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1850 in music
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April 16, 2025
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Events
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
Deaths
References
Overview of the events of 1850 in music
List of years in music
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Events
August 28
(anniversary of
Goethe
's birth) –
Richard Wagner
's
romantic
opera
Lohengrin
(including the
Bridal Chorus
) premières under the direction of
Franz Liszt
at the
Staatskapelle Weimar
.
Hans von Bülow
attends and makes the decision to give up law and pursue music. His mother is convinced by two letters she receives from
Liszt
and
Wagner
.
Jenny Lind
tours America, with
Julius Benedict
as her accompanist.
Soprano
Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
marries her third husband, landowner Heinrich von Bock.
Charles Gounod
meets the soprano
Pauline Viardot
in
Rome
. She convinces him to compose
opera
.
Johannes Brahms
meets the violinist
Ede Reményi
, whom he will accompany on several tours for the next couple of years.
Wagner
, under a pseudonym, writes an
antisemitic
article on "Jewishness in Music" in
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
.
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Published popular music
Stephen Foster
"
Camptown Races
"
"
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway
"
"Molly Do You Love Me?"
"Nelly Bly"
M. S. Pike – "Home Again"
"
I Have Got The Blues To Day!
" w. Miss Sarah M. Graham, m. Gustave Blessner
"What Are The Wild Waves Saying" w.
Joseph Edwards Carpenter
m.
Stephen Glover
Classical music
J S Bach
– The
Brandenburg Concertos
published for the first time
Hector Berlioz
–
La Fuite en Égypte
(later incorporated into
l'Enfance du Christ
)
Ernesto Cavallini
– Elégie for clarinet and piano
Carl Czerny
– Album élégant des dames pianistes, Op. 804
Louise Farrenc
– Sonata for violin and piano in A, Op. 39
Niels Gade
– Symphony No. 4
Ferdinand Hiller
– 4 Gesänge, Op.41
Édouard Lalo
– Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor
Franz Liszt
Prometheus
Consolations
Liebesträume
Anton Rubinstein
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 25
Dimitri Donskoy
Camille Saint-Saëns
- Symphony in A Major
Robert Schumann
–
Symphony No. 3 op. 97 in E-flat
,
Cello Concerto Op. 129 in A minor
Louis Spohr
– String Quintet No. 7 in G minor (of 7)
Johann Strauss Jr
.
Kaiser Franz Josef Marsch, Op. 67
Aeols-Töne Walzer, Op. 68
Die Gemütlichen Walzer, Op. 70
Künstler-Quadrille, Op. 71
Scherz-Polka, Op. 72
Frohsinns-Spenden Walzer, Op. 73
Lava-Ströme Walzer, Op. 74
Sofien-Quadrille, Op. 75
Attaque-Quadrille, Op. 76
Wiener Garnison Marsch, Op. 77
Rendez-vous Polka, Op. 78
Robert Volkmann
– Piano Trio No. 2 op. 5 in B-flat minor
Opera
Daniel Auber
–
L'enfant prodigue
Paul Wranitzky
–
La Tempesta
Robert Schumann
–
Genoveva
Richard Wagner
–
Lohengrin
Nicola De Giosa
–
Don Checco
Births
January 4
–
Max Kalbeck
, librettist and music critic (died 1921)
January 6
–
Xaver Scharwenka
, pianist and composer (d. 1924)
January 13
– Leon Francis Victor Caron, French-Australian conductor and composer (d. 1907)
February 18
– Sir
George Henschel
,
Prussia
-born singer, conductor, composer, founder of
London Symphony Orchestra
(d. 1934)
March 5
–
Daniel B. Towner
, composer (d. 1919)
March 9
–
Alexandre Luigini
, composer (d. 1906)
March 18
–
Olefine Moe
, opera singer (d. 1933)
March 19
–
Elias Oechsler
, composer (d. 1917)
March 26
–
Amalia Riégo
, opera singer (d. 1926)
April 25
–
Luise Adolpha Le Beau
, German composer (d. 1927)
July 3
–
Alfredo Keil
, composer and painter (d. 1907)
July 4
–
Ole Olsen
,
Norwegian
composer (d. 1927)
July 5
–
Aloÿs Claussmann
, French organist (died 1926)
September 9
–
Leopoldo Miguez
, composer (d. 1902)
September 21
–
Hans Sitt
, German violinist, teacher and composer (d. 1922)
November 10
–
Arthur Thomas
, composer (d. 1892)
December 1
–
Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller
,
Danish
composer (d. 1926)
December 9
–
Emma Abbott
, singer (d. 1891)
December 13
–
Iver Holter
, conductor and composer (d. 1941)
December 20
–
Theo Marzials
, composer, singer and poet (d. 1920)
December 21
–
Zdeněk Fibich
,
Czech
composer (d. 1900)
December 29
–
Tomás Bretón
, composer (d. 1923)
Deaths
February 15
–
Elisabeth Forsselius
, actress and singer (b. 1771)
March 19
–
Adalbert Gyrowetz
, composer (b. 1763)
March 25
–
Francesco Basili
, conductor and composer (b. 1767)
April 3
–
Václav Tomášek
, pianist and composer (b. 1774)
May –
Ludwig Schuberth
, composer (b. 1806)
July 28
–
Stefano Pavesi
, composer (b. 1779)
August 22
–
Nikolaus Lenau
, lyricist and poet (born 1802)
October 12
–
Luigia Boccabadati
, operatic soprano (b. 1800)
October 14
–
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu
, operatic soprano (b. 1780)
November 6
–
Christopher Meineke
, organist and composer (b. 1782)
December 3
–
Andrei Sychra
, guitarist and composer (b. c. 1773)
References
↑
Figes, Orlando
(2019).
The Europeans
. [London]: Allen Lane.
ISBN
978-0-241-00489-0
.
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