1859 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical Music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• Serenade no.2, A by Johannes Brahms

• Faust first performed in Paris. Music by Charles Gounod with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

• February 1 - Victor Herbert
• March 8 - Otto Taubmann
• April 3 - Reginald De Koven, US composer
• August 20 - Silas Leachman
• November 4 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski
• November 30 - Sergei Mikhailovich Liapunov
• December 23 - Adrian Ross, English lyricist
• December 30 - Josef Bohuslav Foerster
• unknown date - August Enna

• November 22 - Louis Spohr