1852 in music
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See also: 1851 in music, other events of 1852, 1853 in music and the list of 'years in music'.
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[edit] Events
- Michael William Balfe sets off for Danzig to visit his daughter.
[edit] Popular hits
- "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground" by Stephen Foster
[edit] Classical music
- Joachim Raff - Two Lieder with words by Gotthold Logau
[edit] Opera
- Adolphe Adam - Si j'étais roi (If I Were King)
- Errico Petrella - Elena di Tolosa
- Anton Rubinstein - Dmitri Donskoi
- Louis Spohr - Faust
[edit] Births
- September 30 - Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
- November 21 - Francisco Tárrega y Eixea
- unknown date - Henrique Oswald
- unknown date - Robert Freund, pianist
[edit] Deaths
- February 25 - Thomas Moore, poet and songwriter
- March 25 - Alexis Garaude
- June 6 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
