1843 in music
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- February 6 - The Virginia MinstrelsVirginia MinstrelsThe Virginia Minstrels or Virginia Serenaders was a group of 19th century American entertainers known for helping to invent the entertainment form known as the minstrel show...
perform the first minstrel showMinstrel showThe minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the Civil War, black people in blackface....
(Bowery AmphitheatreBowery AmphitheatreThe Bowery Amphitheatre was a building in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. It was located at 37 and 39 Bowery, across the street from the Bowery Theatre. Under a number of different names and managers, the structure served as a circus, menagerie, and theatre...
, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
). - November 13 - 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...
's final opera Dom SébastienDom SébastienDom Sébastien, Roi de Portugal is a French grand opera in five acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe, based on Paul Foucher's play Don Sébastien de Portugal , a historic-fiction about King Sebastian of Portugal and his ill-fated 1578 expedition to Morocco...
is premiered at the Paris Opera. - August ConradiAugust ConradiAugust Conradi was a German organist and composer. Born in Berlin, he was originally intended by his father to study theology. Instead, he was enrolled at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. There he studied harmony and composition with Karl Friedrick Rungenhagen, director of the Berlin Singkademie...
becomes organist of the Invalidinhaus, Berlin. - Gottfried KinkelGottfried KinkelJohann Gottfried Kinkel was a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison in Spandau with the help of his friend Carl Schurz.-Early life:...
marries fellow musician Johanna Mockel.
Popular music
- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas BecketThomas BecketThomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his murder in 1170. He is venerated as a saint and martyr by both the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion...
- "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" w. Alfred BunnAlfred BunnAlfred Bunn was an English theatrical manager.He was appointed stage-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1823. In 1826 he was managing the Theatre Royal in Birmingham, and in 1833 he undertook the joint management of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, London. In this undertaking he met with...
m. 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...
from the light opera The Bohemian GirlThe Bohemian GirlThe Bohemian Girl is an opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Cervantes tale, La Gitanilla.The opera was first produced in London at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 27, 1843... - "Old Dan TuckerOld Dan Tucker"Old Dan Tucker", also known as "Ole Dan Tucker", "Dan Tucker", and other variants, is a popular American song. Its origins remain obscure; the tune may have come from oral tradition, and the words may have been written by songwriter and performer Dan Emmett...
", usually attributed to Dan EmmettDan EmmettDaniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett was an American songwriter and entertainer, founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.-Biography:... - "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred BunnAlfred BunnAlfred Bunn was an English theatrical manager.He was appointed stage-manager of Drury Lane Theatre, London, in 1823. In 1826 he was managing the Theatre Royal in Birmingham, and in 1833 he undertook the joint management of Drury Lane and Covent Garden, London. In this undertaking he met with...
m. 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...
from the light opera The Bohemian GirlThe Bohemian GirlThe Bohemian Girl is an opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Cervantes tale, La Gitanilla.The opera was first produced in London at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 27, 1843...
Classical music
- Franz BerwaldFranz BerwaldFranz Adolf Berwald was a Swedish Romantic composer who was generally ignored during his lifetime. He made his living as an orthopedic surgeon and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory....
- Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Sérieuse" - Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
- Opus 51: Impromptu in G-flat majorImpromptu No. 3 (Chopin)Frédéric Chopin's Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, Op. 51, for piano, was published in February 1843. It was the last in order of composition of his four impromptus, but the third published.The piece is written in 12/8 time.- External links :...
; Opus 52: Ballade in F minor - August ConradiAugust ConradiAugust Conradi was a German organist and composer. Born in Berlin, he was originally intended by his father to study theology. Instead, he was enrolled at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. There he studied harmony and composition with Karl Friedrick Rungenhagen, director of the Berlin Singkademie...
- Symphony No. 1 - Niels GadeNiels Wilhelm GadeNiels Wilhelm Gade was a Danish composer, conductor, violinist, organist and teacher. He is considered the most important Danish musician of his day.-Biography:...
- Symphony No. 2 - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
- Album Leaf in E major (S. 166a) - Johann StraussJohann Strauss IJohann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...
- Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 (Echoes of the Rhine Loreley)
Opera
- 27 November - 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...
