1856 in Music History
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Months in 1856: January February March May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 1 of 1
Mar 5th - Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 24 of 24
Jan 6th - Giuseppe Martucci, composer
Jan 9th - Stevan Mokranjac, composer
Jan 11th - Christian August Sinding, Kongsberg Norway, composer
Jan 12th - John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters)
Jan 18th - John Hyatt Brewer, composer
Feb 2nd - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer
Feb 16th - Willem Kes, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor (Parkorkest Amsterdam)
Mar 9th - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
May 26th - George Templeton Strong, composer
Jun 8th - Natalia Janotha, composer
Jul 23rd - Arthur H Bird, composer
Aug 10th - Paul Geisler, composer
Aug 18th - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer
Aug 18th - Jan Karol Gali, composer
Aug 24th - Felix Mottl, composer
Aug 31st - Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer
Sep 12th - Johann Heinrich Beck, composer
Sep 30th - Andrejs Jurjans, composer
Oct 28th - Franz Xavier Arens, composer
Nov 13th - Sigwart Aspestrand, composer
Nov 25th - Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev, Russia, composer (Oresteia)
Nov 28th - Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer
Dec 2nd - Robert Kajanus, composer
Dec 27th - Andre Gedalge, composer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 12 of 12
Jan 17th - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
Feb 17th - John Braham, singer/composer, dies at 81
Mar 28th - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76
May 3rd - Adolfo Fumagalli, composer, dies at 27
May 3rd - Adolphe Charles Adam, French composer/critic (Giselle), dies at 52
Jul 29th - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
Aug 4th - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer, dies at 59
Aug 5th - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61
Aug 20th - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
Aug 21st - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64
Oct 10th - Michal Wielhorski, composer, dies at 67
Nov 17th - William Knyvett, composer, dies at 77
