1857 in music

thumb|alt=Interior of the Crystal Palace, London, for a music festival in 1857.|Interior of the Crystal Palace, London, for a music festival in 1857.

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Events

• January 7 – Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 receives its first public performance. Hans von Bronsart is the pianist with Liszt conducting, in Weimar.
• January 21 – Giacomo Meyerbeer conducts a work by Mikhail Glinka, at a concert in Berlin attended by the composer. Glinka catches a cold and dies a few weeks later, aged 52; autopsy results are inconclusive.
• January 27 – Franz Liszt's Sonata in B minor (Liszt) is given its first public performance by Hans von Bülow in Berlin.
• February 7 – Louis Gottschalk leaves New York to begin a concert tour of Cuba.
• November 12 – 73-year-old Louis Spohr is forced into retirement from his post at the Hesse-Kassel court.