1831 in music

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Events

• Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.
• The first opera, Deux mots by Nicolas Dalayrac in performed in Oslo directed by August Schrumpf with Augusta Smith in the main part. Emilie da Fonseca is employed at Christiania Theatre.

Popular music

• William Crosswell – "Lord, Lead the Way the Saviour Went" (hymn)

Classical music

• Franz Lachner – Fragen
• Felix Mendelssohn – First Piano Concerto opus 25 (premiered October 17 in Munich); Die erste Walpurgisnacht, opus 60, first version
• George Onslow – Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, opus 42

Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini
  • Norma
  • La Sonnambula
• Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold – Zampa
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Robert Le Diable

Births

• January 15 – Albert Niemann, operatic tenor (d. 1917)
• February 21 – Henri Meilhac, opera librettist (d. 1897)
• February 26 – Filippo Marchetti, opera composer (d. 1902)
• June 28 – Joseph Joachim, violinist (d. 1907)
• August 1 – Antonio Cotogni, operatic baritone (d. 1901)
• August 13 – Salomon Jadassohn, composer, teacher and theorist (d. 1902)
• August 28 – Ludvig Norman, Swedish composer (d. 1885)
• December 10 – Philippe Gille, opera librettist (d. 1901)
• date unknown
  • Silverio Franconetti, flamenco singer (d. 1889)
  • Eugène Ketterer, pianist and composer (d. 1870)
  • Carl Kolling, composer for piano (d. 1914)

Deaths

• January 6 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1766)
• January 8 – Franz Krommer, composer (b. 1759)
• March 4 – Georg Michael Telemann, theologian and composer (b. 1748)
• April 13 – Ferdinand Kauer, pianist and composer (b. 1751)
• June 23 – Mateo Albéniz, composer (b. 1755)
• July 25 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (b. 1789)
• August 5 – Sébastien Érard, maker of pianos and harps (b. 1752)
• September 8 – John Aitken, music publisher (b. c. 1745)
• November 14 – Ignaz Pleyel, piano-maker and pupil of Joseph Haydn (b. 1757)
• November 30 – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (b. 1760)
• date unknown
  • Peter Anton Kreusser, composer (b. 1765)
  • Benedicto Sáenz the elder, cathedral organist of Guatemala