1833 in music

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Events

• Hector Berlioz marries Harriet Smithson
• May 13 – Italian Symphony by Felix Mendelssohn is premiered (and taken back for revision).
• July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.

Classical music

• Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
• Frédéric Chopin – Bolero for piano opus 19 in C/A
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
• Felix Mendelssohn – Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia
• Heinrich Marschner – Hans Heiling

Births

• March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
• April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
• May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
• May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
• May 9
  • Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
  • Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer (d. 1914)
• June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
• July 26 – Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
• September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
• October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
• November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
• date unknown
  • Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
  • Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
  • Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)

Deaths

• January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
• January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
• March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
• April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
• May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
• May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
• May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
• September 14 – John Stevenson, composer (b. 1761)
• October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
• November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)