1859 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical Music 4 Opera 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 References

[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.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley

[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 21 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
• January 24 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
• January 26 - W. O. Forsyth
• February 1 - Victor Herbert
• March 8 - Otto Taubmann
• March 12 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
• March 26 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
• April 3 - Reginald de Koven, US composer
• April 5 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
• April 11 - Basil Harwood, composer
• May 1 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
• May 2 - Eugene d'Harcourt, composer
• June 22 - Frank Heino Damrosch, founder of Institute of Music
• June 27 - Mildred J. Hill, composer of "Happy Birthday to You"
• August 20 - Silas Leachman
• September 4 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer
• October 14 - Camille Chevillard, composer
• November 1 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
• November 4 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski
• November 19 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
• November 30 - Sergei Lyapunov
• December 23 - Adrian Ross, English lyricist
• December 27 - William Henry Hadow, composer
• December 28 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer (d. 1935)
• December 30 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster
• December 31 - Max Fiedler, conductor
• unknown date - August Enna
• unknown date - Julius Klengel, cellist, composer (d. 1933)

[edit] Deaths

• January 13 - Francisco José Debali, composer
• February 6 - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer
• March 1 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer
• June 18 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
• July 29 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer
• November 7 - Carl Gottlieb Reißiger, composer
• November 22 - Louis Spohr
• December 31 - Luigi Ricci, composer

[edit] References

1. ^ Review of Recording of King Lear Overture. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.