- 1842 in music
Events
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May 31 -Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a new order of merit for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include:Felix Mendelssohn ,Franz Liszt andGioacchino Rossini .
*Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe.
*Franz von Suppé makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore " at the Ödenburg Theatre.Popular music
Classical music
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Frédéric Chopin - "Polonaise for Piano in A flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic" "
*Josef Lanner - "Die Schönbrunner Waltzer"
*Felix Mendelssohn - "Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")"Opera *
Angelo Catelani - "Caràttaco"
*Gaetano Donizetti - "Linda di Chamounix "
*Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka "Russlan and Ludmilla"
*Albert Lortzing - "Der Wildschütz "
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Nabucco "
*Richard Wagner - "Rienzi "Births
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February 4 -Arrigo Boito , Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)
*March 10 -Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
*March 22 -Carl Rosa , musical impresario (d. 1889)
*May 12 -Jules Massenet , opera composer (d. 1912)
*May 13 -Arthur Sullivan , composer (d. 1900)
*May 14 -Alphons Czibulka , pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
*June 12 -Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer (d. 1866)
*July 4 -Gyula Erkel , Hungarian composer, son ofFerenc Erkel
*July 19 -Karl Zeller , Austrian composer (d. 1898)
*July 9 -Charles Collette , actor and composer (d. 1924)
*September 12 - Marianne Brandt, operatic contralto (d. 1921)
*September 24 -Emma Livry , ballerina (d. 1863)
*October 13 -Antonio Pasculli , oboist and composer (d. 1924)
*November 8 -Eugen Gura , operatic baritone (d. 1906)Deaths
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March 6 -Constanze Mozart , wife ofWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1762)
*March 7 -Christian Theodor Weinlig , composer and conductor (b. 1780)
*March 15 -Luigi Cherubini , composer (b. 1760)
*April 6 -Johann Anton André , composer and music publisher (b. 1775)
*May 5 -Jean Elleviou , operatic tenor (b. 1769)
*June 4 -Georg Friedrich Treitschke , librettist (b. 1776)
*September 15 -Pierre Baillot , violinist and composer (b. 1771)
*December 25 -Bedřich Diviš Weber , composer and founding principal of thePrague Conservatory (b. 1766)
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