1847 in music

List of years in music (table)
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February 28 - Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside, most of the audience perishes.
March 14 - Verdi's Macbeth (opera) is premiėred at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.

Francisco Asenjo Barbieri - Il Buontemponi
Hector Berlioz - The Damnation Of Faust
Giovanni Bottesini - Cristoforo Colombo
Friedrich von Flotow - Martha
Ivar Hallstrom - Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
Karel Miry - Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
Giuseppe Verdi - Macbeth
William Vincent Wallace - Matilda of Hungary

January 1 - Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
February 15 - Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
March 2 - Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
March 9 - Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
June 28 - Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
July 12 - Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
July 21 - Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
October 21 - Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
November 1 - Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
November 30 - August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
December 1 - Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
December 18 - Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
date unknown - Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)