1857 in music

• January 7 – Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 receives its first public performance. Hans von Bronsart is the pianist with Liszt conducting, in Weimar. • January 21 – Giacomo Meyerbeer conducts a work by Mikhail Glinka, at a concert in Berlin attended by the composer. Glinka catches a cold and dies a few weeks later, aged 52; autopsy results are inconclusive. • January 27 – Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor (Liszt) is given its first public performance by Hans von Bülow in Berlin. • February 7 – Louis Gottschalk leaves New York to begin a concert tour of Cuba. • November 12 – 73-year-old Louis Spohr is forced into retirement from his post at the Hesse-Kassel court. • Gioacchino Rossini begins Péchés de vieillesse. • Hans von Bülow marries Cosima Liszt daughter of Franz Liszt. They had two daughters. == Published popular music ==

• "Le beau Monde (Fashionable Society)" m. Johann Strauss II • "Does He Love Me?" w. Annie Chambers Bradford m. F. W. Smith • "Jingle Bells w.m. James Pierpont originally published as "One Horse Open Sleigh" • "Lorena" w. Reverend Henry D. L. Webster m. Joseph Philbrick Webster • "Annie Lisle" w.m. H. S. Thompson == Classical music ==

• Charles-Valentin Alkan • Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and piano • Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs for piano • Woldemar Bargiel – Ouvertüre zu einem Trauerspiel, Op.18 • Georges 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 - Eleven Variations on an Original Theme, in D major Opus 21 No.1 • Hans von Bülow – 5 Lieder, Op.5 • Louise Farrenc – Trio no.4 for Flute, Cello, and Piano, Op.45 • Wilhelm Kalliwoda – Scherzo, Op.4 • Franz Liszt • Dante Symphony • Hunnenschlacht (premiered on 29 December) • Die Ideale (premiered on 5 September) • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Près de toi • Modest Mussorgsky – ''Souvenir d'Enfance'' • Joachim Raff • Ode to Spring: Concert Piece in G major, Op. 76, for piano and orchestra • String Quartet No. 2 in A major; Op. 90 • Napoléon Henri Reber – Symphony No.4, Op.33 • Julius Reubke – The 94th Psalm • Camille Saint-Saëns - Tarantelle in A minor for Flute, Clarinet and Orchestra • Bedřich 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 == Opera ==

• François Bazin – Maître Pathelin • Karel Miry – Karel V (opera in 5 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 29 in Ghent) • Jacques Offenbach – Croquefer, premiered February 12 in Paris • Ambroise Thomas – Le Carnaval de Venise • Giuseppe Verdi • Simon Boccanegra, premiered March 12 in Venice • Aroldo, premiered August 16 in Rimini == Births ==

• 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 • Gustav Kobbé, American music critic and author (died 1918) • Henry W. Petrie, American songwriter (died 1925) • 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) == Deaths ==

• 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) == References ==