1834 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1834.

Events

September – Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.

Publications

Pierre Baillot – L'art du violon
J.C. Maugin – Manuel du Luthier

Popular music

"Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)

Classical music

Charles-Valentin Alkan – Variations sur un thème de Bellini, Op.16 No.5
William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor
Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy
Ole Bull
- Violin Concerto No.1, Op.4
- Quartet for Solo Violin
Norbert Burgmuller
- Rhapsodie in B minor for Piano, Op.13
- Duo for Piano and Clarinet, Op.15
Luigi Cherubini – String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu (published posthumously in 1855)
Felicien David
- Fantasia harabi
- Égyptienne
- Vieux Caire
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
- Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, Op.8
- Thème allemand varié, Op.9
- Souvenir du 'Pré aux clercs'
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Grand rondeau brillant, Op.126
Friedrich Kalkbrenner
- Les Soupirs, Op.121
- Thême favori de la 'Norma' de Bellini varié, Op.122
Karol Kurpinski – Polonaise in C major
Franz Paul Lachner
- Waldklänge, Op.28
- Symphony No.3, Op.41
Luigi Legnani – Grande Fantasia, Op.61
Franz Liszt – Apparations
Giacomo Meyerbeer
- Le moine
- Rachel à Nephtali
James Nares – The souls of the righteous
George Onslow
- 3 String Quartets, Op.46
- String Quartet No.22, Op.47
Ludwig Schunke
- Caprice No.1, Op.9
- Rondeau brillant, Op.11
František Škroup – Kde domov můj?
Louis Spohr – Erinnerung an Marienbad, Op.89
Mikhail Vysotsky – Fuga of Bach

Opera

Adolphe Adam – Le Chalet, premiered September 25 in Paris
Daniel Auber – Lestocq, premiered May 24 in Paris
John Barnett – The Mountain Sylph
Gaetano Donizetti – Gemma di Vergy, premiered December 26 in Milan
Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in Granada
Saverio Mercadante
- Emma d'Antiochia, premiered March 8 in Venice
- Uggiero il danese

Births

January 1 – Ludovic Halévy, librettist (died 1908)
January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator (d. 1897)
January 20 – Théodore Salomé, composer (died 1896)
January 23 – Josef Löw, composer (died 1886)
January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar (d. 1834)
February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone (d. 1922)
March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor (d. 1911)
March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
March 31 – Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist (died 1890)
April 1 – Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer (died 1916)
April 6 – Hart Pease Danks, musician (died 1903)
May 19 – Carl Müllerhartung, composer (died 1908)
June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
June 22 – Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer (died 1891)
June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer (d. 1928)
August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
August 14 – Alexander Winterberger, composer (died 1914)
August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
October 3 – Vilém Blodek, composer (died 1874)
October 4 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer (died 1906)
October 17 – Josephine Pollard, hymnist (died 1892)
October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
November 2 – Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist (died 1917)
November 7 – Ernest Gagnon, composer (died 1915)
November 29 – Sedley Taylor, music theorist (died 1920)
November 30 – Joseph Mosenthal, musician (died 1896)
December 12 – Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist (died 1907)
December 22 – Herman Amberg, composer (died 1902)
date unknown
- David Braham, composer (died 1905)
- Harry McCarthy, songwriter (died 1888)

Deaths

January 29 – Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist (born 1762)
February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
April 17 – Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist (born 1765)
June 29 – Alexandre-Étienne Choron, musicologist (born 1771)
September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)^[1]
August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer (b. 1754)
October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
December 7 – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (b. 1810)^[2]
date unknown
- Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
- August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
- Filip Višnjić, gusle player (b. 1767)

References

^ Roberts, Gomer M. (1959). "David Charles, Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 December 2021.)
^ Michael Schuncke; Ruskin Cooper; Joachim Draheim (1997). Ludwig Schuncke (1810 - 1834) and His Piano Music. Fischer+Partner. p. 89. ISBN 9783926435163.

[1] Roberts, Gomer M. (1959). "David Charles, Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 December 2021.)

[2] Michael Schuncke; Ruskin Cooper; Joachim Draheim (1997). Ludwig Schuncke (1810 - 1834) and His Piano Music. Fischer+Partner. p. 89. ISBN 9783926435163.

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