Opera Walk, 1801-1855

1801

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Events

• Joseph Haydn completes his oratorio, The Seasons
• Ludwig van Beethoven's ballet, Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus premieres in Vienna's Burgtheater (March 28)
• Publication of Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte by Muzio Clementi.

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 5; Sonata No. 12, Moonlight Sonata completed
• John Marsh – Symphony no. 30 in E minor^[1]
• Pavel Vranický – Ballet Das Urteil des Paris^[2]

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Opera

• Étienne Méhul - L'irato
• Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg – Das Pfauenfest

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1802

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Classical music

• Beethoven – Second Symphony
• Beethoven – Septet in E-flat major
• Joseph Haydn – Harmoniemesse, his last major work
• Franz Krommer – Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E flat major

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Opera

• Michael Kelly – Urania

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1803
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Events

• 5 April - first performance of Beethoven's third piano concerto
• 26 December - Haydn performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Christus am Ölberge, oratorio
  • Piano Sonata No. 21 'Waldstein' started
  • Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
  • Violin Sonata No. 7 published, composed between 1801 and 1802
  • Violin Sonata No. 9
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Concerto for Clarinet no 3 in B flat major
• Joseph Haydn – unfinished String Quartet in D minor, Op 103
• Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major (op 37)
• Georg von Pasterwitz - 300 Themata und Versetten, op. 4
• Giovanni Battista Viotti – Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in E major; Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in G major

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Opera

• Gaetano Andreozzi – Il trionpho di Alessandro
• Luigi Cherubini – Anacréon
• Anton Fischer – Die Entlarvten
• Giovanni Paisiello – Proserpine

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1804

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Events

• Beethoven angrily renames his Third Symphony from the Napoleon to the Eroica after Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
• Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major written
  • Opus 85 Christus am Ölberge (completed)
  • Symphony No. 2 (published)
• Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 2 in D minor, Op. 2

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Opera

• Pierre Gaveaux – Le Mariage inattendu
• Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
• Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
• Gaspare Spontini – Milton

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1805

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Events

• Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica is premiered in Vienna on 1805-04-07.
• Beethoven's opera Leonore (the first version of Fidelio) is premiered in Vienna.
• Louis Spohr is appointed musical director to the court of Gotha.
• Niccolò Paganini begins touring Europe.

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Classical music

• Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major (op 52)

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Opera

• Michele Carafa – Il Fantasma
• Luigi Cherubini – Faniska
• James Hook – The Soldier's Return

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1806

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Events

• Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
• The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
• Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
• Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
• The poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No 4, Piano Concerto No 4, Violin Concerto, 3 String Quartets, Op 59.
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 7 Hungarian Dances; 12 Minuets

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Opera

• Étienne Méhul - Uthal

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1807

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Events

• Muzio Clementi begins negotiating for British publication rights to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Mass in C
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Hélène and Paris (ballet)

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Published popular music

• Thomas Moore – Irish melodies (music by John Stevenson)

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Opera

• Joseph – Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
• La Vestale (The Vestal Virgin) first performed in Paris. Music by Gaspare Spontini and libretto by Etienne Jouy.

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1808

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Events

• December 22 – Ludwig van Beethoven puts on a marathon benefit concert in Vienna, including the first performances of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the Choral Fantasy.
• Harvard University forms its own orchestra.
• Ignaz Schuppanzigh founds the Razumovsky quartet.
• Ignaz Assmayer becomes organist of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg.

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Popular Music

• "(Believe Me, if All) Those Endearing Young Charms" by Thomas Moore and Sir John Stevenson

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Clarinet Concerto no. 2
• Carl Maria von Weber – Momento capriccioso

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1809

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Events

• June 15 - Mozart's Requiem is performed at a memorial service for Joseph Haydn at the Schottenkirche, Vienna.

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano concerto no. 5 ("Emperor")
• François-Joseph Gossec – Symphonie à 17 parties

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Opera

• Gaspare Spontini – Fernand Cortez

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1810

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Events

• Friedrich Kuhlau leaves Hamburg for Copenhagen to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army.
• Work begins on the San Carlo Opera House at Naples.

