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1840 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1840.

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Events

  • February 11 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
  • April 2 - Première of Ferdinand Hiller's oratorio, Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus; Robert Schumann is in the audience.
  • June 9 – Franz Liszt gives the first piano recital, in London's Hanover Square Rooms.
  • August 6 – First major public performance since the death of Johann Sebastian Bach of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to him, given by Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig; Robert Schumann is in the audience.
  • Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe. He also marries Clara Wieck.
  • The first harmonium is built.
  • Anton Schindler's biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is published.
  • Michele Carafa becomes Professor of Counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire.
  • Édouard Batiste and François Bazin share the Prix de Rome.
  • Henry Russell (music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) – "The Old Arm Chair"
  • Robert Lucas de Pearsall – "Lay a garland"

    • Classical music

  • Hector Berlioz - Grande symphonie funebre et triomphale
  • Felix Mendelssohn – Lobgesang (Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major)
  • Louis Spohr – Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"

    • Opera

  • Gaetano Donizetti – "La Favorite" and La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)
  • Albert Lortzing – Hans Sachs
  • Temistocle Solera – Ildegonda
  • Giuseppe Verdi – Un giorno di regno

    • Births

  • January 18 – Ernst Rudorff, composer and music teacher (d. 1918)
  • February 2 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, pianist and composer (d. 1910)
  • February 12 – Philippe Decker, conductor and composer (d. 1881)
  • March 8 – Franco Faccio, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
  • April 12 – Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (d. 1910)
  • May 7 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)
  • May 9 – Blanche d'Antigny, singer and actress (d. 1874)
  • August 1 – Franz Simandl, double-bassist and teacher (d. 1912)
  • August 28 – Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (d. 1908)
  • September 14 – George Whiting, composer (d. 1923)
  • September 30 – Johan Svendsen, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
  • October 18 – Roberto Stagno, operatic tenor (d. 1897)
  • November – Célestine Galli-Marié, operatic mezzo-soprano, the original Carmen (d. 1905)
  • December 7 – Hermann Goetz, composer (d. 1876)
  • December 17 – C. F. E. Horneman, composer (d. 1906)

    • Deaths

  • March 20 – Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, lawyer and musician, 68
  • May 1 – Giuditta Grisi, operatic mezzo-soprano, 34
  • May 10 – Catterino Cavos, organist, conductor and composer, 64
  • May 25 – Nikolai Lavrov, operatic baritone, 37
  • May 27 – Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer, 57
  • June 5 – William Dance, pianist and violinist, 84
  • June 16 – Joseph Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer, 49
  • November 19 – Johann Michael Vogl, singer and composer, 72)

    • References

    1840 in music Wikipedia
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