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- Soprano Giuditta PastaGiuditta PastaGiuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta , born in Saronno, Italy, was a soprano considered among the greatest of opera singers, to whom the 20th-century soprano Maria Callas was compared.-Studies and career:...
makes her stage début in VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
. - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.
Classical music
- João Domingos BomtempoJoão Domingos BomtempoJoão Domingos Bomtempo was a Portuguese classical pianist, composer and pedagogue.-Biography:Bomtempo was the son of an Italian musician in the Portuguese court orchestra, and studied at the Music Seminary of the Patriarchal See in Lisbon...
– Requiem in C Minor - Muzio ClementiMuzio ClementiMuzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
– The publication of Gradus ad Parnassum Volume II is entered at Stationer’s Hall, London on April 16. - Anton ReichaAnton ReichaAnton Reicha was a Czech-born, later naturalized French composer. A contemporary and lifelong friend of Beethoven, Reicha is now best remembered for his substantial early contribution to the wind quintet literature and his role as a teacher – his pupils included Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz...
– Andante for Wind Quintet no 2 in F major - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
– 'Trout' Quintet
Opera
- Saverio MercadanteSaverio MercadanteGiuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as either; and his development of...
– L'Apoteosi d'Ercole - Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
– La sposa fedele - Gioacchino RossiniGioacchino RossiniGioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
- Bianca e FallieroBianca e FallieroBianca e Falliero, ossia Il consiglio dei tre is a two-act operatic melodramma by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani. The libretto was based on Antoine-Vincent Arnault's play Les Vénitiens, ou Blanche et Montcassin.-Performance history:The opera premiered on December 26,...
- La donna del lagoLa donna del lagoLa donna del lago is an opera by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on The Lady of the Lake, a poem by Sir Walter Scott.This opera was the first to be based on Scott's romantic works...
- Eduardo e CristinaEduardo e CristinaEduardo e Cristina is an operatic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto originally written by Giovanni Schmidt for Odoardo e Cristina , an opera by Stefano Pavesi, and adapted for Rossini by Andrea Leone Tottola and Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini.This pastiche work was...
- ErmioneErmioneErmione is a tragic opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the play Andromaque by Jean Racine.- Performance history :...
- Bianca e Falliero
Births
- January 18 – Henriette Nissen-SalomanHenriette Nissen-SalomanHenriette Nissen-Saloman, , was a Swedish opera singer and singing pedagogue.Henriette was born in Gothenburg, where she was a student of organist Georg Günther before she went to Paris in 1838, where she learned singing from Manuel Garcia and piano from Frédéric Chopin...
, opera singer (d. 1879) - February 11 – Samuel Parkman TuckermanSamuel Parkman TuckermanSamuel Parkman Tuckerman was an American composer.He was born in Boston and became the organist of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 1840. He also studied in England and Switzerland. He is known primarily for his church music.He died in Newport, Rhode Island....
, composer (d. 1890) - February 24 – Emilia UgglaEmilia UgglaEmilia Maria Sara Sofia Uggla , was a Swedish noble classical concert pianist and concert singer....
, pianist (d. 1855) - April 4 – Lucile GrahnLucile GrahnLucile Alexia Grahn was the first internationally renowned Danish ballerina and one of the popular dancers of the Romantic ballet era....
, ballerina (d. 1907) - April 11 – Sir Charles HalléCharles HalléSir Charles Hallé was an Anglo-German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858.-Life:Hallé was born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany who after settling in England changed his name from Karl Halle...
, pianist and conductor (d. 1895) - April 18 – Franz von SuppéFranz von SuppéFranz von Suppé or Francesco Suppé Demelli was an Austrian composer of light operas who was born in what is now Croatia during the time his father was working in this outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
, composer (d. 1895) - May 5 – Achille De BassiniAchille De BassiniAchille De Bassini was an Italian baritone, particularly noted for his performances in Verdi's operas...
, operatic baritone (d. 1881) - June 20 – Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
, composer (d. 1880) - July 3 – Louis Théodore GouvyLouis Théodore GouvyLouis Théodore Gouvy was a French composer.- Biography :Gouvy was born into a French speaking family in the Alsatian village of Goffontaine, in the Sarre, a region on the France-Prussia border...
, composer (d. 1898) - September 13 – Clara SchumannClara SchumannClara Schumann was a German musician and composer, considered one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era...
, pianist, composer (d. 1896) - October 20 – Carl MikuliCarl MikuliKarol Mikuli was a Polish-Armenian pianist, composer, conductor and teacher.- Biographical Notes :Mikuli was born in Czerniowce, then part of the Austrian Empire to an Armenian family. He studied under Frédéric Chopin for piano and Anton Reicha for composition...
, pianist, conductor, composer (d. 1897) - Ebba d'AubertEbba d'AubertEbba d'Aubert, née Bergström was a Swedish concert pianist.She was married to the second concert conductor at the Kungliga Hovkapellet, violinist Theodor Adolf Eduard d’Aubert. She became an Associé of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1849.- References :*http://runeberg.org/muslex/0033.html...
, Swedish pianist (d. 1860)
Deaths
- March 9 – János FuszJános FuszJános Fusz , aged 41, was a Hungarian composer. Although he composed in many different genres, he was highly popular during his lifetime for his many songs, earning recognition from Beethoven among others.-External links:...
, composer (b. 1777) - May 16 – Micaela VillegasMicaela VillegasMaria Micaela Villegas Hurtado , known as La Perricholi, was arguably the most famous Peruvian woman of the eighteenth century. She was a celebrated entertainer and the famous mistress of Manuel de Amat y Juniet, Viceroy of Peru from 1761 to 1776...
, Peruvian entertainer (b. 1748) - June 20 – Maria Anna BraunhoferMaria Anna BraunhoferMaria Anna Braunhofer was an operatic soprano, who created several roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
, operatic soprano (b. 1748) - June 21 – Georg DruschetzkyGeorg DruschetzkyJiří Družecký was a Bohemian composer, oboist, and timpanist.He studied oboe with the noted oboist and composer Carlo Besozzi in Dresden. He then joined the band of an infantry regiment in Eger, with which he was later stationed in Vienna, Enns, Linz, and Branau. In 1777 he was certified as a...
, composer (b. 1745) - June 30 – Ernst Ludwig GerberErnst Ludwig GerberErnst Ludwig Gerber was a German composer and author of a famous dictionary of musicians....
, composer and compiler of a dictionary of musicians (b. 1746) - September 7 – Jean-Louis DuportJean-Louis DuportJean-Louis Duport , sometimes known as Duport the Younger to distinguish him from his older brother Jean-Pierre , was a cellist....
, cellist (b. 1749) - December 29 – Josepha WeberJosepha WeberJosepha Weber was a German soprano of the classical era...
, operatic soprano (b. 1758) - date unknown – Anant Fandi, Marathi Shahir poet-singer (b. 1744)