Music year 1851

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Music year 1851
Poster of the world premiere of Rigoletto followed by a ballet
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is premiered with great success
at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Events

Musical theater

Scene drawing of the last scene for the world premiere of Sapho

Further stage work premieres:

  • The opera Bonsoir, monsieur Pantalon by Albert Grisar is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
  • Giuseppe Lillo will perform his opera La gioventù di Shakespeare ossia Il sogno d'una notte estiva ('The youth of Shakespeare or A Midsummer Night's Dream') for the first time at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples . The libretto for the three-act work is by Giuseppe Sesto Giannini.
  • Raymond ou Le secret de la Reine an opera by Ambroise Thomas is also premiered in 1851.
  • Joachim Raff's heroic opera König Alfred will be premiered in Weimar . Gotthold Logau wrote the libretto for the four-act work.

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Robert Schumann; Daguerreotype 1850
  • February 5th : The 3rd symphony by Robert Schumann is premiered as part of a colorful concert evening under Schumann's direction in Düsseldorf. The premiere is interrupted by spontaneous applause between the movements; at the request of the enthusiastic audience, there is a second performance a good month later, on March 13th . In October the score will be published by Nikolaus Simrock in print.
  • March: Robert Schumann composes the sonata Märchenbilder . The work probably goes back to the four-part poem Märchenbilder , which the Berlin poet Louis du Rieux sent to Schumann on February 19 .
  • Robert Schuhmann also composes three overtures to the works The Bride of Messina by Schiller op 100; Julius Caesar von Shakespeare op 128 and Hermann and Dorothea von Goethe op 136. In addition, the Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 and the Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 121.
  • George Onslow composes with the Trio for piano, violin and violoncello op 83 his last work recorded with an opus number.
  • Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka completes the Spanish Overture No. 2 (Souvenir d'une nuit d'été à Madrid) . Which he has been working on since 1848.
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade publishes his string quartet f and the organ piece Drei Tonstücke op.22 .
  • Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein publishes the first version of his 2nd Symphony Okean ('Ocean') in C major op.42 and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major op.35. In addition, the Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major op.13 is to be released and Two Piano Trios, Op. 15.

song

  • November: Wilhelm Ganzhorn publishes the 13-stanza poem In the Most Beautiful Wiesengrunde , written to the melody of the song Drei Lilien, three lilies, which I will plant on my grave under the name The beautiful valley .
Old Folks at Home, advertising poster for Christy's Minstrels from 1851

Born

Date of birth saved

Emil Berliner

Exact date of birth unknown

Died

Lortzing's tomb on the II. Sophien-Friedhof in Berlin

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

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