1849 in music

1849 in music

Events

*Pianist and composer Stephen Heller visits London on a concert tour.
*Richard Wagner leaves Dresden after taking part in the May Uprising.

Classical music

*Franz Liszt - "Tasso" (symphonic poem)
*Robert Schumann - "Manfred"

Opera

*Giacomo Meyerbeer - "Il Profeta"
*Otto Nicolai - "The Merry Wives of Windsor"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "La battaglia di Legna"

Popular music

*"Nelly Was a Lady" by Stephen Foster
*"Santa Lucia" (first published version)

Births

*May 26 - Hubert von Herkomer, artist and composer (d. 1914)
*July 18 - Anna Judic, entertainer (d. 1911)
*July 22 - Géza Zichy, disabled pianist (d. 1924)
*August 20 - Selina Dolaro, actress and singer (d. 1889)
*December 4 - Ernesto Köhler, flautist and composer (d. 1907)
*December 14 - François Cellier, conductor and composer (d. 1914)
*"date unknown" - Antonina Milyukova, wife of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1917)

Deaths

*February 8 - François Antoine Habeneck, violinist and conductor (b. 1781)
*May 11 - Otto Nicolai, composer (b. 1810)
*June 10 - Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (b. 1785)
*September 25 - Johann Strauss I, composer (b. 1804)
*October 17 - Frédéric Chopin, pianist and composer (b. 1810)
*December 14 - Conradin Kreutzer, conductor and composer (b. 1780)
*December 29 - Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer (b. 1784)
*"date unknown" - François de Fossa, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)


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