1841 in music
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Events
- Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
writes two symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in BbSymphony No. 1 (Schumann)Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 was the first symphonic work composed by Robert Schumann. Although Schumann made some "symphonic attempts" in the autumn of 1840 soon after he married his beloved Clara Wieck, he did not compose his First Symphony until early 1841...
, opus 38 (also called "Spring"symphony), and Symphony No. 4 in D-minorSymphony No. 4 (Schumann)The Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120, composed by Robert Schumann, was completed in 1841 . Schumann heavily revised the symphony in 1851, and it was this version that reached publication....
, opus 120. (The D-minor symphony was edited extensively by Schumann in 1851, and thus was given a much later opus numberOpus numberAn Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...
and subsequently referred to as no.4, although it is actually no.2.) - Tenor Domenico DonzelliDomenico DonzelliDomenico Donzelli was an Italian tenor with a robust voice who enjoyed an important career in Paris, London and his native country during the 1808-1841 period.-Biography:...
retires from the stage. - Nikolay Afanas'yev resigns as concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in order to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near St Petersburg.
Classical music
- Adolphe AdamAdolphe AdamAdolphe Charles Adam was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle and Le corsaire , his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau , Le toréador and Si j'étais roi , and his Christmas...
– Giselle (ballet) - 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...
– Les nuits d'étéLes nuits d'étéLes nuits d'été , Op. 7, is a song cycle by the French composer Hector Berlioz. It is a setting of six poems by Théophile Gautier. The collection was completed in 1841, and initially composed for either baritone, contralto, or mezzo-soprano, and piano... - Johannes VerhulstJohannes VerhulstJohannes Joseph Hermann Verhulst was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch musical life, his influence during his lifetime was considerable.-Life:As a boy, Verhulst sang in a catholic choir; here he distinguished himself by his gift for music...
– Symphony in E minor
Opera
- Daniel AuberDaniel AuberDaniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments...
– Les diamants de la couronneLes diamants de la couronneLes diamants de la couronne is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by the Opéra-Comique at the second Salle Favart in Paris on 6 March 1841... - Michael William BalfeMichael William BalfeMichael William Balfe was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera The Bohemian Girl.After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed 38 operas, almost 250 songs and other works...
– Keolanthe - Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
– AdeliaAdelia (opera)Adelia, o La figlia dell'arciere is an opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Felice Romani and Girolamo Marini... - Fromental HalévyFromental HalévyJacques-François-Fromental-Élie Halévy, usually known as Fromental Halévy , was a French composer. He is known today largely for his opera La Juive.-Early career:...
– La reine de ChypreLa reine de ChypreLa reine de Chypre is an 1841 grand opera composed by Fromental Halévy to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges.-Background:... - Franz LachnerFranz LachnerFranz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim...
– Caterina Cornaro - 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...
– L'uomo del mistero
Births
- January 18 – Emmanuel ChabrierEmmanuel ChabrierEmmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music as well...
, composer (d. 1894) - January 23 – Sigismund BachrichSigismund BachrichSigismund Bachrich , aka Sigmund Bachrich or Siegmund Bachrich, was a Hungarian composer, violinist, and violist....
, violinist and composer (d. 1913) - January 28 – Viktor NesslerViktor NesslerViktor Ernst Nessler was an Alsatian composer who worked mainly in Leipzig.Nessler was born at Baldenheim near Sélestat, Alsace. At Strasbourg he began his university career with the study of theology, but he concluded it with the production of a light opera entitled Fleurette...
, composer (d. 1890) - February 10 – Sir Walter ParrattWalter ParrattSir Walter Parratt KCVO was an English organist and composer.-Biography:Born in Huddersfield, son of a parish organist, Parratt began to play the pipe organ from an early age, and held posts as an organist while still a child...
, organist and composer (d. 1924) - February 19
- Elfrida AndréeElfrida AndréeElfrida Andrée , was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor.Andrée was born in Visby. She was the pupil of Ludvig Norman and Niels Wilhelm Gade. Her sister was the singer Fredrika Stenhammar. An activist in the Swedish women's movement, she was one of the first female organists to be...
, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1929) - Felipe PedrellFelipe PedrellFelip Pedrell , was a Spanish Catalan composer. He worked as a musicologist and early music specialist and edited Victoria’s opera omnia and the requiem of Joan Brudieu. This and other of his writings fostered a keen interest in the early music of Spain...
, composer (d. 1922)
- Elfrida Andrée
- March 1 – Romualdo MarencoRomualdo MarencoRomualdo Marenco was an Italian composer primarily noted for ballet music. Marenco started his musical career as a violinist in the Doria Theater in Genoa. His first composition was the ballet Garibaldi's Landing in Marsala...
, composer for ballet (d. 1907) - May 15 – Giovanni Bolzoni, violinist and composer (d. 1919)
- May 21 – Joseph ParryJoseph ParryJoseph Parry , was a Welsh composer and musician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, he is best known as the composer of Myfanwy and Aberystwyth used in Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika the National anthem of South Africa.The cottage at 4 Chapel Row, Merthyr Tydfil, where Parry was born, is now open to the...
