Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1850s ==
* '''[[1859 in music]]''' – ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' by [[Charles Gounod]] premieres [[in Paris]]; [[Richard Wagner]] concludes [[Tristan und Isolde]]; In [[1859]], [[John Freeman Young]] published the English translation of [[Silent Night]] that is most frequently sung today.
* '''[[1858 in music]]''' – Births of [[Medardo Rosso]] and [[Giacomo Puccini]], Italian opera composer, ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld|Orphée aux enfers]]'' by [[Jacques Offenbach]], the first [[operetta]], premieres in Paris; [[Hector Berlioz]] writes ''[[Les Troyens]]''; [[Johann Strauss II]] writes ''[[Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka]]''
* '''[[1857 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Edward Elgar]], British composer; First public performance of [[Franz Liszt]]'s [[Piano Sonata (Liszt)|Piano Sonata in B Minor]]
* '''[[1856 in music]]''' – Death of [[Robert Schumann]], German composer and pianist; [[Richard Wagner]], German composer, concludes ''[[Die Walküre]]''
* '''[[1855 in music]]'''&nbsp;– Birth of [[Ernest Chausson]]
* '''[[1854 in music]]''' – [[Richard Wagner]], German composer, concludes [[Das Rheingold]]
* '''[[1853 in music]]''' – ''[[Il trovatore]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] premieres in Rome; ''[[La traviata]]'' by Verdi premieres in [[Venice]]
* '''[[1852 in music]]'''&nbsp;– Births of [[Charles Villiers Stanford]], Irish composer, teacher and conductor and [[Francisco Tárrega]], Spanish composer and guitarist
* '''[[1851 in music]]''' – ''[[Rigoletto]]'' by [[Giuseppe Verdi]] premieres in [[Venice]]
* '''[[1850 in music]]''' – ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' by [[Richard Wagner]] premieres in [[Weimar]]; ''Foster's Plantation Melodies'' by [[Stephen Foster]], including "[[Camptown Races]]"