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – incidental music for Goethe's Egmont
• Friedrich Kuhlau – piano concerto

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Opera

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Mathilde von Guise
• Gioacchino Rossini – La Cambiale di Matrimonio

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Popular music

• Jesse Mercer - Cluster of Spiritual Songs

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1811

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio No. 7 (the "Archduke"); Singspiel – Die Ruinen von Athen ("The ruins of Athens")
• William Crotch – Palestine (oratorio) with libretto by Reginald Heber
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
• Peter Casper Krossing – Symphony in C minor^[1]
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur (oratorio)
• Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 14 ([1])
• George Onslow – Duo for Piano 4 hands no 1 in E minor

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Opera

• Carl Maria von Weber – Abu Hassan

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1812

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony no. 7 (Opus 92)
  • Symphony no. 8 (Opus 93)
  • Violin Sonata No. 10

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Opera

• Gioachino Rossini
  • Ciro in Babilonia
  • Demetrio e Polibio
  • L'inganno felice
  • La scala di seta

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1813

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• January 24 – Musicians found the Philharmonic Society of London (later The Royal Philharmonic Society) to give the first public orchestral concerts in London.
• March 8 - The inaugural concert of the Philharmonic Society takes place at the Argyll Rooms, off Piccadilly. Johann Peter Salomon leads the orchestra, and the pianist isMuzio Clementi.
• March 21 - Pianist Josepha Barbara Auernhammer gives her last public concert, appearing with her daughter, Marianna Auenheim.
• December 8 - Two new works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wellington's Victory (originally written for panharmonicon) and Symphony No. 7 are premiered in a benefit concert for Austrian and Bavarian soldiers wounded at the Battle of Hanau. The orchestra, conducted by Beethoven himself, is led byhis friend, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and includes some of the finest musicians of the day, such as violinist Louis Spohr,^[1] Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Antonio Salieri, Anton Romberg, and the Italian double bass virtuoso, Domenico Dragonetti,
• Louise Reichardt moves to Hamburg, where she opens the first public music school for women and conducts a women's choir.
• Franz Krommer succeeds Leopold Kozeluch as court composer to the Imperial Court of Austria.

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Wellington's Victory
• Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82

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Opera

• François-Adrien Boieldieu – Le nouveau Seigneur de village
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fünf sind Zwei
• Giovanni Pacini – Annetta e Lucindo
• Louis Spohr – Faust
• Gioacchino Rossini – Tancredi

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1814

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Events

• Invention of the metronome by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
• February 27: Première of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony in Vienna^[1]
• September 14 - Francis Scott Key, inspired by the sight of the American flag over Fort McHenry, writes the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
• November – Gypsy composer János Bihari plays to the court during the Congress of Vienna.
• The district of Lawrenceville (Pittsburgh) is founded by William Foster. His son, the composer Stephen Foster, was born there twelve years later.

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Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90; Der glorreiche Augenblick, Op. 136 (Cantata).
• John Field – Nocturnes
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 6 Polonaises for piano
• Franz Schubert – Gretchen am Spinnrade
• Louis Spohr – Violin Concerto No. 7 in E minor, Op. 38; Das befreite Deutschland (cantata), WoO64^[2]

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Opera

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio (Vienna)
• Friedrich Kuhlau – Røverborgen (The Robbers' Castle)
• Giovanni Pacini – La ballerina raggiratrice
• Gioacchino Rossini – Il Turco in Italia

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Popular Music

• Henry Bishop – Sadak and Kalasrade, or the Waters of Oblivion
• Francis Scott Key – The Star-Spangled Banner

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1815

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Events

• Gioacchino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo.

• Fernando Sor moves to London, England to try to garner some success there.

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Classical music

• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
• Anton Reicha – Concerto for Clarinet in G minor
• Franz Schubert – Der Erlkönig

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Opera

• Gioacchino Rossini
  • Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra
  • Torvaldo e Dorliska
• Franz Schubert – Der Vierjahrige Posten

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1816

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Events

• Louise Reichardt becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by Handel in Lübeck.
• Carl Maria von Weber is appointed Kappellmeister at Dresden.

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Classical music

• Piano Sonata No. 28 – Ludwig van Beethoven
• Requiem in C-minor – Luigi Cherubini
• Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen – Franz Schubert

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Opera

• Michele Carafa – Gabriella di Vergy
• Gaetano Donizetti – Il Pigmalione
• Ferdinand Hérold & François Adrien Boieldieu – Charles de France
• Gioachino Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; Otello
• Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo

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1817

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Events

• Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter.

