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1851 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1851.

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Events

  • February – Operatic tenor Sims Reeves returns to perform in Dublin with his new wife, soprano Charlotte Emma Lucombe.
  • February 6 – Schumann's Symphony No. 3 receives its première in Düsseldorf, the composer conducting. ([1])
  • March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
  • April 5 – Jenny Lind visits the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, USA.
  • July 23 – Richard Wagner writes down the leitmotif for the "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • Operatic baritone Hans von Milde marries soprano Rosa Agthe.
  • Eight-year-old Adelina Patti sings in public for the first time.
  • "Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" – Shirley Brooks (w.) Alexander Lee (m.)
  • "Old Folks at Home'" (Way Down Upon the Suwannee River) By Stephen Foster
  • "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" By Stephen Foster
  • "I Would Not Die in Summer Time" By Stephen Foster
  • "Laura Lee" By Stephen Foster

    • Classical music

  • Woldemar Bargiel – Piano Trio No. 1 in F major, op. 6
  • Johannes Brahms – Scherzo in E-flat minor, op. 4
  • Franz Liszt – Transcendental Études for Piano, S 139
  • Franz Liszt - Grandes études de Paganini
  • George Onslow – Wind quintet opus 81
  • Anton Rubinstein – Symphony No. 2 (Ocean) (first version)
  • Robert Schumann
  • Symphony No. 4 from 1841, revised
  • First violin sonata
  • Second violin sonata
  • Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, oratorio
  • Third piano trio
  • Mädchenlieder , Op. 103
  • 7 Lieder, Op. 104
  • 3 Fantasiestücke, for piano
  • Märchenbilder, for piano and viola
  • Jacques Offenbach - 'Concerto Rondo' for Cello and Orchestra.

    • Opera

  • Félicien-César David – La Perle du Bresil
  • Charles Gounod – Sapho
  • Albert Lortzing – Die Oprnprobe
  • Joachim Raff – König Alfred
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto

    • Births

  • January 25 – Jan Blockx, pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1912)
  • January 27 – Gaspar Villate, composer (d. 1891)
  • February 12 – Anna Yesipova, pianist (d. 1914)
  • March 27
  • Ruperto Chapí, composer (d. 1909)
  • Vincent d'Indy, composer (d. 1931)
  • May 1 – Ludvig Hegner, composer (d. 1923)
  • May 6
  • Aristide Bruant, French singer (d. 1925)
  • Jean-Alexandre Talazac, operatic tenor (d. 1896)
  • May 7 – Julius Buths, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1920)
  • May 17 – Victor Bendix, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1926)
  • June 11 – Oscar Borg, composer (d. 1930)
  • June 12 – Pol Plançon, operatic bass (d. 1914)
  • August 8 – Walborg Lagerwall, Swedish violinist (d. 1940)
  • October 11 – Josif Marinković, composer (d. 1931)
  • October 16 – Viggo Bielefeldt, composer (d. 1909)
  • November 5 - Émile Pierre Ratez, composer (d. 1934)
  • November 16 – Minnie Hauk, operatic soprano (d. 1929)
  • probable – Marie Heilbron, operatic soprano (d. 1886)

    • Deaths

  • January 21 – Albert Lortzing, composer (b. 1801)
  • January 24 – Gaspare Spontini, composer (b. 1774)
  • March 6
  • Alexander Alyabyev, composer (b. 1787)
  • Emma Hartmann, composer (b. 1807)
  • April 8 – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer (b. 1776)
  • July 4 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (b. 1784)
  • July 17 – Béni Egressy, composer and librettist (b. 1814)
  • August 8 – James Shudi Broadwood, piano-maker (b. 1772)
  • October 8 – George Alexander Lee, singer, songwriter and opera producer (b. 1802)
  • December 1 – Carl Dahlén, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1770)

    • References

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