- 1844 in music
Events
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November 25 - "The Bohemian Girl " music byMichael William Balfe and libretto byAlfred Bunn has its American premiere at the Park Theatre,New York .
*Thomas Tellefsen becomes a pupil ofFrédéric Chopin .Popular music
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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. USClassical music
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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. 64Opera *
Georges Bousquet - "L'Hôtesse de Lyon"
*Friedrich Flotow - "Alessandro Stradella"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Hernani"Births
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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 ofFerenc Erkel Deaths
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April 8 -Ignaz Franz von Mosel
*May 21 -Giuseppe Baini , church composer
*July 29 -Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , pianist and composer, son ofWolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*December 9 -Franz Seraph von Destouches , composer
*"unknown date" -Francis Johnson , black composer and band-leader
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