1853 in music
# 1853 in music

## Events

* March 5 – The American-German piano company Steinway & Sons is founded by Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.
* October – Louis Niedermeyer reorganizes and re-opens the school known as the École Choron, which becomes the École Niedermeyer.
* October 1 – The piano manufacturer C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik is founded by Carl Bechstein in Berlin.
* October 22 – The overture to Tannhäuser is performed in Boston Music Hall by the Germania Musical Society conducted by Carl Bergmann. It is the first American performance.
* November 1 – Richard Wagner begins composing the music for The Ring of the Nibelung.
* Louis Moreau Gottschalk returns the United States after eleven years in Europe.
* Brahms meets Joseph Joachim and Robert and Clara Schumann.
* Julius Blüthner founds Blüthner (piano manufacturer) in Leipzig, Germany.

## Published popular music

* Danmarks gamle Folkeviser collected by Svend Grundtvig
* "Farewell My Lilly Dear" by Stephen Foster
* "My Cottage Home" w.m. Alice Hawthorne
* "My Old Kentucky Home" by Stephen Foster
* "P'tit quinquin" (in Picard) by Alexandre Desrousseaux
* "The Yellow Rose of Texas"

## Classical music

* Franz Berwald
   * Piano Trio No. 4 in C major
   * Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor
* Johannes Brahms – Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 3
* Ida Henriette da Fonseca
   * Der Abschied
   * Byrons Statue
   * Die Erwartung
   * Granen ved Lougen
   * Regnbuen
   * Wechsellied zum Tanze
   * Zum neuen Jahr
* William Henry Fry – Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony
* Louis Moreau Gottschalk – The Banjo, Op. 15
* Charles Gounod – Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach, later known as Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
* Franz Liszt
   * Piano Sonata in B minor
   * Hungarian Rhapsodies 1–15
* Camille Saint-Saëns
   * Piano Quartet in E major
   * Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major
* Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich – F-A-E Sonata
* Henryk Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 1

## Opera

* Victor Massé – Les noces de Jeannette
* Karel Miry – Anne Mie (opera in 1 act, premiered on October 9 in Antwerp)
* Giuseppe Verdi
   * Il trovatore (premiered on January 19 at Teatro Apollo in Rome)
   * La traviata (premiered on March 6 at La Fenice in Venice)

## Births

* May 17 – Carolina Östberg, opera singer (d. 1929)
* July 24 – Alessandro Parisotti, composer and music editor (d. 1913)
* November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (d. 1870)
* December 22 – Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer, conductor and composer (d. 1917)
* December 30 – André Messager, composer (d. 1929)
* date unknown
   * Alfonso Rendano, pianist (d. 1931)
   * Maria Westberg, ballerina (d. 1893)

## Deaths

* January 16 – Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer (b. 1792)
* March 15 – Giovanni Ricordi, violinist (b. 1785)
* October 3 – George Onslow, composer (b. 1784)
* October 29 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1785)
* October 30 – Pietro Raimondi, composer (b. 1786)
* December 5
   * Johann Peter Heuschkel, oboist, organist and composer (b. 1773)
   * Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano
* date unknown – James Hill, folk musician (b. c. 1811)
