- 1845 in music
Events
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March 13 -Felix Mendelssohn 's Violin Concerto premiered inLeipzig
*April 21 -Albert Lortzing 'sopera "Undine" debuts inMagdeburg .
*June 4 -William Fry 'sopera "Leonora" debuts inPhiladelphia .
*October 19 -Richard Wagner 'sopera "Tannhäuser" debuts at theDresden Hoftheater.Classical music
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Robert Schumann - Piano Concerto in A minorOpera
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W. H. Fry - "Leonora"
*Albert Lortzing - "Undine"
*Temistocle Solera - "La Hermana de Palayo"
*Richard Wagner - "Tannhäuser "Births
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March 14 -August Bungert , opera composer
*May 12 -Gabriel Fauré ,composer
*August 25 - KingLudwig II of Bavaria , the great patron ofRichard Wagner .
*"date unknown" -Alphonse Hasselmans , harpist and composerDeaths
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September 23 -Matija Ahacel , collector of folk songs (b. 1779)
*October 7 -Isabella Colbran ,soprano and first wife toGioacchino Rossini (b. 1785)
*October 16 -Martha Llwyd , hymn-writer (b. 1766)
*November 2 -Chrétien Urhan , violinist and organist (b. 1790)
*December 2 -Johann Simon Mayr , composer (b. 1763)
*"date unknown" -Alexander Juhan , violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1765)
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