1847 in music
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Events
- February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside, most of the audience perishes.
- March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth (opera) is premiėred at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
- Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.
Popular music
- Adolphe Adam – "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night")
- Philip Klitz
- "Dinah Dear"
- "Miss Ginger"
Classical music
- Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
- Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6
- Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 2
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
Births
- January 1 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
- February 15 – Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
- March 2 – Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
- March 9 – Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
- June 28 – Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
- July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
- July 21 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
- October 21 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
- November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
- November 30 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- December 1 – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
- date unknown – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)
Deaths
- January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (b. 1767)
- April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (b. 1783)
- May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (b. 1805) (stroke)
- June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (b. 1784)
- June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (b. 1770)
- July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (b. 1772)
- September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (b. 1769)
- September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (b. 1814)
- November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1809)
- date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)