1839 in music
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[edit] Events
- Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony
[edit] Classical Music
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel - 2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ
- Josef Lanner - Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
- Robert Schumann:
- Arabesque in C, Op. 18 1839
- Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in Db, Op. 19 1839
- Humoreske in Bb, Op. 20 1839
- 4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23 1839
- Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 1839
- 3 Romances, Op. 28 (bb, F#, B)
- Louis Spohr - Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"
- Frédéric Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"
[edit] Opera
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky - Esmeralda
- Giuseppe Lillo - Il conte di Chalais
- Giuseppe Verdi - Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
[edit] Published popular music
- "Kathleen Mavourneen" w. Annie Barry Crawford m. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch
[edit] Births
- January 1 - James Ryder Randall, popular songwriter
- January 9 - John Knowles Paine, composer and musicologist
- January 19 - Bohumil Pazdirek
- March 17 - Josef Rheinberger, composer (d. 1901)
- March 19 - Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of Mieczysław Karłowicz
- March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer
- July 14 - Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist
- August 24 - Eduard Nápravník, composer (d. 1916)
- November 24 - James Warren York, businessman, musical instrument maker
[edit] Deaths
- March 7 - Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (b. 1802) (suicide)
- April 20 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
- May 3 - Ferdinando Paer, composer (b. 1771)
- June 8 - Aloysia Weber, operatic soprano (b. c. 1760)
- June 11 - Regina Strinasacchi, violinist (b. c. 1761)
- June 14 - Nicolas Mori, violinist, conductor and music publisher (b. 1796)
- July 10 - Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
- September 21 - Gottfried Weber, music theorist (b. 1779)
- December 7 - Jan August Vitásek, composer (b. 1770)
