1847 in music

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

[edit] Events

• March 14 - Verdi's Macbeth (opera) premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
• Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

[edit] Opera

• Francisco Asenjo Barbieri - Il Buontemponi
• Hector Berlioz - The Damnation Of Faust
• Giovanni Bottesini - Cristoforo Colombo
• Friedrich von Flotow - Martha
• Ivar Hallstrom - Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
• Karel Miry - Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
• Giuseppe Verdi - Macbeth
• William Vincent Wallace - Matilda of Hungary

[edit] Births

• February 15 - Robert Fuchs
• September 13 - Charles Dupee Blake
• October 21 - Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas
• November 1 - Emma Albani, soprano
• December 1 - Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer

[edit] Deaths

• April 23 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer
• May 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn
• November 4 - Felix Mendelssohn