1858 in music
Overview of the events of 1858 in music
Franz Liszt in 1858
Events
January 2 – Sigismond Thalberg is given a farewell concert by the Academy of Music, New York.[ 1] January 14 – While on their way to the Paris Opéra, Napoleon III of France and Empress Eugénie are attacked by a would-be assassin. The emperor proceeds to attend the performance.[ 1] January 25 – The "Wedding March " by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria 's daughter "Vicky" (Victoria, Princess Royal ) to Prince Friedrich of Prussia in St James's Palace , London, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.January 30 – Hallé Orchestra founded by Charles Hallé in Manchester , England.[ 2] February 20 – Giacomo Meyerbeer pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband Heinrich Heine .[ 1] April 7 – Richard Wagner 's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck is discovered by her husband; he leaves Zurich shortly afterwards.May 15 - The Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden , London with a performance of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots [ 3] June 17 – Modest Musorgsky resigns from the Preobrazhensky Regiment to take up music full-time.[ 1] September 7 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom opens Leeds Town Hall ; the celebratory concert marks the first Leeds Festival .September 16 – Jules Massenet gives his first piano recital.October 6 – Edvard Grieg enters Leipzig Conservatory , having had his talent recognised by Ole Bull .[ 4] October 21 – Jacques Offenbach 's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld can-can , is first performed, at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens in Paris.Camille Saint-Saëns succeeds Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély as organist of La Madeleine, Paris .Arthur Sullivan goes to Leipzig to study music.The Wiener Singverein is formed as a choir in its modern form in Vienna.
The Harvard Glee Club is founded at Harvard University in the United States. Poster for a revival of Offenbach's 1858 Orphée Aux Enfers
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
January 3 – Richard Franck , composer (died 1938)January 6 — Ben Davies , operatic tenor (died 1943 )February 24 — Arnold Dolmetsch , musical instrument maker (died 1940 )March 30 — DeWolf Hopper , US actor and singer (died 1935 )April 22 — Ethel Smyth , composer (died 1944 )April 25 – Auguste Chapuis , composer (died 1933)May 22 — Charles Kjerulf , composer (died 1919 )July 16 — Eugène Ysaÿe , composer (died 1931 )July 21 — Chauncey Olcott , singer and songwriter (died 1932 )August — Guy d'Hardelot , pianist and composer
August 1 — Hans Rott , composer (died 1884 )August 9 — Isidore de Lara , composer (died 1935 )September 13 – Catharinus Elling , composer (died 1942)September 15 – Jenö Hubay , composer (died 1937)October 12 – Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann , piano composer (died 1914)November 9 – John Stromberg , composer (died 1902)November 11 — Alessandro Moreschi , castrato singer (died 1922 )December 22 — Giacomo Puccini , composer (died 1924 )
Deaths
January 5 — Joseph Radetzky von Radetz , military leader and subject of the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss I (b. 1766)January 23 — Luigi Lablache , operatic bass (b. 1794)April — Bernard Sarrette , founder of the Paris Conservatoire (b. 1765)
April 8 — Anton Diabelli , publisher and composer (b. 1781)April 16 — Johann Baptist Cramer , pianist and composer (b. 1771)June 3 — Julius Reubke , pianist and composer (b. 1834)August 24 — Francis Edward Bache , composer (b. 1833)September 8 – Jacopo Foroni , composer (born 1825)September 15 — Thomas Adams , organist and composer (b. 1785)October 31 — Karl Thomas Mozart , musician, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1784)November 15 — Johanna Kinkel , composer (b. 1810)December 27 — Alexandre Pierre François Boëly , pianist, organist and composer (b. 1785)
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