1837 in music

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See also: 1836 in music, other events of 1837, 1838 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

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

[edit] Events

• June 11 - Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
• Pauline Garcia-Viardot makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.

[edit] Published popular music

• "Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill Hewitt
• "Woodman, Spare That Tree!", words by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell

[edit] Classical music

• Grande Messe des Morts by Hector Berlioz
• String Quartet #4 in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn

[edit] Opera

• The Black Domino by Daniel Auber, with libretto by Eugène Scribe
• Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti
• Zar und Zimmermann by Albert Lortzing
• Agnes von Hohenstaufen by Gaspare Spontini

[edit] Births

• January 12 - Adolf Jensen
• January 2 - Mily Balakirev, composer
• April 1 - Albert Rudolph Faesy
• August 24 - Theodore Dubois, organist and composer
• December 9 - Emile Waldteufel, composer
• December 25 - Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner

[edit] Deaths

• January 23 - John Field, composer
• May 5 - Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer
• October 6 - Jean François Lesueur, composer
• October 17 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
• October - Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley