1834 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1834.
Events
- September â Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
- October 7 â Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
- December 21 â "Kde domov můj" (Where My Home Is), with music by FrantiÅ¡ek Å kroup and words by Josef Kajetán Tyl, which will become the national anthem of the Czech Republic, originates as a part of the incidental music to the comedy FidlovaÄka aneb Žádný hnÄv a žádná rvaÄka (FidlovaÄka, or No Anger and No Brawl), first performed by Karel Strakatý at the Estates Theatre in Prague, at this time subject to the Habsburg monarchy.
- Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.
Publications
- Pierre Baillot â L'art du violon
- J.C. Maugin â Manuel du Luthier
Popular music
- "Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)
Classical music
- Charles-Valentin Alkan â Variations sur un thème de Bellini, Op.16 No.5
- William Sterndale Bennett â Piano Concerto in C Minor
- Hector Berlioz â Harold in Italy
- Ole Bull
- Violin Concerto No.1, Op.4
- Quartet for Solo Violin
- Norbert Burgmuller
- Rhapsodie in B minor for Piano, Op.13
- Duo for Piano and Clarinet, Op.15
- Luigi Cherubini â String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
- Frederic Chopin â Fantaisie-Impromptu (published posthumously in 1855)
- Felicien David
- Fantasia harabi
- Ãgyptienne
- Vieux Caire
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
- Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, Op.8
- Thème allemand varié, Op.9
- Souvenir du 'Pré aux clercs'
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel â Grand rondeau brillant, Op.126
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner
- Les Soupirs, Op.121
- Thême favori de la 'Norma' de Bellini varié, Op.122
- Karol Kurpinski â Polonaise in C major
- Franz Paul Lachner
- Waldklänge, Op.28
- Symphony No.3, Op.41
- Luigi Legnani â Grande Fantasia, Op.61
- Franz Liszt â Apparations
- Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Le moine
- Rachel à Nephtali
- James Nares â The souls of the righteous
- George Onslow
- 3 String Quartets, Op.46
- String Quartet No.22, Op.47
- Ludwig Schunke
- Caprice No.1, Op.9
- Rondeau brillant, Op.11
- Louis Spohr â Erinnerung an Marienbad, Op.89
- Mikhail Vysotsky â Fuga of Bach
Opera
- Adolphe Adam â Le Chalet, premiered September 25 in Paris
- Daniel Auber â Lestocq, premiered May 24 in Paris
- John Barnett â The Mountain Sylph
- Gaetano Donizetti â Gemma di Vergy, premiered December 26 in Milan
- Konradin Kreutzer â Das Nachtlager in Granada
- Saverio Mercadante
- Emma d'Antiochia, premiered March 8 in Venice
- Uggiero il danese
Births
- January 1 â Ludovic Halévy, librettist (died 1908)
- January 14 â William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator (d. 1897)
- January 20 â Théodore Salomé, composer (died 1896)
- January 23 â Josef Löw, composer (died 1886)
- January 28 â Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar (d. 1834)
- February 28 â Sir Charles Santley, baritone (d. 1922)
- March 1 â Hildegard Werner, conductor (d. 1911)
- March 23 â Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
- March 31 â Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist (died 1890)
- April 1 â Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer (died 1916)
- April 6 â Hart Pease Danks, musician (died 1903)
- May 19 â Carl Müllerhartung, composer (died 1908)
- June 8 â George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
- June 22 â Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer (died 1891)
- June 24 â George Becker, composer and music writer (d. 1928)
- August 9 â Elias Ãlvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
- August 14 â Alexander Winterberger, composer (died 1914)
- August 17 â Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
- August 31 â Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
- October 3 â Vilém Blodek, composer (died 1874)
- October 4 â Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer (died 1906)
- October 17 â Josephine Pollard, hymnist (died 1892)
- October 31 â Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
- November 2 â Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist (died 1917)
- November 7 â Ernest Gagnon, composer (died 1915)
- November 29 â Sedley Taylor, music theorist (died 1920)
- November 30 â Joseph Mosenthal, musician (died 1896)
- December 12 â Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist (died 1907)
- December 22 â Herman Amberg, composer (died 1902)
- date unknown
- David Braham, composer (died 1905)
- Harry McCarthy, songwriter (died 1888)
Deaths
- January 29 â Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist (born 1762)
- February 4 â Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
- April 17 â Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist (born 1765)
- June 29 â Alexandre-Ãtienne Choron, musicologist (born 1771)
- September 2 â David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)[1]
- August 8 â Silvestro Palma, Italian composer (b. 1754)
- October 8 â François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
- December 7 â Ludwig Schuncke, composer (b. 1810)[2]
- date unknown
- Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
- August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
- Filip ViÅ¡njiÄ, gusle player (b. 1767)