1850 in music

Events

• Wagner
  .
• Jenny Lind tours America, with Julius Benedict as her accompanist.
• Soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient marries her third husband, landowner Heinrich von Bock.
• Charles Gounod meets the soprano Pauline Viardot in Rome. She convinces him to compose opera.
• Johannes Brahms meets the violinist Ede Reményi, whom he will accompany on several tours for the next couple of years.
• antisemitic article on "Jewishness in Music" in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.^[1]

• Stephen Foster
  • "Camptown Races"
  • "
    Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway
    "
  • "Molly Do You Love Me?"
  • "Nelly Bly"
• M. S. Pike – "Home Again"
• "
  I Have Got The Blues To Day!
  " w. Miss Sarah M. Graham, m. Gustave Blessner
• "What Are The Wild Waves Saying" w. Joseph Edwards Carpenter m. Stephen Glover

Classical music

• J S Bach – The Brandenburg Concertos
  published for the first time
• l'Enfance du Christ
  )
• Ernesto Cavallini – Elégie for clarinet and piano
• Carl Czerny – Album élégant des dames pianistes, Op. 804
• Louise Farrenc – Sonata for violin and piano in A, Op. 39
• Niels Gade – Symphony No. 4
• Ferdinand Hiller – 4 Gesänge, Op.41
• Édouard Lalo – Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor
• Franz Liszt – Prometheus
• Anton Rubinstein
  • Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 25
  • Dimitri Donskoy
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Symphony in A Major
• Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 3 op. 97 in E-flat, Cello Concerto Op. 129 in A minor
• Louis Spohr – String Quintet No. 7 in G minor (of 7)
• Johann Strauss Jr.
  • Kaiser Franz Josef Marsch, Op. 67
  • Aeols-Töne Walzer, Op. 68
  • Die Gemütlichen Walzer, Op. 70
  • Künstler-Quadrille, Op. 71
  • Scherz-Polka, Op. 72
  • Frohsinns-Spenden Walzer, Op. 73
  • Lava-Ströme Walzer, Op. 74
  • Sofien-Quadrille, Op. 75
  • Attaque-Quadrille, Op. 76
  • Wiener Garnison Marsch, Op. 77
  • Rendez-vous Polka, Op. 78
• Robert Volkmann – Piano Trio No. 2 op. 5 in B-flat minor

Opera

• Daniel Auber – L'enfant prodigue
• Paul Wranitzky – La Tempesta
• Robert Schumann – Genoveva
• Richard Wagner – Lohengrin
• Nicola De Giosa – Don Checco

Births

• January 4 – Max Kalbeck, librettist and music critic (died 1921)
• January 6 – Xaver Scharwenka, pianist and composer (d. 1924)
• January 13 – Leon Francis Victor Caron, French-Australian conductor and composer (d. 1907)
• February 18 – Sir George Henschel, Prussia-born singer, conductor, composer, founder of London Symphony Orchestra (d. 1934)
• March 5 – Daniel B. Towner, composer (d. 1919)
• March 9 – Alexandre Luigini, composer (d. 1906)
• March 18 – Olefine Moe, opera singer (d. 1933)
• March 19 – Elias Oechsler, composer (d. 1917)
• March 26 – Amalia Riégo, opera singer (d. 1926)
• April 25 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
• July 3 – Alfredo Keil, composer and painter (d. 1907)
• Ole Olsen, Norwegian
  composer (d. 1927)
• July 5 – Aloÿs Claussmann, French organist (died 1926)
• September 9 – Leopoldo Miguez, composer (d. 1902)
• September 21 – Hans Sitt, German violinist, teacher and composer (d. 1922)
• November 10 – Arthur Goring Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
• Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller, Danish
  composer (d. 1926)
• December 9 – Emma Abbott, singer (d. 1891)
• December 13 – Iver Holter, conductor and composer (d. 1941)
• December 20 – Theo Marzials, composer, singer and poet (d. 1920)
• December 21 – Zdeněk Fibich, Czech composer (d. 1900)
• December 29 – Tomás Bretón, composer (d. 1923)

Deaths

• February 15 – Elisabeth Forsselius, actress and singer (b. 1771)
• March 19 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (b. 1763)
• March 25 – Francesco Basili, conductor and composer (b. 1767)
• April 3 – Václav Tomášek, pianist and composer (b. 1774)
• May – Ludwig Schuberth, composer (b. 1806)
• July 28 – Stefano Pavesi, composer (b. 1779)
• August 22 – Nikolaus Lenau, lyricist and poet (born 1802)
• October 12 – Luigia Boccabadati, operatic soprano (b. 1800)
• October 14 – Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu, operatic soprano (b. 1780)
• November 6 – Christopher Meineke, organist and composer (b. 1782)
• December 3 – Andrei Sychra, guitarist and composer (b. c. 1773)

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