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Overview of the events of 1849 in music
Overview of the events of 1849 in music
Events
April 16 – Giacomo Meyerbeer 's grand opera Le prophète is premièred (after a decade in preparation) by the Paris Opera at the Salle Le Peletier with Pauline Viardot (who has collaborated extensively in the production) in the mezzo-soprano role, her first with the Opera. Stage effects include electric light, ballet on roller skates and the use of saxhorns . The audience includes Napoleon III (new Emperor of France), Berlioz , the terminally ill Chopin , and Turgenev . Its world tour begins on July 24 in London.[ 1] [ 2]
May 3 –9 – Richard Wagner is an active participant in the May Uprising in Dresden , suppressed by the Kingdom of Saxony , and is forced to flee to Zürich .
September 22 – Johann Strauss I fails to turn up to a banquet in honour of Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz , where he is expected to perform a new work. His absence is explained by the fact that he had contracted scarlet fever from one of his illegitimate children while working on the new composition; he dies a few days later in Vienna aged 45.
October 30 – Funeral of Frédéric Chopin (who has died aged 39, probably of pericarditis aggravated by tuberculosis ) at La Madeleine, Paris ,[ 1] followed by burial of his body at Père Lachaise Cemetery .
November – Hungarian pianist and composer Stephen Heller makes his first visit to London on a concert tour.
Classical music
Hector Berlioz – Te Deum
Jakob Dont – 24 Etudes or Caprices, Op. 35
Stephen Heller – 25 Etudes, Op. 47
Karol Lipinski – Fantaisie sur des airs napolitains nationaux, Op. 31
Franz Liszt
Hans Christian Lumbye
Amalia Vals
Caroline Polka Mazurka
Ludvig Norman – Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 4
Robert Schumann
Johann Strauss, Jr .
Annika-Quadrille, Op. 53
Burschen-Lieder Walzer, Op. 55
Einheits-Klänge Walzer, Op. 62
Fantasiebilder Walzer, Op. 64
D'Woaldbuama, Op. 66
Opera
Popular music
Births
May 25 – Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins , composer and pianist (d. 1908)
May 26 – Hubert von Herkomer , artist and composer (d. 1914)
July 4 – Antonina Miliukova , wife of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1917)
July 18 – Anna Judic , entertainer (d. 1911)
July 22 – Géza Zichy , disabled pianist (d. 1924)
August 18 – Benjamin Godard , violinist and composer (d. 1895)
August 20 – Selina Dolaro , actress and singer (d. 1889)
September 22 – Olena Falkman , concert vocalist (d. 1928)
December 4 – Ernesto Köhler , flautist and composer (d. 1907)
December 14 – François Cellier , conductor and composer (d. 1914)
Deaths
References