1858 in music
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Events
- January 25 — The Wedding March by Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter "Vicky," the Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia, leading to its becoming popular wedding music. - September 7 — Queen Victoria opens Leeds Town HallLeeds Town HallLeeds Town Hall was built between 1853 and 1858 on Park Lane , Leeds, West Yorkshire, England to a design by architect Cuthbert Brodrick.-Background:...
; the celebratory concert marks the first Leeds FestivalLeeds Festival (classical music)The Leeds Festival was a classical music festival which took place between 1858 and 1985 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.The first festival celebrated the opening of Leeds Town Hall by Queen Victoria on 7 September 1858...
. - Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
meets Ole BullOle BullOle Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...
, who recognises his musical talent. - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck is discovered by his wife, and he leaves Zurich. - Arthur SullivanArthur SullivanSir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO was an English composer of Irish and Italian ancestry. He is best known for his series of 14 operatic collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including such enduring works as H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado...
goes to Leipzig to study music. - The Harvard Glee ClubHarvard Glee ClubThe Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, it is the oldest collegiate chorus in the US. The Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the...
is founded at Harvard University.
Published popular music
- "Can-Can", music by Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
(from his operetta, Orphée Aux Enfers) - "Warblings at Eve" m. Henry Brinley RichardsHenry Brinley RichardsHenry Brinley Richards was a Welsh composer.Richards was born in Hall Street, Carmarthen, his father being organist at St Peter's Church in the town and an organiser of local musical events. Richards won a prize at the Gwent-Morgannwg Eisteddfod of 1834, held at Cardiff, for his arrangement of...
Opera
- Peter CorneliusPeter CorneliusCarl August Peter Cornelius was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. He was born and died in Mainz where his grave in the Hauptfriedhof survives....
— Der Barbier von Bagdad - Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
— Il saltimbanco
Musical theatre
- Orphée Aux Enfers, operetta by Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
, Paris production opened at the Théâtre des Bouffes ParisiensThéâtre des Bouffes ParisiensThe Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens is a Parisian theatre which was founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement at 4 rue Monsigny with an entrance at the back at 65 Passage Choiseul. In...
on October 21 and ran for 228 performances
Births
- January 6 — Ben DaviesBen Davies (tenor)Ben Davies was a Welsh tenor singer, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform...
, operatic tenor (d. 1943) - February 24 — Arnold DolmetschArnold DolmetschArnold Dolmetsch , was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey...
, musical instrument maker (d. 1940) - March 30 — DeWolf HopperDeWolf HopperWilliam DeWolf Hopper was an American actor, singer, comedian, and theatrical producer. Although a star of the musical stage, he was best-known for performing the popular baseball poem Casey at the Bat. -Biography:...
, US actor and singer (d. 1935) - April 22 — Ethel SmythEthel SmythDame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...
, composer (d. 1944) - May 22 — Charles KjerulfCharles KjerulfCharles Kjerulf was a Danish composer.-References:*This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia....
, composer (d. 1919) - July 21 — Chancellor OlcottChancellor OlcottChancellor "Chauncey" Olcott was an American stage actor, songwriter and singer.Born in Buffalo, New York, in the early years of his career Olcott sang in minstrel shows and Lillian Russell played a major role in helping make him a Broadway star...
, singer and songwriter (d. 1932) - July 16 — Eugène YsaÿeEugène YsaÿeEugène Ysaÿe was a Belgian violinist, composer and conductor born in Liège. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tzar"...
, composer (d. 1931) - August — Guy d'HardelotGuy d'HardelotGuy d'Hardelot was the pen name of Helen Rhodes , a French composer, pianist, and teacher.- Biography :...
, pianist and composer - August 1 — Hans RottHans RottHans Rott was an Austrian composer. His music is little-known today, though he received high praise in his time from the likes of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner.-Life:...
