1842 in music
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[edit] Events
- May 31 - Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a new order of merit for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include: Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Gioacchino Rossini.
- Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe.
- Franz von Suppé makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore at the Ödenburg Theatre.
[edit] Popular music
[edit] Classical music
- Frédéric Chopin - Polonaise for Piano in A flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic"
- Josef Lanner - Die Schönbrunner Waltzer
- Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")
[edit] Opera
- Caràttaco by Angelo Catelani
- Linda di Chamounix by Gaetano Donizetti
- Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi
- Rienzi by Richard Wagner
- Russlan and Ludmilla by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
- Der Wildschütz by Albert Lortzing
[edit] Births
- January 7 - Johan Lindegren
- May 12 - Jules Massenet
- May 13 - Arthur Sullivan, composer
- July 4 - Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- July 19 - Karl Zeller, Austrian composer
[edit] Deaths
- March 7 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer and conductor
- March 15 - Luigi Cherubini, composer
- September 15 - Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer
- December 25 - Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory
