1838 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1838.

Events

• March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale", debuts at the Stockholm Opera
• November 8 - The ailing Polish-born composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin begins an uncomfortable (but compositionally productive) winter living with his lover, French novelist George Sand, on the Mediterranean island of Majorca in the abandoned Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa.^[1]
• Giovanni Ricordi buys Giuseppe Verdi's copyrights.

Popular music

• "Annie Laurie", words (1688) William Douglas, music Lady John Scott (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode)
• "'Tis Home Where'er the Heart Is" – words by Robert Dale Owen, music by John Hill Hewitt ()

Classical music

• Franz Lachner – Frauenliebe und -leben
• Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartets Op. 44, No. 3 in D Major and No. 5 in E-Flat Major
• Robert Schumann – Kinderszenen, Op. 15
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 4 op. 19 ^[2]

Opera

• Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini
• Albert Grisar – Lady Melvil

Births

• January 6 – Max Bruch, German composer (died 1920)
• July 9 – Philip Bliss, American Gospel composer (died 1876)
• October 25 – Georges Bizet, French composer (died 1875)

Deaths

• January 13 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and pianist (born 1784)
• March 2 – Ludwig Abeille, composer (born 1761)
• March 24 – Thomas Attwood, organist and composer (b. 1765)
• April 29 – Joseph von Henikstein, patron of the arts and friend of Mozart (b. 1768)
• July 28 – Bernhard Henrik Crusell, clarinet player and composer (b. 1775)
• August 17 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist
• December 26 – Franciszek Lessel, composer (born 1780)

References

1. ↑ Described by her in Un hiver à Majorque ("A Winter in Majorca", 1842).
2. ↑ Cope, Andrew (June 1981). "Sterndale Bennett's G Minor Adagio". The Musical Times (Musical Times Publications Ltd.) 122 (1660): 373–374. doi:10.2307/960949. JSTOR 960949.