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[[File:FLiszt.jpg|thumb|Franz Liszt in 1858]]

==Events==
*[[January 2]] – [[Sigismond Thalberg]] is given a farewell concert by the Academy of Music, New York.<ref name=musichistory>[http://musicandhistory.com/component/content/article/2-years/117-1858.html?qh=YToxOntpOjA7aToxODU4O30%3D MusicAndHistory.com:1858]{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Accessed 10 March 2013</ref>
*[[January 14]] – While on their way to the Paris Opéra, [[Napoleon III of France]] and Empress Eugénie are attacked by a would-be assassin. The emperor proceeds to attend the performance.<ref name=musichistory/>
*[[January 25]] – The "[[Wedding March (Mendelssohn)|Wedding March]]" by [[Felix Mendelssohn]] is played at the marriage of [[Queen Victoria]]'s daughter "Vicky" ([[Victoria, Princess Royal]]) to [[Frederick III, German Emperor|Prince Friedrich of Prussia]] in [[St James's Palace]], London, leading to its becoming popular wedding music.
*[[January 30]] – [[Hallé Orchestra]] founded by [[Charles Hallé]] in [[Manchester]], England.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
*[[February 20]] – [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]] pays Mathilde Heine 4,500 francs not to publish four poems by her late husband [[Heinrich Heine]].<ref name=musichistory/>
*[[March 25]] – [[St James's Hall]] opens in London as a concert venue.<ref>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Elkin|title=Queen's Hall 1893-1941|publisher=Ryder|location=London|year=1944|page=16}}</ref>
*[[April 7]] – [[Richard Wagner]]'s affair with Mathilde Wesendonck is discovered by her husband; he leaves Zurich shortly afterwards.
*[[May 15]] – The [[Royal Opera House|Royal Italian Opera]] opens in [[Covent Garden]], London with a performance of [[Giacomo Meyerbeer|Meyerbeer's]] ''[[Les Huguenots]]''.<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49439 |title=Charles Thomas Lucas at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/49439 |access-date=4 May 2013}}</ref>
*[[June 17]] – [[Modest Musorgsky]] resigns from the Preobrazhensky Regiment to take up music full-time.<ref name=musichistory/>
*[[September 7]] – [[Queen Victoria]] of the United Kingdom opens [[Leeds Town Hall]]; the celebratory concert marks the first [[Leeds Festival (classical music)|Leeds Festival]].
*[[September 16]] – [[Jules Massenet]] gives his first piano recital.
*[[October 6]] – [[Edvard Grieg]] enters [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig|Leipzig Conservatory]], having had his talent recognised by [[Ole Bull]].<ref>[[Finn Benestad|Benestad, Finn]]/[[Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe|Schjelderup-Ebbe, Dag]] (2007): ''[[Edvard Grieg – mennesket og kunstneren]]''. H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo. {{ISBN|978-82-03-23459-0}}; page 35</ref>
*[[October 21]] – [[Jacques Offenbach]]'s [[operetta]] ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld]]'', featuring music associated with the [[can-can]], is first performed, at the [[Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens]] in Paris.
*[[Camille Saint-Saëns]] succeeds [[Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély]] as organist of [[La Madeleine, Paris]].
*[[Arthur Sullivan]] goes to Leipzig to study music.
*The [[Wiener Singverein]] is formed as a choir in its modern form in Vienna.
*The [[Harvard Glee Club]] is founded at Harvard University in the United States.
*[[Hector Berlioz]] completes the score for his opera ''[[Les Troyens]]''.
[[Image:1878 poster for Jacques Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers.jpg|thumb|right|Poster for a revival of Offenbach's 1858 ''Orphée Aux Enfers'']]

==Published popular music==
* "The Infernal Gallop" ("The Can-Can"), music by [[Jacques Offenbach]] (from his operetta, ''[[Orphée Aux Enfers]]'')
* "Warblings at Eve" m. [[Henry Brinley Richards]]

