1854 in music
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[edit] Events
- The accordion is patented by Anthony Foss.
- Robert Schumann unsuccessfully attempts suicide.
[edit] Published popular music
- "Hard Times Come Again No More" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster
- "(I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster
- "Maggie by My Side" Stephen Collins Foster
- "Old Dog Tray" Stephen Collins Foster
- "What Is Home Without A Mother" w.m. Septimus Winner
[edit] Classical music
- Hector Berlioz - L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ)(oratorio)
- Charles Gounod - Chant de paix
- Franz Liszt - Les préludes
- Henri Wieniawski - Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano
[edit] Opera
- Karel Miry - La Lanterne magique (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)
[edit] Births
- July 3 - Leoš Janáček, composer (d. 1928)
- July 14 - Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (d. 1911)
- August 24 - Alfred Dudley Turner, composer (some sources have b.1853) (d.1888)
- September 1 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer (d. 1921)
- November 6 - John Philip Sousa, composer (d. 1932)
- November 14 - Dina Edling, opera singer (d. 1935)
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 - Philip Klitz, composer (born 1805)
- March 3 - Giovanni Battista Rubini, operatic tenor (born 1794)
- April 18 - Józef Elsner, composer and teacher (born 1769)
- May 1 - Jean Coralli, dancer and choreographer (born 1779)
- May 31 - Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819)
- June 17 - Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera)
- August 21 - August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (born 1790)
- October - Luigi Tarisio, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790)
- November 2 - Anton Pann, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790)
- November 18 - Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808)
- date unknown - Louis-Pierre Norblin, cellist (born 1781)
- Emilie Hammarskjöld, composer (born 1821)
