1838 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 References

[edit] Events

• March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera
• Giovanni Ricordi buys Giuseppe Verdi's copyrights.
• Frédéric Chopin begins his affair with George Sand.

[edit] Popular music

• "Annie Laurie", words (1688) William Douglas, music Lady John Scott (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode)
• "'Tis Home Where'er the Heart Is" - words by Robert Dale Owen, music by John Hill Hewitt ([1])

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Lachner - Frauenliebe und -leben
• Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen, Op. 15
• William Sterndale Bennett - Piano Concerto No. 4 op. 19 ^[1]

[edit] Opera

• Hector Berlioz - Benvenuto Cellini
• Albert Grisar - Lady Melvil

[edit] Births

• January 6 - Max Bruch, composer
• July 9 - Philip Bliss
• October 25 - Georges Bizet, French composer

[edit] Deaths

• January 13 - Ferdinand Ries, composer and pianist (born 1784)
• March 2 - Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille, (born 1761)
• March 24 - Thomas Attwood
• July 28 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell
• August 17 - Lorenzo Da Ponte
• September 7 - Joseph Panny
• September 8 - Pietro Rovelli
• December 26 - Franciszek Lessel (born 1780)

[edit] References

1. ^ Cope, Andrew (Jun. 1981). "Sterndale Bennett's G Minor Adagio". The Musical Times 122 (1660): 373, 374. Musical Times Publications Ltd.. doi:10.2307/960949.