, composer (d. 1903) - July 9 – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian LumbyeHans Christian LumbyeHans Christian Lumbye was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a military band. In 1829, he joined the Horse Guards in Copenhagen, still continuing his music...
- July 18 – Hedvig WillmanHedvig WillmanHedvig Willman, née Harling was a Swedish stage actor, opera singer, drama teacher and principal of Dramatens elevskola....
, Swedish opera singer (d.1887) - September 8 – Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
, composer (d. 1904) - September 26 – Signor BrocoliniSignor BrocoliniJohn Clark, better known as Signor Brocolini , was an Irish-born American operatic singer remembered for creating the role of the Pirate King in the original New York City production of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, in 1879-80...
, opera singer (d. 1906) - October 11 – Friedrich HegarFriedrich HegarFriedrich Hegar was a Swiss composer, conductor, violinist, and founding conductor of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich from 1868 to 1906.Hegar was born in Basel and died in Zürich at age 85.-External links:...
, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1927) - November 4 – Carl TausigCarl TausigCarl Tausig was a Polish virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer.-Life:Tausig was born in Warsaw to Jewish parents and received his first piano lessons from his father, pianist and composer Aloys Tausig, a student of Sigismond Thalberg. His father introduced him to Franz Liszt in Weimar at the...
, pianist and composer (d. 1871) - date unknown – Thorvald LammersThorvald LammersThorvald Lammers was a Norwegian baritone singer, conductor, composer and biographer. He made his song début in Oslo in 1873. He founded the choir known as Korforeningen in 1879, and conducted it until 1909. Around 1900, Lammers was regarded as Norway's most important male singer...
, singer, conductor and composer (d. 1922)
Deaths
- January 25 – Maria Anna Thekla MozartMaria Anna Thekla MozartMaria Anna Thekla Mozart , called Marianne, known as Bäsle , was the cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
, "Marianne", cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(b. 1758) - February 14 – Antun SorkočevićAntun SorkocevicAntun Sorkočević , was a diplomat, writer, composer and member of Ragusan nobility . He was a good friend of Marko Bruerović.Sorkočević was born in Dubrovnik. His father was Luka Sorkočević. Like his father he was also composer...
, diplomat, writer and composer (b. 1775) - February 17 – Ferdinando CarulliFerdinando CarulliFerdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli was an Italian composer for classical guitar and the author of the first complete classical guitar method, which continues to be used today. He wrote a variety of works for classical guitar, including concertos and chamber works...
, composer for guitar (b. 1770) - May 18 – John ThomsonJohn Thomson (composer)John Thomson was a Scottish classical composer. He was born in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, the son of the Minister of Sprouston Church...
, composer (b. 1805) - August 13 – Bernhard RombergBernhard RombergBernhard Heinrich Romberg , was a German cellist and composer.-Life:Romberg was born at Dinklage. His father, Anton Romberg, played the bassoon and cello and gave Bernhard his first cello lessons. He first performed in public at the age of seven...
, cellist and composer (b. 1767) - August 27 – Ignaz von SeyfriedIgnaz von SeyfriedIgnaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried was an Austrian musician, conductor and composer.Seyfried was born in Vienna. According to a statement in his handwritten memoirs he was a pupil of both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Albrechtsberger. He published Albrechtsberger's complete written works after...
, conductor and composer (b. 1776) - September 15 – Alessandro RollaAlessandro RollaAlessandro Rolla was widely acknowledged in his time as a violin and, especially, viola virtuoso, composer and teacher. His contribution to technique, repertoire and history of music is greatly underestimated...
, violinist, composer and music teacher (b. 1757) - September 16 – Thomas John DibdinThomas John DibdinThomas John Dibdin was an English dramatist and song-writer.Dibdin was the son of Charles Dibdin, a song-writer and theatre manager, and of Mrs Davenet, an actress whose real name was Harriet Pitt. He was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, a London upholsterer, and later to William Rawlins,...
, songwriter (b. 1771) - October 16 – Domenico BarbaiaDomenico BarbaiaDomenico Barbaia was an Italian impresario.An energetic man, Barbaia, who was born in Milan, began his career by running a coffee shop...
, impresario (b. 1778) - October 28 – Francesco MorlacchiFrancesco MorlacchiFrancesco Morlacchi was an Italian composer of more than twenty operas. During the many years he spent as the royal Royal Kapellmeister in Dresden, he was instrumental in popularizing the Italian style of opera.-Biography:...
, composer (b. 1784) - December 22 – Daniil Kashin, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1769)
- date unknown – Justina CasagliJustina CasagliJustina Kristina Casagli, née Wässelius, , was a Swedish opera singer. She was internationally famous and active in Italy and Germany...
, opera singer (b. 1794) (suicide)