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quintet (Opus 104)
• Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.
• Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 1 in E flat major

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Opera

• Franz Danzi – Die Probe
• Gioacchino Rossini – La Cenerentola, La Gazza Ladra, Adelaide di Borgogna

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Published Popular Music

• "Oft In The Stilly Night – w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore

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1818

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Events

• December 24 – "Silent Night" written by Josef Mohr and composed by Franz Xaver Gruber
• December 25 – The first performance of "Silent Night" (Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria).
• Johann Nepomuk Schelble founds the Society of St Cecilia at Frankfurt.

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Popular music

• "Silent Night" (words by Joseph Mohr, music by Franz Gruber)
• "Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea" (words by Robert Tannahill, music by James Barr)

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Classical music

• Schubert – Symphony No. 6

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Opera

• Michele Carafa – Berenice in Siria
• Gaetano Donizetti – Enrico, Conte di Borgogna
• Gioacchino Rossini – Mosè in Egitto

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1819

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• Soprano Giuditta Pasta makes her stage début in Venice.
• Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.

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• João Domingos Bomtempo – Requiem in C Minor
• Muzio Clementi – The publication of Gradus ad Parnassum Volume II is entered at Stationer’s Hall, London on April 16.
• Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 2 in F major
• Franz Schubert – 'Trout' Quintet

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• Saverio Mercadante – L'Apoteosi d'Ercole
• Giovanni Pacini – La sposa fedele
• Gioacchino Rossini
  • Bianca e Falliero
  • La donna del lago
  • Eduardo e Cristina
  • Ermione

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1820

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Events

• Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer.

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Classical music

• Franz Schubert – Lazarus (oratorio)

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Opera

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Los Esclavos Felices

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Published popular music

• "Hail to the Chief" – words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson
• "D'ye Ken John Peel" – words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional.

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1821

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Events

• Construction work begins on the Teatro Regio at Parma.
• José Bernardo Alcedo wins a contest, sponsored by General José de San Martín, to choose a national anthem for Peru. The anthem is "Somos libres, seámoslo siempre," with lyrics by José de la Torre Ugarte.

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31
• Friedrich Kuhlau – 9 Variations For Piano

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Opera

• Johann Kaspar Aiblinger – Rodrigo und Chimene
• Michele Carafa – Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans
• Saverio Mercadante – Andronico
• Giovanni Pacini – Cesare in Egitto
• Carl Maria von Weber – Der Freischütz

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1822

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Events

• March 16 – Marriage of Gioacchino Rossini and Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran.
• Official date of the invention of the accordion by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann. (This has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of an accordion apparently manufactured in 1816.)
• The Royal Academy of Music is founded.
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
• Harpist Franz Stockhausen marries soprano Margarethe Schmuck.

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Popular music

• "Araby's Daughter" (song)

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Classical music

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Birthday Cantata for Goethe
• Franz Liszt – Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli
• Brizio Petrucci – Requiem Mass
• Franz Schubert – Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished"
• Jan Václav Voříšek – Impromptu

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Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Zoraida di Granata
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – L'esule di Granata
• Franz Schubert – Alfonso und Estrella

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1823

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Events

• Franz Liszt leaves Vienna for Paris.
• Gioachino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
• Hector Berlioz writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending Gaspare Spontini's opera La Vestale
• The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer.

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Diabelli Variations, Opus 120; Missa Solemnis Opus 123.
• Franz Krommer – Symphony No. 6 in D
• Felix Mendelssohn – Concerto for 2 pianos
• Ferdinand Ries – Cello Sonata in G minor, Opus 125
• Franz Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin

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Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Alfredo il grande
• Gioachino Rossini – Semiramide
• Franz Schubert – Fierrabras
• Carl Maria von Weber – Euryanthe

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Popular Music

• "Home! Sweet Home!" w. John Howard Payne m. Henry Bishop

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1824

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Events

• May 7 – First performance of Beethoven 9th Symphony.
• June 21 – Franz Liszt makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi is among the audience.

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Popular Music

• Robert Stephen Hawker – "The Song of the Western Men"

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis
• Hector Berlioz – Messe solennelle
• Fanny Hensel – Sonata for Piano in C minor
• Franz Schubert – Octet; String Quartets in A minor and D minor (Death and the Maiden Quartet)

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Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
• Friedrich Kuhlau – Lulu
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto
• Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret (The mountain adventure)

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1825

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Events

• First performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in England
• François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera La dame blanche premieres in Paris.
• Maria Malibran makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville.
• Friedrich Kuhlau visits Vienna and meets Beethoven.
• Josef Lanner and Johann Strauss I part company.

