1834 in music
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Events
- Statue of Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
is erected in his birthplace of GenevaGenevaGeneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
. - Ballerina Fanny ElsslerFanny ElsslerFanny Elssler - 27 November 1884), born Franziska Elßler, was an Austrian ballerina of the 'Romantic Period'.- Life :Daughter of Johann Florian Elssler, a second generation employee of Prince Esterhazy in Eisenstadt. Both Johann and his brother Josef were employed as copyists to the Prince's...
makes her debut at the Paris Opéra's Salle Le Peletier.
Classical music
- Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
– Harold in Italy - William Sterndale BennettWilliam Sterndale BennettSir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...
– Piano Concerto in C Minor
Opera
- John BarnettJohn BarnettJohn Barnett was an English composer and writer on music.-Life:Barnett was the eldest son of a Prussian Jew named Bernhard Beer, who changed his surname on settling in England as a jeweller. According to some he was a cousin of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer...
– The Mountain SylphThe Mountain SylphThe Mountain Sylph is an opera in two acts by John Barnett to a libretto by Thomas James Thackeray, after Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail by Charles Nodier... - Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in GranadaDas Nachtlager in GranadaDas Nachtlager in Granada is a romantic opera in two acts by Conradin Kreutzer. The libretto is written by Karl Johann Braun von Braunthal based on Johann Friedrich Kind’s drama Das Nachtlager von Granada....
- 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...
– Uggiero il danese
Births
- January 14 – William Cleaver Francis RobinsonWilliam Cleaver Francis RobinsonSir William Cleaver Francis Robinson GCMG was a British colonial administrator and a musical composer, being the author of several well known songs...
- January 28 – Sabine Baring-GouldSabine Baring-GouldThe Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, Lew Trenchard Manor near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it...
, hymn-writer - February 28 – Sir Charles SantleyCharles SantleySir Charles Santley was an English-born opera and oratorio star with a bravuraFrom the Italian verb bravare, to show off. A florid, ostentatious style or a passage of music requiring technical skill technique who became the most eminent English baritone and male concert singer of the Victorian era...
, singer - March 23 – Julius ReubkeJulius ReubkeJulius Reubke was a German composer, pianist and organist. In his short life — he died at the age of 24 — he composed the Sonata on the 94th Psalm, in C minor, which was and still is considered one of the greatest organ works in the repertoire.-Biography:Born in Hausneindorf, a small...
, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858) - June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
- June 24 – George BeckerGeorge Becker (composer)George Becker was a composer and writer on music.Becker was born at Frankenthal. He was the author of several books of some importance, such as, La musique en Suisse, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIème siècle , Pygmalion de J.J...
, composer and music writer - August 9 – Elias Álvares LoboElias Álvares LoboElias Álvares Lobo was a Brazilian composer.Lobo was born at Itu. He wrote the first Brazilian opera in the Portuguese language, A Noite de São João . -References:...
, composer (d. 1901) - August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
- August 31 – Amilcare PonchielliAmilcare PonchielliAmilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas.-Biography:Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.Two years...
, composer (d. 1886) - October 31 – Knowles ShawKnowles ShawKnowles Shaw was an American author and composer noted for his gospel hymns.Shaw was born in Butler County in southwestern Ohio. He was a member of the non-instrumental churches of Christ, also known as the Christian Church or Disciples of Christ at this time...
, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878) - Date unknown - Hildegard WernerHildegard WernerHildegard Charlotta Aurora Werner , was a Swedish musician, musical conductor and a journalist active in Great Britain....
, Swedish music conductor
Deaths
- February 4 – Amélie-Julie CandeilleAmélie-Julie CandeilleAmélie-Julie Candeille was a French composer, librettist, writer, singer, actress, comedienne, and instrumentalist.-Early life:...
, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767) - September 2 – David CharlesDavid Charles (hymn-writer)David Charles , was a Welsh hymn-writer.David Charles was born at Llanfihangel Abercowin in Carmarthenshire, the younger brother of the Methodist leader Thomas Charles "of Bala". Himself a Methodist minister, he helped to establish the "Home Mission", but was forced to retire in 1828 after...
, hymn-writer (b. 1762) - October 8 – François-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".-Biography:...
, composer (b. 1775) - date unknown
- Antoine-Laurent BaudronAntoine-Laurent BaudronAntoine-Laurent Baudron, born 1742, Amiens, died 1834, Paris, was a French musician and composer. He was the head violinist in the orchestra of the Comédie Française, and wrote the original music for The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais...
, violinist and composer (b. 1742) - August DuranowskiAugust DuranowskiAugust Duranowski was a Polish-born French violinist and composer.Duranowski was born in Warsaw. He studied the violin in Paris with Giovanni Battista Viotti, becoming leader of the Brussels opera orchestra in 1790. He toured Europe and settled in Strasbourg...
, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770) - Filip VišnjićFilip VišnjicFilip Višnjić was a popular Serbian epic poet and guslar , born in northern Bosnia. He is often described as the "Serbian Homer" both because he was blind and for his poetic gift...
, gusle player (b. 1767)
- Antoine-Laurent Baudron