1833 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1833.
Events
- February 24 – The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
- May 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there[1] he withdraws it for revision.
- July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
- October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
- December 1 – Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.[2]
- Late – First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
- Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.[3][4]
Popular music
- "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
- "Još Hrvatska ni propala" m. Ferdo Livadić w. Ljudevit Gaj (written in 1832)
Classical music
- Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
- William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
- Frédéric Chopin
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
- Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
Opera
Births
- March 7 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
- March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
- April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
- May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
- May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
- May 9
- Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
- Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer (d. 1914)
- June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
- July 26 – Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
- September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
- November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
- date unknown
- Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
- Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)
Deaths
- January 16 - Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b 1769)
- January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
- January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
- March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
- April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
- May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
- May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
- May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
- July 24 – Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician (b. 1792)
- September 14 – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (b. c.1761)
- October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
- November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)
References
- ^ "Halpern, Susan. Program notes". Archived from the original on 2012-10-26. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ^ Gautier, Théophile (1995). Correspondance générale 1865–1867 (edited and annotated by Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre). Librairie Droz. ISBN 2-600-00075-5 (in French) p. 156; Le Ménestrel (1 December 1833)
- ^ "Rungenhagen, Karl Friedrich" (in German). berlinintensiv.de. 2001-04-14. Retrieved 2013-02-07.
- ^ Mahlke, Sybill (2001-04-14). "Musik in Berlin: Schweigeminute" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 2013-02-07.