1847 in music

none thumb | right 1847 music Events February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Most of the audience perishes because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside. March 3 – I Lombardi alla prima crociata is performed at Palmo's Opera House in New York City, the first presentation of a Verdi opera in the United States. March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth is premiėred at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.Charles Osborne The Opera Lover's Companion Yale University Press 2004 9780300123739 484 September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.Walker Alan 1973 The Great Composers: Liszt T. Y. Crowell Co. New York 9780690496994 21091256M 55 Publications Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music.January 2025 Popular music "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night") w. (Fr) Placide Cappeau (Eng) John Sullivan Dwight m. Adolphe Adam "Dinah Dear" by Philip Klitz "Miss Ginger" by Philip Klitz "Roll On Silver Moon" by Joseph W. Turner Classical music Franz Berwald – A Rustic Wedding Frederic Chopin Waltz Opus 64 No.1 (Minute) Waltz Op. 64. No. 2 Cello Sonata August Freyer – Concert Variations, Op.2 Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Glanes de Woronince Most of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6 Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Militaire for cello and orchestra Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2 Piano Trio No. 1 Henryk Wieniawski – Grand Caprice Fantastique Op. 1 Opera Francisco Asenjo Barbieri – Il Buontempone 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) Jacques Offenbach - L'alcôve 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 9 – George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912) December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903) December 28 – James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931) date unknown – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894) Deaths January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767)V. K. Subramanian Sacred Songs of India Abhinav Publications 1996 295 April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783) May 14 – Fanny Hensel, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)Todd R. Larry 2003 Mendelssohn: A Life in Music Oxford University Press Oxford, England 978-0-19-511043-2 557 June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784) June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770) July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772)Jan ten Bokum: "Wilms, Johann Wilhelm", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), 1-56159-239-0 September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769) September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)George Wesley Harris The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians Dodd, Mead 1943 30 November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)Mercer-Taylor Peter The Life of Mendelssohn Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000 978-0-521-63972-9 registration https://archive.org/details/lifeofmendelssoh0000merc 198-203 November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)Henry James Garland Henry Francis Lyte and the Story of "Abide with Me" Torch Publishing Company 1957 52 date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians Macmillan 1938 1200 References Category:19th century in music Category:Music by year