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Classical music

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Symphony in D major
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major
  • String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor
• Jean-François Lesueur – Te Deum (for the coronation of King Charles X of France)
• Felix Mendelssohn - Octet for Strings

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Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini – Adelson e Salvini
• Gaetano Donizetti – Alahor in Granata
• Franz Liszt – Don Sanche ou le Chateau d'Amour (Don Sanche or the Castle of Love)
• Giovanni Pacini – L'ultimo giorno di Pompei
• Nicola Vaccai – Giulietta e Romeo

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Popular music

• "Cherry Ripe" – w. Herrick, m. Charles Edward Horn
• "The Minstrel's Return'd From The War" – John Hill Hewitt

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1826

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Published popular music

• "The Old Oaken Bucket" w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817.
• "Shenandoah (Across The Wide Missouri)" traditional, US.

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Opera

• John Barnett – Before Breakfast
• Gaetano Donizetti – Alahor in Granata
• The Two Houses of Granada – Joseph Augustine Wade
• Carl Maria von Weber Oberon, King of the Fairies (first performed in London, libretto by James Robinson Planche).

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Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Quartet #13 in B flat major (Opus 130), String Quartet No. 14 in C Sharp minor was completed.
• Muzio Clementi – Complete Gradus ad Parnassum (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig and London on October 31.
• Johannes Frederik Frøhlich – Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major
• Franz Schubert – Symphony no 9 (Great C major)

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1827

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Events

• March 29 - The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.
• April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
• François Dauverné becomes the first musician to use the new F three valved trumpet in public performance.
• 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.

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Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – La mort d’Orphée
• Franz Schubert
  • Winterreise (song cycle)
  • Piano Trio #1
  • Piano Trio #2

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Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini – Il Pirata
• Michele Carafa – Les Deux Figaro
• Giovanni Pacini – Margherita regina d'Inghilterra

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1828

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Events

• March 9 – The Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire gives its first concert, including music by Beethoven, Rossini, Meifreid, Rode and Cherubini.
• November 3 – Composer Ferdinand Hérold is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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Popular music

• "Oh! No! We Never Mention Her" by Thomas Haynes Bayly & E. Riley
• "Tyrolese Evening Hymn" by Felicia Hemans & Augusta Browne

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Classical music

• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 1
• Johannes Frederik Fröhlich – Ouverture til Freias Alter
• Ferdinand Hérold – La fille mal gardée (ballet)
• Franz Schubert
  • Der Hirt auf dem Felsen
  • Fantasia in F minor for piano four-hands
  • String Quintet in C major, D. 956
  • Last three piano sonatas
• Louis Spohr – Symphony No. 3, op. 78

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Opera

• Daniel Auber – Masaniello
• Vincenzo Bellini – Bianca e Fernando
• Heinrich Marschner – Der Vampyr
• Gioacchino Rossini – Le comte Ory (Count Ory) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson.

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• December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes a house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
• Felix Mendelssohn conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion at Berlin
• Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy at Warsaw which will later be named after him.

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Popular music

"There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw^[1]

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Classical music

• Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F sharp
• Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A flat major

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Opera

• Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
• Gioacchino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

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• October – Maria Malibran, Margarethe Stockhausen and Charles de Bériot tour the British Midlands.
• November 2 – Frédéric Chopin, aged twenty, leaves Warsaw for Austria.
• Felix Mendelssohn arrives in Italy.
• In Britain:
  • The Royal Academy of Music is granted a charter by King George IV of the United Kingdom.
  • Charles Lucas is appointed official composer and cellist to Queen Adelaide.

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Classical music

• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)
• Frédéric Chopin – Revolutionary Étude
• George Onslow – Symphony No. 1 in A Major
• Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107 Reformation

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Opera

• Daniel Auber – Fra Diavolo first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe.
• Vincenzo Bellini – La Capuleti e i Montecchi (Venice)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Anna Bolena first performed in Milan. Libretto by Felice Romani.
• Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie Halévy – Attendre et courir
• Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold – L'Auberge d'Auray

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• Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.
• The first opera, Deux mots by Nicolas Dalayrac in performed in Oslo directed by August Schrumpf with Augusta Smith in the main part. Emilie da Fonseca is employed atChristiania Theatre.

