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Overview of the events of 1842 in music
Overview of the events of 1842 in music
Events
Popular music
Classical music
Opera
Angelo Catelani – Caràttaco
Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix , May 19 at Theater am Kärntnertor , Vienna
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila , November 27(Old Style ) at Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre , Saint Petersburg
Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz , December 31 at Stadttheater, Leipzig
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco , March 9 at La Scala , Milan
Richard Wagner – Rienzi , October 20 at Hofoper , Dresden
Musical theatre
Births
February 24 – Arrigo Boito , Italian poet and composer (d. 1918)
March 10 – Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
March 22 – Carl Rosa , musical impresario (d. 1889)
April 14 – Sven August Körling , composer of art songs (d. 1919)
May 3 – Sophus Hagen , composer (d. 1929)
May 12 – Jules Massenet , opera composer (d. 1912)
May 13 – Arthur Sullivan , composer (d. 1900)
May 14 – Alphons Czibulka , pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
June 12 – Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer (d. 1866)
June 19 – Karl Zeller , Austrian composer (d. 1898)
July 4 – Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
July 29 – Charles Collette , actor and composer (d. 1924)
September 12 – Marianne Brandt , operatic contralto (d. 1921)
September 24 – Emma Livry , ballerina (d. 1863)
October 13 – Antonio Pasculli , oboist and composer (d. 1924)
October 26 – Hugo Alpen , composer (d. 1917)
November 8 – Eugen Gura , operatic baritone (d. 1906)
November 24 – Peter Jerndorff , Danish opera singer and stage actor (d. 1926)
date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar , composer of Carnatic music (d. 1909)
Deaths
March 6 – Constanze Mozart , widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1762)[ 3]
March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig , composer and conductor (b. 1780)
March 15 – Luigi Cherubini , composer (b. 1760)[ 4]
April 6 – Johann Anton André , composer and music publisher (b. 1775)
May 5 – Jean Elleviou , operatic tenor (b. 1769)
June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke , librettist (b. 1776)
June 20 – Michael Umlauf , violinist and composer (b. 1781)
July 23 – Timothy Swan , hat-maker and composer (b. 1758)
August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny , composer and music theorist (b. 1762)
September 15 – Pierre Baillot , violinist and composer (b. 1771)[ 5]
October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , composer (b. 1774)
November 3 – Franz Clement , violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (b. 1780)
November 17 – Luigi Capotorti , Italian composer (b. 1767)[ 6]
December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini , composer (b. 1762)
December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber , composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (b. 1766)
References