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Overview of the events of 1855 in music
List of years in music
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table
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+...
Events
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February 17
–
Franz Liszt
gives the first performance of his
Piano Concerto No. 1
, conducted by
Hector Berlioz
.
March–June –
Richard Wagner
stays in London to conduct a series of concerts.
June 13
- Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi "
Les vêpres siciliennes
" (The Sicilian Vespers) is premiered in Paris.
[1]
July 5
–
Jacques Offenbach
inaugurates performances of operettas as director of his own theater, the
Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
.
Late autumn –
Mily Balakirev
meets
Mikhail Glinka
in
Saint Petersburg
. Their friendship cements the former's ambition to foster
Russian nationalist music
.
November 27
–
Piano Trio No. 1
of
Brahms
is given its first public performance at Dodsworth's Hall in
Manhattan
on Broadway at 11th Street. It is the earliest performance of Brahms' music in the
United States
December 3
– The Piano Trio in G minor by
Bedřich Smetana
is given its first public performance in
Prague
.
Tchaikovsky
takes private music lessons with Rudolph Kündinger, who tells Tchaikovsky's father that he saw nothing to suggest a future composer.
Bands formed
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]
Black Dyke Mills Band
re-formed after failure of its immediate predecessor, the Queenshead Band in
Queensbury, West Yorkshire
, England.
Popular music
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]
Stephen Foster
– "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming"
George Martin Lane
–
"The Lone Fish Ball"
Caroline Norton
–
"Juanita"
words
Septimus Winner
(as "Alice Hawthorne") music
Richard Milburn
– "
Listen to the Mocking Bird
"
Classical music
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]
Georges Bizet
–
Symphony in C
Franz Berwald
– Piano Concerto in D
Eduard Franck
– String Quartet in F minor op. 49 (
[
1
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)
Charles Gounod
– Symphony No. 1 in D
Stephen Heller
2 Tarantelles, Op.85
Im Walde, Op.86
Friedrich Hermann
– Capriccio No.1 for 3 Violins, Op.2
Franz Liszt
Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
Les préludes, S.97
Prometheus, S.99
3 Lieder aus Schillers "Wilhelm Tell", S.292
Wie singt die Lerche schön, S.312
Anton Rubinstein
– Quintet for Piano and Winds Op. 55 (probably from this year)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Six Bagatelles for piano, Op. 3
Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 14
Bedřich Smetana
–
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
Louis Spohr
– 6 Gesänge, Op.154
Opera
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George Frederick Bristow
–
Rip van Winkle
Fromental Halévy
–
L'inconsolable
Jacques Offenbach
– one-act
operettas
Ba-ta-clan
Les deux aveugles
Giuseppe Verdi
–
Les vêpres siciliennes
Musical theatre
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]
Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage
(Music:
James Gaspard Maeder
, Book and Lyrics:
John Brougham
) Broadway production opened
Wallack's Lyceum Theatre
on
December 24
and transferred to the
Bowery Theatre
on June 28, 1856. Featuring John Brougham as John Smith.
Births
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]
January 20
–
Ernest Chausson
, composer (d. 1899)
February 15
–
Gustav Hollaender
, composer (died 1915)
February 18
–
Vera Timanova
, Russian pianist
March 12
–
Eduard Birnbaum
, cantor (died 1920)
April 18
–
Josef Gruber
, composer (died 1933)
May 2
–
Theodore Moses Tobani
, composer (died 1933)
May 9
–
Julius Röntgen
, composer (d. 1932)
May 10
–
Carl Kiefert
, conductor (died 1937)
May 11
–
Anatoly Lyadov
, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1914)
June 5
–
Hanuš Wihan
, cellist (died 1920)
June 17
–
Fritz Kauffmann
, composer (died 1934)
July 25
–
Edward Solomon
, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1895)
August 2
–
Cornélie van Zanten
, opera singer and teacher (d. 1946)
August 27
–
Domenico Salvatori
,
castrato
singer (d. 1909)
September 6
–
Ferdinand Hummel
, composer (died 1928)
September 9
–
Michele Esposito
, pianist and composer (d. 1929)
October 16
–
William Barclay Squire
, musicologist (died 1927)
October 30
–
Károly Aggházy
, composer (died 1918)
November 1
–
Guido Adler
, musicologist (died 1941)
November 6
–
Paul Kalisch
, singer (d. 1946)
December 7
–
Gunhild Rosén
, ballerina
December 23
–
Alan Gray
, composer (died 1935)
December 26
–
Arnold Mendelssohn
, composer (died 1933)
Deaths
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]
January 25
–
Gaetano Rossi
, librettist (b. 1774)
February 1
–
Claus Harms
, researcher of Lutheran hymns (b. 1778)
February 27
–
Louis Lambillotte
, composer and music palaeographer (b. 1796)
March 17
–
Ramon Carnicer
, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
April 12
–
Pedro Albéniz
, pianist and composer (b. 1795)
April 30
–
Henry Rowley Bishop
, composer (b. 1786)
July 19
–
Karl Keller
, composer and flautist (b. 1784)
September 27
–
August Lanner
, conductor and composer (b. 1835)
November 9
–
Domenico Cosselli
, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1801)
November 21
–
Olea Crøger
, collector of Norwegian folk tunes (b. 1801)
November 25
–
Thomas Commuck
, composer (born 1804)
December 2
–
Frédéric Bérat
, songwriter and composer (b. 1801)
Marie Antoinette Petersén
, singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (b. 1771)
References
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]
^
Hibberd, Sarah.
The Creation of Les Vêpres siciliennes, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
. Program book for 2013 production. p. 11-17.
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