Overview of the events of 1854 in music
Events February 27 – Robert Schumann unsuccessfully 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.US11062AAnton 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
Published popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births 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
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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