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Popular music

• William Crosswell – "Lord, Lead the Way the Saviour Went" (hymn)

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Classical music

• Franz Lachner – Fragen
• Felix Mendelssohn – First Piano Concerto opus 25 (premiered October 17 in Munich); Die erste Walpurgisnacht, opus 60, first version
• George Onslow – Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, opus 42

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Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini
  • Norma
  • La Sonnambula
• Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold – Zampa
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Robert Le Diable

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• Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
• August 14 – Première of Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture is held in London.
• September – Paris's Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse.
• Changes to American Army regulations make bandsmen regular soldiers, required to serve in battle if needed, establishes a position for bandmasters, and limits the size of regimental bands.^[1]

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Classical Music

• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
• Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben
• Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
• Richard Wagner – Symphony in C

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Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832)
• Fromental Halévy – La tentation

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Popular music

• "Rock of Ages" (hymn) by Augustus Montague Toplady & Thomas Hastings
• "The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

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• Hector Berlioz marries Harriet Smithson
• May 13 – Italian Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn is premiered (and taken back for revision).
• July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.

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Classical music

• Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
• Frédéric Chopin – Bolero for piano opus 19 in C/A
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
• Felix Mendelssohn – Italian Symphony, Die erste Walpurgisnacht

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Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia
• Heinrich Marschner – Hans Heiling

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• Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor

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Opera

• John Barnett – The Mountain Sylph
• Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in Granada
• Saverio Mercadante – Uggiero il danese

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Classical music

• Frédéric Chopin – Grand Polonaise Brillante
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Larghetto for Organ in F minor

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• Daniel Auber – Le cheval de bronze
• Vincenzo Bellini – I Puritani
• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor
• Jacques Fromental Halévy – La juive, L'éclair
• Giuseppe Persiani – Ines de Castro
• Mikhail Zagoskin – Askold's Grave

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Classical music

• William Sterndale Bennett – Overture to The Naiads
• Fanny Mendelssohn – Frühzeitiger Frühling
• Felix Mendelssohn – St Paul (oratorio)
• Robert Schumann – Fantasie in C

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• Adolphe Adam – Le Postillon de Longjumeau
• Louise Bertin – La Esmeralda (with libretto by Victor Hugo)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Belisario
• Mikhail Glinka – A Life for the Tsar
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Les Huguenots

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Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – Grande Messe des Morts
• Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet #4 in E minor

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• Daniel Auber – The Black Domino (with libretto by Eugène Scribe)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Roberto Devereux
• Albert Lortzing – Zar und Zimmermann
• Gaspare Spontini – Agnes von Hohenstaufen

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Classical music

• Franz Lachner – Frauenliebe und -leben
• Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartets Op. 44, No. 3 in D Major and No. 5 in E-Flat Major
• Robert Schumann – Kinderszenen, Op. 15
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 4 op. 19 ^[1]

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• Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini
• Albert Grisar – Lady Melvil

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1839

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Classical music

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ
• Joseph Lanner – Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
• Felix Mendelssohn - Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
• Robert Schumann:
  • Arabesque in C, Op. 18
  • Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in D♭, Op. 19
  • Humoreske in B♭, Op. 20
  • 4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23
  • Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
  • 3 Romances, Op. 28 (B♭ minor, F♯, B)
• Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"
• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"

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Opera

• Alexander Dargomyzhsky – Esmeralda
• Gaetano Donizetti – L'ange de Nisida
• Giuseppe Lillo – Il conte di Chalais
• Giuseppe Verdi – Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio

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Popular music

• Henry Russell (music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) – "The Old Arm Chair"
• Robert Lucas de Pearsall – "Lay a garland"

[edit]Classical music

• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major, "Lobgesang"
• Louis Spohr – Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"

[edit]Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – "La Favorite" and La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)
• Albert Lortzing – Hans Sachs
• Temistocle Solera – Ildegonda
• Giuseppe Verdi – Un giorno di regno

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Classical music

• Adolphe Adam – Giselle (ballet)
• Hector Berlioz – Les nuits d'été
• Johannes Verhulst – Symphony in E minor

[edit]Opera

• Daniel Auber – Les diamants de la couronne
• Michael William Balfe – Keolanthe
• Gaetano Donizetti – Adelia
• Fromental Halévy – La reine de Chypre
• Franz Lachner – Caterina Cornaro
• Giovanni Pacini – L'uomo del mistero

