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van PeeneHippoliet van PeeneHippoliet Jan van Peene was a Flemish physician and playwright.He studied Medicine at the State university of Louvain and became a physician in Kaprijke and later in Ghent....
, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)
Births
- July 3 - Leoš JanáčekLeoš JanácekLeoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
, composer (d. 1928) - July 14 - Alexander KopylovAlexander KopylovAlexander Alexandrovich Kopylov or Kopilov was a Russian composer and violinist....
, violinist and composer (d. 1911) - August 24 - Alfred Dudley TurnerAlfred Dudley TurnerAlfred Dudley Turner was an American composer, mainly of chamber music. He was born in St. Albans, Maine, and died there. Turner was a graduate, and for many years, instructor at the Boston University College of Music...
, composer (some sources have b.1853) (d.1888) - September 1 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer (d. 1921)
- November 6 - John Philip SousaJohn Philip SousaJohn Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
, composer (d. 1932) - November 14 - Dina EdlingDina EdlingDina Edling, née Niehoff was a Swedish opera singer , a singing teacher and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music....
, opera singer (d. 1935)
Deaths
- January 12 - Philip KlitzPhilip KlitzPhilip Klitz , was a British-born composer.Klitz was born at Lymington, Hampshire. His father, George Philip Klitz, drum-major of the royal Flintshire militia, and musical composer, was born at Biebrich, Germany, in 1777, and died at Lymington in 1839...
, composer (born 1805) - March 3 - Giovanni Battista RubiniGiovanni Battista RubiniGiovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. His ringing and expressive coloratura dexterity in the highest register of his voice, the tenorino, inspired the writing of operatic roles which today are almost impossible to cast...
, operatic tenor (born 1794) - April 18 - Józef ElsnerJózef ElsnerJózef Antoni Franciszek was a composer, music teacher and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw...
, composer and teacher (born 1769) - May 1 - Jean CoralliJean CoralliJean Coralli , born Jean Coralli Peracini, was a French dancer and choreographer and later held the esteemed post of First Balletmaster of the Paris Opera Ballet...
, dancer and choreographer (born 1779) - May 31 - Vatroslav LisinskiVatroslav LisinskiVatroslav Lisinski was a Croatian composer.Lisinski was born Ignaz Fuchs to a German Jewish family...
, composer (born 1819) - June 17 - Henriette SontagHenriette SontagHenriette Sontag was a German operatic soprano of great international renown. She possessed a sweet-toned, lyrical voice and was a brilliant exponent of florid singing.-Life:...
, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera) - August 21 - August Ferdinand AnackerAugust Ferdinand AnackerAugust Ferdinand Anacker was a German composer.Anacker, the son of a poor shoemaker, was born in Freiberg, Saxony. He attended the Gymnasium in Freiberg before going to Leipzig in 1813 to study music with Johann Gottfried Schicht and Friedrich Schneider...
, composer (born 1790) - October - Luigi TarisioLuigi TarisioThis page refers to the violin dealer and collector. For the online string instrument auction house, see Tarisio Auctions.Luigi Tarisio was an Italian violin dealer and collector....
, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790) - November 2 - Anton PannAnton PannAnton Pann , was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher...
, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790) - November 18 - Alberich ZwyssigAlberich ZwyssigFather Alberich or Alberik Zwyssig was a Cistercian monk who composed in 1841 the Swiss Psalm, the present Swiss national anthem.-Life:...
, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808) - date unknown - Louis-Pierre NorblinLouis-Pierre NorblinLouis Norblin was a French musician. He taught cello at the Paris Conservatoire, where his students included Charles Lebouc....
, cellist (born 1781) - Emilie HammarskjöldEmilie HammarskjöldEmilie Augusta Kristina Hammarskjöld, née Holmberg, was a Swedish composer, singer, pianist, music teacher and organist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.-Background:...
, composer (born 1821)