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Overview of the events of 1857 in music
Published popular music [ edit ] Charles-Valentin Alkan
Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and pianoDouze études dans tous les tons mineurs Op. 39 for pianoWoldemar Bargiel – Ouvertüre zu einem Trauerspiel, Op.18Georges Bizet – Herminie (cantata )Adolphe Blanc
String Quintet No.3, Op.21
String Quintet No.4, Op.22
Trio in B♭ major for piano, violin (or clarinet) and cello, Op.23 Johannes Brahms
Hans von Bülow – 5 Lieder, Op.5Louise Farrenc – Trio no.4 for Flute, Cello, and Piano, Op.45
Wilhelm Kalliwoda – Scherzo, Op.4Franz Liszt
Giacomo Meyerbeer – Près de toiModest Mussorgsky – Souvenir d'Enfance Joachim Raff
Ode to Spring : Concert Piece in G major, Op. 76, for piano and orchestraString Quartet No. 2 in A major; Op. 90 Napoléon Henri Reber – Symphony No.4, Op.33Julius Reubke – The 94th Psalm Camille Saint-Saëns - Tarantelle in A minor for Flute, Clarinet and OrchestraBedřich Smetana – Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (revised version – original finished 1855)Johann Strauss Jr.
Strelna-Terrassen-Quadrille, Op.185
La Berceuse Quadrille, Op.194 January 5 – David Bispham , opera singer (died 1921)January 17 – Wilhelm Kienzl , Austrian composer (died 1941)January 22 – Marie Krysińska , musician and composer (died 1908)February 28 – Gustave Kerker , German-born composer (died 1923 )March 3 – Alfred Bruneau , French composer (died 1934)March 4
April 21 – Paul Dresser , American composer (died 1906 )April 23 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo , Italian opera composer (died 1919)April 29 – František Ondříček , Czech violinist and composer (died 1922)May 2 – Frederic Cliffe , English composer (died 1931)May 9 – Luigi Illica , Italian librettist for Puccini, Catalani, Giordano and others (died 1919)May 12 – Lillian Nordica , American opera singer (died 1914 )June 2 – Edward Elgar , English composer (died 1934)June 5 – Árpád Doppler , Hungarian-German composer (died 1927)June 12 – Achille Simonetti , violinist (died 1928)July 8 – Rudolf Dellinger , composer (died 1910)July 16 – Bolesław Domaniewski , pianist (died 1925)August 8 – Cécile Chaminade , French composer (died 1944)August 18 – Eusebius Mandyczewski , publisher and musician (died 1929)September 8 – Olga Björkegren , Swedish opera singer (died 1950)October 12 – Paul Lange , German musician, teacher, orchestra and choir leader (died 1919 )November 5 – Joseph Tabrar , English music hall songwriter (d. 1931)November 14 – Rosalind Ellicott , English composer (died 1924)December 14 – Frederic Lillebridge , pianist (died 1934)December 18 – Rosa Newmarch , née Jeaffreson, English musicologist (died 1940)December 27 – Charles Manners , né Southcote Mansergh, English operatic bass and opera company manager (died 1935)December 30 – Sylvio Lazzari , Italian composer and conductor (died 1944)date unknown – Thomas Adams , organist (died 1918)January 19 – Franz Limmer , conductor and composer (b. 1808)February 3 – Johann Gottlieb Kotte , musician (born 1797)February 14 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree , violinist, conductor and composer (born 1801 )February 15 – Mikhail Glinka , composer (b. 1804)March 1 – Benjamin Cross , organist, singer, conductor and composer (b. 1786)April – Alessandro Curmi , pianist and composer (b. 1801)
June 28 – Joseph Fischhof , pianist, composer and music teacher (born 1804 )July 15 – Carl Czerny , pianist and composer (b. 1791)July 16 – Pierre-Jean de Béranger , songwriter (b. 1780)August 1 – Emilie Zumsteeg , pianist and songwriter (b. 1796)September 18 – Karol Kurpiński , composer (born 1785)October 20 – John Diamond , dancer (born 1823 )October 21 – Ananias Davisson , singing teacher and printer of shape note books (b. 1780)November 7 – Charles Zeuner , organist (born 1795)December 11 – Castil-Blaze , music critic, musicologist and composer (b. 1784)probable – Ferdinand Prévôt , operatic baritone (born c.1800)