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Classical music

• Frédéric Chopin – Polonaise for Piano in A flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic"
• Josef Lanner – Die Schönbrunner Waltzer
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")

[edit]Opera

• Angelo Catelani – Caràttaco
• Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix
• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla
• Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz
• Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco
• Richard Wagner – Rienzi

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Popular music

• "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
• "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

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Classical music

• Franz Berwald - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Sérieuse"
• Frédéric Chopin - Opus 51: Impromptu in G-flat major; Opus 52: Ballade in F minor
• August Conradi - Symphony No. 1
• Niels Gade - Symphony No. 2
• Franz Liszt - Album Leaf in E major (S. 166a)
• Johann Strauss - Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 (Echoes of the Rhine Loreley)

London debut of "Don Pasquale"

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Opera

• 27 November - Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
• Julius Benedict - The Bride of Venice
• Gaetano Donizetti - Don Pasquale
• Giovanni Pacini - Medea
• Giuseppe Verdi - I Lombardi
• Richard Wagner - The Flying Dutchman
• Fromental Halévy - Charles VI

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Popular music

• "The Blue Juniata" Marion Dix Sullivan (w. & m.)
• "Open Thy Lattice, Love" w. George Pope Morris, m. Stephen Collins Foster
• "Skip To My Lou" Trad. US

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• Henry Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No 2 in B minor, Op. 22
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Spring Song m.
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music (including the Wedding March)
  • Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

[edit]Opera

• Georges Bousquet - L'Hôtesse de Lyon
• Friedrich Flotow - Alessandro Stradella
• Giuseppe Verdi - Hernani

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Events

• March 13 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig
• October 19 - Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Hoftheater.

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Classical music

• Robert Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minor

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Opera

• W. H. Fry - Leonora
• Albert Lortzing - Undine
• Temistocle Solera - La Hermana de Palayo
• Richard Wagner - Tannhäuser

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Events

• August 16 - Gioachino Rossini marries artist's model Olympe Pélissier.
• Adolphe Sax patents the "saxophone".
• Electric lighting is installed at the Paris Opéra.

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Published popular music

• "The Indian's Prayer"     w. Anonymous, m. I.B. Woodbury
• "When the Swallows Homeward Fly"     w.m. Franz Abt

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Oratorio

• Felix Mendelssohn - Elijah
• César Franck - Ruth

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Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - La damnation de Faust
• Henry Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No 3 in E flat, Op. 45 (approximately 1846)
• Felix Mendelssohn - Lauda Sion, Op. 73
• Jules Perrot - Catarina or La Fille du Bandit (ballet}

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Opera

• Julius Benedict - The Crusaders
• Albert Lortzing - Der Waffenschmied
• Saverio Mercadante - Orazi e Curiazi
• Karel Miry - Wit en zwart (opera in 1 act, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on January 18 in Ghent)

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Events

• February 28 - Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside, most of the audience perishes.
• March 14 - Verdi's Macbeth (opera) is premiėred at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
• Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.

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Popular music

• Adolphe Adam - "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night")
• Philip Klitz
  • "Dinah Dear"
  • "Miss Ginger"

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Classical music

• Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
• Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 2

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Opera

• Francisco Asenjo Barbieri - Il Buontemponi
• Hector Berlioz - The Damnation Of Faust
• Giovanni Bottesini - Cristoforo Colombo
• Friedrich von Flotow - Martha
• Ivar Hallstrom - Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
• Karel Miry - Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
• Giuseppe Verdi - Macbeth
• William Vincent Wallace - Matilda of Hungary

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Events

• October - Frédéric Chopin writes his last will and testament at a friend's house in Edinburgh.
• November 16 - Frédéric Chopin makes his last public appearance on a concert platform at London's Guildhall.
• Richard Wagner begins writing libretto that will become Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).
• Franz Liszt takes up full-time post as conductor to the Weimar court orchestra
• Charles Hallé settles in Manchester.
• Returning from exile, Cuban dance band leader Claudio Brindis de Salas is imprisoned for two years by the island's authorities.
• Giuseppe Verdi insists on replacing soprano Eugenia Tadolini as Lady Macbeth for the first Naples performance of his opera Macbeth on the grounds that her voice and appearance are too beautiful.

