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Premieres

  • January 22: At the premiere of the 1st Piano Concerto by Johannes Brahms at the Royal Court Theatre in Hanover under the direction of Joseph Joachim the composer himself sits at the piano. Another performance will take place on January 27th at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. The reviews are devastating.
  • FEBRUARY 17: The opera Un ballo in maschera ( A Masked Ball) by Giuseppe Verdi will be premiered with a triumphant success at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. The libretto was written by Antonio Somma after the drama " Gustave III. Masqué ou le bal " by Eugène Scribe. The abbreviation V.E.R.D.I. becomes a symbol of the freedom struggle of the Italians.
  • February 20: The Symphony No. 2 by Camille Saint- Saëns has its world premiere.
  • March 19: The premiere of the opera Faust by Charles Gounod takes place in Paris at the Théâtre Lyrique. The work with the libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré after Goethe's Faust I is a great success from the start.
  • April 4: The first version of the comic opera Dinorah ou Le Pardon de Ploërmel by Giacomo Meyerbeer has its world premiere at the Opéra -Comique in Paris. The libretto was written by Jules Barbier in collaboration with Michel Carré, based on the story Les chercheurs de trésor. At the end of the year, a loss of German-language premiere at the ducal court theater in Coburg.
  • March 28: Joseph Joachim brings in Hamburg Johannes Brahms ' 1st Serenade in six movements for the premiere. In December, Brahms asks for Joachim sheet of paper with the intention to " transform into a symphony " the work.
  • June 8: The premiere of the opera L' Omelette à la Léo Delibes Follenbuche takes place in Paris at the Théâtre des Bouffes.
  • June 22: The French operetta Un Mari à la Porte ( A husband at the door ) by Jacques Offenbach to a libretto by Alfred Charlemagne Delacour and Leon Morand experienced its first performance at the Théâtre des Bouffes in Paris.
  • July 6th: The world premiere of the operetta Les Vivandières de la Grande Armée by Jacques Offenbach takes place at the Théâtre des Bouffes in Paris.
  • November 19: The comic opera Geneviève de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes in Paris.

Others

  • November 24: The 16 -year-old Adelina Patti has her operatic debut in the role of Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. Thus begins a meteoric career as a coloratura soprano.
  • Soon after the execution of abolitionist John Brown on December 2, the song John Brown's Body in the United States is becoming popular.
  • In the United States, the patriotic song Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emment is published.

Born

  • Honorio Alarcón, Colombian pianist and music teacher († 1920)

Died

  • June 29: Kamilo Masek, Czech composer (* 1831)
  • October 22: Louis Spohr, German composer, conductor, educator, organizer of music festivals and violinist of international renown (* 1784)
  • November 7: Carl Gottlieb Reißiger, German composer and Kapellmeister (* 1798)
1855 in music 1858 in music 1860 in music 1861 in music 1862 in music 1863 in music 1864 in music 1869 in music Dixie (song) Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms) Faust (opera) Serenades (Brahms) John Brown (Abolitionist) 1921 1902 1914 April 22 1935 May 1 1918 May 9 Frank Damrosch 1937 July 2 1923 July 14 Willy Hess (Violinist) 1939 August 23 Franz Porten 1932 September 3 1891 September 9 William Reed (musician) 1945 September 22 Rudolph Sophus Bergh 1924 September 24 Julius Klengel 1933 October 14 Camille Chevillard 1940 October 26 November 6 1936 November 30 December 3 December 23 1910 December 24 Roman Statkowski 1925 December 30 Josef Bohuslav Foerster 1951
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