1842 in music

1842 in music

Events

*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 and Gioacchino 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

*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

*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 of Ferenc 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

*March 6 - Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang 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 the Prague Conservatory (b. 1766)


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