1837 in music

1837 in music

Events

*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 by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell

Classical music

*Hector Berlioz - "Grande Messe des Morts"
*Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet #4 in E minor

Opera

*Daniel Auber - "The Black Domino" (with libretto by Eugène Scribe)
*Gaetano Donizetti - "Roberto Devereux"
*Albert Lortzing - "Zar und Zimmermann"
*Gaspare Spontini - "Agnes von Hohenstaufen"

Births

*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 of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard 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

*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-writer Charles 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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