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1839 in music
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Contents
1
Events
2
Classical music
3
Opera
4
Published popular music
5
Births
6
Deaths
7
Awards
Events
Felix Mendelssohn
conducts the first performance of
Franz Schubert
's
Great C Major Symphony
Classical music
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
–
2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ
Joseph Lanner
–
Amazonen-Galopp
;
Malapou Galop
Robert Schumann
:
Arabesque
in C, Op. 18
Blumenstück
(
Flower Piece
) in D
♭
, Op. 19
Humoreske
in B
♭
, Op. 20
4
Nachtstücke
(
Night Pieces
), Op. 23
Faschingsschwank aus Wien
, Op. 26
3 Romances
, Op. 28 (B
♭
minor, F
♯
, B)
Louis Spohr
– Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"
Frédéric Chopin
–
Piano Sonata No. 2
"Funeral March"
Opera
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
–
Esmeralda
Gaetano Donizetti
–
L'ange de Nisida
Giuseppe Lillo
–
Il conte di Chalais
Giuseppe Verdi
–
Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
Published popular music
"
Kathleen Mavourneen
" w. Annie Barry Crawford m.
Frederick William Nicholls Crouch
Births
January 1
–
James Ryder Randall
, popular songwriter
January 9
–
John Knowles Paine
, composer and musicologist
March 2
-
Victoria Bundsen
, alto
March 17
–
Josef Rheinberger
, composer (d. 1901)
March 19
– Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of
Mieczysław Karłowicz
March 21
–
Modest Mussorgsky
, composer (d. 1881)
April 12
–
Victorin de Joncières
, composer and music critic (d. 1903)
May 19
–
Alice Mary Smith
, composer (d. 1884)
July 14
–
Sydney Smith
, English composer and pianist
August 24
–
Eduard Nápravník
, composer (d. 1916)
November 24
–
James Warren York
, businessman, musical instrument maker
Deaths
February 16
–
Ludwig Berger
, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1777)
March 7
–
Adolphe Nourrit
, operatic tenor (b. 1802) (suicide)
April 20
–
Giuseppe Rossini
, father of the composer
Gioacchino Rossini
May 3
–
Ferdinando Paer
, composer (b. 1771)
June 8
–
Aloysia Weber
, operatic soprano (b. c. 1760)
June 11
–
Regina Strinasacchi
, violinist (b. c. 1761)
June 14
–
Nicolas Mori
, violinist, conductor and music publisher (b. 1796)
June 15
–
Hans Skramstad
, pianist and composer (b. 1797)
July 10
–
Fernando Sor
, guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
September 21
–
Gottfried Weber
, music theorist (b. 1779)
December 7
–
Jan August Vitásek
, composer (b. 1770)
Awards
Prix de Rome
–
Charles Gounod