's The Bohemian GirlThe Bohemian GirlThe Bohemian Girl is an opera composed by Michael William Balfe with a libretto by Alfred Bunn. The plot is loosely based on a Cervantes tale, La Gitanilla.The opera was first produced in London at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 27, 1843...
debuts in LondonWest End theatreWest End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
at the Theatre Royal, Drury LaneTheatre Royal, Drury LaneThe Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is a West End theatre in Covent Garden, in the City of Westminster, a borough of London. The building faces Catherine Street and backs onto Drury Lane. The building standing today is the most recent in a line of four theatres at the same location dating back to 1663,... - Julius BenedictJulius BenedictSir Julius Benedict was a German-born composer and conductor, resident in England for most of his career.-Life:...
- The Bride of Venice - 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...
- Don PasqualeDon PasqualeDon Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The librettist Giovanni Ruffini wrote the Italian language libretto after Angelo Anelli's libretto for Stefano Pavesi's Ser Marcantonio .... - 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...
- MedeaMedea (Pacini)Medea is an opera in three acts composed by Giovanni Pacini to a libretto by Benedetto Castiglia. It premiered on 28 November 1843 at the Teatro Carolino in Palermo, conducted by the composer with Geltrude Bortolotti in the title role... - Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
- I Lombardi - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
- The Flying DutchmanThe Flying Dutchman (opera)Der fliegende Holländer is an opera, with music and libretto by Richard Wagner.Wagner claimed in his 1870 autobiography Mein Leben that he had been inspired to write "The Flying Dutchman" following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in July and August 1839, but in his 1843... - 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:...
- Charles VICharles VI (opera)Charles VI is an 1843 French grand opera in five acts with music composed by Fromental Halevy and a libretto by Casimir Delavigne and his brother Germain Delavigne.-Performance history:...
Births
- February 10 - Adelina PattiAdelina PattiAdelina Patti was a highly acclaimed 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in the music capitals of Europe and America. She first sang in public as a child in 1851 and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914...
, soprano - March 6 - Arthur Napoleão dos SantosArthur Napoleão dos SantosArthur Napoleão dos Santos was a Brazilian composer, pianist, instrument dealer and music publisher.-Biography:...
, Brazilian composer - March 16 - Louis GreghLouis GreghLouis Gregh was a French composer and music publisher.His family was of Maltese origin...
, composer and publisher - April 8 - Asger HamerikAsger HamerikAsger Hamerik , was a Danish composer of classical music.Born in Frederiksberg , he studied music with J.P.E. Hartmann and Niels Gade. He wrote his first pieces in his teens, including an unperformed symphony...
, composer - May 2 - Karl Michael ZiehrerKarl Michael ZiehrerKarl Michael Ziehrer was an Austrian composer. In his lifetime, he was one of the fiercest rivals of the Strauss family; most notably Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss....
, Austrian composer and bandmaster - May 20 - Miguel MarquésMiguel MarquésPedro Miguel Juan Buenaventura Bernadino Marqués y García was a Spanish composer and violinist.-Life:He was the son of a chocolate maker...
, Spanish composer and violinist - May 29 - Emile PessardEmile PessardÉmile Louis Fortuné Pessard was a French composer.He studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won 1st prize in Harmony. In 1866 he won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata Dalila which was performed at the Paris Opera on February 21, 1867...
, French composer - June 13 - Adolf NeuendorffAdolf NeuendorffAdolf Heinrich Anton Magnus Neuendorff, also known as Adolph Neuendorff was a German-American composer, violinist, pianist and conductor, stage director and theater manager.-Early years:...
, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist - June 15 - Edvard GriegEdvard GriegEdvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...
, composer - June 16 - David PopperDavid PopperDavid Popper was a Bohemian cellist and composer.-Life:He was born in Prague, and studied music at the Prague Conservatory. He studied the cello under Julius Goltermann , and soon attracted attention...
, cellist and composer - June 19 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer
- June 20 - Fyodor StravinskyFyodor StravinskyFyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky ) was a Russian bass opera singer and actor. He was the father of Igor Stravinsky and the grandfather of Soulima Stravinsky....
, opera singer - August 4 - Flor van DuyseFlor van DuyseFlorimond van Duyse was a Belgian lawyer, composer and musicologist.He was born in Ghent and went to school at Veurne, and to high school at the Atheneum in Ghent. Then he studied Law at the Gentse Rijksuniversiteit, graduating as Doctor of Law in 1867...
