Events in Music
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Dec 13 Gioachino Rossini arrives in London
Theater Premiere
Dec 20 Play "Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus" by Helmina von Chézy with incidental music by Franz Schubert premieres in Vienna
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 1 Ernest Reyer, French opera composer, born in Marseilles, France (d. 1909)
- Dec 10 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, born in Neukirchen, Germany (d. 1903)
- Dec 10 Wilhelm Kuhe, German composer, born in Prague, Czech Republic (d. 1912)
- Dec 15 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German organist and composer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1896)
- Dec 23 Alexandru Flechtenmacher, Romanian composer, born in Iaşi, Romania (d. 1898)
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