1855 in music

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See also: 1854 in music, other events of 1855, 1856 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• Franz Liszt gives the first performance of his Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Hector Berlioz.
• Jacques Offenbach becomes director of his own opera house, Les Bouffes-Parisiennes

Popular music

• "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming" by Stephen Foster

Classical music

• Georges Bizet - Symphony in C major
• Eduard Franck - String Quartet in F minor op. 49 ([1])
• Charles Gounod - Symphony No. 1 in D
• Franz Liszt - Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
• Anton Rubinstein - Quintet for Piano and Winds op. 55 (probably from this year)
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Quintet for Piano and Strings op. 14

Opera

• George Frederick Bristow - Rip van Winkle
• Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie Halévy - L'inconsolable

Births

• January 20 - Ernest Chausson
• May 9 - Julius Röntgen
• May 11 - Anatoly Lyadov, sometimes transliterated Liadov
• July 9 - Paul Zilcher, Dutch composer. (died 1943)

Deaths

• April 12 - Pedro Albéniz
• September 27 - August Lanner, conductor and composer