1847 in music

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Events

• 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.

Popular music

• Adolphe Adam - "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night")
• Philip Klitz
  • "Dinah Dear"
  • "Miss Ginger"

Classical music

• Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
• Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 2

Opera

• 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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• January 6 - Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (b. 1767)
• April 23 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (b. 1783)
• May 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (b. 1805) (stroke)
• June - Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (b. 1784)
• June 18 - Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (b. 1770)
• July 19 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (b. 1772)
• September 4 - František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (b. 1769)
• September 25 - Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (b. 1814)
• November 4 - Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1809)
• date unknown - Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)