1831 in music

Events

*Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.

Popular music

*William Crosswell - "Lord, Lead the Way the Saviour Went" (hymn)

Classical music

*Franz Lachner - "Fragen"
*Felix Mendelssohn - First Piano Concerto opus 25 (premiered October 17 in Munich); "Die erste Walpurgisnacht", opus 60, first version
*George Onslow - "Symphony No. 2 in D Minor", opus 42

Opera

*Vincenzo Bellini
**"Norma"
**"La Sonnambula"
*Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold - "Zampa"
*Giacomo Meyerbeer - "Robert Le Diable"

Births

*January 15 - Albert Niemann, operatic tenor (d. 1917)
*February 21 - Henri Meilhac, opera librettist (d. 1897)
*February 26 - Filippo Marchetti, opera composer (d. 1902)
*June 28 - Joseph Joachim, violinist (d. 1907)
*August 1 - Antonio Cotogni, operatic baritone (d. 1901)
*August 13 - Salomon Jadassohn, composer, teacher and theorist (d. 1902)
*August 28 - Ludvig Norman, Swedish composer (d. 1885)
*December 10 - Philippe Gille, opera librettist (d. 1901)
* "date unknown"
**Silverio Franconetti, flamenco singer (d. 1889)
**Eugène Ketterer, pianist and composer (d. 1870)
**Carl Kolling, composer for piano (d. 1914)

Deaths

*January 6 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1766)
*January 8 - Franz Krommer, composer (b. 1759)
*April 13 - Ferdinand Kauer, pianist and composer (b. 1751)
*June 23 - Mateo Albéniz, composer (b. 1755)
*July 25 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (b. 1789)
*August 5 - Sébastien Érard, maker of pianos and harps (b. 1752)
*September 8 - John Aitken, music publisher (b. c. 1745)
*November 14 - Ignaz Pleyel, piano-maker and pupil of Joseph Haydn (b. 1757)
*"date unknown"
**Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (b. 1760)
**Peter Anton Kreusser, composer (b. 1765)