1829 in music

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Events

• December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes a house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
• Felix Mendelssohn conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion at Berlin
• Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy at Warsaw which will later be named after him.

Classical music

• Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F sharp
• Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A flat major

Opera

• Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
• Gioacchino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

Births

• January 24 – William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
• March 6 – Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
• May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
• May 9 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
• June 9 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
• June 11 – Horace Poussard, violinist and composer (d. 1898)
• August 21 – Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1907)
• August 25 – Carlo Acton, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
• August 28 – Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
• November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)

Deaths

• January 25 – William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
• February 16 – François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
• February 18 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
• May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
• October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
• December 14 – Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer (b. 1754)