1851 in music

none 1851 music right|thumb|250px|Old Folks at Home, as sung by Christy's Minstrels in 1851. This article is about music-related events in 1851. Events February – Operatic tenor Sims Reeves returns to perform in Dublin with his new wife, soprano Charlotte Emma Lucombe. February 6 – Schumann's Symphony No. 3 receives its première in Düsseldorf, the composer conducting.Geoff Kuenning Schumann: Symphony No. 3, Rhenish 1994 http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/schumann/symphony3.html https://web.archive.org/web/20051218152145/http://www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/prognotes/schumann/symphony3.html 18 December 2005 dead March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.John Rosselli The Life of Verdi Musical Lives Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000 978-0-52166-957-3 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=9rMe04PNbZ4C April 5 – Jenny Lind visits the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, USA.February 2024 July 23 – Richard Wagner writes down the leitmotif for the "Ride of the Valkyries".February 2024 Operatic baritone Hans von Milde marries soprano Rosa Agthe.February 2024 Eight-year-old Adelina Patti sings in public for the first time.February 2024 Published popular music "Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song" – w. Shirley Brooks m. Alexander Lee "Old Folks at Home" (Way Down Upon the Swanee River) by Stephen Foster "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" by Stephen Foster "I Would Not Die in Summer Time" by Stephen Foster "Laura Lee" by Stephen Foster Classical music Woldemar Bargiel Piano Trio No. 1 in F major, Op. 6 String Quartet No.3, Op.15b Johannes Brahms Scherzo in E-flat minor for solo piano, Op. 4 Heimkehr (Homecoming) for voice and piano, Op. 7 No. 6 Stephen Heller – Pensées fugitives, Op.30 Franz Liszt Transcendental Études for Piano, S 139 Grandes études de Paganini Johann Kaspar Mertz – Fantaisie über 'Don Juan', Op.28 Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Rondo for cello and orchestra. George Onslow – Wind Quintet Op. 81 Anton Rubinstein – Symphony No. 2 (Ocean) (first version) Robert Schumann Symphony No. 4 from 1841, revised Violin Sonata No. 1 Violin Sonata No. 2 Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, oratorio Mädchenlieder, Op. 103 7 Lieder, Op. 104 6 Gesänge, Op. 107 Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 110 3 Gedichte, Op. 119 Julius Cäsar Ouverture, Op. 128 3 Fantasiestücke, for piano Märchenbilder, for piano and viola Adrien-François Servais Souvenir de la Suisse, Op.10 6 Caprices for Cello, Op.11 Hugo Staehle – 6 Lieder, Op.2 Opera Félicien-César David – La perle du Brésill Charles Gounod – Sapho Albert Lortzing – Die Oprnprobe Joachim Raff – König Alfred Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto Births January 25 – Jan Blockx, pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1912) January 27 – Gaspar Villate, composer (d. 1891) February 12 – Anna Yesipova, pianist (d. 1914) March 27 Ruperto Chapí, composer (d. 1909) Vincent d'Indy, composer (d. 1931) May 1 – Ludvig Hegner, composer (d. 1923) May 6 Aristide Bruant, French singer (d. 1925) Jean-Alexandre Talazac, operatic tenor (d. 1896) May 7 – Julius Buths, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1920) May 17 – Victor Bendix, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1926) June 3 – Theodore Baker, musicologist (died 1934) June 11 – Oscar Borg, composer (d. 1930) June 12 – Pol Plançon, operatic bass (d. 1914) August 8 – Walborg Lagerwall, Swedish violinist (d. 1940) October 11 – Josif Marinković, composer (d. 1931) October 16 – Viggo Bielefeldt, composer (d. 1909) November 5 – Émile Pierre Ratez, composer (d. 1934) November 16 – Minnie Hauk, operatic soprano (d. 1929) probable – Marie Heilbron, operatic soprano (d. 1886) Deaths January 21 – Albert Lortzing, composer (b. 1801) January 24 – Gaspare Spontini, composer (b. 1774) February 20 – Josef Alois Ladurner, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1769) March 6 Alexander Alyabyev, composer (b. 1787) Emma Hartmann, composer (b. 1807) April 8 – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer (b. 1776) July 4 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (b. 1784) July 17 – Béni Egressy, composer and librettist (b. 1814) August 8 – James Shudi Broadwood, piano-maker (b. 1772) October 8 – George Alexander Lee, singer, songwriter and opera producer (b. 1802) December 1 – Carl Dahlén, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1770) External links References Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year