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| 1850 |
| | | Jenny Lind, the 'Swedish Nightingale', has a great success touring the USA in a show presented by P.T. Barnum | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, is a huge success at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Richard Wagner writes an anti-semitic tract, Jewishness in Music | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome | |
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| 1853 |
| | | Just six weeks after the success of Il Trovatore, Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata is a disaster at its premiere in Venice | |
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| 1854 |
| | | Robert Schumann throws himself into the Rhine, in an attempt to commit suicide, and spends the last two years of his life in an asylum | |
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| 1857 |
| | | Kneller Hall is bought by the War Department and reopened as the Military School of Music, later the Royal Military School of music. | |
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| 1858 |
| | | Hector Berlioz completes his 4-hour opera The Trojans (not performed as a complete work until 1890) | |
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| 1859 |
| | | The opera Faust, by French composer Charles Gounod, has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1861 |
| | | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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