, Belgian composer and musicologist - August 5 - James Scott SkinnerJames Scott SkinnerJames Scott Skinner was a Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer.Skinner was born in Banchory, near Aberdeen. His father was a dancing master on Deeside. James was only eighteen months old when his father died. When James was seven, his elder brother, Sandy, gave him lessons in...
- August 19 - Sándor Bertha, Hungarian composer
- August 20 - Christina NilssonChristina NilssonChristina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti...
, operatic soprano - August 26 - Georg August 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...
- September 4 - Ján Levoslav BellaJán Levoslav BellaJán Levoslav Bella was a Slovak composer, conductor and music teacher, who wrote in the spirit of the Nationalist Romantic movement of the 19th century.- Life :Bella was raised in a Roman Catholic family...
, Slovak composer - November 2 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- November 10 - Gialdino GialdiniGialdino GialdiniGialdino Gialdini was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor.He studied at Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. He won a prize offered by the Pergola Theatre of that city for the best opera, with Rosmunda, which met, however, with an unfavorable reception when produced in 1868...
, Italian composer - November 28 - Émile BernardÉmile Bernard (composer)Jean Émile Auguste Bernard was a French Romantic composer and organist. Bernard studied at the Paris Conservatoire; his organ teacher was François Benoist and his piano teacher was Antoine François Marmontel...
, French composer and organist - December 3 - Franz Xaver NerudaFranz Xaver NerudaFranz Xaver Neruda was a Danish cellist and composer of Moravian origin.-Life:...
, Danish cellist and composer - December 13 - George StephanescuGeorge StephanescuGeorge Stephănescu was a Romanian composer, one of the main figures in Romanian national opera.He graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Music...
, Romanian composer - December 22 - Julius BechgaardJulius BechgaardJulius Andreas Bechgaard was a Danish composer of piano pieces, songs, and operas. His best known opera 'Frode" shows the influence of Wagner....
, Danish composer - date unknown - Eduard HolstEduard HolstEduard Holst was a Danish playwright, composer, actor, dancer, and dance master. His name is spelled sometimes Edward Holst or Edvard Holst....
, Danish composer
Deaths
- January 11
- Antoine BournonvilleAntoine BournonvilleAntoine Bournonville was a French ballet dancer, actor, singer and a choreographer, active in the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet and eventually ballet master in the latter. He is considered to have played a great role in the development of the ballet in Scandinavia...
, dancer, singer and actor (b. 1760) - Francis Scott KeyFrancis Scott KeyFrancis Scott Key was an American lawyer, author, and amateur poet, from Georgetown, who wrote the lyrics to the United States' national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".-Life:...
, poet and songwriter (b. 1779)
- Antoine Bournonville
- March 9 - Christian August PohlenzChristian August PohlenzChristian August Pohlenz was a German composer and conductor.Pohlenz was born in Sallgast. He was Gewandhaus Kapellmeister from 1827 to 1835. He died in Leipzig.-References:...
, conductor and composer (b. 1790) - April 14 - Josef LannerJosef LannerJoseph Lanner was an Austrian dance music composer. He was best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake...
, Viennese composer (b. 1801) (b. 1801) (typhoid) - May 3 - Franz Xaver GebelFranz Xaver GebelFranz Xaver Gebel was a German composer, music teacher, and conductor.Gebel was born in Fürstenau, near Breslau, Silesia...
, conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1787) - May 12 - Johann Georg LicklJohann Georg LicklJohann Georg Lickl, also Ligkl, Hans-Georg Lickl, was an Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher.Lickl was born in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, and orphaned as a child...
, composer and piano teacher (b. 1769) - July - Nehemiah ShumwayNehemiah ShumwayNehemiah Shumway was an American composer of sacred music. He is best remembered today for two fuguing tunes, "Schenectady" and "Ballstown," though others, including "Pennsylvania," "Westminster" and "Judgment," are still found in shape note books in print as of 2009...
, composer of sacred music (b. 1761) - July 29 - Domenico ReinaDomenico ReinaDomenico Reina was a Swiss bel canto tenor, notable for creating roles in the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante and other Italian composers....
, operatic and bel canto tenor (b. 1796)