1827 in music

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Events

• March 29 - The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.
• April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
• François Dauverné becomes the first musician to use the new F three valved trumpet in public performance.
• Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
• The term Gesamtkunstwerk is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard Wagner.

Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – La mort d’Orphée
• Franz Schubert
  • Winterreise (song cycle)
  • Piano Trio #1
  • Piano Trio #2

Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini – Il Pirata
• Michele Carafa – Les Deux Figaro
• Giovanni Pacini – Margherita regina d'Inghilterra

Births

• March 5 – Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
• April 25 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
• August 20 – Josef Strauss, composer (d. 1870)
• September 5 – Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
• November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
• December 31 – Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano (d. 1895)
• date unknown
  • Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
  • Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)

Deaths

• January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer (b. 1783)
• January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
• February 2 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
• February 26 – David Moritz Michael, composer (b. 1751)
• March 9 – Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)
• March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
• April 3 – Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
• July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (b. 1769)
• August 2 – James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
• August 3 – Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
• August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772)
• August 28 – Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt (b. 1776)
• November 6 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist (b. 1751)
• November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's Requiem (b. 1763)
• November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (b. 1769)
• date unknown
  • James Hook, composer (b. 1746)
  • Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music (b. 1762)