- 1837 in music
Events
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June 11 - Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
*Pauline Garcia-Viardot makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.Published popular music
* "Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by
John Hill Hewitt
* "Woodman, Spare That Tree! ", words byGeorge Pope Morris , music by Henry RussellClassical music
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Hector Berlioz - "Grande Messe des Morts"
*Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet #4 in E minorOpera
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Daniel Auber - "The Black Domino" (with libretto byEugène Scribe )
*Gaetano Donizetti - "Roberto Devereux"
*Albert Lortzing - "Zar und Zimmermann "
*Gaspare Spontini - "Agnes von Hohenstaufen"Births
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January 12 -Adolf Jensen
*January 2 -Mily Balakirev , composer (d. 1910)
*July 30 -Signe Hebbe , operatic soprano (d. 1925)
*August 24 -Theodore Dubois , organist and composer (d. 1924)
*December 9 -Emile Waldteufel , composer (d. 1915)
*December 25 -Cosima Wagner , daughter ofFranz Liszt and wife ofRichard Wagner (d. 1930)
*"date unknown"
**Ida Marie Lipsius , music writer (d. 1927)
**Kate Santley , actress and singer (d. 1923)
**La Serneta , flamenco singer (d. 1910)Deaths
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January 23 - John Field, pianist and composer (b. 1782)
*April 9 -Polly Cuninghame , ballet dancer (b. c. 1785)
*May 5 -Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , composer (b. 1752)
*June 16 -Valentino Fioravanti , "opera buffa" composer (b. 1764)
*July 28 -Joseph Schubert , violinist and composer (b. 1754)
*August 6 -Johann Nepomuk Schelble , composer (b. 1789)
*October 6 -Jean François Lesueur , composer (b. 1760/1763)
*October 11 -Samuel Wesley , organist and composer, son of hymn-writerCharles Wesley
*October 17 -Johann Nepomuk Hummel , composer (b. 1778)
*October 28 -Jean-Blaise Martin , opera singer (b. 1768)
*"date unknown"
**Franz Joseph Antony , organist and choral composer (b. 1790)
**Théodore Latour , composer for piano (b. 1766)
**Christina Rahm , opera singer (b. c. 1760)
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