1833 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1833.

Events

• February 24 – The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
• May 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there^[1] he withdraws it for revision.
• July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
• October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
• December 1 – Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.^[2]
• Late – First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
• Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.^[3][4]

Popular music

• "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"

Classical music

• Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
• Frédéric Chopin – Bolero for piano opus 19 in C/A
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
• Felix Mendelssohn – Italian Symphony

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia
• Heinrich Marschner – Hans Heiling

Births

• March 7 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
• March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
• April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
• May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
• May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
• May 9
  • Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
  • Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer (d. 1914)
• June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
• July 26 – Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
• September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
• October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
• November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
• date unknown
  • Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
  • Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)

Deaths

• January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
• January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
• March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
• April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
• May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
• May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
• May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
• July 24 – Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician (b. 1792)
• September 14 – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (b. c.1761)
• October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
• November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)

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