1833 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1833.
Events
- February 24 â The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
- May 13 â Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there[1] he withdraws it for revision.
- July 8 â Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
- October 3 â French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
- December 1 â Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.[2]
- Late â First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
- Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.[3][4]
Popular music
- "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
- "JoÅ¡ Hrvatska ni propala" m. Ferdo LivadiÄ w. Ljudevit Gaj (written in 1832)
Classical music
- Charles Valentin Alkan â Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
- William Sterndale Bennett â Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
- Hector Berlioz â Overture 'King Lear', H 53, premiered December 22 in Paris
- Frédéric Chopin
- Carl Czerny
- Divertissement de concert, Op.204
- Introduction, variations et presto finale sur 'Norma', Op.281
- Piano Trio No.4, Op.289
- The Art of Preluding, Op.300
- Anton Diabelli â Grande Sonate brillante pour le Pianoforte et Guitare, Op.102
- Fanny Hensel
- Gegenwart. Allegro Moderato H-U 270
- In Die Ferne. Allegretto Affettuoso H-U 271
- Ferdinand Hiller â Neuer Frühling, Op.16
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel â Fantasy for piano
- Georg Kopprasch â 60 Etudes for High-Horn, Op.5
- Franz Liszt â Malédiction, S.121
- Joseph Mayseder â String Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op.51
- Felix Mendelssohn â Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
- Joseph Merk â 20 Exercises for Cello, Op.11
- Sigismond Neukomm â "Fantaisie dramatique on some pages of Miltonâs Paradise lost"
- Józef Nowakowski â Piano Quintet, Op. 17
- George Onslow
- String Quartet No.22, Op.47
- Symphony No. 3 in F minor
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger â Piano Trio No.7, Op.85
- Clara Schumann â Romance variée, Op.3
- Robert Schumann â 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.10
- Louis Spohr â String Quintet No.4, Op.91
- Johann Strauss Sr
- Fra Diavolo, Op.41
- Die vier Temperamente, Op.59
- Carnevals-Spende, Op.60
- Tausendsapperment Walzer, Op.61
- Sigismond Thalberg â Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra 'La straniera', Op.9
Opera
- Daniel François Esprit Auber â Gustave III, premiered February 27 in Paris
- Vincenzo Bellini â Beatrice di Tenda, premiered March 16 in Venice
- Hector Berlioz â Les francs-juges, H 23, last revision
- Gaetano Donizetti â Lucrezia Borgia, premiered December 26 in Milan
- Heinrich Marschner â Hans Heiling
Births
- January 17 â Theodor Bradsky, composer (died 1881)
- January 26 â Grenville Dean Wilson, composer (died 1897)
- February 12 â Charles-Wilfrid Bériot, pianist (died 1914)
- February 13 â James William Elliott, nursery rhyme composer (died 1915)
- March 7 â Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
- March 13 â Nikolay Zverev, pianist (died 1893)
- March 17 â Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
- March 23 â Franz Bendel, pianist (died 1874)
- April 30 â Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
- May 1 â Theodor Krause, composer (died 1910)
- May 5 â Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
- May 7 â Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
- May 9
- Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
- BolesÅaw DembiÅski, organist and composer (d. 1914)
- May 11 â Jean Becker, violinist (died 1884)
- May 26 â Merian Genast, vocalist (died 1905)
- June 7 â Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
- June 8 â Alexander Julius Paul Dorn, composer (died 1901)
- June 20 â Anton Door, pianist (died 1919)
- June 27 â Vladyslav Zaremba, composer and pianist (d. 1902)
- July 26 â Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
- September 14 â Francis Edward Bache, organist (died 1858)
- September 19 â Ludwig von Brenner, conductor (died 1902)
- September 26 â Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- October 14 â William George Cusins, composer (died 1893)
- October 26 â Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
- November 6 â Wilhelm Ganz, composer (died 1914)
- November 12 â Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
- date unknown
- Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
- Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)
Deaths
- January 16 - Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b 1769)
- January 19 â Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
- January 20 â Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
- March 3 â Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
- April 7 â Antoni RadziwiÅÅ, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
- April 13 â Elisa von der Recke, lyricist (born 1754)
- May 25 â Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
- May 28 â Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
- May 29 â William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
- July 24 â Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician (b. 1792)
- September 14 â John Andrew Stevenson, composer (b. c.1761)
- October 1 â LuÃsa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
- October 15 â MichaÅ Kleofas OgiÅski, composer and Polish diplomat (born 1765)
- November 8 â Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)