1840 in music

1840 in music

Events

* February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Fille du Regiment" premieres in Paris
* Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two "Liederkreis", "Frauenliebe und -leben" and "Dichterliebe". He also marries Clara Wieck.
*The first harmonium is built.
*Franz Liszt gives the first piano recital, in London's Hanover Square Rooms on 9 June.
*Schindler's biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is published.

Popular music

*Henry Russell (music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) - "The Old Arm Chair"
*Robert Lucas de Pearsall - "Lay a garland"

Classical music

*Felix Mendelssohn - "Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major, "Lobgesang""
*Louis Spohr - "Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical" "

Opera

*Gaetano Donizetti - "La Favourite" and "La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)"
*Albert Lortzing - "Hans Sachs"
*Temistocle Solera - "Ildegonda"
*Giuseppe Verdi - "Un giorno di regno"

Births

*April 12 - Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (d. 1910)
*May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)
*August 28 - Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (d. 1908)
*November - Célestine Marié, operatic mezzo-soprano, the original "Carmen" (d. 1905)

Deaths

*May 1 - Giuditta Grisi, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1805)
*May 27 - Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer (b. 1782)
*November 19 - Johann Michael Vogl, singer and composer (b. 1768)
*"date unknown"
**Nikolai Lavrov, operatic baritone (b. 1802)
**Wojciech Adalbert Żywny, pianist and violinist, teacher of Chopin (b. 1756)


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