1859 in music
See also:1858 in music,other events of 1859, 1860 in music and thelist of 'years in music'.
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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.
Published popular music
- "Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley
Classical Music
- Piano Concerto No. 1 by Johannes Brahms
- Serenade no.2, A by Johannes Brahms
- Helges Treue by Felix Draeseke
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
Musical theater
- Going It Blind - Broadway production
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 4 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski
- November 1 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
- November 30 - Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov
- December 23 - Adrian Ross, English lyricist
- December 27 - William Henry Hadow, composer
- December 28 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
- December 30 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster
- December 31 - Max Fiedler, conductor
- unknown date - August Enna
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
Categories
1859 | Years in music