==Classical music==
*[[Johannes Brahms]]
**[[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]
**[[Serenades (Brahms)|Serenade No 1, Op. 11]]
*[[Charles Dancla]] 
**Le mélodiste, Op.86
**6 Airs variés, Series I, Op.89
*[[Louise Farrenc]] – Piano Etudes, Op.41
*[[Franz Liszt]] - Book 2 (Deuxième année: Italie) of [[Années de pèlerinage]]
*[[Saint-Saëns|Camille Saint-Saëns]] — 
**[[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)|Piano Concerto No.1]]
**[[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Saint-Saëns)|Violin Concerto No. 2]]
*[[Jean-Baptiste Singelée]] – Duo concertant, Op.55
*[[Johann Strauss II]] — 
**''[[Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka]]''
**''[[Champagner-Polka]]''

==Opera==
*[[Peter Cornelius]] — ''Der Barbier von Bagdad''
*[[Charles Gounod]] – ''[[Le médecin malgré lui (opera)|Le médecin malgré lui]]'', CG 3, premiered January 15 in Paris
*[[Giovanni Pacini]] — ''Il saltimbanco''
*[[Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin]] – ''La laitière de Trianon'', premiered December 18 in Paris

==Musical theatre==
* ''[[Orphée Aux Enfers]]'', operetta by [[Jacques Offenbach]], Paris production opened at the [[Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens]] on October 21 and ran for 228 performances

==Births==
*[[January 3]] – [[Richard Franck]], composer (died 1938)
*[[January 6]] — [[Ben Davies (tenor)|Ben Davies]], operatic tenor (died [[1943 in music|1943]])
*[[February 24]] — [[Arnold Dolmetsch]], musical instrument maker (died [[1940 in music|1940]])
*[[March 30]] — [[DeWolf Hopper]], US actor and singer (died [[1935 in music|1935]])
*[[April 22]] — [[Ethel Smyth]], composer (died [[1944 in music|1944]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Auguste Chapuis]], composer (died 1933)
*[[May 22]] — [[Charles Kjerulf]], composer (died [[1919 in music|1919]])
*[[July 16]] — [[Eugène Ysaÿe]], composer (died [[1931 in music|1931]])
*[[July 21]] — [[Chauncey Olcott]], singer and songwriter (died [[1932 in music|1932]])
*August — [[Guy d'Hardelot]], pianist and composer
*[[August 1]] — [[Hans Rott]], composer (died [[1884 in music|1884]])
*[[August 9]] — [[Isidore de Lara]], composer (died [[1935 in music|1935]])
*[[September 13]] – [[Catharinus Elling]], composer (died 1942)
*[[September 15]] – [[Jenő Hubay|Jenö Hubay]], composer (died 1937)
*[[October 12]] – [[Alice Charbonnet-Kellermann]], piano composer (died 1914)
*[[November 9]] – [[John Stromberg]], composer (died 1902)
*[[November 11]] — [[Alessandro Moreschi]], castrato singer (died [[1922 in music|1922]])
*[[December 22]] — [[Giacomo Puccini]], composer (died [[1924 in music|1924]])

==Deaths==
*[[January 5]] — [[Joseph Radetzky von Radetz]], military leader and subject of the ''Radetzky March'' by [[Johann Strauss I]] (b. 1766)
*[[January 23]] — [[Luigi Lablache]], operatic bass (b. 1794)
*April — [[Bernard Sarrette]], founder of the [[Paris Conservatoire]] (b. 1765)
*[[April 8]] — [[Anton Diabelli]], publisher and composer (b. 1781)
*[[April 16]] — [[Johann Baptist Cramer]], pianist and composer (b. 1771)
*[[June 3]] — [[Julius Reubke]], pianist and composer (b. 1834)
*[[August 24]] — [[Francis Edward Bache]], composer (b. 1833)
*[[September 8]] – [[Jacopo Foroni]], composer (born 1825)
*[[September 15]] — [[Thomas Adams (musician)|Thomas Adams]], organist and composer (b. 1785)
*[[October 31]] — [[Karl Thomas Mozart]], musician, son of [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (b. 1784)
*[[November 15]] — [[Johanna Kinkel]], composer (b. 1810)
*[[December 27]] — [[Alexandre Pierre François Boëly]], pianist, organist and composer (b. 1785)

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