1829 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1829.
Events
- March 11 â The German composer Felix Mendelssohn (age 20) conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
- AprilâSeptember â Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This visit included the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.[1]
- July â George Washington Dixon popularizes "Coal Black Rose" singing in blackface in New York City.
- December 29 â Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes her house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
- Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy in Warsaw which will later be named after him. He also hears Paganini perform and begins writing his Etudes.
Popular music
- "There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw[2]
Classical music
- Hector Berlioz â La Mort de Cleopatre
- Norbert Burgmüller â Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor
- Frederic Chopin
- Carl Czerny
- Piano Trio No.2, Op.166
- Sonatina in A major, Op.167
- Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte, Op.200
- Fanny Hensel â Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A-flat major
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel â Gesellschafts Rondo, Op.117
- Friedrich Kuhlau
- Fantaisie, Op.93
- Introduction and Rondo on 'Le Colporteur', Op.98a
- 3 Brilliant Duos for 2 Flutes, Op.102
- 7 Variations on an Irish Folksong, Op.105
- Caspar Kummer
- Adagio et Variations sur un Thême de lâOpéra : Armida, de Rossini, p. Cor de Bassette avec Orchestre, Op. 45
- 2 Duos for Flute and Clarinet, Op.46
- Flute Trio, Op.53
- Joseph Merk â Valses brillantes, Op.6
- Gioachino Rossini â William Tell Overture
Opera
- Michael William Balfe â I rivali di se stessi
- Gioacchino Rossini â William Tell first performed in Paris. Libretto by Ãtienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.
Births
- January 24 â William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
- February 4 â Marquis d'Ivry, composer (died 1903)
- February 11 â Camillo Walzel, librettist (died 1895)
- March 6 â Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
- May 8 â Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
- May 9 â Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
- June 9 â Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
- June 11 â Horace Poussard, violinist and composer (d. 1898)
- August 7 â Timoteo Pasini, composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1888)
- August 21 â Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1907)
- August 25 â Carlo Acton, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
- August 28 â Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
- October 6 â Josef Gänsbacher, music educator (died 1911)
- November 28 â Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
- date unknown
- Fritz Andersen, composer (died 1910)
Deaths
- January 25 â William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
- January 30 â Friedrich Haug, lyricist (born 1761)
- February 16 â François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
- February 18 â Jan KÅtitel KuchaÅ, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
- April 28 â Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, composer (born 1763)
- May 8 â Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
- August 15 â Christian Gottlieb Scheidler, composer (born 1747)
- August 16 â Carl Gotthelf Gläser, hymnist (born 1784)
- October 29 â Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
- December 14 â Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer (b. 1754)