1843 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera and Musical theater 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• February 6 - The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
• November 13 - Gaetano Donizetti's final opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.

[edit] Popular music

• "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
• "Old Dan Tucker", usually attributed to Dan Emmett
• "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Berwald - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Sérieuse"
• Frédéric Chopin - Opus 51: Impromptu in G-flat major
• Niels Gade - Symphony No. 1
• Franz Liszt - Album Leaf in E major (S. 166a)
• Johann Strauss - Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 (Echoes of the Rhine Loreley)

[edit] Opera and Musical theater

• 27 November - Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
• Julius Benedict - The Bride of Venice
• Gaetano Donizetti - Don Pasquale
• Giuseppe Verdi - I Lombardi
• Richard Wagner - The Flying Dutchman
• Fromental Halévy - Charles VI

[edit] Births

• February 10 - Adelina Patti, soprano
• March 6 - Arthur Napoleão dos Santos, Brazilian composer
• March 16 - Louis Gregh, composer and publisher
• April 8 - Asger Hamerik, composer
• May 20 - Miguel Marqués, Spanish composer and violinist
• May 29 - Emile Pessard, French composer
• June 13 - Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist
• June 15 - Edvard Grieg, composer
• June 16 - David Popper, cellist and composer
• June 19 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer
• June 20 - Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer
• August 4 - Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist
• August 5 - James Scott Skinner
• August 19 - Sándor Bertha, Hungarian composer
• August 20 - Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano
• August 26 - Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
• September 4 - Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer
• November 2 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• November 10 - Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer
• December 13 - George Stephanescu, Romanian composer
• December 22 - Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer

date unknown - Eduard Holst, Danish composer

[edit] Deaths

• January 11
  • Antoine Bournonville, dancer, singer and actor (b. 1760)
  • Francis Scott Key, poet and songwriter (b. 1779)
• April 14 - Josef Lanner, Viennese composer (b. 1801) (b. 1801) (typhoid)
• May 12 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer and piano teacher (b. 1769)