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HOW IT WORKS
1840 in music
Summary
This article is about
music-related events in
1840
.
List of years in music
(
table
)
…
1830
1831
1832
1833
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
1850
…
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
edit
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
.
c.
June
-
Felix Mendelssohn
releases his score for
String Quartet No. 3 in D Major
.
[1]
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.
c. October –
Richard Wagner
is committed to debtors' prison in France while completing his opera
Rienzi
.
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.
[2]
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
.
Popular music
edit
Henry Russell
(music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) – "The Old Arm Chair"
Robert Lucas de Pearsall
– "
Lay a garland
"
Classical music
edit
Hector Berlioz
-
Grande symphonie funebre et triomphale
26 July
Johannes Bernards van Bree - String Quartet No. 2
Johanna Kinkel
-
Don Ramiro
, Op. 13
Felix Mendelssohn
–
Lobgesang
(Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
-
Nella
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis
, Op. 24
Myrthen
, Op. 25
Lieder und Gesänge volume
, Op. 27
3 Gedichte
, Op. 29
3 Gedichte
, Op. 30
3 Gesänge
, Op. 31
6 Lieder
, Op. 33
4 Duets
, Op. 34
12 Gedichte
, Op. 35
6 Gedichte
, Op. 36
Liederkreis
, Op. 39
5 Lieder
, Op. 40
Frauenliebe und -leben
, Op. 42
3 Duets
, Op. 43
Romanzen & Balladen volume I
, Op. 45
Dichterliebe
, Op. 48
Romanzen & Balladen volume II
, Op. 49
Romanzen & Balladen volume III
, Op. 53
Belsatzar, ballad
, Op. 57
Louis Spohr
– Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"
Opera
edit
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
edit
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)
February 22
-
Samuel de Lange
, composer and educator (d. 1911)
February 24
–
Auguste Götze
, German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (d. 1908)
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)
December 7
–
Hermann Goetz
, composer (d. 1876)
December 17
–
C. F. E. Horneman
, composer (d. 1906)
Deaths
edit
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
September 15
-
Franz Pecháček
, violinist and composer, 47
November 19
–
Johann Michael Vogl
, baritone and composer, 72
References
edit
^
"String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44, No. 1 - Felix Mendelssohn".
earsense
. Retrieved
11 December
2021
.
^
"Harmonium | musical instrument".
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
16 January
2021
.