1851 In Music

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.
* March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera '' Rigoletto'' is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
*April 5 – Jenny Lind visits the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, USA.
* July 23 – Richard Wagner writes down the ''leitmotif'' for the " Ride of the Valkyries".
*Operatic baritone Hans von Milde marries soprano Rosa Agthe.
*Eight-year-old Adelina Patti sings in public for the first time.

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 Bresil''
* 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)

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