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1843 in music

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1843 in music

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Events

  • February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
  • May 22 – Gottfried Kinkel marries fellow musician Johanna Mockel.
  • November 13 – Gaetano Donizetti's next-to-last opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.
  • December 26 – Following the première of his last opera, Hernani, Alberto Mazzucato retires from composing in order to become a full-time music teacher.
  • Approximate date – Euphonium invented.
  • August Conradi becomes organist of the Invalidenhaus, Berlin.
  • Hector Berlioz writes Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes, Op. 10

Classical music

  • Dionisio Aguado – Nuevo método para guitarra, Op. 6
  • Ernesto Cavallini – 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
    • Mazurkas, Op.56
    • Waltz in A minor, B.150
    • Moderato in E major, B.151
  • August Conradi – Symphony No. 1
  • Carl Czerny – 8 Nocturnes romantiques de différents caractères, Op.604
  • Carl Filtsch
    • Premières pensées musicales, Op.3
    • Overture for orchestra in D major
  • Niels Gade – Symphony No. 2
  • Miska Hauser – Mes adieux a Varsovie, Op.5
  • Johanna Kinkel – 6 Lieder, Op.18
  • Sebastian Lee – 40 Études mélodiques et progressives, Op.31
  • Franz Liszt
    • Album Leaf in E major S.166a
    • Élégie sur des motifs du Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse, S.168
    • 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 – 4 Galop-caprices, Op.5
  • Robert Schumann − Paradise and the Peri, secular oratorio, opus 50 (premiere in Leipzig, December)
  • Johann Strauss – Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 ("Echoes of the Rhine Loreley")
  • Pauline Viardot – Album de Mme. Viardot-Garcia
London debut of "Don Pasquale"

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, premiered March 15 in Paris

Births

  • January 22 – Caroline Montigny-Rémaury, pianist (died 1913)
  • February 6 – Frederic William Henry Myers, lyricist (died 1901)
  • February 10 – Adelina Patti, soprano (died 1919)
  • February 14 – Louis Diémer, pianist (died 1919)
  • February 24 – Violet Fane, lyricist (died 1905)
  • February 25 – Narciso Serradell, Mexican composer (died 1910)
  • March 6 – 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 – Dr. Hans Richter, conductor (died 1916)
  • April 8 – Asger Hamerik, composer (died 1923)
  • May 2 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer and bandmaster (died 1922)
  • May 20 – Miguel Marqués, Spanish composer and violinist (died 1918)
  • May 29 – Émile Pessard, French composer (died 1917)
  • June 13 – Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist (died 1897)
  • June 15 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (died 1907)
  • June 16 – David Popper, cellist and composer (died 1913)
  • June 19 – Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer (died 1917)
  • June 20 – Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer and father of Igor Stravinsky (died 1902)
  • July 9 – Ralph E. Hudson, American hymnwriter (died 1901)
  • August 4 – Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist (died 1910)
  • August 5 – James Scott Skinner, Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer (died 1927)
  • August 20 – Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano (died 1921)
  • August 26 – Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye (died 1922)
  • September 4 – Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer (died 1936)
  • November 2 –
    • Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel (died 1893)
    • Caryl Florio, composer (died 1920)
  • November 16 – George Hendrik Witte, composer (died 1929)
  • November 28 – Émile Bernard, French composer and organist (died 1902)
  • December 3 – Franz Xaver Neruda, Danish cellist and composer (died 1915)
  • December 13 – George Stephanescu, Romanian composer (died 1925)
  • December 22 – Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer (died 1917)
  • date unknown – Eduard Holst, Danish composer

Deaths

  • January 7 – 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 – Christian August Pohlenz, conductor and composer, 52
  • April 14 – Josef Lanner, Viennese composer, 42 (typhoid)
  • May 3 – Franz Xaver Gebel, conductor, composer and music teacher, 55 or 56
  • May 4 – Eduard Rottmanner, organist and composer, 33
  • May 12 – Johann Georg Lickl, composer and piano teacher, 74
  • July – Nehemiah Shumway, composer of sacred music, 81
  • July 9 – Karoline Pichler, lyricist (born 1769)
  • July 24 – Carl Julius Adolph Hugo Hoffmann, composer (born 1801)
  • July 29 – Domenico Reina, operatic and bel canto tenor, 47
  • August 29 – Charles Jane Ashley, cellist and secretary of the Royal Society of Musicians, 70
  • date unknown
    • Therese Jansen Bartolozzi, pianist (born c.1770)
    • Agnes Franz, lyricist (born 1794)
    • Knut Luraas, Hardingfele fiddler (born 1782)
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