Music year 1853

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Music year 1853
Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata is premiered at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and initially fails the audience.

Events

World premieres

Musical theater

January 19 : The opera Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi has its world premiere at the Teatro Apollo in Rome. The libretto by Salvadore Cammarano , completed by Leone Emmanuele Bardare , is based on the play El trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez from 1836 .
February 2 : The three-act opera Le sourd ou L'auberge pleine by Adolphe Adam is premiered in Paris, (Opéra-Comique).
March 6th : Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger is premiered at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and initially fails the audience. Only a revised new version later becomes one of the most successful operas in music history.
March 16 : Secret money, secret love , a farce with singing by Johann Nestroy with music by Carl Binder , fails at its premiere and is removed from the program the next day.
April 11th : The three-act opera Le roi des halles by Adolphe Adam is premiered in Paris (Théâtre-Lyrique).
April 28 : The Opéra-comique Le colin-maillard by Aristide Hignard based on a libretto by Jules Verne and Michel Carré has its world premiere at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris.
September 1st : The world premiere of the comic opera Le Nabab by Jacques Fromental Halévy takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
October 6th : The three-act opera Le bijou perdu by Adolphe Adam is premiered in Paris, (Théâtre-Lyrique).
November 20 : The world premiere of the opera Giulia or the Corsets by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner takes place in Stuttgart.

Further stage work premieres:

Saverio Mercadante published two operas in 1853. The world premieres take place in Naples in different theaters. The opera Statira will be premiered at the Teatro San Carlo there, while the second work Violetta will have its premiere at the Teatro Nuovo.
In Frankfurt (Main) the opera Rübezahl by Friedrich von Flotow will have its world premiere.
In the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris, the composer Albert Grisar presented his musical stage work Les Amours du diable for the first time .
Ambroise Thomas is performing his opera La Tonelli for the first time.
The three-act opera Ser Babbeo , based on a libretto by Emmanuele Bardare, will be premiered in Naples at the Teatro Nuovo. The music comes from Giuseppe Lillo .
Emilio Arrieta composes the two Zarzuelas El grumete based on a text by Antonio García Gutiérrez and La estrella de Madrid based on a libretto by Adelardo López de Ayala .

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

December 8th : The 1st symphony by 18-year-old Camille Saint-Saëns has its world premiere. After the composition, the composer submitted the work to the Société Sainte-Cécile as the work of an anonymous German master. The name of the author is also not mentioned at the world premiere, only when this is a success does Saint-Saëns reveal his incognito. That he was the composer of the piece amazes many colleagues who suspected the work of a seasoned man behind it. Hector Berlioz and Charles Gounod then became Saint-Saëns' most committed protectors.
Franz Berwald publishes the Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor and the Piano Trio No. 4 in C major .
Robert Schumann composed the piano cycle Gesänge der Früh op. 133. In the same year, the works were composed: Three piano sonatas for the young, op. 118; Seven Piano Pieces in Fughetten Form, Op. 126; The overture with song about the Rheinweinlied for tenor, choir and orchestra op. 123; the fairy tales for clarinet (violin ad libitum), viola and piano op. 132 and the violin concerto in D minor .
Richard Wagner writes his piano sonata in A flat major .
Friedrich von Flotow presents the orchestral work Fackeltanz in E flat major to the public.
Niels Wilhelm Gade composes the novellets for piano trio op. 29 and the cantata Elverskud (Erlkönig's daughter) .
Anton Grigorjewitsch Rubinstein completes his three string quartets op.17 and the violin sonata No. 2 in A minor op.19.
Charles Gounod composes the Mass in C minor (Mass No. 1 aux Orphéonistes) .
With the Piano Sonata No. 1 in C major, Johannes Brahms composes his first work with a work number (Op. 1). The album sheet in A minor , also published in 1853, has not yet been given a work number.

Also in 1853 was the FAE Sonata , a joint composition by Albert Dietrich, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, which was written for the violinist Joseph Joachim.

Light music

Johann Strauss (son) : The composer brought out the following works in 1853: Phönix-Schwingen (Waltz) op. 125; Solon-Sprüche (Waltz) op. 128; Wiener Punch-Lieder op. 131; Marriage Toaste (Waltz) op. 136; Knallkügerln (Waltz) op. 140; Waves and Waves (Waltz) op. 141; Kaiser Franz Joseph I Rescue Jubilation March op. 126; Caroussel March op. 133; Kron-March op. 139; Satanella Quadrille op. 123; Motor-Quadrille op. 129; Bouquet-Quadrille op. 135; Satanella Polka, Op. 124; Joy-Greetings Polka op. 127; Aesculap Polka op. 130; Violet Polka op 132; Tanzi-Bäri-Polka op 134; Neuhauser Polka op 137; Pepita polka 138; Reunion polka op 142

Instrument making

March 5 : The German Heinrich Steinweg and his sons found the piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons in New York .
October 1st : Carl Bechstein founds the C. Bechstein piano factory in Berlin .
November 18 : Julius Blüthner founds the Julius Blüthner piano factory in Großpösna near Leipzig .

Others

One page of the original manuscript

Franz Liszt completes the piano sonata in B minor, dedicated to Robert Schumann .

Stephen Foster wrote the song My Old Kentucky Home , today the official anthem of Kentucky .

Born

January 1 : Hans Koessler , German composer († 1926 )
January 3 : Iwan Knorr , German composer and music teacher († 1916 )
February 20 : Amanda Röntgen-Maier , Swedish composer († 1894 )

March 5 : Arthur Foote , American composer († 1937 )
March 18 : Émile-Alexandre Taskin , French opera singer († 1897 )
March 29 : Hans Bußmeyer , German composer and pianist († 1930 )

April 21 : Charles Théodore Malherbe , French musicologist and composer († 1911 )
June 11 : Samuel Rousseau , French composer († 1904 )
August 30 : Percy Goetschius , American music theorist and composition teacher († 1943 )

October 14 : Ciprian Porumbescu , Romanian composer († 1883 )
October 26 : Paul Homeyer , German organist († 1908 )

December 15 : Theodor von Frimmel , Austrian art historian and musicologist († 1928 )
December 22 : Teresa Carreño , Venezuelan composer († 1917 )

Paul Véronge de la Nux , French composer († around 1911 )

Died

January 16 : Matteo Carcassi , Italian guitarist and composer (* 1792 )
March 7th : Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil , German educator, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author (* 1771 )
April 11th : Louis Emmanuel Jadin , French composer (* 1768 )
April 21 : Hippolyte Colet , French composer, music teacher and theorist (* 1808 )
May 18 : Marco Berra , Italian music publisher in Prague (* 1784 )
October 3 : George Onslow , French composer (* 1784 )
October 29th : Pierre Zimmermann , French piano teacher and composer (* 1785 )
November 23 : Friedrich Schneider , German composer, organist and Kapellmeister (* 1786 )
December 20 : Carlo Evasio Soliva , Italian composer of Swiss origin (* 1791 )

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