1844 in music

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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

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

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

Opera

• Georges Bousquet - L'Hôtesse de Lyon
• Friedrich Flotow - Alessandro Stradella
• Giuseppe Verdi - Hernani

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

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