1827 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1827.
Events
- March 29 â The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.[1]
- April 5 â Pope Leo XII honours Nicolo Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur.[2]
- April 13 â 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
- date unknown
- Franz Liszt moves to Paris after the death of his father. He will live there for the next five years.[3] He plays a concert in London that was attended by Ignaz Moscheles.
- François Dauverné becomes one of the first musicians to use the new F three-valved trumpet in public performance.[4]
- Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
- The term "Gesamtkunstwerk" is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard Wagner.[5]
- Soprano Laure-Cinthie Montalant marries the tenor Vincent-Charles Damoreau.[6]
- The Zagreb Music Association is founded; one of its earliest members is Ivan Padovec.[7]
Popular music
- "I'd Be a Butterfly" w.m. Thomas Haynes Bayly
Classical music
- Dionisio Aguado â 4 Rondos brillants, Op. 2
- Hector Berlioz â La mort dâOrphée (cantata)
- Frederic Chopin â Variations on "LÃ ci darem la mano" Op. 2
- Carl Czerny
- 3 Sonatines faciles et brillantes, Op. 104
- Piano Sonata Nos.6â9, Opp. 124, 143â145
- Grande Serenade concertante, Op.126
- 100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139
- Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra, Op. 153
- Mauro Giuliani â 6 Airs Irlandois nationales variées (for guitar), Op. 125[8]
- Fanny Hensel â 6 Lieder, Op.9, Nos. 1, "Die Ersehnte" and 5 "Der Maiabend"
- Ferdinand Hiller
- "Le sénateur" (dated June 22)
- "Wandrers Nachtlied"
- Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda â Symphony No.1, Op. 7
- Friedrich Kuhlau
- Flute Sonata, Op. 85[9]
- 4 Sonatinas, Op. 88
- Kaspar Kummer â Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32
- Franz Liszt â Scherzo in G minor, S.153
- Felix Mendelssohn
- 7 Charakterstücke, Op.7
- String Quartet No.2, Op.13
- The Last Rose of Summer, Op.15
- Piano Sonata No.3, Op.106 (dated May 31)
- Tu es Petrus, Op.111
- Christe, du Lamm Gottes, MWV 5
- Ferdinand Ries
- Polonaise No.4, Op.140
- 3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 2 in G major
- Pierre Rode â Violin Concerto No.11 in D major, Op. 23
- Franz Schubert
- Winterreise (song cycle)
- Piano Trio No. 1
- Piano Trio No. 2
- Im Abendrot, D.799
- Impromptus, D.899 and D.935
- 3 Gesänge, D.902
- Zur guten Nacht, D.903
- Alinde, D.904
- An die Laute, D.905
- Variations on a Theme from Herold's 'Marie', D. 908
- Phantasie for violin and piano in C major, D.934
- 12 Valses nobles, D. 969
- Ignaz Seyfried â Libera me Domine, continuation of Mozart's Requiem
- Louis Spohr
- Violin Concerto No.11, Op. 70
- Double String Quartet No.2, Op.77
- Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse â Et Eventyr i Rosenborg Have (Singspiel)
Opera
- Vincenzo Bellini â Il Pirata[10]
- Louise Bertin â Le loup-garou
- Michele Carafa â Les Deux Figaro
- Felix Mendelssohn â Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Op.10 (premiered April 29 in Berlin)
- Giovanni Pacini â Margherita regina d'Inghilterra
- Louis Spohr â Pietro von Abano, premiered Oct. 13 in Kassel.
Births
- January 14 â Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band (d. 1903)
- January 16 (or 17) â Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)
- February 2 â Ludwig Eichrodt, lyricist (died 1892)
- February 9 â Auguste Dupont, composer (died 1890)
- February 12 â Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg, composer (died 1908)
- February 14 â José Costa, composer (died 1881)
- February 18 â Marc Burty, music teacher and composer (died 1903)
- March 5
- Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
- Emile Jonas, composer (died 1905)
- March 26 â Emanuel Kania, composer (died 1887)
- April 15 â Julius Tausch, composer (died 1895)
- April 25 â Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
- May 11 â Septimus Winner, composer (died 1902)
- August 20 (or 22)[11] â Josef Strauss, waltz composer (d. 1870)
- August 22 â Edouard Silas, composer (died 1909)
- August 23 â Simon Waley, composer (died 1875)
- September 5 â Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
- September 13 â Catherine Winkworth, hymnist (died 1878)
- October 6 â Karl Riedel, conductor (died 1888)
- November 7 â Theodor Bernhard Sick, composer (died 1893)
- November 12 â Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
- November 20 â Edmond Dédé, composer (died 1903)
- November 26 â Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger (d. 1872)
- December 24 â Lisa Cristiani, cellist (died 1853)
- December 31 â Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano (d. 1895)[12]
- date unknown
- Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
- George Lichtenstein, Hungarian-born pianist and music teacher (d. 1893)
Deaths
- January 18 â John Hoyland, organist and composer (b. 1783)
- January 30 â Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
- February 2 â Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
- February 11 â José Lidon, composer and musician (born 1748)
- February 26 â David Moritz Michael, composer (b. 1751)
- March 9 â Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)[13]
- March 26 â Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
- April 3 â Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
- May 9 â Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, composer (born 1780)
- June 4 â Stephan von Breuning, librettist (born 1774)
- July 17 â Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (b. 1769)
- July 25 â Gottfried Christoph Härtel, music publisher (born 1763)
- August 2 â James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
- August 3 â Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
- August 9 â Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772)
- August 28 â Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt (b. 1776)
- September 8 â Reginald Spofforth, composer (b. 1769)
- September 30 â Wilhelm Müller, lyricist (born 1794)
- November 6 â Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist (b. 1751)
- November 11 â Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's Requiem (b. 1763)
- November 20 â Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (b. 1769)
- date unknown
- James Hook, composer (b. 1746)[14]
- Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music (b. 1762)