Events in Music
Music History
Dec 15 Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (24) gets commission from Teatro Argentina to write his opera "Almaviva", later known as "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville)
- Dec 24 Karol Kurpiński's melodramatic opera "The Reward, or the Revival of the Polish Kingdom" premieres at the Warsaw Opera
Birthdays in Music
Deaths in Music
- Dec 19 Michel Woldemar, French violinist and composer, dies at 65
- Dec 19 Robert Hudson, British tenor, organist, and composer, dies at 83
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