1838 in music
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[edit] Events
- March 7 – Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale" debuts at the Stockholm Opera
- Giovanni Ricordi buys Giuseppe Verdi's copyrights.
- Frédéric Chopin begins his affair with George Sand.
[edit] Popular music
- "Annie Laurie", words (1688) William Douglas, music Lady John Scott (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode)
- "'Tis Home Where'er the Heart Is" – words by Robert Dale Owen, music by John Hill Hewitt ([1])
[edit] Classical music
- Franz Lachner – Frauenliebe und -leben
- Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartets Op. 44, No. 3 in D Major and No. 5 in E-Flat Major
- Robert Schumann – Kinderszenen, Op. 15
- William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 4 op. 19 [1]
[edit] Opera
- Hector Berlioz – Benvenuto Cellini
- Albert Grisar – Lady Melvil
[edit] Births
- January 6 – Max Bruch, composer
- July 9 – Philip Bliss
- October 25 – Georges Bizet, French composer
[edit] Deaths
- January 13 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and pianist (born 1784)
- March 2 – Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille, composer (born 1761)
- March 24 – Thomas Attwood, organist and composer (b. 1765)
- April 29 – Joseph von Henikstein, patron of the arts and friend of Mozart (b. 1768)
- July 28 – Bernhard Henrik Crusell, clarinet player and composer (b. 1775)
- August 17 – Lorenzo Da Ponte, librettist
- December 26 – Franciszek Lessel, composer (born 1780)
[edit] References
- ^ Cope, Andrew (June 1981). "Sterndale Bennett's G Minor Adagio". The Musical Times (Musical Times Publications Ltd.) 122 (1660): 373–374. doi:10.2307/960949. JSTOR 960949.