| Year |
Event |
| 1851 |
Gounod: "Sappho," opera, Paris |
| 1851 |
Vincent d'Indy, French composer, born |
| 1851 |
Albert Lortzing:, German composer, dies |
| 1851 |
Verdi: "Rigoletto," Venice |
| 1852 |
Robert Schumann: "Manfred," frist performed at Weimar |
| 1852 |
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor, born |
| 1853 |
Henry Steinway (Heinrich E. Steinweg) and his three sons begin the New York firm of piano manufacturers |
| 1853 |
Verdi: "Il Trovatore," Rome, and "La Traviata," Venice |
| 1853 |
Wagner completes the text of his teralogy "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (Music completed in 1847) |
| 1854 |
Joseph Elsner, German - Polish composer, Chopin's teacher, dies |
| 1854 |
Berlioz: " The Infant Christ," Christmas oratorio, Paris |
| 1854 |
Engelbert Humperdinck, German composer, born |
| 1854 |
Liszt: "Les Preludes," symphonic poem |
| 1854 |
Schumann attempts suicide |
| 1855 |
Pedro Albeniz, Spanish composer, dies |
| 1855 |
Berlioz: "Te Deum, " Paris (written in 1849) |
| 1855 |
Verdi:" Les Vepres Siciliennes," opera, Paris |
| 1855 |
Wagner conducts a series of orchestral concerts in London |
| 1856 |
Adolphe Adam, French composer, dies |
| 1856 |
Karl Bechstien founds his paino factory |
| 1856 |
Alexander Dargomijsky: "Russalka," opera, St. Petersburg |
| 1856 |
Maillart: "Les Dragons de Villars," opera, Paris |
| 1856 |
Robert Schumann dies |
| 1856 |
Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer, born |
| 1857 |
Carl Czerny, Austrian composer, dies |
| 1857 |
Hans von Bulow marries Cosima Liszt |
| 1857 |
Edward Elgar, English composer, born |
| 1857 |
Mikhail I. Glinka, Russian composer, dies |
| 1857 |
Charles Halle founds the Halle concerts in Manchester, England |
| 1857 |
Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer, born |
| 1857 |
Liszt: "Eine Faust-Symphonie," Weimar |
| 1858 |
Peter Cornelius: "Der Barbier von Bagdad," opera, Weimar |
| 1858 |
Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer, born |
| 1858 |
New York Symphony Orchestra gives its first public concert |
| 1858 |
Offenbach: "Orphee aux enfers," operetta, Paris |
| 1858 |
Giacomo Puccini, Italian opera composer, born |
| 1859 |
Daniel Decatur Emmett composes "Dixie" |
| 1859 |
Gounod: "Faust," opera, Paris |
| 1859 |
Adelina Patti's New York Debut in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" |
| 1859 |
Louis Spohr, German composer, dies |
| 1859 |
Verdi: "Un Ballo in Maschera," opera, Rome |
| 1860 |
Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies |
| 1860 |
Gustav Mahler, German composer, born |
| 1860 |
Ignace Paderewski, Polish pianist and statesman, born |
| 1860 |
Franz von Suppe: "Das Pensionat," the first of all Viennese operettas |
| 1860 |
First modern Welsh Eisteddfod |
| 1860 |
Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, born |
Music History Timeline - 1851 to 1860
