1842 in music

none 1842 music Events May 31 – Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a civil class of the order Pour le Mérite for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include: Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Gioachino Rossini. October 20 – Hans von Bülow attends the first performance of Wagner's Rienzi in Dresden. December 7 – The New York Philharmonic orchestra performs its first concert.Performance History: 7 December 1842 https://archives.nyphil.org/performancehistory/#program?npp:Date=[1842-12-7T00\:00\:00Z%20TO%201842-12-7T23\:59\:59Z New York Philharmonic 7 December 2021 Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe. Pierre Zimmerman, professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory, refuses to hear him because "America is a country of Steam Engines". Franz von Suppé makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Ödenburg Theatre. Camille Saint-Saëns begins studying piano under Camille-Marie Stamaty. Popular music Frederick Ellard – Sydney Corporation Quadrilleshttp://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-165404774/view?partId=nla.obj-165404782 The Sydney Corporation quadrilles [music] Antoine Gérin-Lajoie – "Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian") Classical music Adolphe Adam – La jolie fille de Gand, Ballet premiered June 22 in Paris Jacob Arcadelt – Ave Maria Hector Berlioz Rêverie et Caprice, H 88, premiered February 1 in Paris La mort d'Ophélie, H 92, composition begun Franz Berwald Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Sinfonie sérieuse" Symphony No. 2 in D "Sinfonie capricieuse" Ernste und heitere Grillen, for orchestra Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen, for orchestra Festival of the Bayadères Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – Messe du jour de Noel, Op.11 Anton Bruckner – Windhaager Messe, WAB 25 Frédéric Chopin Mazurkas, Op.50 Ballade No. 4, Op.52 Polonaise for Piano in A-flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic" Waltzes, Op.70, No. 2 Carl Czerny – Nocturne, Op.647 Friedrich Dotzauer – 24 Études journalières, Op.155 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Boléro, Op.16 Polonaise, Op.17 Feuillet d'album August Freyer – Concert-Fantasie, Op.1 Niels Gade 3 Nordiske Tonebilleder, Op.4 Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann – Piano Sonata in D minor, Op.34 Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, Op.24 Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Overture No.10, Op.142 Joseph Lanner – Die Schönbrunner Waltzer Franz Liszt – Ave Maria I, S.20 Felix Mendelssohn Venetianisches Gondellied, MWV K 114 (Op. 57, No. 5) Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream (including the Wedding March) Die Stille, MWV K 112 (Op. 99, No. 6) Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish") Gioachino Rossini – Stabat Mater Robert Schumann Three String Quartets in A minor, F and A, Op. 41 Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44 Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47 Louis Spohr – Piano Sonata Op. 125 Vaclav Veit – Concert-Ouverture, Op.17 Henri Vieuxtemps – Le Papillon Opera Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le duc d'Olonne, premiered February 4 in Paris Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix, May 19 at Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila, November 27(Old Style) at Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg Franz Paul Lachner – Catharina Cornaro, Op.71 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 March 10 – Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, with music by Adolf Müller, opens at the Theater an der Wien.Branscombe, Peter (1992), 'Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) 0-333-73432-7 Births February 24 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (died 1918) February 25 – Karl May, lyricist (died 1912) March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (died 1912) March 18 – Stéphane Mallarmé, lyricist (died 1898) March 22 – Carl Rosa, musical impresario (died 1889) April 14 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (died 1919) April 29 – Carl Millöcker, composer (died 1899) May 3 – Sophus Hagen, composer (died 1929) May 12 – Jules Massenet, opera composer (died 1912) May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, composer (died 1900) May 14 – Alphons Czibulka, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1894) May 17 – Henry Cotter Nixon, pianist (died 1907) May 23 – Maria Konopnicka, lyricist (died 1910) June 4 – Samuel Brenton Whitney, organist (died 1914) June 7 – Henri Gobbi, composer (died 1920) June 12 – Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (died 1866) June 19 – Carl Zeller, Austrian composer (died 1898) June 29 – Josef Labor, composer (died 1924) July 4 – Gyula Erkel hu Erkel Gyula, Hungarian composer (died 1909), son of Ferenc Erkel July 16 – Eugen Maria Albrecht, composer (died 1894) July 29 – Charles Collette, actor and composer (died 1924) September 12 – Marianne Brandt, operatic contralto (died 1921) September 13 – Ödön Mihalovich, composer (died 1929) September 24 – Emma Livry, ballerina (died 1863) October 13 – Antonio Pasculli, oboist and composer (died 1924) October 26 – Hugo Alpen, composer (died 1917) November 8 – Eugen Gura, operatic baritone (died 1906) November 24 Peter Jerndorff, Danish opera singer and stage actor (died 1926) Pavel Viskovatov, lyricist (died 1905) December 6 – Pavel Viskovatov, librettist (died 1905) date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar, composer of Carnatic music (died 1909) Deaths January 7 – Joseph Czerny, composer (born 1785) January 9 – Alexandre Duval, librettist and actor (born 1767) January 19 – Heinrich Anton Hoffmann, violinist (born 1770) March 6 – Constanze Mozart, widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1762)Christoph Wolff Mary Whittal Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score https://books.google.com/books?id=20UNX8-pJOoC&pg=PA14 25 June 1998 University of California Press 978-0-520-21389-0 14 March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer and conductor (born 1780) March 15 – Luigi Cherubini, composer (born 1760)Edward Bellasis Cherubini: Memorials Illustrative of His Life https://books.google.com/books?id=YJNfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA372 1874 Burns and Oates 372 9780598919106 April 6 – Johann Anton André, composer and music publisher (born 1775) April 14 – Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, librettist (born 1763) April 26 – Louis Bocquillon, composer (born 1781) May 5 – Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor (born 1769) June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (born 1776) June 18 – Tobias Haslinger, composer (born 1787) June 20 – Michael Umlauf, violinist and composer (born 1781) July 23 – Timothy Swan, hat-maker and composer (born 1758) August 21 – Johann Friedrich Leopold Duncker, lyricist (born 1768) August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist (born 1762) September 15 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (born 1771)Allgemeine deutsche real-encyklopädie für die gebildeten stände: Conversations-lexikon https://books.google.com/books?id=7khGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA747 1845 W. Radde de 747 October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer (born 1774) November 3 – Franz Clement, violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (born 1780) November 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (born 1767)De Palma, Fedele (2010). "Luigi Giuseppe Capotorti". Operisti di Puglia dall'Ottocento ai giorni nostri, pp. 47–52. Edizioni del Sud. 9788875531041 it. Page 47. December 16 – Friedrich Rochlitz, musicologist (born 1769) December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini, composer (born 1762) December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (born 1766) References Classical music