1844 in music

1844 in music

Events

*November 25 - "The Bohemian Girl" music by Michael William Balfe and libretto by Alfred Bunn has its American premiere at the Park Theatre, New York.
*Thomas Tellefsen becomes a pupil of Frédéric Chopin.

Popular music

* "The Blue Juniata" Marion Dix Sullivan (w. & m.)
* "Open Thy Lattice, Love" w. George Pope Morris, m. Stephen Collins Foster
* "Skip To My Lou" Trad. US

Classical music

*Henry Charles Litolff - "Concerto Symphonique No 2 in B minor", Op. 22
*Felix Mendelssohn
**"Spring Song" m.
**"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture (including the "Wedding March")
**Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64

Opera

*Georges Bousquet - "L'Hôtesse de Lyon"
*Friedrich Flotow - "Alessandro Stradella"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Hernani"

Births

* January 14 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, American singer and composer (d. 1931)
* February 21 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
*March - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist and composer
* March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
*April 9 - László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel

Deaths

*April 8 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel
*May 21 - Giuseppe Baini, church composer
*July 29 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, pianist and composer, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*December 9 - Franz Seraph von Destouches, composer
*"unknown date" - Francis Johnson, black composer and band-leader


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