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Overview of the events of 1855 in music
Overview of the events of 1855 in music
List of years in music
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Events [ ]
Bands formed [ ]
Black Dyke Mills Band re-formed after failure of its immediate predecessor, the Queenshead Band in Queensbury, West Yorkshire , England.
Popular music [ ]
Classical music [ ]
Opera [ ]
Musical theatre [ ]
Births [ ]
January 20 – Ernest Chausson , composer (d. 1899)
February 18 – Vera Timanova , Russian pianist
May 9 – Julius Röntgen , composer (d. 1932)
May 11 – Anatoly Lyadov , conductor, composer and music teacher (d. 1914)
July 25 – Edward Solomon , pianist, conductor and composer (died 1895)
August 2 – Cornélie van Zanten , opera singer and teacher (d. 1946)
August 27 – Domenico Salvatori , castrato singer (d. 1909)
September 9 – Michele Esposito , pianist and composer (d. 1929)
November 6 – Paul Kalisch , singer (d. 1946)
December 7 – Gunhild Rosén , ballerina
Deaths [ ]
January 25 – Gaetano Rossi , librettist (b. 1774)
February 1 – Claus Harms , researcher of Lutheran hymns (b. 1778)
February 27 – Louis Lambillotte , composer and music palaeographer (b. 1796)
March 17 – Ramon Carnicer , conductor and composer (b. 1789)
April 12 – Pedro Albéniz , pianist and composer (b. 1795)
April 30 – Henry Rowley Bishop , composer (b. 1786)
September 27 – August Lanner , conductor and composer (b. 1835)
November 9 – Domenico Cosselli , operatic bass-baritone (b. 1801)
November 21 – Olea Crøger , collector of Norwegian folk tunes (b. 1801)
December 2 – Frédéric Bérat , songwriter and composer (b. 1801)
Marie Antoinette Petersén , singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (b. 1771)
References [ ]
^ Hibberd, Sarah. The Creation of Les Vêpres siciliennes, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden . Program book for 2013 production. p. 11-17.
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