Year of music 1856

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Year of music 1856
The Steinway & Sons company produces its first grand piano .

Events

February 1 : The chamber musician Tröstler founds a private conservatory in Dresden , from which the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music emerges.

In New York City the company developed to the south of Manhattan in a small workshop Steinway & Sons , the first two grand pianos with the production numbers 791 and 792. They are still just strung. The Steinway D-274 concert grand, which is now on the world's stages with over 25,000 pieces, is derived in three stages of development from these two very first New York concert grand pianos.

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

The Polish composer Tekla Bądarzewska published the salon piece Prayer of a Virgin in Warsaw - probably the most successful published piano piece ever.
Camille Saint-Saëns composes the symphony in F major , nicknamed Urbs Roma . With her he won first prize in a composition competition of the Société Sainte-Cécile in Bordeaux. He does not receive the Prix de Rome , for which he actually wrote the symphony. The premiere takes place in 1857 .
The Welsh harpist James James composes the melody for Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau , the later national anthem of Wales . The test comes from his father, Evan James.
Ernst Pauer composes his 1st symphony in C minor .
Heinrich Marschner writes the drama music for The Goldsmith of Ulm .
Franz Lachner composes the piece 3 songs without words for harp
In February the Four Ballads op. 10 by Johannes Brahms, completed in 1854, appear in print for the first time.
Mili Alexejewitsch Balakirew composes his Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1.
Antonín Dvořák brings out one of his first works with the piano work Vergißmeinnicht-Polka .

Musical theater

Title page of the libretto by Manon Lescaut , Paris 1856

January 18 : The one-act opera Falstaff by Adolphe Adam premieres in Paris (Théâtre-Lyrique). The libretto is by Adolphe de Leuven and Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.
January 23rd : The ballet Le Corsaire by Adolphe Adam premieres at the Paris Opera.
February 23 : The Opéra-comique Manon Lescaut by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber with the libretto by Eugène Scribe has its world premiere in the Salle Favart of the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Although the first performance of the setting of the novel of the same name by Antoine-François Prévost from 1731 was well received and the opera was performed 63 times, it cannot remain in the repertoire in the long term.
March 23 : Mam'zelle Geneviève , a two-act opera by Adolphe Adam , is performed for the first time in Paris (Théâtre-Lyrique). The libretto is by Arthur de Beauplan and Léon Lévy Brunswick.
April 29th : Adolphe Adam's last opera Les pantins de Violette with a libretto by Léon Battu is performed for the first time in Paris, (Bouffes-Parisiens). The composer dies a few days later on May 3rd. Another opera he created, entitled Le dernier bal , will not have its world premiere.
May 16 : Russalka , an opera in four acts and six pictures by Alexander Dargomyschski , who also wrote the libretto, is premiered at the circus theater in Saint Petersburg. It is based on the poem The Mermaid by Alexander Pushkin , published in 1837 . Initially, the work received little attention.
September 19 : The opera Les dragons de Villars (German: The Bell of the Hermit ) by Aimé Maillart , based on a libretto by Eugène Lockroy and Eugène Cormon, premieres at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris.

Further stage work premieres

Jacques Fromental Halévy's opera Valentine d'Aubigny will be premiered.
The two-act opera A Day in Russia by Heinrich Dorn , with a text by Johann Christoph Grünbaum (based on Eugène Scribe), will be premiered in Berlin.
François Bazin composes the opera Maître Pathelin
Friedrich von Flotow presented his opera Albin or The Foster Son to the public for the first time in Vienna.
Emilio Arrieta composes the two zarzuelas La hija de la Providencia and El sonámbulo .
Jacques Offenbach publishes the operetta Le 66 (German adaptation as Die Zwei Savojarden ) and the opéra bouffe Le Financier et le savetier (The cobbler and the millionaire) .

Light music

Johann Strauss (son) : The composer brought out the following works in 1856: Heightened Pulse (Waltz) op 175; Jurists Ball Dances (Waltz) op 177; Farewell Calls (Waltz) op 179; Dragonfly Waltz op 180; Grand Duchess Alexandra (waltz) op 181; Coronation Songs (Waltz) op 184; Poor Ball Polka op 176; Sans-souci-Polka op 178; L'Inconnue-Polka op 182; Coronation March op 183 and the Strelna Terrace Quadrille op 18.

Born

January 11 : Christian Sinding , Norwegian composer
January 13 : Rudolf Bullerjahn , German musician and music director († 1911 )

February 28 : Richard Mühlfeld , German clarinetist († 1907 )
March 21 : Ewald Schulz , German music director († 1942 )
April 27 : Max Hieber , German music dealer and music publisher, focus on Munich and Bavarian music († 1914 )

July 4th : Eberhard Schwickerath , German choir director, lawyer and university lecturer († 1940 )
July 30th : Friedrich Sander , German musician, composer and music teacher († 1899 )

August 9 : Nicolas-Charles Bochsa , French composer and harp virtuoso († 1856 )
September 8 : Emil Burow , German musician, composer and Kapellmeister († 1943 )
November 24th : Agnes Kaps , German singer, opera soubrette († 1874 )

Orville H. Gibson , American musical instrument maker († 1918 )

Died

January 6th : Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa , French composer and harp virtuoso (* 1789 )
February 12 : Alexandre Montfort , French composer (* 1803 )
February 17th : John Braham , English opera singer (* 1774 )

March 28 : Pyotr Turchaninow , Russian composer (* 1779 )
April 18 : Joseph Menter , German cellist and music teacher (* 1808 )

May 3 : Adolphe Adam , French opera composer (* 1803 )
May 3 : Adolfo Fumagalli , Italian pianist and composer (* 1828 )
May 25 : Rudolph Bay , Danish composer (* 1791 )

Robert Schumann's grave in the old cemetery in Bonn

July 29 : Robert Schumann , German composer (* 1810 )
August 21 : Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner , German composer and conductor (* 1791 )

September 1 : Christoph Karl Julius Asschenfeldt , German hymn poet (* 1792 )
September 21 : Michail Wielhorski , Russian composer, cellist and patron (* 1787 )

October 14 : Johann Kaspar Mertz , Austrian composer and guitar virtuoso (* 1806 )
November 30th : Charles-Alexandre Fessy , French organist and composer (* 1804 )

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