1854 in music

Events

February 27 – Robert Schumann unsuccessfully attempts suicide by throwing himself from a bridge into the River Rhine.
June 24 - Franz Liszt premieres Franz Schubert's opera Alfonso und Estrella in Weimar, thirty-two years after it was composed.
Anton Rubinstein begins a four year concert tour of Europe, establishing his reputation as the leading piano virtuoso of his generation.
Richard Wagner completes Das Rheingold.

Hector Berlioz – L'enfance du Christ
Charles Gounod – Chant de paix
Franz Liszt – Les préludes
Henri Wieniawski – Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano
Johannes Brahms
- Op.8 Piano Trio No. 1 (revised in 1889)
- Op. 9, Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann in F-sharp minor, for piano. The theme is from Op. 99, Bunte Blätter.
- Op. 10 Ballades
- Opus 21 No.2 Fourteen Variations on a Hungarian Melody, in D major

Karel Miry – La Lanterne magique (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)

January 12 – Philip Klitz, composer (born 1805)
March 3 – Giovanni Battista Rubini, operatic tenor (born 1794)
March 26 – Emilie Hammarskjöld, pianist, singer and composer (born 1821)
April 18 – Józef Elsner, composer and teacher (born 1769)
May 1 – Jean Coralli, dancer and choreographer (born 1779)
May 31 – Vatroslav Lisinski, composer (born 1819)
June 17 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (born 1806) (cholera)
July 14 – Louis-Pierre Norblin, cellist (born 1781)
August 21 – August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (born 1790)
October – Luigi Tarisio, violin dealer and collector (born c. 1790)
November 2 – Anton Pann, poet, musicologist and composer (born c. 1790)
November 17 – Alberich Zwyssig, composer of the Swiss national anthem (born 1808)

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