1858 in music

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Events

• January 25 — The Wedding March by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter "Vicky," the Princess Royal, to Prince Friedrich of Prussia, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.
• September 7 — Queen Victoria opens Leeds Town Hall; the celebratory concert marks the first Leeds Festival.
• Edvard Grieg meets Ole Bull, who recognises his musical talent.
• Richard Wagner's affair with Mathilde Wesendonck is discovered by his wife, and he leaves Zurich.
• Arthur Sullivan goes to Leipzig to study music.
• The Harvard Glee Club is founded at Harvard University.

Poster for premier of Offenbach's Orphée Aux Enfers

Published popular music

• "Can-Can", music by Jacques Offenbach (from his operetta, Orphée Aux Enfers)
• "Warblings at Eve" m. Henry Brinley Richards

Classical music

• Johann Strauss II — Tritsch-Tratsch Polka

Opera

• Peter Cornelius — Der Barbier von Bagdad
• Giovanni Pacini — Il saltimbanco

Musical theatre

• Orphée Aux Enfers, operetta by Jacques Offenbach, Paris production opened at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens on October 21 and ran for 228 performances

Births

• January 6 — Ben Davies, operatic tenor (d. 1943)
• February 24 — Arnold Dolmetsch, musical instrument maker (d. 1940)
• March 30 — DeWolf Hopper, US actor and singer (d. 1935)
• April 22 — Ethel Smyth, composer (d. 1944)
• May 22 — Charles Kjerulf, composer (d. 1919)
• July 21 — Chancellor Olcott, singer and songwriter (d. 1932)
• July 16 — Eugène Ysaÿe, composer (d. 1931)
• August — Guy d'Hardelot, pianist and composer
• August 1 — Hans Rott, composer (d. 1884)
• August 9 — Isidore de Lara, composer (d. 1935)
• November 11 — Alessandro Moreschi, castrato singer (d. 1922)
• December 22 — Giacomo Puccini, composer (d. 1924)

Deaths

• January 5 — Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, military leader and subject of the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss I (b. 1766)
• January 23 — Luigi Lablache, operatic bass (b. 1794)
• April — Bernard Sarrette, founder of the Paris Conservatoire (b. 1765)
• April 8 — Anton Diabelli, publisher and composer (b. 1781)
• April 16 — Johann Baptist Cramer, pianist and composer (b. 1771)
• June 3 — Julius Reubke, pianist and composer (b. 1834)
• August 24 — Francis Edward Bache, composer (b. 1833)
• September 15 — Thomas Adams, organist and composer (b. 1785)
• October 31 — Karl Thomas Mozart, musician, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1784)
• November 15 — Johanna Kinkel, composer (b. 1810)
• December 27 — Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, pianist, organist and composer (b. 1785)