1847 in music

1847 in music

Events

* March 14 - Verdi's "Macbeth (opera)" premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
* Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.

Classical music

*Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

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"

Births

*February 15 - Robert Fuchs
*September 13 - Charles Dupee Blake
*October 21 - Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas
*November 1 - Emma Albani, soprano
*December 1 - Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer

Deaths

*April 23 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (b. 1783)
*May 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (b. 1805) (stroke)
*June - Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (b. 1784)
*June 18 - Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (b. 1770)
*July 19 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer 9b. 1772)
*September 4 - František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (b. 1769)
*November 4 - Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1809)
*"date unknown" - Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)


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