1843 in music
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Events
- February 6 â The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
- May 22 â Gottfried Kinkel marries fellow musician Johanna Mockel.
- November 13 â Gaetano Donizetti's next-to-last opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.
- November 27 â Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl is premiered in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, with Abigail Betts in the role of the Gypsy Queen.[1]
- December 26 â Following the première of his last opera, Hernani, Alberto Mazzucato retires from composing in order to become a full-time music teacher.[citation needed]
- Approximate date â The Euphonium is invented, under the name of the Sommerophone.[citation needed]
- August Conradi becomes organist of the Invalidenhaus, Berlin.
- Hector Berlioz writes Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes, Op. 10
Popular music
- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket[2]
- "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl[3]
- "Old Dan Tucker", usually attributed to Dan Emmett
- "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl[4]
Classical music
- Dionisio Aguado â Nuevo método para guitarra, Op. 6
- Ernesto Cavallini â Concert Fantasia on motives from 'La sonnambula'
- Frédéric Chopin
- Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, opus 51
- Ballade No. 4 in F minor, opus 52[5]
- Mazurkas, Op.56, p. 115
- Waltz in A minor, B.150
- Moderato in E major, B.151
- August Conradi â Symphony No. 1
- Carl Czerny â 8 Nocturnes romantiques de différents caractères, Op.604
- Carl Filtsch
- Premières pensées musicales, Op.3
- Overture for orchestra in D major
- Niels Gade â Symphony No. 2
- Miska Hauser â Mes adieux a Varsovie, Op.5
- Johanna Kinkel â 6 Lieder, Op.18
- Sebastian Lee â 40 Ãtudes mélodiques et progressives, Op.31
- Franz Liszt
- Album Leaf in E major S.166a[6]
- Ländler in A-flat major, S.211
- Gaudeamus igitur, S.240
- Canzone Napolitana, S.248
- Il m'aimait tant, S.271
- Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S.274
- Es war ein König in Thule, S.278
- Der du von dem Himmel bist, S.279
- Die tote Nachtigall, S.291
- Réminiscences de 'Robert le diable', S.413
- Hans Christian Lumbye
- Tivolis Rutschbane Galop (dated August 11)
- Tivolis Damp-Caroussellbane Galop (dated August 26)
- Tivolis Gondol Galop (dated September 3)
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58
- Die erste Walpurgisnacht, secular cantata, opus 60 (première in Leipzig, February 2)
- Joachim Raff â 4 Galop-caprices, Op.5
- Robert Schumann â Paradise and the Peri, secular oratorio, opus 50 (premiere in Leipzig, December)
- Johann Strauss â Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 ("Echoes of the Rhine Loreley")
- Pauline Viardot â Album de Mme. Viardot-Garcia
Opera
- Julius Benedict â The Bride of Venice
- Gaetano Donizetti â Don Pasquale
- Giovanni Pacini â Medea
- Giuseppe Verdi â I Lombardi
- Richard Wagner â The Flying Dutchman
- Fromental Halévy â Charles VI, premiered March 15 in Paris
Births
- January 22 â Caroline Montigny-Rémaury, pianist (died 1913)
- February 4 â John Comfort Fillmore, American music educator, organist, arranger, and ethnomusicologist (died 1898)[7]
- February 6 â Frederic William Henry Myers, lyricist (died 1901)
- February 10 â Adelina Patti, soprano (died 1919)
- February 14 â Louis Diémer, pianist (died 1919)
- February 24 â Violet Fane, lyricist (died 1905)
- February 25 â Narciso Serradell, Mexican composer (died 1910)
- March 6 â Arthur Napoleão dos Santos, Brazilian pianist and composer, instrument dealer and music publisher (died 1925)
- March 16
- Louis Gregh, composer and publisher (died 1915)
- Gustave Sandré, composer (died 1916)
- April 4 â Dr. Hans Richter, conductor (died 1916)
- April 8 â Asger Hamerik, composer (died 1923)
- May 2 â Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer and bandmaster (died 1922)
- May 20 â Miguel Marqués, Spanish composer and violinist (died 1918)
- May 29 â Ãmile Pessard, French composer (died 1917)
- June 13 â Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist (died 1897)
- June 15 â Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (died 1907)
- June 16 â David Popper, cellist and composer (died 1913)
- June 19 â Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer (died 1917)
- June 20 â Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer and father of Igor Stravinsky (died 1902)
- July 9 â Ralph E. Hudson, American hymnwriter (died 1901)
- August 4 â Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist (died 1910)
- August 5 â James Scott Skinner, Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer (died 1927)
- August 20 â Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano (died 1921)
- August 26 â Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye (died 1922)
- September 4 â Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer (died 1936)
- November 2 â
- Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel (died 1893)
- Caryl Florio, composer (died 1920)
- November 16 â George Hendrik Witte, composer (died 1929)
- November 28 â Ãmile Bernard, French composer and organist (died 1902)
- November 29 â Eloi Sylva, Belgian operatic tenor (died 1919)[8]
- December 3 â Franz Xaver Neruda, Danish cellist and composer (died 1915)
- December 13 â George Stephanescu, Romanian composer (died 1925)
- December 22 â Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer (died 1917)
- date unknown â Eduard Holst, Danish composer
Deaths
- January 7 â Franz Schoberlechner, pianist (born 1797)
- January 11
- Auguste Andrade, singer (born 1793)
- Antoine Bournonville, dancer, singer and actor, 82
- Francis Scott Key, poet and songwriter, 63
- March 9 â Christian August Pohlenz, conductor and composer, 52
- April 14 â Josef Lanner, Viennese composer, 42 (typhoid)
- May 3 â Franz Xaver Gebel, conductor, composer and music teacher, 55 or 56
- May 4 â Eduard Rottmanner, organist and composer, 33
- May 12 â Johann Georg Lickl, composer and piano teacher, 74
- May 13 â Agnes Franz, lyricist, 49
- June 29 â Therese Jansen Bartolozzi, pianist (born c.1770)[9]
- July â Nehemiah Shumway, composer of sacred music, 81
- July 9 â Karoline Pichler, lyricist (born 1769)
- July 24 â Carl Julius Adolph Hugo Hoffmann, composer (born 1801)
- July 29 â Domenico Reina, operatic and bel canto tenor, 47
- August 29 â Charles Jane Ashley, cellist and secretary of the Royal Society of Musicians, 70
- date unknown
- Knut Luraas, Hardingfele fiddler (born 1782)[10]