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• George Onslow - Quintet for Piano and Strings no 2 in G major
• Jules Perrot - Faust, ballet
• Pietro Raimondi - Putifar-Giuseppe-Giacobbe (oratorio)
• Johann Strauss I - Radetzky March

[edit]Opera

• Giuseppe Verdi - Il corsaro

[edit]Popular music

• "Give Me My Arrows And Give Me My Bow" by Samuel Lover
• "Oh! Susanna!" by Stephen Foster

[edit]Musical theater

• Maritana New York production opened at the Bowery Theatre on May 4 and ran for 3 performances

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Events

• Richard Wagner leaves Dresden after taking part in the May Uprising.
• September 22 - Johann Strauss I fails to turn up to a banquet in honour of Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, where he is expected to perform a new work. His absence is explained by the fact that he had contracted scarlet fever while working on the new composition; he dies a few days later.
• Pianist and composer Stephen Heller visits London on a concert tour.

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Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - Te Deum
• Franz Liszt – Tasso
• Franz Liszt – Totentanz
• Robert Schumann – Manfred, Op. 115, overture and incidental music

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Opera

• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Le prophète
• Otto Nicolai – The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Giuseppe Verdi – La battaglia di Legnano

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Popular music

• "Nelly Was a Lady" by Stephen Foster
• "Once in Royal David's City", words: Cecil Frances Alexander, music: Henry Gauntlett. The words were written as a poem by Mrs Alexander in 1848.
• "Santa Lucia" (first published version)

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Events

• Jenny Lind tours America, with Julius Benedict as her accompanist.
• Soprano Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient marries her third husband, landowner Heinrich von Bock.

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Published popular music

• Stephen Foster
  • "Camptown Races"
  • "Molly Do You Love Me?"
  • "Nelly Bly"
• M. S. Pike - "Home Again"
• "I Have Got The Blues To Day!" w. Miss Sarah M. Graham, m. Gustave Blessner
• "What Are The Wild Waves Saying" w. Joseph Edwards Carpenter m. Stephen Glover

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Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - La Fuite en Égypte (from l'Enfance du Christ)
• Niels Gade - Symphony No. 4
• Édouard Lalo - Piano Trio no. 1 in C minor
• Franz Liszt - Prometheus
• Anton Rubinstein - Piano Concerto no. 1 in E minor, op. 25
• Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 3 op. 97 in E-flat, Cello Concerto op. 129 in A minor
• Louis Spohr - String Quintet No. 7 in G minor (of 7)
• Robert Volkmann - Piano Trio No. 2 op. 5 in B-flat minor

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Opera

• Daniel Aubert - L'enfant prodigue
• Fromental Halévy - La Tempesta
• Robert Schumann - Genoveva
• Richard Wagner - Lohengrin

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1851

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Events

• February - Operatic tenor Sims Reeves returns to perform in Dublin with his new wife, soprano Charlotte Emma Lucombe.
• February 6 - Schumann's Symphony No. 3 receives its première in Düsseldorf, the composer conducting. ([1])
• April 5 - Jenny Lind visits the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, USA.
• July 23 - Richard Wagner writes down the leitmotif for the "Ride of the Valkyries".
• Operatic baritone Hans von Milde marries soprano Rosa Agthe.
• Eight-year-old Adelina Patti sings in public for the first time.

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Published popular music

• "Cora, The Indian Maiden's Song" - Shirley Brooks (w.) Alexander Lee (composer) (m.)
• "Old Folks at Home'" (Way Down Upon the Suwannee River) By Stephen Foster
• "Ring, Ring, de Banjo" By Stephen Foster
• "I Would Not Die in Summer Time" By Stephen Foster
• "Laura Lee" By Stephen Foster

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Classical music

• Woldemar Bargiel - Piano Trio No. 1 in F major, op. 6
• Johannes Brahms - Scherzo in E-flat minor, op. 4
• Franz Liszt - Transcendental Etudes for Piano, S 139
• George Onslow - Wind quintet opus 81
• Anton Rubinstein - Symphony No. 2 (Ocean) (first version)
• Robert Schumann -Symphony No. 4 from 1841 revised. First violin sonata, second violin sonata, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, several oratorios, two concert overtures, third piano trio, also written (third violin sonata dates from 1853)

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Opera

• Félicien-César David - La Perle du Bresil
• Charles Gounod - Sapho
• Albert Lortzing - Die Oprnprobe
• Joachim Raff - König Alfred
• Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto

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Events

• Michael William Balfe sets off for Danzig to visit his daughter.

