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right|thumb|250px|Old Folks at Home, as sung by [[Christy's Minstrels in 1851.]]

This article is about music-related events in 1851.

Events

  • February – Operatic tenor Sims Reeves returns to perform in Dublin with his new wife, soprano Charlotte Emma Lucombe.
  • February 6 – Schumann's Symphony No. 3 receives its première in Düsseldorf, the composer conducting.
  • March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.
  • April 5 – Jenny Lind visits the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, USA.
  • July 23 – Richard Wagner writes down the leitmotif for the "Ride of the Valkyries".
  • Operatic baritone Hans von Milde marries soprano Rosa Agthe.
  • Eight-year-old Adelina Patti sings in public for the first time.
  • "Cora, the Indian Maiden's Song" – w. Shirley Brooks m. Alexander Lee
  • "Old Folks at Home" (Way Down Upon the Swanee River) by Stephen Foster
  • "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" by Stephen Foster
  • "I Would Not Die in Summer Time" by Stephen Foster
  • "Laura Lee" by Stephen Foster

Classical music

  • Woldemar Bargiel
  • Piano Trio No. 1 in F major, Op. 6
  • String Quartet No.3, Op.15b
  • Johannes Brahms
  • Scherzo in E-flat minor for solo piano, Op. 4
  • Heimkehr (Homecoming) for voice and piano, Op. 7 No. 6
  • Stephen Heller – Pensées fugitives, Op.30
  • Franz Liszt
  • Transcendental Études for Piano, S 139
  • Grandes études de Paganini
  • Johann Kaspar Mertz – Fantaisie über 'Don Juan', Op.28
  • Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Rondo for cello and orchestra.
  • George Onslow – Wind Quintet Op. 81
  • Anton Rubinstein – Symphony No. 2 (Ocean) (first version)
  • Robert Schumann
  • Symphony No. 4 from 1841, revised
  • Violin Sonata No. 1
  • Violin Sonata No. 2
  • Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, oratorio
  • Mädchenlieder, Op. 103
  • 7 Lieder, Op. 104
  • 6 Gesänge, Op. 107
  • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 110
  • 3 Gedichte, Op. 119
  • Julius Cäsar Ouverture, Op. 128
  • 3 Fantasiestücke, for piano
  • Märchenbilder, for piano and viola
  • Adrien-François Servais
  • Souvenir de la Suisse, Op.10
  • 6 Caprices for Cello, Op.11
  • Hugo Staehle – 6 Lieder, Op.2

Opera

  • Félicien-César David – La Perle du Bresil
  • Charles Gounod – Sapho
  • Albert Lortzing – Die Oprnprobe
  • Joachim Raff – König Alfred
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto

Births

  • January 25 – Jan Blockx, pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1912)
  • January 27 – Gaspar Villate, composer (d. 1891)
  • February 12 – Anna Yesipova, pianist (d. 1914)
  • March 27
  • Ruperto Chapí, composer (d. 1909)
  • Vincent d'Indy, composer (d. 1931)
  • May 1 – Ludvig Hegner, composer (d. 1923)
  • May 6
  • Aristide Bruant, French singer (d. 1925)
  • Jean-Alexandre Talazac, operatic tenor (d. 1896)
  • May 7 – Julius Buths, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1920)
  • May 17 – Victor Bendix, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1926)
  • June 3 – Theodore Baker, musicologist (died 1934)
  • June 11 – Oscar Borg, composer (d. 1930)
  • June 12 – Pol Plançon, operatic bass (d. 1914)
  • August 8 – Walborg Lagerwall, Swedish violinist (d. 1940)
  • October 11 – Josif Marinković, composer (d. 1931)
  • October 16 – Viggo Bielefeldt, composer (d. 1909)
  • November 5 – Émile Pierre Ratez, composer (d. 1934)
  • November 16 – Minnie Hauk, operatic soprano (d. 1929)
  • probable – Marie Heilbron, operatic soprano (d. 1886)

Deaths

  • January 21 – Albert Lortzing, composer (b. 1801)
  • January 24 – Gaspare Spontini, composer (b. 1774)
  • February 20 – Josef Alois Ladurner, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1769)
  • March 6
  • Alexander Alyabyev, composer (b. 1787)
  • Emma Hartmann, composer (b. 1807)
  • April 8 – John Parry (Bardd Alaw), harpist and composer (b. 1776)
  • July 4 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (b. 1784)
  • July 17 – Béni Egressy, composer and librettist (b. 1814)
  • August 8 – James Shudi Broadwood, piano-maker (b. 1772)
  • October 8 – George Alexander Lee, singer, songwriter and opera producer (b. 1802)
  • December 1 – Carl Dahlén, ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1770)

References