See also: 1858 in music, other events of 1859, 1860 in music and the list of 'years in music'. See also: 1857 in music, other events of 1858, 1859 in music and the list of years in music. Events None listed Popular music Can-Can, music by Jacques Offenbach (from his operetta, Orphée Aux Enfers) Musical theatre Orphée Aux Enfers, Paris production opened at the Bouffes-Parisiens... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... See also: 1859 in music, other events of 1860, 1861 in music and the list of years in music. Events The first Viennese operetta, Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppé, debuts at the Theater an der Wien First official modern Welsh Eisteddfod is held at Denbigh Published popular music Down... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

Events

• March 4 - Charter of the French Opera House, New Orleans, which opens on December 1 of the same year with a gala performance of Rossini's William Tell.

March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 — November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... William Tell (German Wilhelm Tell) was a legendary hero of disputed historical accuracy said to have lived in the Canton of Uri in Switzerland in the early 14th century. ...

Published popular music

• "Darling little blue eyed Nell" w. B. E. Woolf m. Frederick Buckley

Classical Music

• Serenade no.2, A by Johannes Brahms
• Helges Treue by Felix Draeseke

Johannes Brahms (May 7, 1833 – April 3, 1897) was a German composer of romantic music. ... Felix Draeseke, oil portrait by Robert Sterl (1907) Felix August Bernhard Draeseke (October 7, 1835 – February 26, 1913) was a composer of the New German School admiring Liszt and Wagner. ...

Opera

• Faust first performed in Paris. Music by Charles Gounod with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Un Ballo in Maschera by Giuseppe Verdi

This article is about opera as an art form. ... Faust is the protagonist of a popular German tale that has been used as the basis for many different fictional works. ... Charles Gounod Charles François Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a French composer, best known for his opera Faust. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced [gø tə]) (August 28, 1749 – March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. ... Un Ballo in Maschera, or A Masked Ball, is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi with text by Antonio Somma. ... Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886 (National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome) Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (October 10, 1813 – January 27, 1901) was one of the great composers of Italian opera. ...

Musical theater

• Going It Blind - Broadway production

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Births

• January 21 - Antoni Wincenty Rutkowski, composer
• January 24 - Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer
• January 26 - W. O. Forsyth
• February 1 - Victor Herbert
• March 8 - Otto Taubmann
• March 12 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
• March 26 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
• April 3 - Reginald De Koven, US composer
• April 5 - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer
• April 11 - Basil Harwood, composer
• May 1 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer
• May 2 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
• June 22 - Frank Heino Damrosch, founder of Institute of Music
• June 27 - Mildred J Hill, composer of "Happy Birthday to You"
• August 20 - Silas Leachman
• September 4 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer
• October 14 - Camille Chevillard, composer
• November 4 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski
• November 1 - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
• November 30 - Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov
• December 23 - Adrian Ross, English lyricist
• December 27 - William Henry Hadow, composer
• December 28 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer
• December 30 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster
• December 31 - Max Fiedler, conductor
• unknown date - August Enna

January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Wesley Octavius Forsyth (January 26, 1859 - May 7, 1937) was a Canadian pianist and composer. ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Victor Herbert (February 1, 1859 - May 26, 1924) was a popular composer of light opera. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... Reginald de Koven was born at Middletown, Connecticut, April 3, 1859. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... Basil Harwood (11 April 1859–3 April 1949) was an English organist and composer. ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... June 27 is the 178th day of the year (179th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 187 days remaining. ... August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in Leap years). ... November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August Enna (1859 - August 3, 1939), was a Danish composer, known mainly for his operas. ...

Deaths

• January 20 - Bettina Brentano, composer
• February 6 - Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer
• March 1 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer
• June 18 - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer
• July 29 - Auguste Mathieu Panseron, composer
• November 7 - Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
• November 22 - Louis Spohr
• December 31 - Luigi Ricci, composer