, composer (d. 1884) - August 9 — Isidore de LaraIsidore de LaraIsidore de Lara, born Isidore Cohen , was an English composer and singer. After studying in Italy and France, he returned to England where he taught for several years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and became a well known singer and composer of art songs...
, composer (d. 1935) - November 11 — Alessandro MoreschiAlessandro MoreschiAlessandro Moreschi was the most famous castrato singer of the late 19th century, and the only castrato of the classic bel canto tradition to make solo sound recordings.-Life:...
, castratoCastratoA castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.Castration before puberty prevents a boy's...
singer (d. 1922) - December 22 — Giacomo PucciniGiacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
, composer (d. 1924)
Deaths
- January 5 — Joseph Radetzky von RadetzJoseph Radetzky von RadetzJohann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Czech nobleman and Austrian general, immortalised by Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March...
, military leader and subject of the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss IJohann Strauss IJohann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...
(b. 1766) - January 23 — Luigi LablacheLuigi LablacheLuigi Lablache was an Italian opera singer of French and Irish heritage. He was most noted for his comic performances, possessing a powerful and agile bass voice, a wide range, and adroit acting skills: Leporello in Don Giovanni was one of his signature roles.-Biography:Luigi Lablache was born in...
, operatic bass (b. 1794) - April — Bernard SarretteBernard SarretteBernard Sarrette , founded what would become the Paris Conservatoire.Sarrette was born in Bordeaux, France, the son of a shoemaker, and travelled to Paris as an accountant. During the French Revolution, he joined the Garde Nationale...
, founder of the Paris Conservatoire (b. 1765) - April 8 — Anton DiabelliAnton DiabelliAnton Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher, editor and composer of Italian descent. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.-Early life:Diabelli was born in...
, publisher and composer (b. 1781) - April 16 — Johann Baptist CramerJohann Baptist CramerJohann Baptist Cramer was an English musician of German origin. He was the son of Wilhelm Cramer, a famous London violinist and musical conductor, one of a numerous family who were identified with the progress of music during the 18th and 19th centuries.-Biography:Johann Baptist Cramer was born in...
, pianist and composer (b. 1771) - June 3 — Julius ReubkeJulius ReubkeJulius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist. In his short life — he died at the age of 24 — he composed the Sonata on the 94th Psalm, in C minor, which was and still is considered one of the greatest organ works in the repertoire.-Biography:Born in Hausneindorf, a small...
, pianist and composer (b. 1834) - August 24 — Francis Edward BacheFrancis Edward BacheFrancis Edward Bache was an English organist and composer.Born at Birmingham as the eldest of seven children of Samuel Bache, a well-known Unitarian minister, he studied with James Stimpson, Birmingham City Organist, and with violinist Alfred Mellon while being educated at his father's school...
, composer (b. 1833) - September 15 — Thomas AdamsThomas Adams (musician)Thomas Adams was an English organist and composer for organ.Born in London, Adams studied under Thomas Busby, and served as organist at several prominent London churches...
, organist and composer (b. 1785) - October 31 — Karl Thomas MozartKarl Thomas MozartKarl Thomas Mozart was the second son, and the elder of the two surviving sons, of Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart. The other was Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart....
, musician, son of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(b. 1784) - November 15 — Johanna KinkelJohanna KinkelJohanna Kinkel was a German composer, writer, and revolutionary.Kinkel was born in Bonn. In 1840, after five months of unhappy marriage, she was divorced from the Cologne bookseller Matthieux. Her second marriage, in 1843, was to the German poet Gottfried Kinkel. They had four children...
, composer (b. 1810) - December 27 — Alexandre Pierre François BoëlyAlexandre Pierre François BoëlyAlexandre Pierre François Boëly was a French composer, organist, and pianist. Born into a family of musicians, Boëly received his first music lessons from his father, Jean François, who was a countertenor at the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris and a composer and harp teacher at the court of Versailles...
, pianist, organist and composer (b. 1785)