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Contents
1
Events
2
Popular music
3
Classical music
4
Opera
5
Births
6
Deaths
Events
February 11
–
Gaetano Donizetti
's opera
La Fille du Regiment
premieres in
Paris
.
June 9
–
Franz Liszt
gives the first piano
recital
, in London's
Hanover Square Rooms
.
Robert Schumann
's "year of song", in which he writes the two
Liederkreis
,
Frauenliebe und -leben
and
Dichterliebe
. He also marries
Clara Wieck
.
The first
harmonium
is built.
Schindler's
biography of
Ludwig van Beethoven
is published.
Michele Carafa
becomes Professor of Counterpoint at the
Paris Conservatoire
.
Édouard Batiste
and
François Bazin
share the
Prix de Rome
.
Popular music
Henry Russell
(music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) – "The Old Arm Chair"
Robert Lucas de Pearsall
– "
Lay a garland
"
Classical music
Felix Mendelssohn
–
Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major, "Lobgesang"
Louis Spohr
–
Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"
Opera
Gaetano Donizetti
– "
La Favorite
" and
La Fille du Régiment (
The Daughter of the Regiment
)
Albert Lortzing
–
Hans Sachs
Temistocle Solera
–
Ildegonda
Giuseppe Verdi
–
Un giorno di regno
Births
January 18
–
Ernst Rudorff
, composer and music teacher (d. 1918)
February 2
–
Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray
, pianist and composer (d. 1910)
February 12
–
Philippe Decker
, conductor and composer (d. 1881)
March 8
–
Franco Faccio
, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
April 12
–
Franz Xaver Haberl
, musicologist (d. 1910)
May 7
–
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
, composer (d. 1893)
May 9
–
Blanche d'Antigny
, singer and actress (d. 1874)
August 1
–
Franz Simandl
, double-bassist and teacher (d. 1912)
August 28
–
Ira D. Sankey
, gospel singer and composer (d. 1908)
September 14
–
George Whiting
, composer (d. 1923)
September 30
–
Johan Svendsen
, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
October 18
–
Roberto Stagno
, operatic tenor (d. 1897)
November –
Célestine Marié
, operatic mezzo-soprano, the original
Carmen
(d. 1905)
December 7
–
Hermann Goetz
, composer (d. 1876)
December 17
–
C. F. E. Horneman
, composer (d. 1906)
Deaths
March 20
–
Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut
, lawyer and musician (b. 1772)
May 1
–
Giuditta Grisi
, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1805)
May 10
–
Catterino Cavos
, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1775)
May 25
–
Nikolai Lavrov
, operatic baritone (b. 1802)
May 27
–
Niccolò Paganini
,
violinist
and
composer
(b. 1782)
June 16
–
Joseph Kreutzer
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1790)
November 19
–
Johann Michael Vogl
, singer and composer (b. 1768)
date unknown
Jules-Joseph Godefroid
, harpist and composer (b. 1811)
Nikolai Lavrov
, operatic baritone (b. 1802)
Wojciech Adalbert Żywny
, pianist and violinist, teacher of Chopin (b. 1756)