1854 in music

Events

February 27 – Robert Schumann attempts suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the River Rhine.
June 13 – Anthony Faas patents the 1st US accordion, having made improvements to both the keyboard, and to enhance the sound (11,062). US patent No.US11062A
Anton Rubinstein begins a four-year concert tour of Europe, establishing his reputation as the leading piano virtuoso of his generation.
Richard Wagner completes Das Rheingold.

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January 21 – Georges Ernest Street, composer (died 1908)
January 31 – William Hall Sherwood, composer (died 1911)
February 5 – Laura Emeline Newell, hymnist and songwriter (died 1916)
March 10 – Dolores Paterno, composer (died 1881)
March 14 – Fred Whishaw, musician (died 1934)
April 13
- António D'Andrade, opera singer (d. 1942)
- William Henry Drummond, lyricist (died 1907)
April 30 – Alexandre Rey Colaço, pianist (died 1928)
May 1 – Percy French, songwriter (died 1920)
May 5 – Antonio Smareglia, composer (died 1929)
May 6 – Laura Joyce Bell, contralto singer and actress (d. 1904)
May 13 – Paul Klengel, violinist (died 1935)
May 15 – Pavel Pabst, pianist (died 1897)
May 17 – Georges Gillet, oboist (died 1920)
May 18 – Bernard Zweers, composer (died 1924)
June 14 – Frederik Rung, composer (died 1914)
June 19 – Alfredo Catalani, composer (died 1893)
June 27 – Ladislao Bonus, Filipino composer (died 1908)
July 3 – Leoš Janáček, composer (d. 1928)
July 10 – John Lloyd Williams, musician (died 1945)
July 14 – Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (d. 1911)
August 23 – Moritz Moszkowski, composer (died 1925)
August 24 – Alfred Dudley Turner, composer (some sources have b.1853) (d.1888)
October 16 – Oscar Wilde, poet and lyricist (died 1900)
October 22 – James A. Bland, minstrel performer (died 1911)
October 30 – Julie Rivé-King, pianist (died 1937)
September 1 – Engelbert Humperdinck, composer (d. 1921)
September 22 – Ovide Musin, violinist (died 1929)
November 1 – W. Paris Chambers, composer (died 1913)
November 6 – John Philip Sousa, composer (d. 1932)
November 14 – Dina Edling, opera singer (d. 1935)

Deaths

January 12 – Philip Klitz, composer (born 1805)
February 4 – Iwan Müller, clarinetist (born 1786)
March 3 – Giovanni Battista Rubini, operatic tenor (born 1794)
March 26 – Emilie Hammarskjöld, pianist, singer and composer (born 1821)
April 18 – Józef Elsner, composer and teacher (born 1769)
April 30 – James Montgomery, hymnist (born 1771)
May 1 – Jean Coralli, dancer and choreographer (born 1779)
May 3 – William Beale, composer (born 1784)
May 18 – Henry Lemoine, composer and music publisher (born 1786)
May 31 – Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819)
June 17 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera)
July 14 – Louis-Pierre Norblin, cellist (born 1781)
August 21 – August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (born 1790)
October – Luigi Tarisio, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790)
November 2 – Anton Pann, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790)
November 17 – Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808)

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