1844 in music
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[edit] Events
- November 25 - The Bohemian Girl music by Michael William Balfe and libretto by Alfred Bunn has its American premiere at the Park Theatre, New York.
- Thomas Tellefsen becomes a pupil of Frédéric Chopin.
- Jacques Offenbach converts to Catholicism and marries Herminie d'Alcain.
Christy's Minstrels in 1844
[edit] Popular music
- "The Blue Juniata" Marion Dix Sullivan (w. & m.)
- "Open Thy Lattice, Love" w. George Pope Morris, m. Stephen Collins Foster
- "Skip To My Lou" Trad. US
[edit] Classical music
- Henry Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No 2 in B minor, Op. 22
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Spring Song m.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream incidental music (including the Wedding March)
- Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
[edit] Opera
- Georges Bousquet - L'Hôtesse de Lyon
- Friedrich Flotow - Alessandro Stradella
- Giuseppe Verdi - Hernani
[edit] Births
- January 14 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, American singer and composer (d. 1931)
- February 21 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- January 29 - Colonel Charles Gerard Conn, instrument manufacturer (d. 1931)
- March 10 - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist and composer (d. 1908)
- March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
- April 9 - László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- May 8 - Hermann Graedener, conductor and composer (d. 1929)
- June 3 - Émile Paladilhe, composer (d. 1926)
- December 5 - Sir Frederick Bridge, organist and composer (d. 1924)
- Date unknown - Olga Sandberg, Swedish ballerina
[edit] Deaths
- January 30 - John Addison, double-bass player and composer (b. 1765)
- May 21 - Giuseppe Baini, church composer and music critic (b. 1775)
- July 13 - Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, composer (b. 1778)
- July 29 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, pianist and composer, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- September 4 - Oliver Holden, composer and hymn-writer (b. 1765)
- November 9 - Uri Keeler Hill, composer (b. 1780)
- December 9 - Franz Seraph von Destouches, composer
- unknown date - Francis Johnson, black composer and band-leader
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