1831 in music

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See also: 1830 in music, other events of 1831, 1832 in music, and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris

[edit] Popular music

• "Lord, Lead the Way the Saviour Went" (hymn) by William Crosswell

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Lachner - Fragen
• Felix Mendelssohn - First Piano Concerto opus 25 (premiered October 17 in Munich); Die erste Walpurgisnacht, opus 60, first version
• George Onslow - Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, opus 42

[edit] Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini - Norma
• Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold - Zampa
• Giacomo Meyerbeer - Robert Le Diable

[edit] Births

• February 21 - Henri Meilhac
• June 28 - Joseph Joachim
• August 13 - Salomon Jadassohn, composer, teacher and theorist
• August 28 - Ludvig Norman, Swedish composer

[edit] Deaths

• January 6 - Rodolphe Kreutzer
• January 8 - Franz Krommer
• August 22 - John White
• November 14 - Ignaz Pleyel, piano-maker and pupil of Joseph Haydn
• November 15 - Vincenc Masek
• date unknown - Mateo Albéniz, composer