1827 in music

Events

*Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.

Popular music

Classical music

*Hector Berlioz - "La mort d’Orphée"
*Franz Schubert - "Winterreise" (song cycle)

Opera

*Vincenzo Bellini - "Il Pirata"
*Michele Carafa - "Les Deux Figaro"
*Giovanni Pacini - "Margherita regina d'Inghilterra"

Births

*April 25 - Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
*August 20 - Josef Strauss, composer (d. 1870)
*September 5 - Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
*November 12 - Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
*"date unknown"
**Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
**Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)

Deaths

*February 2 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
*March 9 - Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)
*March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
*August 2 - James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
*August 3 - Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
*"date unknown" - James Hook, composer (b. 1746)