1855 in music
Events
Bands formed
Popular music
Classical music
- Georges Bizet â Symphony in C
- Franz Berwald â Piano Concerto in D
- Eduard Franck â String Quartet in F minor op. 49 (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2003/Nov03/Franck_quartet_Quintet.htm)
- Charles Gounod â Symphony No. 1 in D
- Stephen Heller
- 2 Tarantelles, Op.85
- Im Walde, Op.86
- â Capriccio No.1 for 3 Violins, Op.2
- Franz Liszt
- Book 1 of Années de pèlerinage
- Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
- Les préludes, S.97
- Prometheus, S.99
- 3 Lieder aus Schillers "Wilhelm Tell", S.292
- Wie singt die Lerche schön, S.312
- Anton Rubinstein â Quintet for Piano and Winds Op. 55 (probably from this year)
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Six Bagatelles for piano, Op. 3
- Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 14
- BedÃ
Âich Smetana â Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
- Louis Spohr â 6 Gesänge, Op.154
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
- January 20 â Ernest Chausson, composer (d. 1899)
- February 15 â Gustav Hollaender, composer (died 1915)
- February 18 â Vera Timanova, Russian pianist
- March 12 â Eduard Birnbaum, cantor (died 1920)
- April 18 â , composer (died 1933)
- May 2 â Theodore Moses Tobani, composer (died 1933)
- May 9 â Julius Röntgen, composer (d. 1932)
- May 10 â Carl Kiefert, conductor (died 1937)
- May 11 â Anatoly Lyadov, conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1914)
- June 5 â HanuÃ
¡ Wihan, cellist (died 1920)
- June 17 â , composer (died 1934)
- July 25 â Edward Solomon, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1895)
- August 2 â Cornélie van Zanten, opera singer and teacher (d. 1946)
- August 27 â Domenico Salvatori, castrato singer (d. 1909)
- September 6 â Ferdinand Hummel, composer (died 1928)
- September 9 â Michele Esposito, pianist and composer (d. 1929)
- October 16 â William Barclay Squire, musicologist (died 1927)
- October 30 â Károly Aggházy, composer (died 1918)
- November 1 â Guido Adler, musicologist (died 1941)
- November 6 â Paul Kalisch, singer (d. 1946)
- December 7 â Gunhild Rosén, ballerina
- December 23 â Alan Gray, composer (died 1935)
- December 26 â Arnold Mendelssohn, composer (died 1933)
Deaths
- January 25 â Gaetano Rossi, librettist (b. 1774)
- February 1 â Claus Harms, researcher of Lutheran hymns (b. 1778)
- February 27 â Louis Lambillotte, composer and music palaeographer (b. 1796)
- March 17 â Ramon Carnicer, conductor and composer (b. 1789)
- April 12 â Pedro Albéniz, pianist and composer (b. 1795)
- April 30 â Henry Rowley Bishop, composer (b. 1786)
- July 19 â Karl Keller, composer and flautist (b. 1784)
- September 27 â August Lanner, conductor and composer (b. 1835)
- November 9 â Domenico Cosselli, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1801)
- November 21 â Olea Crøger, collector of Norwegian folk tunes (b. 1801)
- November 25 â Thomas Commuck, composer (born 1804)
- December 2 â Frédéric Bérat, songwriter and composer (b. 1801)
- Marie Antoinette Petersén, singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (b. 1771)
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