1857 in music

See also: 1856 in music, other events of 1857, 1858 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• Georges Bizet wins the Prix de Rome.

Published popular songs

• "Does He Love Me?" w. Annie Chambers Bradford m. F. W. Smith
• "Lorena" w. Reverend H. D. L. Webster m. Joseph Philbrick Webster

Christmas songs

• "Jingle Bells", by James Pierpont

Classical music

• Charles-Valentin Alkan - Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and piano
• Georges Bizet - Herminie (cantata)
• Franz Liszt - Dante symphony and Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat
• Modest Mussorgsky - Souvenir d'Enfance
• Bedrich Smetana - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (revised version - original finished 1855)
• Julius Reubke - The 94th Psalm

Opera

• Giuseppe Verdi - Simon Boccanegra

Births

• January 17 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (d. 1941)
• January 30 - Gustav Carl Helsted, Danish composer (d. 1924)
• February 28 - Gustav Kerker, German-born composer.
• March 3 - Alfred Bruneau, French composer (d. 1934)
• March 4 - Henry W. Petrie, US songwriter
• March 8 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian opera composer (d. 1919)
• April 21 - Paul Dresser, US composer
• April 29 - Frantisek Ondrícek, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1922)
• May 2 - Frederic Cliffe, English composer (d. 1931)
• May 9 - Luigi Illica, librettist for Puccini, Catalani, Giordano and others (d. 1919)
• May 12 - Lillian Nordica, opera singer
• June 2 - Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
• August 8 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer (d. 1944)
• December 7 - Nicola van Westerhout (also Niccolo), Italian composer (d. 1898)
• December 30 - Sylvio Lazzari, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1944)
• date unknown - Rosalind Ellicott, composer
• date unknown - Joseph Tabrar, songwriter (d. 1931)

Deaths

• February 15 - Mikhail Glinka, composer
• July 15 - Carl Czerny, composer
• July 16 - Pierre-Jean de Béranger, songwriter
• October 21 - Ananias Davisson, singing teacher and printer of shape note books