title: 1853 in music
text: # 1853 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * March 5 – The American-German piano company Steinway & Sons is founded by Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg.
  * October – Louis Niedermeyer reorganizes and re-opens the school known as the École Choron, which becomes the École Niedermeyer.
  * October 1 – The piano manufacturer C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik is founded by Carl Bechstein in Berlin.
  * October 22 – The overture to Tannhäuser is performed in Boston Music Hall by the Germania Musical Society conducted by Carl Bergmann. It is the first American performance.
  * November 1 – Richard Wagner begins composing the music for The Ring of the Nibelung.
  * Louis Moreau Gottschalk returns the United States after eleven years in Europe.
  * Brahms meets Joseph Joachim and Robert and Clara Schumann.
  * Julius Blüthner founds Blüthner (piano manufacturer) in Leipzig, Germany.
  
  ## Published popular music
  
  * Danmarks gamle Folkeviser collected by Svend Grundtvig
  * "Farewell My Lilly Dear" by Stephen Foster
  * "My Cottage Home" w.m. Alice Hawthorne
  * "My Old Kentucky Home" by Stephen Foster
  * "P'tit quinquin" (in Picard) by Alexandre Desrousseaux
  * "The Yellow Rose of Texas"
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Franz Berwald
     * Piano Trio No. 4 in C major
     * Piano Quintet No. 1 in C minor
  * Johannes Brahms – Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 3
  * Ida Henriette da Fonseca
     * Der Abschied
     * Byrons Statue
     * Die Erwartung
     * Granen ved Lougen
     * Regnbuen
     * Wechsellied zum Tanze
     * Zum neuen Jahr
  * William Henry Fry – Santa Claus, Christmas Symphony
  * Louis Moreau Gottschalk – The Banjo, Op. 15
  * Charles Gounod – Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach, later known as Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
  * Franz Liszt
     * Piano Sonata in B minor
     * Hungarian Rhapsodies 1–15
  * Camille Saint-Saëns
     * Piano Quartet in E major
     * Symphony No. 1 in E♭ major
  * Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich – F-A-E Sonata
  * Henryk Wieniawski – Violin Concerto No. 1
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Victor Massé – Les noces de Jeannette
  * Karel Miry – Anne Mie (opera in 1 act, premiered on October 9 in Antwerp)
  * Giuseppe Verdi
     * Il trovatore (premiered on January 19 at Teatro Apollo in Rome)
     * La traviata (premiered on March 6 at La Fenice in Venice)
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 17 – Carolina Östberg, opera singer (d. 1929)
  * July 24 – Alessandro Parisotti, composer and music editor (d. 1913)
  * November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (d. 1870)
  * December 22 – Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer, conductor and composer (d. 1917)
  * December 30 – André Messager, composer (d. 1929)
  * date unknown
     * Alfonso Rendano, pianist (d. 1931)
     * Maria Westberg, ballerina (d. 1893)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 16 – Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer (b. 1792)
  * March 15 – Giovanni Ricordi, violinist (b. 1785)
  * October 3 – George Onslow, composer (b. 1784)
  * October 29 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1785)
  * October 30 – Pietro Raimondi, composer (b. 1786)
  * December 5
     * Johann Peter Heuschkel, oboist, organist and composer (b. 1773)
     * Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano
  * date unknown – James Hill, folk musician (b. c. 1811)
  