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1839 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1839.

Events

  • March 21 – Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first known public performance of Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major ("The Great"; completed 1826), posthumously, in Leipzig.
  • November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, opens at La Scala, Milan.

Classical music

  • Hector Berlioz – Romeo et Juliette
  • Frédéric Chopin
    • Ballade No. 2
    • Scherzo No. 3
    • Piano Sonata No. 2
  • Mikhail Glinka
    • La séparation
    • Polonaise
    • Valse-Fantasie
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ (published posthumously)
  • Joseph Lanner – Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
  • Franz Liszt
    • Valse mélancolique, S.210
    • Angiolin dal biondo crin, S.269
    • Fantaisie sur des motifs favoris de l'opéra 'La sonnambula', S.393
  • Felix Mendelssohn
    • 6 Gesänge, Op. 47
    • Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
    • "Liebe und Wein"
  • 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"

Opera

  • Alexander Dargomyzhsky – Esmeralda
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    • L'Ange de Nisida
    • Il duca d'Alba (composed, premiered 1882)
  • Giuseppe Lillo – Il conte di Chalais
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio

Births

  • January 1 – James Ryder Randall, popular songwriter
  • January 9 – John Knowles Paine, composer and musicologist
  • February 7 – Elie Miriam Delaborde, editor and pianist (died 1913)
  • April 18 – Lotten Edholm, composer
  • March 2 – Victoria Bundsen, alto
  • March 10 – Dudley Buck, American composer and organist
  • March 17 – Josef Rheinberger, composer (d. 1901)
  • March 19 – Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of Mieczysław Karłowicz
  • March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, composer (d. 1881)
  • April 12 – Victorin de Joncières, composer and music critic (d. 1903)
  • May 19 – Alice Mary Smith, composer (d. 1884)
  • July 14 – Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist
  • August 24 – Eduard Nápravník, composer (d. 1916)
  • November 24 – James Warren York, businessman, musical instrument maker

Deaths

  • February 16 – Ludwig Berger, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1777)
  • March 8 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (b. 1802) (suicide)
  • April 20 – Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
  • May 3 – Ferdinando Paer, composer (b. 1771)
  • June 8 – Aloysia Weber, operatic soprano (b. c. 1760)
  • June 11 – Regina Strinasacchi, violinist (b. c. 1761)
  • June 14 – Nicolas Mori, violinist, conductor and music publisher (b. 1796)
  • June 15 – Hans Skramstad, pianist and composer (b. 1797)
  • July 10 – Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
  • September 21 – Gottfried Weber, music theorist (b. 1779)
  • December 7 – Jan August Vitásek, composer (b. 1770)

Awards

  • Prix de Rome – Charles Gounod
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