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American Music Timeline | The 1800s

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff

American Music Timeline Part II: The 1800s by David Johnson

1814	1842	1861	1880	1891	1897	Next: 1900-1920

1814	Francis Scott Key writes poem The Defense of Fort McHenry, which appears in The Baltimore Patriot newspaper Top
1815	Key puts The Defense of Fort McHenry to music of popular British song, To Anacreon in Heaven, and publishes "The Star-Spangled Banner" Top
1842	Philharmonic Society of New York founded, nation's oldest symphony orchestra Top
Circa 1850	Col. Sandford C. Faulkner believed to write music and words to The Arkansas Traveler, song (and also a play) about a country fiddler, popular in Ohio River Valley Top
1851	Stephen Foster writes "Old Folks at Home" for a minstrel show Top
1861	Julia Ward Howe writes poem for Atlantic Monthly, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," based on hymn, "John Brown's Body"; William Steffe (probably) writes music to create popular Civil War song Top
1866	Musical play, The Black Crook, forerunner of musical comedy of 1920s Top
1878	New York Symphony Orchestra founded Top
1880	In Spring, by John Knowles Paine, performed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first American symphony published in U.S. Top
1881	Henry Lee Higginson establishes Boston Symphony Orchestra Top
1883	Metropolitan Opera House opens in New York Top
1891	Carnegie Hall opens in New York Top
1897	John Philip Sousa composes march "Stars and Stripes Forever"; creates more than 100 popular marches, orchestral music Top
1897	Composers Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb establish, popularize ragtime, give birth to America's popular music industry, ending reliance on Europe Top
Next: Boston's Symphony Hall is built

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