1842 in music
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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.
- Camille Saint-Saëns begins studying piano under Camille-Marie Stamaty.
Popular music
- Antoine Gérin-Lajoie – "Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian")
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")
Opera
- Angelo Catelani – Caràttaco
- Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix, May 19 at Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna
- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila, November 27(Old Style) at Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg
- Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz, December 31 at Stadttheater, Leipzig
- Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco, March 9 at La Scala, Milan
- Richard Wagner – Rienzi, October 20 at Hofoper, Dresden
Musical theatre
- March 10 – Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, with music by Adolf Müller, opens at the Theater an der Wien.[1]
Births
- February 24 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)
- March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
- March 22 – Carl Rosa, musical impresario (d. 1889)
- April 14 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (d. 1919)
- May 3 – Sophus Hagen, composer (d. 1929)
- May 12 – Jules Massenet, opera composer (d. 1912)
- May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, composer (d. 1900)
- May 14 – Alphons Czibulka, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
- June 12 – Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (d. 1866)
- July 4 – Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- July 19 – Karl Zeller, Austrian composer (d. 1898)
- July 9 – Charles Collette, actor and composer (d. 1924)
- September 12 – Marianne Brandt, operatic contralto (d. 1921)
- September 24 – Emma Livry, ballerina (d. 1863)
- October 13 – Antonio Pasculli, oboist and composer (d. 1924)
- November 8 – Eugen Gura, operatic baritone (d. 1906)
- date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar, composer of Carnatic music (d. 1909)
Deaths
- March 6 – Constanze Mozart, widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1762)
- March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer and conductor (b. 1780)
- March 15 – Luigi Cherubini, composer (b. 1760)
- April 6 – Johann Anton André, composer and music publisher (b. 1775)
- May 5 – Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor (b. 1769)
- June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (b. 1776)
- June 20 – Michael Umlauf, violinist and composer (b. 1781)
- July 23 – Timothy Swan, hat-maker and composer (b. 1758)
- August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist (b. 1762)
- September 15 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (b. 1771)
- October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer (b. 1774)
- November 3 – Franz Clement, violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (b. 1780)
- December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini, composer (b. 1762)
- December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (b. 1766)
References
- ↑ Branscombe, Peter (1992), 'Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7