1853 in Music

Events in Music

Mar 6 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice

Jan 1 Hans Koessler, composer
Jan 3 Iwan Knorr, German composer, born in Mewe (d. 1916)
Jan 7 Nikolai Arkas, composer
Feb 12 Bertram Luard-Selby, composer
Mar 5 Arthur Foote, American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six" (Suite for Strings in E), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1937)
Mar 8 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina), born in Antwerp (d. 1916)
Apr 5 Alfonso Rendano, Italian composer, born in Consenza, Italy (d. 1931)
Apr 21 Charles-Theodore Malherbe, composer
May 1 Charles Lee Williams, English composer and organist, born in Winchester (d. 1935)
May 26 Monroe Althouse, American composer, born in Centre Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (d. 1924)
May 30 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
Jun 16 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
Jun 28 Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (Song of our Saviour), born in Stoughton, Massachusetts (d. 1911)
Jul 17 Francesco Fanciulli, American-Italian composer, born in Porto Santo Stefano, Tuscany (d. 1915)
Jul 22 Victor Roger, composer
Jul 29 Henry Morton Dunham, composer
Aug 12 Jean Louis Nicode, composer
Oct 14 Ciprian Porumbescu, composer
Dec 13 Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter
Dec 22 Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan pianist, singer, composer, and conductor
Dec 30 Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer

Oct 20 23rd US President Benjamin Harrison (20) weds music teacher Caroline Scott (21)

Jan 3 Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30
Apr 11 Louis Emmanuel Eadin, composer, dies
Apr 15 Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67
May 9 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer, dies at 73
Aug 6 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer, dies at 57
Aug 15 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
Aug 18 Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73
Sep 4 Jonathan Blewitt, composer, dies at 71
Oct 3 Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69
Oct 29 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer, dies at 68
Oct 29 William Richard Bexfield, English composer, dies at 29
Oct 30 Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66
Nov 4 Alexander Stadtfeld, German composer, dies at 27
Nov 23 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer, dies at 67
Nov 23 [Johann Christian] Friedrich Schneider, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
Dec 5 Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80