1843 in music

List of years in music (table)
	... 1833 . 1834 . 1835 . 1836 . 1837 . 1838 . 1839 ...; 1840 1841 1842 -1843- 1844 1845 1846; ... 1847 . 1848 . 1849 . 1850 . 1851 . 1852 . 1853 ...
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February 6 - The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
November 13 - Gaetano Donizetti's final opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.
August Conradi becomes organist of the Invalidinhaus, Berlin.
Gottfried Kinkel marries fellow musician Johanna Mockel.

Franz Berwald - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Sérieuse"
Frédéric Chopin - Opus 51: Impromptu in G-flat major; Opus 52: Ballade in F minor
August Conradi - Symphony No. 1
Niels Gade - Symphony No. 2
Franz Liszt - Album Leaf in E major (S. 166a)
Johann Strauss - Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 (Echoes of the Rhine Loreley)

London debut of "Don Pasquale"

February 10 - Adelina Patti, soprano
March 6 - Arthur Napoleão dos Santos, Brazilian composer
March 16 - Louis Gregh, composer and publisher
April 8 - Asger Hamerik, composer
May 2 - Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer and bandmaster
May 20 - Miguel Marqués, Spanish composer and violinist
May 29 - Emile Pessard, French composer
June 13 - Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist
June 15 - Edvard Grieg, composer
June 16 - David Popper, cellist and composer
June 19 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer
June 20 - Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer
August 4 - Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist
August 5 - James Scott Skinner
August 19 - Sándor Bertha, Hungarian composer
August 20 - Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano
August 26 - Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
September 4 - Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer
November 2 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
November 10 - Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer
November 28 - Émile Bernard, French composer and organist
December 3 - Franz Xaver Neruda, Danish cellist and composer
December 13 - George Stephanescu, Romanian composer
December 22 - Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer
date unknown - Eduard Holst, Danish composer

January 11
- Antoine Bournonville, dancer, singer and actor, 82
- Francis Scott Key, poet and songwriter, 63
March 9 - Christian August Pohlenz, conductor and composer, 52
April 14 - Josef Lanner, Viennese composer, 42 (typhoid)
May 3 - Franz Xaver Gebel, conductor, composer and music teacher, 55 or 56
May 4 - Eduard Rottmanner, organist and composer, 33
May 12 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer and piano teacher, 74
July - Nehemiah Shumway, composer of sacred music, 81
July 29 - Domenico Reina, operatic and bel canto tenor, 47

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