1843 in music

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

[edit] Events

• February 6 - The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).

[edit] Popular music

• "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
• "Old Dan Tucker", usually attributed to Dan Emmett
• "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Berwald - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Sérieuse"
• Niels Gade - Symphony No. 1

[edit] Opera and Musical theater

• 27 November - Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
• Julius Benedict - The Bride of Venice
• Gaetano Donizetti - Don Pasquale
• Giuseppe Verdi' - I Lombardi
• Richard Wagner - The Flying Dutchman

[edit] Births

• April 8 - Asger Hamerik, composer
• June 15 - Edvard Grieg, composer
• June 20 - Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer
• August 5 - James Scott Skinner
• August 20 - Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano

[edit] Deaths

• January 11 - Francis Scott Key, poet and songwriter
• April 14 - Josef Lanner, Viennese composer