[edit]Popular music

• Stephen Foster - "Massa's in de Cold Cold Ground"
• Gustav Reichardt - "Des Deutschen Vaterland" (words by Ernst Moritz Arndt)
• S.M. Grannis - "Do They Miss Me At Home?" (lyrics by Carolina A.Mason)^[1]

[edit]Classical music

• Joachim Raff - Two Lieder with words by Gotthold Logau

[edit]Opera

• Fredrik Pacius - Kung Karls jakt

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Events

• October - Louis Niedermeyer reorganizes and re-opens the school known as the École Choron, which becomes the École Niedermeyer.
• Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg sets up in business as a piano manufacturer in New York City, and the firm of Steinway and Sons is born.
• The piano manufacturer C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik is founded by Carl Bechstein in Berlin.
• Julius Blüthner founds Blüthner (piano manufacturer) in Leipzig, Germany.

[edit]Published popular music

• "Farewell My Lilly Dear" by Stephen Foster
• "My Cottage Home" w.m. Alice Hawthorne
• "My Old Kentucky Home" by Stephen Foster
• "P'tit quinquin" (in Picard) by Alexandre Desrousseaux

[edit]Classical music

• Louis Moreau Gottschalk - The Banjo
• Franz Liszt - Piano Sonata in B minor
• Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Albert Dietrich - F-A-E Sonata

[edit]Opera

• Victor Massé - Les noces de Jeannette
• Karel Miry - Anne Mie (opera in 1 act, premiered on October 9 in Antwerp)
• Giuseppe Verdi
  • Il Trovatore (premiered on January 19 in Rome)
  • La Traviata (premiered on March 6 in Venice)

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Events

• The accordion is patented by Anthony Foss.
• Robert Schumann unsuccessfully attempts suicide.

[edit]Published popular music

• "Hard Times Come Again No More" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster
• "(I Dream of) Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" w.m. Stephen Collins Foster
• "Maggie by My Side" Stephen Collins Foster
• "Old Dog Tray" Stephen Collins Foster
• "What Is Home Without A Mother" w.m. Septimus Winner

[edit]Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - L'enfance du Christ (The Childhood of Christ)(oratorio)
• Charles Gounod - Chant de paix
• Franz Liszt - Les préludes
• Henri Wieniawski - Le carnaval russe for Violin and Piano

[edit]Opera

• Karel Miry - La Lanterne magique (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on March 10 in Ghent)

[edit]Births

• July 3 - Leoš Janáček, composer (d. 1928)
• July 14 - Alexander Kopylov, violinist and composer (d. 1911)
• August 24 - Alfred Dudley Turner, composer (some sources have b.1853) (d.1888)
• September 1 - Engelbert Humperdinck, composer (d. 1921)
• November 6 - John Philip Sousa, composer (d. 1932)
• November 14 - Dina Edling, opera singer (d. 1935)

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Events

• Franz Liszt gives the first performance of his Piano Concerto No. 1, conducted by Hector Berlioz.
• Jacques Offenbach becomes director of his own opera house, Les Bouffes-Parisiennes
• Richard Wagner conducts a series of concerts in London.

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Bands formed

• Black Dyke Band, reformed after the failure of the Black Dyke Mills Band.

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Popular music

• Stephen Foster - "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming"
• George Martin Lane - "The Lone Fish Ball"
• Mrs. Norton - "Juanita"

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Classical music

• Georges Bizet - Symphony in C
• Franz Berwald - Piano Concerto in D
• Eduard Franck - String Quartet in F minor op. 49 ([1])
• Charles Gounod - Symphony No. 1 in D
• Franz Liszt - Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H
• Anton Rubinstein - Quintet for Piano and Winds op. 55 (probably from this year)
• Camille Saint-Saëns - Quintet for Piano and Strings op. 14

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Opera

• George Frederick Bristow - Rip van Winkle
• Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie Halévy - L'inconsolable
• Giuseppe Verdi - Les Vêpres Siciliennes
• Jacques Offenbach Les deux aveugles, a one-act bouffonerie musicale

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Musical theatre

• Po-Ca-Hon-Tas (Music: James Gaspard Maeder, Book and Lyrics: John Brougham) Broadway production opened Wallack's Lyceum Theatre on December 24 and transferred to the Bowery Theatre on June 28, 1856. Featuring John Brougham as John Smith.

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