1855 in music

Events

February 17 â Franz Liszt gives the first performance of his Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Hector Berlioz in Weimar.
MarchâJune â Richard Wagner stays in London to conduct a series of concerts.
June 13 - Twentieth opera of Giuseppe Verdi "Les vÃªpres siciliennes" (The Sicilian Vespers) is premiered in Paris.^[1]
July 5 â Jacques Offenbach inaugurates performances of operettas as director of his own theater, the ThÃ©Ã¢tre des Bouffes-Parisiens.
Late autumn â Mily Balakirev meets Mikhail Glinka in Saint Petersburg. Their friendship cements the former's ambition to foster Russian nationalist music.
November 27 â Piano Trio No. 1 of Brahms is given its first public performance at Dodsworth's Hall in Manhattan on Broadway at 11th Street. It is the earliest performance of Brahms' music in the United States
December 3 â The Piano Trio in G minor by BedÅich Smetana is given its first public performance in Prague.
Tchaikovsky takes private music lessons with Rudolph KÃ¼ndinger, who tells Tchaikovsky's father that he sees nothing to suggest a future composer.

Black Dyke Mills Band re-formed after failure of its immediate predecessor, the Queenshead Band in Queensbury, West Yorkshire, England.

Georges Bizet â Symphony in C
Franz Berwald â Piano Concerto in D
Eduard Franck â String Quartet in F minor op. 49 ()
Charles Gounod â Symphony No. 1 in D
Stephen Heller
- 2 Tarantelles, Op.85
- Im Walde, Op.86
Friedrich Hermann â Capriccio No.1 for 3 Violins, Op.2
Franz Liszt
- Book 1 of AnnÃ©es de pÃ¨lerinage
- Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
- Les prÃ©ludes, S.97
- Prometheus, S.99
- 3 Lieder aus Schillers "Wilhelm Tell", S.292
- Wie singt die Lerche schÃ¶n, S.312
Anton Rubinstein â Quintet for Piano and Winds Op. 55 (probably from this year)
Camille Saint-SaÃ«ns
- Six Bagatelles for piano, Op. 3
- Quintet for Piano and Strings, Op. 14
BedÅich Smetana â Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
Louis Spohr â 6 GesÃ¤nge, Op.154

Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage (Music: James Gaspard Maeder, Book and Lyrics: John Brougham) Broadway production opened Wallack's Lyceum Theatre on December 24 and transferred to the Bowery Theatre on June 28, 1856. Featuring John Brougham as John Smith.