- 1847 in music
Events
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March 14 -Verdi 's "Macbeth (opera) " premieres atTeatro della Pergola inFlorence, Italy .
*Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.Classical music
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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 byFrans Hedberg )
*Karel Miry - "Brigitta" (opera in 3 acts, libretto byHippoliet van Peene , premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Macbeth "
*William Vincent Wallace - "Matilda of Hungary"Births
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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 composerDeaths
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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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